The birds embark on a journey and search for the “Simorgh,” a mythical majestic bird which has been likened to the phoenix. They are led by the wisest bird through seven valleys to find the Simorgh and enlightenment. Each Valley has a challenge and an exploration into who we are and what we can become.
This Conference is a conference of artists and communities gathered as an international collaborative that will create a global network to explore new forms of engagement, creation, performance, and online digital experiences. It is a direct response to the challenges we face when dealing with the impact of Covid19 and the climate crisis on a personal, economic, environmental, political, local, national, and international scale.
Our brazilians friends brought our conference to a close with 2 panels on the state of affairs in the country that looks after the lungs of the world.
Bodies lie stacked in mass graves and indigenous communities mourn the deaths of their rivers and forests.
How much longer can we tolerate this? How many violations do we allow our own governments to make? How much work is still to be done?
The world needs artists to overcome the blah blah blah.
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Our earth mother, our mother the earth, mother nature, our great mother and giver of life, our mother.
Over and over again we heard her described and shared our connections to her and thanked her for how she sustains us. The artists brought her to life and her voice was heard.
I am hopeful that she has chided her children well enough to have them change their ways. If they dont change, call on her, make them them listen, shelter in her arms and listen to her.
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“We must listen to children, and their insights and demands… We see kids as an essential voice in negotiating how we must tackle the challenges of the future. We know kids to be agents of change. And we will work to make sure adults listen and act.”
– Molly Fannon, CEO, UN Live - @museumfortheun speaking in Glasgow during @cop26uk on partnering with @studioolafureliassonon @earthspeakr.
Over the last two weeks in Glasgow, during COP26, Earth Speakr workshops were held in collaboration with Conference of the Birds at the @pipefactory inviting kids to consider the power of listening and to make messages directed toward world leaders they felt could make a change. They were asked:
“If you could talk to any person in the world, who would it be and what is the one thing that you wish you could tell them?"
Through the Earth Speakr AR interface, the app became the megaphone for the kids' voices, amplifying their messages to policy makers present at COP26.
Sincere thanks to Simon Sharkey, Director of The Necessary Space for activating Earth Speakr within @confotbirds together with @theatre_of_opportunity & @ifnotuswhocop26 for the invaluable efforts in showing kids a new way of speaking up for the Earth. Thanks to Fraser MacLeod @fragglemac01 for being our facilitator on site together with Karyn Priestley, Michal Lausch @michallausch and Graeme Ohara @bobstrainset for documenting it.
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The Pipe Factory in Glasgow became home to an eclectic programme of visual arts and panel talks during COP26.
We were looking for a home and where better to offer a Glasgow welcome than the people of the Barras, who embraced our art and joined us in our activism.
Our conference of the birds added to its flock and took wing with inspirational works around us.
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It feels like weeks ago already when these red devils/angels graced our clyde walkway.
The artists and the activists joined forces to raise the heads of the delegates and the tone and ambition of the negotiations.
On umpteen occasions I heard them say we did our job, that we made them think and think again.
I hope they think again and again but most of all I hope they do and do again so when we get to Egypt we dont need to raise their heads and ambitions and they do it because its the right thing to do.
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Looking back to when @confotbirds got our first @Cop26 contribution to our murmuration.
@emilyldicko thank you for your pledge, thanks for being part of @confotbirds @ifnotuswhocop26 @cop26 @climatefringe @pipe_factory @theatreofopportunity
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A brilliant gathering of the brightest minds from @sheclimate under the beginnings of a murmuration of birds by @confotbirds @ifnotusthenwhocop26 @climatefringe @cop26uk
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A single image captures a thousand thoughts. Films, discussions, participatory activities and being present made a difference. Inside the blue zone the delegates carried these images consciously and subconsiously into their discourse. Art matters.
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