The Climate Museum is offering a new after-school workshop, “Climate Storytelling Through Filmmaking” to high school students. 

This workshop is presented as part of the New York Premiere of Hollow Tree, a documentary by director Kira Akerman. This film follows three teenagers coming of age in their sinking homeland of Louisiana. For the first time, they notice the Mississippi River’s engineering, stumps of cypress trees, and billowing smokestacks. Their different perspectives — as Indigenous, white, and Angolan young women — shape their story of the climate crisis.

In this workshop, students will:

• Watch an excerpt from Hollow Tree.
• Hear from the film’s 3 protagonists.
• Connect with other climate-focused teens to tell their own climate story through film, learning  to look differently at their environments. 
• Learn film storytelling techniques that can be adapted for social media.  
• Explore ideas raised by the film as well as in our new exhibition, THE END OF FOSSIL FUEL, including how the climate crisis is inextricably bound together with social inequality.

This workshop will be led by our Youth Programs Team and the Hollow Tree filmmakers.  

Open to high school students. If you are a high school student under the age of 13, please complete the registration form with the help of a parent or guardian.

Free! Spaces are limited! Registration is open until all spaces filled, with a final deadline of  October 26, at 11:59pm. Click here to register.