Location: Birmingham Friends of the Earth – The Warehouse, 54-57 Allison Street, Birmingham B5 5THClimate Crisis Update: Progress with reducing emissions and impacts - What more can we do? Engaging with climate sceptics and deniers - A talk and discussion by Trevor Hocking PhD FRSB, hosted jointly by Extinction Rebellion Birmingham, Greenpeace Birmingham and Friends [...]
Location: The Warehouse – 54-57 Allison Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom B5 5THJoin us for a special screening of ‘Sauvages’ - an animated film about a family fleeing conflict in Borneo’s rainforest.As part of our Planet Over Profit campaign you're invited to a screening of Savages, a PG-rated film about a young girls quest to rescue [...]
Our Land dares to tread where few have trespassed before, asking the timely question of who has the right to roam in the English countryside? The UK is a wild and beautiful place, but the vast majority of it is off limits to the general public, with 92% of land and 97% of all rivers [...]
Join us for our community coffee morning in Ladywood. As part of our Local Election campaign, you're invited to our coffee morning. Share a drink and have a bite to eat. We've invited the local election candidates, so this will be a great chance to hear what they hope for the city, and to tell [...]
Join us for our community coffee morning in Erdington. As part of our Local Election campaign, you're invited to our coffee morning. Share a drink and have a bite to eat. We've invited the local election candidates, so this will be a great chance to hear what they hope for the city, and to tell [...]
Among the ruins of yesterday’s future, what can we learn about the forces that shape our cities? When filmmaker Andy Howlett set out with his camera to document the final days of Birmingham’s condemned Brutalist Central Library, he had no idea the rabbit hole he was stumbling into. Decried by the local council as an [...]
Toby Jones, Iain Sinclair and Andrew Kötting (dressed as a Straw Bear), made a five-day walk from Epping Forest to Helpston in Northamptonshire, following in the footsteps of the poet John Clare. Clare’s delirious march is the spine of the project. A great English pilgrimage, a self-enacted novel in the tradition of Pilgrim’s Progress.
Experience a film that challenges assumptions, sparks imagination, and asks one of the most important questions of our time. What is the cost of growth? Through a thought-provoking film screening and facilitated discussion, we'll challenge assumptions about progress, explore alternative futures, and create space for meaningful dialogue about the world we're building together. This event [...]
Screening and talk of Into the weeds, a film about the harms of Glyphosate
October 4,1982. More than 5,000 people filled the sold out Radio City Music Hall to experience a remarkable film event. This event was the world premiere of KOYAANISQATSI. Now the people of Birmingham can share that experience. Koyaanisqatsi is a documentary film directed by Godfrey Reggio, with cinematography by Ron Fricke and musical composition by [...]
Join us at BFOE to hear Dr John Munro and Dr Myka Tuckerson speak about Climate Action and Palestine Solidarity! "Through presentations and collective discussion, this workshop will encourage us to think about how ecocide, racism, extractivism, state repression, and mobility justice are all linked - and how local action can address the injustices of [...]
We're hosting a fun day at The Warehouse, open to all, for people to get a taste of what goes on here. Volunteers will be on hand to help with filling out the consultation on the Midlands Rail Hub Alliance plans that threaten our building. BFoE Campaigners are running a clothes swap and a repair [...]