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In the past 6 hours, 94% of brits have spoken about the weather.
In the past 5 years, 7000 brits have been arrested for speaking out about the climate crisis.














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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!

Along with Climate Majority Project, we are trying to raise money to embed Climate Education into schools, and build a ‘Discussion Guide’ resource that people can use to help us all talk about the weather.

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ADDITIONAL LINKS

West Acre Rewilding Project        Exploitation in Industrial Farming

IT’S TIME TO REALLY TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER


This project as been developed with young farmers and colleges in rural Norfolk. Questioning why it’s so hard for us to have meaningful conversations about climate change and the cost of british small talk.

We aim to empower people to speak about the climate and support a campaign to embed climate education in the national curriculum.




Our aim is for audiences to really talk about the weather. Alongside our film and boom, we plan to share:

  • Conversation starters for teachers to use in lessons
  • Advice on supporting children with climate anxiety
  • Link to campaigns and petitions to embed climate change in the national curriculum.

Through the film and these materials, we hope our film can inspire audience members to transform their small talk into change.



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

POETRY PAMPHLET
You Told Us To Talk About The Weather

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

GBP 10.99

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 / 2026 / English / UK




THE TEAM




Emma-Louise Howell - Writer

Emma-Louise Howell is an award-winning playwright from East Anglia. She trained at RADA where she was awarded the Michael Ross Prize and has since been shortlisted for the Theatre503 International Playwriting Prize, The Stage Innovation Award, Women in Theatre Lab, Off-West End Adopt a Playwright Prize and ITV Original Voices. You Told Us To Talk About the Weather is her debut poetry pamphlet.

Harry Tomlin - Director

Harry is an award winning Director originally from Brighton. His recent projects include short film Heel Drop, in partnership with SOMESUCH, and creative direction for global fashion brand UOOYAA. He has also directed successful music videos for many artists such as Evi, Kat Penkin and Dutch Crminal Record. Harry’s debut feature A Fluorescent Sky, found festival success and is now available on Prime Video.







THE CLIMATE MAJORITY PROJECT


This project will be released in support of the Climate Majority Project’s Climate Courage Schools campaign. The campaign aims to equip teachers and students with the confidence and support to engage in open, evidence-based discussions about climate change in classrooms across the UK. We have partnered with CMP to bring as much awareness as possible to their campign to get climate education into schools. You can explore their page and pledge to help support their cause.