THE Old Bookbinders warehouse in East Oxford will play host to a community festival focusing on climate change next week.

Conversations with the Earth centres around a multimedia exhibition that highlights the stories of indigenous communities and the impact global warming is having on their societies.

Organiser Nick Lunch said: “Our company, InsightShare, which is based in Cowley Road, works all over the world training communities in film making.

“This project is focused on indigenous communities, the traditional stewards of biodiversity, and their experiences with climate change.”

The films feature footage from communities in the Arctic, the Andes in Peru and the jungles of Cameroon.

Mr Lunch said: “This festival is about marrying together the indigenous people with the local response to climate change here in Oxford.”

The film has been become internationally renowned and, following its run in Oxford, will spend six months at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, USA.

The event began last night and runs for nine days.

Fellow organiser Marleen Bovenmars said: “We deliberately chose to organise the festival in March, so that the end of the festival coincides with the Equinox and the start of spring.

“Inspired by Andean cosmology, the festival has also been planned leading up to the full moon. On March 19, everything will come together.”

There will also be a series of workshops, films, discussions, music, dance, poetry, comedy and art.

  • For more information visit wix.com/conversationsearth/festival