Steam Museum Set to Celebrate World Water Day
Taking part in international film festival
London Museum of Water & Steam
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March 12, 2024
The London Museum of Water and Steam is to host an affiliated event for the World Water Film Festival.
This is a non-profit film festival for filmmakers and storytellers from all over the world to highlight human-water relationship issues and concerns that aim to inspire the viewer to take action. It was founded in 2022 by filmmaker and environmental advocate Robert Strand,
The festival held its inaugural event a year ago in New York City and has since expanded its reach around the globe to include satellite events in New Zealand and Tanzania.
World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993, is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of freshwater. It celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. It is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis.
As part of its annual celebration of World Water Day, the London Museum of Water & Steam has teamed up with the World Water Film Festival for a day of special programming on Saturday 23 March.
The Brentford museum will be the first venue in Europe to host a World Water Film Festival affiliated event, screening a selection of films, submitted from across the world. The films will be screened throughout the day, in various locations of the museum. There is no additional charge for the film festival, but normal admission to the museum applies.
Hannah Harte, Director of London Museum of Water & Steam says, “Water is a critical, life supporting resource and sometimes we can forget the true value of it. How available will it be in the future? And, especially as our climate changes, how fair will that availability be throughout the world? Almost all of our waterways in the UK are already polluted and we are being discouraged from swimming in the sea along much of our coastline – how can this be? In partnering with the World Water Film Festival and showing these beautiful, emotional, factual films we hope that the Museum can reach hearts and minds and start to turn the tide on how we value water!”
Robert Strand says, “In curating films about water from around the world, and bringing them to audiences around the world, we hope people better understand the value of water. The power of these films is that they make issues and solutions about water not only matters of the mind, but of the heart and hands as well. I am thrilled to partner with the London Museum of Water & Steam to bring our first activation to Europe!”
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