Volcan Scène

Chaîne des Puys, France – activity 2023

Scène

Geoheritage for Resilience has been working with locals in Volvic around a film festival – Volcanscene (https://www.volcanscene.com/). We integrated geobiology and volcano monitoring, and Geoheritage for Resilience outputs activities into the 2 km long walk from the reception to the film projection site in close collaboration with the local organisers.

This was the first year of the project, and for 2024 we plan to work closely with Volvic locals to produce an enhanced offer of geobiological maps and activities, to complement the main objectives of the festival.

First map of the walk from the reception area to the Film projection area at Le Cratère.
Image 1, First map of the walk from the reception area to the Film projection area at Le Cratère.
Image 2. Interpretative map for the participants to guide them through the Volvic lava features and to appreciate not only the geological forms, but also the biological interactions.
Image 3. Geoheritage for Resilience participant, Fernanda Téllez, with a bioVolvic rock.
Image 4. Pixie cup lichens (Cladonia Asahinae), growing with mosses and other biocrust on Volvic rocks. These are a sign of good air quality. The lava and the forest tree trunks are all covered in this biological crust, which is an important environmental factor in clean air and CO2 reduction.
Image 5. Introducing Geobiological concepts to film goers on their way to the presentations.
Image 6. The open air projection at Le Cratère.
Image 7. The Open air projection site as night falls.