Shoreditch Town Hall (Council Chamber)
June 3, 2025, 2:00 - 2:40 PM
How to Change the Law? Hard Art on Democracy and Creativity.
Five years after a pink yacht was moored in the centre of Oxford Circus, Costa Prize winning author Monique Roffey talks to Clare Farrell, cofounder of Hard Art and Extinction Rebellion, on how a fringe movement managed to shape mainstream ideas around the climate. How do creative people influence true cultural change? How can artists, writers, filmmakers and performers use soft power to not only change the way we think, but put pressure policy makers and ultimately change laws around climate, democracy and safeguarding vulnerable people? Monique Roffey talks to, Hard Art and Extinction Rebellion co-founder Clare Farrell and filmmaker, Asif Kapadia, director of Amy, Senna and his new film, 2073, which has come out of Hard Art.