Climate Security Festival 20.9.2024

IHME Helsinki and the Safer Climate network are joining forces to organise the Climate Security Festival and the main IHME Helsinki Commission 2024 event in September. The three-day event starts with the Climate Security Festival programme at the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Kumpula on 19-20 September and continues with IHME Helsinki Commission 2024 programme at Teurastamo Kellohalli on Saturday 21 September. The theme of the second edition of the Climate Security Festival, inspired by the Maaleipä Challenge, is food security. The event is open and free for anyone interested but registration is required until 16 September 2024. The main language of the event is English.

Program Friday 20.9.2024

From 10 AM to 4 PM

Food Security and Indigenous Perspectives

• A Sámi perspective to Food Security /speaker TBC
• Documentary Visiting the Dead (Elias Halabi 2023) / Tampere University Palestine Research Group

Coffee with an Installation

• Installation Oskari Rockas and Stephen Webb

Lunch

Parallel Workshops

• Food Security and the Changing Environment
  • Organizer: Resilient and Just Systems (RESET), University of Helsinki

• (re)Writing the future – objects, memory and narrative’
  • With Pippa Goldschmidt, writer
  • Organizers: Artists with Evidence, Arizona State University Center for Science and the Imagination
• Water and Peace: Youth Perspectives
  • Organizers: Committee of 100 in Finland and the UN Association of Finland
  • creative workshop for high school students only

The program in subject to changes