https://www.changefestival.org/welcome daily 1.0 2025-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/1736501600236-G02H1NXP3BEZEY15FZ9J/Young+Boy.jpg Welcome https://www.changefestival.org/newsletter daily 0.75 2021-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/1630613232735-14QHVGS9P0BI8PI650L5/2021+CHANGE+faces+Tony+FINAL.jpg Newsletter https://www.changefestival.org/wecreate daily 0.75 2025-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/75cfcfcc-b3e1-4371-9882-d670b9883090/making_of-32.jpg We Create - Rise Up 2020-21 RISE UP is a series of five short stories, created by CHANGE Festival in collaboration with Jonathon Porritt. Set over 5 years, each story follows a different character as they journey out of the chaos of 2020 and discover their voice, passions and activism. These films are a hope-filled call to action for anyone who believes we are not inexorably doomed and can imagine a better future. Created with support from charity Reboot the Future, these films are shared in schools to inspire discussion around agency and activism and the role of young people in creating change. Director: Sophie Austin Writer: Beth Flintoff Executive Producer: Becky Burchell Created in partnership with Jonathon Porritt and Reboot the Future charity. Watch the trailer here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/23832fc5-dda2-4f6a-8a36-dfa46f4d100d/Avery+and+Hanan.jpg We Create - In Our Own Words Women of the Dark Skies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/e043ba74-f36a-45ce-8901-fdfcfa385e5d/Veya+on+Winterborne.jpg We Create - AWAKE! 2023 AWAKE is a short experiemental documentary, created by CHANGE Festival, about a liminal moment in the calendar - midwinter - observed by the inhabitants of a small rural village in England. A time outside time, magic is everywhere and anything is possible. Bearing witness to this turning point, the inhabitants gather for a wassail - a centuries old thanksgiving ritual of in which folk gather to honour the slow return of the sun and bless the apple trees whose fruit are essential to the village ecosystem, not least the crumbles, juice and cider that sustains them throughout the year. Beyond tradition going through the motions, the film captures the villagers’ heartfelt, creative communion with ancient ways remembered and reimagined for the modern age. We hear human and bird song, babbling brook and cracking fire entwined. The film is full of contrasts, mirroring the season. In the gloaming, mists slowly lift off the hills - the sunrise bringing an end to the darkness of night. We see the playful, creative spirit of the villagers, their joy expressed through colourful costumes, painted faces, music and chanting. We watch the preparation, the riotous procession and the offerings given to the apple trees, then it is all over, rosy dawn arrives. But the wilder ones are awake, the birds, the musician and the children; acknowledging their place in the family of things. Director: Sophie Austin Producer: Becky Burchell Watch the trailer here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/74620f0b-6be8-4b82-8c56-0b152d06576e/Artwork+1080x1080+%281%29.jpg We Create - Women of the Dark Skies 2023-24 CHANGE Festival producedWomen of the Dark Skies, a theatrical, storytelling pilgrimage for women, walking at night over the ancient landscape that surrounds the village of Chettle in North Dorset. This unique outdoor arts experience transports participants back in time to late Iron Age Dorset and offers a unique opportunity to imagine how we lived before the Roman invasion. During the four mile pilgrimage, participants walk in silence, without the use of torches, to allow a fully immersive experience of this historic landscape at night. The evening finishes in a secluded woodland glade, with a women's circle around a fire. This pilgrimage is led by Becky Burchell and has been co-created with local experts and members of the Chettle community. The project development was funded by Cranborne Chase and Chalke Valley Landscape Partnership and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Writer, storyteller, producer: Becky Burchell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/db76fe76-66c6-4311-80fd-72f5da32cfb4/DayTwoChangeFestival_ToyinDawudu-28.jpg We Create - CHANGE Festival 2019-21 CHANGE Festival created a groundbreaking event for audiences to 'imagine a better future' through a programme of music, theatre, comedy, workshops and craft. Over 2,000 people attended the festival over two weekends in 2019 and 2021 at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, one of the biggest arts venues in the UK. The performances and speakers at CHANGE Festival were chosen for their ability to inspire hope and action in the face of the ecological emergency. Highlights included: Music from Cosmo Sheldrake, Sam Lee and Orchestra for the Earth. Performances from the Cocoa Butter Club and Boss Morris New theatre shows 'Nevergreen' and 'The World We Made' Talks from Satish Kumar, Jonathon Porritt and Jude Currivan Workshops with Gobbledegook Theatre and the Activist Clown Funded by Warwick Arts Centre, Arts Council England, Coventry City of Culture Trust, Heart of England Community Foundation, Reboot the Future. Founder, Director and Curator: Becky Burchell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/1630530200331-64JB604IIWY9TZ4PS86N/Oh+The+Things+We%27re+For%21.jpg We Create - Oh The Things We’re For! 2021 Bringing together Beethoven’s classical power with stirring, bold stories about being a child with important things to say, ‘Oh, The Things We’re For!’ was created by CHANGE Festival to be performed in 2021 at Warwick Arts Centre. When we were planning the festival in early 2021, we came across an artist and an organisation who we really wanted to involve. The first is American author, illustrator and activist Innosanto Nagara, who’s inspirational children’s books include the must-have ‘A Is For Activist’. Known for his captivating, colourful illustrations and compelling rhymes, this is THE author to tell our kids the story of what it means to be growing up NOW. Secondly, we discovered the work of the wonderful Orchestra for the Earth, whose performances around the world are spreading the word about the climate crisis, inspiring people about the natural world, and motivating them to protect it. So this unique production combined the words and illustrations of Innosanto’s popular storybook of the same name, with a rousing performance of Beethoven’s Septet, performed by Orchestra for the Earth. Audiences young and old loved this unusual yet perfectly matched pairing, leaving everyone feeling ready to rise up with a sense of hope, possibility and solidarity. Director: Sophie Austin Producer: Becky Burchell Animations: Sophi Gardner Watch the performance here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/1630530566490-660YZP2IUFQEQT4Q7J7J/Robot+Rebellion.JPG We Create - Robot Rebellion 2019-21 This interactive art installation was commissioned by CHANGE Festival with artist Liam O’Brien. Assembled from over 100 Transformers toys, marching around a table in the shape on the Extinction Rebellion logo, it invited audience members to get crafty and create their own tiny protest placards for a robot to hold. More photos here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/15492388-86f5-4363-bbc7-9f11f8982d83/Wassail-2023-0284.jpg We Create - Chettle Wassail 2022-23 CHANGE Festival collaborated with Dorset artist Lorna Rees and Gobbledegook Theatre to support the rural community of Chettle to recreate and reimagine an ancient Wassail ritual for the 21st century in their village orchard. Wassailing is an old tradition in the South-West of England of gathering together in midwinter asking the apple trees to bear a good harvest. Creating this new-ancient ritual involved writing six new songs, with mentorship from artists Sam Lee, Zoe Laureen Palmer and Sandie Elkins. New costumes, props and scripts were also created in a series of community workshops. Finally, a film was created, named ‘AWAKE’ (see below) which was screened by the community in a premiere the following year on the annual community ‘Apple Day’. Producer: Becky Burchell Artistic Director: Lorna Rees This project was funded by Dorset Community Foundation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/1630530394673-MZLZDK5A84JCIA2ZFFR3/The+World+We+Made+Square.jpg We Create - The World We Made 2019 CHANGE Festival created a new play, The World We Made, which premiered on Friday 18 October 2019 at the first CHANGE Festival at Warwick Arts Centre. This urgent work was inspired by a book by Jonathon Porritt, the UK’s most eminent environmentalist. The World We Made is told by Keli and Luke, two students living in 2050. It shows a glimpse of how our lives could be in the future, if we pull together and change now ... before it’s too late. We take a look at 2050 through these students’ eyes and imagine the dramatic events that have got us there. This is a story of ordinary and extraordinary people from around the world who together achieve profound change: a Danish scientist, a global pop star, a Canadian truck driver, an African human rights activist, and a community gardener from Yorkshire. The journey follows personal and collective challenges, the struggles and losses as well as the enormous achievements, painting a compelling picture of the defining moments, breakthroughs and lifestyle revolutions that have made the world ‘work’ in 2050. Based on extensive factual research from Jonathon Porritt’s seminal book of the same name, The World We Made offers a vibrant and dynamic vision of a world that is still available to us – if we act fast on the radical changes that are needed so urgently today. Director: Sophie Austin Writer: Beth Flintoff Executive Producer: Becky Burchell More info can be found here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/f98f3258-e315-478b-86a2-c70fc01b2b15/Climate+Criminals.13.01.25+Artwork-7-Instagram+post.jpg We Create - Climate Criminals? Climate Criminals? is a short documentary that records front-line climate activists reclaiming their actions in their own words, at a time when the legal system is silencing their words and incarcerating them. This CHANGE Festival project was created by weaving together the stories of the participants who came to the In Our Words residential (below). Who are these activists? Are they really the ‘disgraceful vandals who pose a high risk to society’ that the media and politicans say they are? Climate Criminals? is an invitation to consider why ordinary people take actions that can have dire consequences on their own lives for the sake of saving others. Director and Editor: Sophie Austin Producer: Becky Burchell Executive Producer: Jonathon Porritt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/642ed22c-1719-4525-97ae-aa89b7e400d9/DayTwoChangeFestival_ToyinDawudu-42.jpg We Create - Rise Up Discussions 2021 'Rise Up' were our series of discussions at the CHANGE Festival weekend in November 2021 at Warwick Arts Centre, hosted by Amisha Ghadiali and featuring artists, futurists, activists, educators, community leaders and many more. The talks included: Rise Up To Reimagine Rise Up To Reconnect Rise Up To Reclaim Rise Up To Reawaken Watch discussions here. 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She is the founding member of Hearsall Litterbusters. “I create change through my litterpicking group ‘Hearsall Litterbusters’. We meet every Sunday at 11am to litterpick the Earlsdon, Chapelfields and Spon End areas of Coventry. Our focus is on building local community and making friends. Since August 2020 we have grown to 350 members, with 20-30 people attending each event. I was inspired to form Hearsall Litterbusters following a difficult time with my own mental health. Wanting to turn things around and meet new people, it became obvious that many people in my area also felt isolated and wanted to make connections. We’ve become a real group of friends and look forward to attending each week. New attendees almost always return! The group has positively impacted people’s mental health and the area. Keeping things tidy is a real motivator for me, and I’m often told how the group has inspired others to litterpick their area. Having pride in where you live is incredibly important. My vision is for community action to be more prevalent across Coventry and the UK as a whole: more litterpicking groups; more power in communities rather than governments and councils; and a safer, happier, and better connected city. I would advise my younger self not to listen to negativity and to keep focusing on the good things in life! It’s far more important to look at how you can improve your surroundings and make things better. People are happier and more powerful when united.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/1630527705506-GZVOVUO7BVCLWSKRK66H/ChangeFestival_ToyinDawudu-5.jpg Icons - Bukumi Bukumi, age 15, is a secondary school student in Coventry. “I create change by encouraging others to think about the next generation. I am inspired to rise up when I think about the future. When I think about the fact that, if we do not act now, we may lose this planet forever. Furthermore, I am motivated by the hope we can give to younger generations if we try and make a difference now. For the future, I wish to make small consistent changes to better our planet. It is not always the big, infrequent, changes that have the most impact. If we all work together, and do little things often, it can all add up to big change. I strive to provide for my family and leave a good legacy for the next generation. The advice I would give my younger self is to watch. To watch and see how things work slowly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/1630527540686-78D98FVHLIDLKUX90TTX/ChangeFestival_ToyinDawudu-4.jpg Icons - Geeta Sarcar Geeta, age 42, is committed to helping young people connect with the natural world through immersive experiences. She is Director of Development and Programmes at Wild Earth, based in Coventry. “As the old saying goes, change is the only constant. I have created change in my life by adopting a daily mindfulness practice that has helped me pause and look at ways of responding to life as things change around me. It is important to be in tune with my core sense of self - where I’m able to choose paths and make informed decisions that affect every aspect of my life. Nature is my biggest inspiration. It is the best conduit that promotes connection with self and everything around us. Being in touch with nature, the changing seasons and what that brings up within us, is so enriching in doing transformative work. Nature mirrors what is going on within us and on many occasions, inspires the change we need, if are in tune to observe it. Even during the dullest, most difficult days, being in tune with nature can help me pull myself out of the dark spaces and flood it with light. Minimalism, simplicity and belonging – that is my vision for my future self. It strive towards this, and I know, at present, I am far from it. However, as long as I keep working towards it, and make conscious choices, it is certainly achievable. The sense of belonging is the sense of tribe. I see a future where there is more belonging and less loneliness, as connected and supportive beings. Be kind to yourself. Pause. Breathe.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/1630527395818-OFM5LC44ZP4A03EWCALM/ChangeFestival_ToyinDawudu-1.jpg Icons - Tony McNally Tony, age 77, is a tireless champion for sustainability throughout the West Midlands. He is the Managing Director of Climate Change Solutions based in Coventry. “To quote Karl Marx “Men make their own history [change] but not in the circumstances of their own choosing”! For many years, I have been motivated to join and support movements that engage people with a more equitable society and world - one that’s sustainably shared with all the other life forms that make up the unique biodiversity of our planet. My ideal vision for the future, is a world where the super rich 10% are prevented from becoming even richer by exploiting the remaining 90% of people - this includes reducing their disproportionate control and ownership over natural resources. “There is enough in the world for everyone, but not everyone’s greed” ~ Mahatma Gandhi If I could advise my younger self I would say “Emulate Greta Thunberg”! Instead of joining the army at 17, I wish I had read William Morris’s ‘News from Nowhere’ and Shoemaker’s ‘Small is Beautiful’, joined Friends of the Earth, WWF and CND to end war’s and win peace. I wish I could see the resources freed from fighting and channelled into clean, green energy for all, so that we would not have to face the present climate emergency.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aea46f12abd94ce659b502/1630527128801-QS44I86WS5ONSSCAYY2H/ChangeFestival_ToyinDawudu-2.jpg Icons - Gabrielle Back Gabrielle, in her late sixties, is an inspirational campaigner, artist and educator and has been leading creative environmental projects for decades. “I create change by engaging young people and communities in my creative environmental projects that focus on serious environmental issues. Inspiring change through the creative arts. I am inspired to rise up by our beautiful planet - with all it’s wonderful flora and fauna, iconic animal species and inspirational people. I am very concerned about the state of our world. Action is needed and we all need to do our bit. My vision is to see the world a better place, with many of the major problems solved - COVID ended, climate change under control, plastic pollution eliminated. People need to change their way of life and start living sustainably for the sake of our world. My advice to my younger self would be to be more patient, and do far more things that please me and bring me joy, such as more art work and travelling.”