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You Told Us To Talk About The Weather

So why is it so hard to speak about the climate crisis?

GBP 10.99


In the past 6 hours, 94% of Brits have spoken about the weather.

In the past 5 years, over 7000 people have been arrested for speaking out about climate change.

Through poems, satire and interviews with climate activists across the UK, You Told Us To Talk About The Weather unpacks our national obsession with small talk and asks how we can use creativity to transform these conversations into meaningful change.

Written by multi-award winning playwright and featured on BBC Introducing, Emma-Louise Howell, this is a striking interrogation of how we tell climate stories in post-Covid Britain.







FILM COMING SOON...


We partnered with Michael Sheen and farmers in West Acre, Norfolk
to celebrate the launch of You Told Us To Talk About the Weather.

5 MINS / 2024 / English / UK
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CREATORS’ STATEMENT


“As a farmer’s daughter from Norfolk, You Told Us To Talk About the Weather is some of the most intensely personal work I’ve created. Over the past 5 years, I’ve worked with farmers and  young people across Norfolk and Lincolnshire to explore and understand the impact of climate change has on agricultural settings. What I’ve seen and learned has not only brought me closer to my homeland but it’s highlighted that farming has been unfairly sidelined from a great number of climate conversations. Discussions of oil, plastic and pollution draw our attention to urban, industrialised areas but why aren’t we looking at the rural? Why aren’t we fighting for the people and jobs whose livelihood literally depends on the weather, soil and plants? Our lives and access to food relies on farmland but if we keep ignoring it, we’re facing a real threat of only having 60 viable harvests left in England. So I wrote this to combat that imbalance and to try to get people to really talk about the weather”
Emma-Louise Howell - Writer

MISSION STATEMENT


Our main and only mission is to get people really talking about the weather. We’ve been so lucky to work with so many friends, collaborators and activists and we hope their work can start getting the conversation going. The two mediums go hand in hand when it comes to acknowledging and confronting the major climate crisis we are experiencing. We believe that this is a project that can have an impact on both an individual and global level; we want to nurture intergenerational bonds and movements that we believe is the most effective way to move forward in this struggle against climate change. We hope that the film and poetry will be a more accessible way for young people and children to engage with the art form. Through our visuals, we can help to demonstrate the importance of children and their opinions when it comes to the climate crisis. We want to encourage questions and debate, to get people to really talk about the weather.


FURTHER READING


Soon we will have a whole page with resources and links to more infomation and how to take action! But here’s some links to get you started!

West Acre Rewilding Project        Wild East        EarthRise        Exploitation in Industrial Farming


THE TEAM





Emma-Louise Howell - Writer

Emma is an award-winning writer from East Anglia with work spanning Theatre, Film and Television. Having won the Michael Ross Award for RADA’s Best New Play, her work has been performed across the country and shortlisted for prizes such as the International Playwriting Award, Stage Innovation Award, ITV Original Voices Programme and BBC Writersroom. She has also worked in collaboration with the BFI, BBC Introducing and BBC Radio.

Harry Tomlin - Director

Harry is an award-winning Director from Brighton. His recent projects include short film, Heel Drop, in partnership with SOMESUCH, successful music videos for Kat Penkin and Dutch Crminal Record, as well as his debut feature, A Fluorescent Sky. He also works closely with Brighton City Council Foster Care to produce content advocating stories of those in care. Harry is a hybrid driving, climate concious vegan who is excited to finally bring his enviromental passion to a project that brilliantly balances genre, story, and a vital message.

Poppy O’Hagan - Producer

Poppy is a producer who aims to engage both audiences and crew in narratives that explore themes of human bonds and wishes to support indie filmmakers with a variety of narrative styles. She currently has a film on the festival circuit and several short narrative films that are in various stages of post production. Alongside this, Poppy has a micro budget feature shot on Anglesey in Wales in September 2023 that is now in post production and has a slate of features that she will be developing in the new year, whilst working at Jeremy Thomas’ Recorded Picture Company.