National Theatre Announces New Exhibition NOWHERE TO CALL HOME
By: Stephi Wild Oct. 02, 2018
Nowhere to Call Home is an outdoor projection and online audio experience exploring the human issues around climate change and forced migration. Photographic and filmed portraits of climate refugees from Bangladesh and Sami people from the Arctic, whose way of life is threatened by climate change, have been captured by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), with their own stories told as audio dramatisations by playwright Ursula Rani Sarma.
The exhibition is part of Season for Change, a UK-wide programme of cultural responses celebrating the environment and inspiring urgent action on climate change. www.seasonforchange.org.uk
Audiences can access the live experience via the National Theatre's YouTube channel from 6pm between 26 October - 2 November. To watch the films at any time during this period, visit www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/nowheretocallhome.The films will also be available to watch in the Lyttelton Foyer.
Playwright Ursula Rani Sarma said: "Climate change is a subject very close to my heart and I was delighted to have been asked to be part of the Season for Change project. I can't think of a better way to tackle this vital issue than to focus on the voices of individuals who have been directly affected by it. Facts and figures are all too easy to ignore but it is harder to turn away from one person's searing gaze and their equally scorching account of how their lives have been destroyed, all because of forced migration due to climate change. I hope that by naming these people, by holding up their portraits and giving their words a platform, they can become more than just another statistic."
EJF's Executive Director Steve Trent said: "Forced migration due to climate change is not some far off concept, it is happening now, to people today, often among the poorest and most vulnerable. It is vital that we listen to the stories of people living on the frontline of climate change to understand the human suffering our warming planet will bring, alongside the environmental catastrophe. We need to build the understanding that without far greater action to combat climate change and prevent runaway global warming, the stories we tell today in this exhibition, will become our stories tomorrow."
To find out more about EJF's campaign to protect climate change refugees visit:
https://ejfoundation.org/what-we-do/climate/protecting-climate-refugees
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Fri 26 October, 6.15pm
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