‘The Researcher’ – Film Screening
The Building Centre 26 Store Street London WC1E 7BT
About this Event
✨ Part of KINDFIRE, the eco-artivist exhibition by GREENy bastARTs during London Climate Action Week 2026.
Join us for a special screening of The Researcher, a powerful documentary following climate scientist and activist Gianluca Grimalda on an extraordinary journey across the globe and into the contradictions of modern climate ethics.
After refusing to fly for environmental reasons, Gianluca became internationally known in 2023 as the first worker reportedly dismissed for refusing air travel. The story was featured by major international media including The New York Times and The Guardian, raising urgent questions about personal responsibility, institutional systems, and the realities of climate action.
As Gianluca is currently in Papua New Guinea conducting research, audiences will also have the opportunity to submit questions through a shared Google Form. Selected questions and responses may be included as part of the ongoing programme.
🎬 SPECIAL KINDFIRE FEATURE
During the exhibition, exclusive video updates from Gianluca Grimalda’s current field research in Papua New Guinea will be screened daily for the first time publicly.
📍 Main Exhibition Room
🕑 Every day • 2:00pm–2:40pm
👤 ABOUT GIANLUCA GRIMALDA
Gianluca Grimalda is an Italian behavioural economist and researcher known for his work on climate justice, global inequalities, and climate-induced migration.
He works with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and has collaborated with several international institutions. His research focuses on vulnerable communities affected by climate change, including fieldwork conducted in Pacific regions such as Bougainville and the Carteret Islands, where he has documented the social and psychological impacts of rising sea levels.
Alongside his academic work, Grimalda is also a climate activist committed to low-emission travel and ethical climate action, combining scientific research with public engagement and environmental advocacy.
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🔥 ABOUT KINDFIRE
KINDFIRE is a 10-day eco-artivist exhibition and public programme created by GREENy bastARTs as part of London Climate Action Week 2026.
Positioned as an independent artistic hub for climate dialogue and collective action, KINDFIRE brings together artists, activists, researchers, filmmakers, designers, and communities through exhibitions, workshops, talks, screenings, performances, and participatory events.
🗓️ 18–28 June 2026
📍 The Building Centre
🕘 Mon–Fri • 9am–5pm
🎉 Preview Night: 18 June • 5–8pm
🌿 Finissage: 28 June • 4–6pm
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📸 CONTENT NOTICE
Photos and videos may be taken during the event for documentation and communication purposes.
GREENy bastARTs
We are an international eco-artivist collective bridging environmental understanding and transformative action across Europe. We create transformative artistic experiences that awaken ecological consciousness and inspire meaningful action. Rooted in marine conservation and expanding across the wider ecological web, we highlight how ocean health is inseparable from terrestrial environments, climate systems and all life forms.
We aim to build an interconnected ecosystem of artists, scientists, professionals, activists and communities who collaborate to protect and restore planetary health. Through expanding networks, innovative partnerships and continuous creative exploration, we foster a global community that sees environmental action as joyful, essential, creative work for the common good of all life.
Some may find our name provocative - and that is no accident. Its subversive ring is indeed intentional, yet wrapped in etymology, carrying a meaning far deeper and more symbiotic beyond the determined, activist spirit it proudly carries. GREEN and ART speak for themselves. BAST, however, is the strong inner fibre of plants (such as flax, hemp, jute and linden) - b fibres once essential to seafaring life. They formed ropes, nets, sails, …and maritime textiles. Bast was the material that held communities to the water, binding survival, exploration and connection. GREENy bastARTs revives that lineage under contemporary light.
We weave artists, scientists and citizens into a living network for planetary repair. As bast fibres once held ships afloat, bastARTs holds hope, action, and imagination together. In a world mistreated by greed and divided by fear, let us stand strong and united as free-thinkers, hope-bringers, and empathic re-connectors to our one, whole, wondrous ecosystem.
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