Events

This is a screening by Jackie Treehorn Productions, an independent film club showcasing a large variety of films throughout Nottingham.

A painter feigns his own death to increase the value of his paintings. At an art gallery, a middleman has a business idea to start forging all the paintings to make a quick buck.

“After refusing to fly, climate researcher loses his job.”
For forty days, Professor Grimalda traveled to reach the site of his research, Papua New Guinea. By trains, trucks and ships, he arrived at his goal with ten times less CO2 emissions. Then the university in Kiel forced him to return by plane. Grimalda said no, becoming the first employee to be fired for refusing to fly.
Was it worth it?

Gianluca Grimalda, university researcher in social psychology and protagonist of the film, will be joining us virtually after the screening!

The Beaver Believers is the urgent yet whimsical story of an unlikely cadre of activists who share a common vision: restoring the North American Beaver, that most industrious, ingenious, bucktoothed engineer, to the watersheds of the arid West. The Beaver Believers encourage us to embrace a new paradigm for managing our western lands, one that seeks to partner with the natural world rather than overpower it. As a keystone species, beaver enrich their ecosystems, creating the complexity and resiliency our watersheds need to absorb the impacts of climate change. Beavers can show us the way and even do much of the work for us, if only we can find the humility to trust in the restorative power of nature and our own ability to play a positive role within it. 

We will be joined for our Q&A by Janice Bradley, Head of Nature Recovery for the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, which in November 2021 introduced beavers to a 58ha enclosure at the Idle Valley Nature Reserve, bringing this keystone species back to Nottinghamshire for the first time in over 4 centuries. Since then, the beavers have carried out incredible habitat modification, bringing benefits for a wide range of other species, including amphibians, wetland birds, water voles, and invertebrates such as dragonflies. Through their endeavours, the beavers create a dynamic landscape of continually evolving and improving micro-habitats , working 24/7 as they build and expand their homes, find the best food, sharpen their teeth, and create their winter feeding stashes neatly refrigerated underwater for maximum freshness.

Read more about our very own Nottinghamshire Beavers here:
https://www.nottinghamshirewildlife.org/beavers

Do humans have the right to nature? In this tender film, Director Charlotte Sawyer tells a story of a community of wild swimmers in Bristol (UK) affected by raw sewage pollution of the river Avon. 

England is one of the only two countries in the world to have a fully privatised water and sewage disposal system, and with only 14% of English rivers in good ecological health, the mission to keep the rivers clean is not going well. 

In a series of moving, exciting and thought-provoking scenes, the swimmers create a stunning, light-hearted yet fascinating tapestry, probing how activism starts from the grassroots, and carries a profound universal lesson for all of us. There’s a marriage to the river, drum’n’bass, a mermaid who tows an inflatable turd, and a whole lot of cheesecake in this poignant reflection on people’s innovative battles for the natural world they cherish.

On Sunday 23rd February, Greenpeace Nottingham will be in Mammoth - A Climate Action Cinema hosting a welcome event film screening of ‘Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy’. 

This film screening and welcome event is an opportunity to meet and get to know your local Greenpeace organising team, find out what they do, and how you can get involved - because they want you on their team! It’s also a great opportunity to watch and discuss the fantastic new film ‘Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy’; directed by Emmy-winning writer and filmmaker Nic Stacey, which exposes the tricks companies like Amazon use to keep people buying, and the true costs of overconsumption on people and planet. 

We are running this event because Greenpeace have been campaigning for an end to single use plastic and a significant reduction in plastic production overall. Greenpeace is calling for a strong Global Plastics Treaty that will keep the oil and gas used to produce plastic in the ground and stop big polluters with their relentless plastic production. A strong treaty will deliver a cleaner, safer planet for us and for future generations. This is just one of many important and exciting issues they campaign on. 

Come join us to grow our movement for change! 
Doors open 5:30pm, event starts at 6pm.

This is a screening by Porlock Press, an independent Nottingham-based film club showing a wide range of cult film, with a focus on animation of all kinds. 

A young couple resort to extreme and unconventional measures to bring a ‘child’ into their lives, with bizarre and deadly consequences! Director Jan Švankmajer blends live action and stop-motion animation to great effect in this absurd and darkly comic story, inspired by the Czech fairy tale Otesánek. 

"Rivals The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, and Eraserhead as a disturbing treatise on the fear of parenthood.” - The New York Times