‘Three Words for Forest’ - a screening and discussion event
Natural England’s Arts Collaborations Network are delighted to invite you to the screening of ‘Three Words for Forest’ a thought-provoking film featuring the performance of the verbatim play and exploring uncertainty in a time of climate crisis.
‘Three Words for Forest’ is based on interviews with 30 forest specialists working across a range of the roles and locations in Europe and the UK. The aim of the interviews was to explore urgent questions about our changing relationships with forests and understand the challenges of making decisions in the face of multiple risks and deep uncertainties. How are trees, woodlands and forests adapting to climate change—and what are our roles in this? How do we live and work with trees - and how might we in the future, given current changes, risks and uncertainties? By engaging with a range of urban and rural treescapes – including production, agroforestry, community forestry, and continuous cover – ‘Three Words for Forest’ shares the complexity and urgency of the challenges we face and highlights how those dedicated to nurturing the treescapes of the future are responding to these issues.
The words we hear in the play are taken from the interviews and performed by actors. Questions that interviewees responded to include: how did you get into forestry? What brings you joy in your work? what are the risk, challenges and uncertainties facing you and the forests you work with? How do you imagine the forest you work with in 10, 50, 100+ years’ time? What are three words for forest...?
Preliminary program
14:00 – 14:05 – Welcome
14:05 – 14:15 – Introduction to the film (Rachel Clive & Dee Heddon)
14:15 – 15:20 – Film screening (on- or off-line)
15:20 – 15:25 – Break/rejoin meeting
15:25 – 15:55 – Discussion
Reflections on the film – what does this mean for NE’s work and how could this film be used for policy and practice.
15:55 – 16:00 – Closing
'Three Words for Forest' is an output of the newLEAF project funded by UKRI - Natural and Environmental Research Council under the Future of UK Treescapes program.
