HOSTED BY EXTINCTION REBELLION LIVERPOOL

Lola Perrin (Piano)

With Spoken Word Artist Jed Thompson (LIVERPOOL POET)
and Guest Speaker Dr Samantha Fletcher (Researcher of the Crimes of the Powerful)

Plus campaigning film ‘Save Oglet Shore’ by Phil Maxwell & Hazuan

Composer pianist and ClimateKeys founder Lola Perrin presents an evening of film, piano, spoken word and audience dialogue on solutions to environmental and ecological breakdown.

The event starts with the campaign film Save Oglet Shore by Phil Maxwell & Hazuan Hashim

Lola will perform Piano Suite IX: ‘Significantus’ (Lola Perrin 2016) composed from writings by climate change researchers. The performance is a collaboration with local poet Ged Thompson who will recite in between the piano pieces.

Guest speaker Samantha Fletcher will give a talk and facilitate a conversation in the audience with a focus on Extinction Rebellion’s third aim; a National Citizens’ Assembly to oversee the changes necessary to limit the temperature rise.

“Emissions continue to rise, authorities continue on a path to climate chaos and many remain unaware of the threat to our national security. It’s down to us to change course and that’s what our concert audiences talk about.” (Lola Perrin)

Programme:

‘Save Oglet Shore’

Film by Phil Maxwell & Hazuan A short campaigning film about the ongoing campaign to save Oglet Shore from Peel Holdings' plans to expand Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

Piano Suite IX ‘Significantus’ (Lola Perrin 2016)

Composed from writings by climate change researchers. With spoken word by Ged Thompson.

Samantha Fletcher will give a talk and lead an audience interaction based on the notion of the Citizens’ Assemble.

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Biographies

Lola Perrin is a composer, pianist and founder of ClimateKeys, an initiative that combines live music with guest speaker talks and audience dialogue on action on climate change. To date over sixty concerts have been held in thirteen countries. ClimateKeys has a no-fly policy and is performed by musicians collaborating with local speakers. www.climatekeys,com

Ged Thompson is a Liverpool poet.

Samantha Fletcher: Over the course of the past ten years Samantha has taught, and researched, a range of subject matters including, but not limited to, global justice, policing, surveillance, security, transnational organised crime, crimes of the powerful, research methods in social sciences, green criminology, crimes against humanity, and matters of social harm.

Phil Maxwell & Hazuan Hashim are collaborative artists, filmmakers, photojournalists and educationalists who have . exhibited all over the world including the Middle East. Their work covers documentary and experimental film. They have collaborated with composers Michael Nyman, Lola Perrin, Deirdre Gribbin and Simon Rowland-Jones, theatre director Lou Stein, dancers Mavin Khoo, Seeta Patel and Kamala Devam and painter Alice Sielle.