Northern Ireland-based content creators, The Weatherbies recently completed the Future Screens NI Narrative Futures project challenging creative industries to explore where and how changes have impacted the creative industries. To meet the call founding-member and creative director Yvonne Flemming and her team created the project “Meet the Weatherbies” a collection of video-based stories based on a community of loveable weather themed characters with the aim to help to comfort children, reduce anxieties, and fears they might have in today’s ever climate changing world. The concept will inspire children to look up to the sky, see and feel the weather as a friend, that can both nurture and be nurtured.
Following the completion of the project to develop videos the aim now is to release a songbook and related music available through streaming services for kids. Drawing on partnerships with Eco-Schools, as a delivery partner for their Green Flag initiative, the project can enhance Schools / playschools, teachers and children learning experience with access to original, fun content that deliver stories within a positive and educational message. The videos will promote an eco-friendly message, relevant more so now than ever, helping children be more aware of the world around them.
Rewriting the Narrative was an open call to the Northern Ireland creative industries challenging them to explore where and how changes have impacted the creative industries. The call was aimed at identifying how we can learn from the current situation, both positives and negatives, and use it to strengthen the industry once normality returns. The funding call was a Future Screens NI and Northern Ireland Screen partnership.