This Changes Everything film screening

What if confronting the climate crisis is a chance to build a better world?

On the opening day of the UN's 21st Climate Change Talks in Paris, Somerset House and Julie's Bicycle have teamed up to debate the role of culture in shaping a sustainable society.

Introduced by Jonathan Reekie, Director of Somerset House Trust, the evening will begin with a screening of This Changes Everything, an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.

Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.

Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Julie's Bicycle.

Panellists include:
Juliet Davenport, CEO, Good Energy
Alice Sharp, Director and Curator, Invisible Dust
Guppi Bola, Co-founder of Healthy Planet and Europe Network Lead, New Economics Foundation

This event is part of the ArtCOP21 festival of art and climate change, and the Coming of Age campaign.

Julie's Bicycle are a Somerset House resident and a leading charity bridging culture and environmental sustainability.