VIDEOS OF LETTERS
People all over the world are writing, recording and sharing their Letters to the Earth. You can do so too, using the hashtag #LetterstotheEarth.
Below are some videos of Letters, featuring The End of the F**cking World star Alex Lawther and Fleagbag's Andrew Scott, as well as a live stream of a performance of Letters featuring Emma Thompson, Paapa Essiedu, youth strikers and the Royal Court Young Agitators, during sites of protest in 2019.
It's not that I'm angry
It's not that I'm angry
Climate Emergency
Climate Emergency
Climate Emergency
A live stream of Emma Thompson reading ‘Everything is Connected’ by Jackie Morris and of youth strikers and performers including Paapa Essiedu and Lee Ross reading a performance text of curated letters. April 19th 2019; XR Day of Love, Oxford Circus
Below are videos of letters submitted to our Spring 2020 callout : Letters of Love in a Time of Crisis - in response to the global pandemic, for Earth Day.
Released as 5 Chapters on Wednesday 22nd April 2020 as part of the global Earth Day celebrations, to demonstrate support for environmental protection. For more information and to see a list of authors and readers including special guests such as Alison Steadman, see here.
Earth Day 2020, Letters to the Earth: Letters of Love Crisis: Chapter 1
Earth Day 2020, Letters to the Earth: Letters of Love Crisis: Chapter 1
Earth Day 2020, Letters to the Earth: Letters of Love Crisis: Chapter 2
Earth Day 2020, Letters to the Earth: Letters of Love Crisis: Chapter 3
Earth Day 2020, Letters to the Earth: Letters of Love Crisis: Chapter 4
Earth Day 2020, Letters to the Earth: Letters of Love Crisis: Chapter 5
Christopher Bailey, Arts & Health Lead at World Health Organisation, below speaks his Letter to the Earth as part of the UN75 Moderated Dialogues, The Future is Unwritten: Art in the Time of Coronavirus panel conversation, Earth Day 2020. An initiative to engage the arts and culture sector in United Nations global policy discussions and implementation efforts.
Below are videos of letters being read in response to our Letters to Power callout, spoken in Parliament Square on 1st September 2020, the day UK parliament re-sat after summer recess.
A group of young people aged 6 - 20, including co-founder of UK Student Climate Network Daniela Torres Perez, speak a collective Youth Letter to Power, before handing it to MP Caroline Lucas who delivered it to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. See more here.
Watch Green Party campaigner, environmental philosopher and Letters to the Earth contributing author Rupert Read's "A letter to real power: a letter to us", also published here: