Pollution Stories: Environmental Storytelling Film Screening and Workshop With Dr. Pawas Bisht

Monday 21 March | 2-4pm | Venue TBC

Keele Green Festival 2022

Are you passionate about imagining and building sustainable environmental futures? Are you interested in the power of storytelling for environmental change? Are you interested in seeing and hearing new stories from within affected communities? If so, come to our screening and workshop event which will showcase films produced by young people from Stoke-on-Trent and New Delhi exploring the problem of urban air pollution which affects both of these cities.

Urban air pollution is one of the most urgent environmental problems confronting communities cross the world. It is also a problem that is often invisible, hard to pin down, and difficult to communicate powerfully in mainstream media. In this event, you will be able to experience and discuss new ways of telling stories about this issue and the wider crisis of environmental degradation. Together, we will explore strategies for crafting stories that are emotionally engaging, empowering for affected communities, and which generate global solidarities and interconnections. You will be supported in the crafting of your own environmental stories in the form of short films. The workshop will function as a starting point for this process and follow-up support will be available for those wanting to craft a finished film.

The event will be led by Dr Pawas Bisht, an experienced documentary filmmaker, media studies academic and Deputy Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at Keele University. The event is linked to 'Storytelling for Environmental Change' an ongoing research project led by Bisht, funded by British Academy's Humanities and Social Sciences' Tackling Global Challenges Programme, supported under the UK Government's Global Challenges Research Fund.

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