Award-winning artists have collaborated with climate change scientists to produce a series of online films featuring actors' voices, a project in collaboration with the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Message from Antarctica by polar researcher Emily Shuckburgh and illustrator Chris Haughton, Clean Air by Aardman Animation Studios director Dan Binns and atmospheric chemist Professor Ally Lewis (voiced by Marcus Brigstocke), and the Weather Watching series by poet Nicola Davies and climate scientist Ed Hawkins, are available to view online at http://hayfestival.com/wales/hay-festival-transmission
Andy Fryers, Sustainability Director at Hay Festival, said: “Hay Festival is one of the few places where artists, scientists and policy-makers share the same stage, blending disciplines and art forms in exciting ways. Trans.MISSION collides these worlds in a new and exciting way and the resulting trio of new films offers a new take on the biggest issues facing our planet.”
Alison Robinson, NERC Director of Corporate Affairs, said: “Understanding our changing planet is fundamental to all our futures, and art has the power to start conversations around how our environment – and environmental science – affects our lives."