Our Stories Festival

• By: Nerve Centre, NI Science Festival
• Location: Various
• When: Thurs 21 - Sunday 24 November
• Creative Me Profile: Community Connector

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Our Stories will feature special events with renowned naturalist & environmental campaigner Chris Packham and popular children’s storyteller Oliver Jeffers, as well as a range of events that will delve into the themes of Our People, Our Place, Our Planet.

With engaging talks, hands on work-shops, and exciting exhibitions, hosted by artists, thinkers, designers, musicians, activists and storytellers, Our Stories will make you think about how we live together in this city, and what our future will look like. This is more than a festival—it's a movement!

Our Stories starts on the 21st November, with a special In Conversation event when Chris Packham, will be joined by ecologist and fonder of Wild Belfast, Conor McKinney, in a discussion on the future of our planet. Anna Kernahan, a passionate youth activist from Fridays for Future Northern Ireland, will look at the crucial role young people have in the climate movement and the urgent actions needed to safeguard our planet.

The closing event of the festival will dive into the the power of storytelling, with a discussion with artist Oliver Jeffers, Mercury Price, Ivor Novello and Emmy-nominated Hannah Peel,co- founder of Eden Project Sir Tim Smit and Chief Executive of Unboxed and Hull City of Culture Martin Green, in which they delve into how creativity and the arts can spark bold ideas and positive environmental chance.

In-between these two fascinating discussions, there will be storytelling and reading, Story Soup at Brink!, Sustainable Arts in Action talks, panel discussions on queer art and censorship, and the chance for kids - big and small - to create miniature representations of their ideal works in the Power Plants work shop, and much, much more.

Events:

Eclectic - Thursday 7 to Sunday 24 November - (Link opens in new window)

StoryMakers - Thursday 21 November - (Link opens in new window)

Chris Packham in Conversation - Thursday 21 November -  (Link opens in new window)

Fashion Flea - Friday 22 to Sunday 24 November - (Link opens in new window)

Shared Reading - Friday 22 November - (Link opens in new window)

Working Greener - Friday 22 November - (Link opens in new window)

Tea Dance - Friday 22 November - (Link opens in new window)

The Hearth - 'Our Faces of Belfast' Exhibition - Friday 22 to Sunday 24 November - (Link opens in new window)

This Do Exhibition - Friday 22 to Sunday 24 November - (Link opens in new window)

Story Soup - Friday 22 November - (Link opens in new window)

Faerie Press Pop-Up - Friday 22 to Sunday 24 November - (Link opens in new window)

Story Time - Friday 22 November - (Link opens in new window)

Cadence - Saturday 23 November - (Link opens in new window)

Big Talk: Queer Art, Permission & Censorship Now - Saturday 23 November - (Link opens in new window)

Power Plants - Imagining The Future Workshop - Sunday 24 November - (Link opens in new window)

Ó bhéal go béal - Sunday 24 November - (Link opens in new window)

Climate Scientists - Sunday 24 November - (Link opens in new window)

In Conversation - Stories to Change the Future - Sunday 24 November - (Link opens in new window)

(Art © Oliver Jeffers)

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