A day of food, climate & activist related films for the solstice
Join us to celebrate the start of the summer with local food, stories from growers & climate champions, live broadcast of local DJs on BBC, and a selection of food & climate films, to provoke & inspire.
This is the public launch of the Brink! site, bringing people together to discuss what should this city do, to have some fun, eat some nice food, and learn from each other.
A beginner's guide to fungi, narrated by Björk and presented by Merlin Sheldrake
On Sunday 23rd, from midday-9pm, we will host a series of food, climate & activist related films, interspersed with Q&A from local specialists to hear how these films relate to Northern Ireland.
Where:
This is the site location on Union Street, directly across the road from the Sunflower Bar, which is 65 Union St, Belfast BT1 2JG.
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These events are all FREE, and access to the site will be limited for safety, and on a 1st come 1st served basis.
Evening bar will be provided by the Sunflower Bar.
Sunday: Marquee: Outdoor Cinema
Session One: Life starts in our soil: 12.00-15.00
12:00 - 12:40: FUNGI: WEB OF LIFE
12:45 - 14:15: SIX INCHES OF SOIL
14:15 - 14:45: Q&A with Prof Mark Emmerson (Co-Director, Climate+ Co-Centre and Professor of Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast) & John McCormick (Helens Bay Organic Farm)
Session Two: Change is in your hands: 15.00-18.30
15:00 - 15:14: PIE NET ZERO
15:20 - 16:00: RIGHTS OF NATURE
16:10 - 17:40: 2040
17:40 - 18:10: Q&A with Prof Mark Emmerson (Co-Director, Climate+ Co-Centre and Professor of Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast) & James Orr (Director, Friends of the Earth NI)
Session Three: What will you do?: 18.30-21.00
18:20 - 18:30: WAR ON THE WALL (Taqi Spateen, Bethlehem)
18:30 - 18:55: THE WORLD'S END: COP26
19:00 - 20:30: THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING
20:30 - 21:00: Q&A with Prof John Barry (Professor of Green Political Economy, Queen’s University Belfast) & Declan Owens (Ecojustice Ireland)
Sunday: Garden
Wild Belfast Walks: 12.30 & 15.00
12.30 & 15.00: Wild Belfast are supporting a biodiversity corner on the Brink! site, and will be hosting two urban safari walks across the city centre throughout the Saturday afternoon.
Stalls / Vendors: 12.00 - 17.30
Brink! Mushroom Tea
Evening bar will be provided by the Sunflower Bar.
Other weekend solstice events:
Click here to review the weekend program of talks, food and films.
We are working with Grow NI, quarto & SourceGrow to bring together the Food Stories, and the NI Science Festival to help us run the event.
The Climate+ Co-Centre will be on site during the weekend to discuss how they’re approaching research, innovation, and policy development across the interlinked challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and water degradation on the islands of Ireland and Britain.
Members of the Brink! project A Growing Story will be on site to explain what we’re doing with the growing on site.
Wild Belfast are supporting a biodiversity corner on the Brink! site, and will be hosting urban safari walks across the city centre throughout the Saturday afternoon.
Hope to see you down to kick off the summer with us & talk about what this city should do.
Follow site progress and event info via the Brink! social channels by searching for @playthinkbrink.
Brink! Stories CIC is a social enterprise set up to deliver community workshops and events around themes attached to climate change. The Brink! site will be a storytelling space to discuss, educate and act on climate change, social justice and how we adapt to a net zero society. https://www.playthinkbrink.com/