Join us at Furnace Brook for a special film screening of the National Emergency Briefing.
The climate and nature crisis threatens all aspects of British life from national security to food supply, but solutions exist. The National Emergency Briefing was commissioned to present the latest evidence. They have created a film which is being screened across the UK as a calling to the Government to ensure the public is informed, prepared and protected.
Following the screening of the National Emergency Briefing, we’ll discuss: What are the challenges we actually face? What people and resources do we need to mobilise to meet them? What are the inner, human struggles that come with doing so? We have a group of expert panelists, to help us answer some of tehse questions.
Panelists include:
– Villo Leskes, Water systems expert
– Liam Kavanagh, Co-Director, Climate Majority Project
– Pooran Desai OBE, seriel social entrepreneur, founder of Oneplanet.com
– and other special guests?
Set in our lakeside barn, this relaxed evening is an opportunity to come together, reflect and learn about food security & climate resilience .
What to expect:
Screening of a thought-provoking film
A welcoming, informal atmosphere in our barn space
Optional discussion after the film
Bar open for drinks
Parking available
This event takes place alongside The Raft's political generation gathering for people 18–35 – five days of dialogue, land regeneration, and inquiry into a question we keep circling back to: what does it actually mean to be political today?
Most people feel society is failing and are tired of business as usual. When we look at what this way of life has done to climate and nature, the need to come together and imagine better ways of organising various sectors of society – food, water, education, policy – become apparent.
Beyond electoral politics, beyond parties that are two sides of the same coin. We understand being political as a dance between self and other, between the individual and the collective, as claiming agency as creators of history as opposed to surrendering to a system. It's not a system we opt into; it's just what happens when people try to live together on the planet, so that as many human and more than human lives can flourish.
Residents of the week-long gathering will join as participants, bringing this place-based conversation back into the bigger-picture themes they've spent the week exploring – cooking, gardening, and living together (including with fish and goats!). But this session is a chance to open up to the wider community around Furnace Brook – you don't need to be part of the residency to join.
Curious about what we mean by the next Political Generation? Find out more here or join the whole gathering.