Join us at the Micklegate Social in York on the 17th of March from 19:00 – 21:00 for our free Beyond Borders: York Climate Narratives event. The evening will delve into stories from the Global Majority who are on the frontline of the climate crisis.
Did you know…. stories are remembered 22 times more than facts alone? This is just one of the reasons personal stories can be so powerful, capable of encouraging action in the face of climate injustice.
YorkCliConnect invites curious minds to join us for an Evening of Powerful Stories, Voices, and Change. A unique evening where voices from the frontlines of climate change take centre stage. People from the global majority, who live, study or work in this beautiful city will be sharing their lived experiences with climate change, ecological crisis, and resilience for the first time live on stage.
Big annual climate conferences, news headlines of more extreme weather; we are swimming in a sea of data about the climate and ecological crises. Just last month the government’s own biodiversity risk assessment warned that ecosystem degradation is unfolding across every region of the world, with critical systems, from the Amazon and Congo rainforests to boreal forests and coral reefs, now on pathways to irreversible collapse. Their failure would directly affect the UK by making our water supplies less reliable, reducing the amount of food we can grow, collapsing fish stocks, disrupting our weather, and increasing the spread of new diseases. With the UK reliant on imports for food and fertiliser, our resilience depends on global ecosystem stability.
But is it cutting through? Is it shifting hearts and minds? And then behaviours? In these times of around-the-clock news and doom-scrolling, lived experiences are becoming one of the most powerful ways to cut through the noises.
Following the success of our pilot event last Spring, this year we will hear stories from Mexico, Mongolia, Pakistan, Thailand, and Ladakh, India’s land of high passes. These stories don’t just show the human stakes of the climate crisis—they reveal the resilience and ingenuity of communities already navigating a rapidly accelerating biodiversity emergency that threatens the systems we all depend on.