Registered: 4 months, 2 weeks ago · Forum Role: Participant
Guernsey
Jolie Booth is artistic director of cutting edge arts company Kriya Arts. Last year she partnered with Anna Lehmann from No Planet B Initiative to create this once in a lifetime experience...
In September 2021 a group of ordinary people, set off on an extraordinary odyssey: walking 500 miles along the UK, reaching Glasgow exactly as delegates and world leaders arrive in the city for the UN Climate Change Conference.
At this time of unique peril for our planet and all its inhabitants we deeply connected with and listened to the land we travelled through, the species we encountered on the way and the communities we met living along the route. Listening to the Land: Pilgrimage for Nature was a uniquely hopeful, creative and reverential kind of activism that resulted in a performance at COP26 and a piece of textile art capturing the voices of the people we met along the way.
In September 2021 a group of ordinary people, set off on an extraordinary odyssey: walking 500 miles along the UK, reaching Glasgow exactly as delegates and world leaders arrive in the city for the UN Climate Change Conference.
At this time of unique peril for our planet and all its inhabitants we deeply connected with and listened to the land we travelled through, the species we encountered on the way and the communities we met living along the route. Listening to the Land: Pilgrimage for Nature was a uniquely hopeful, creative and reverential kind of activism that resulted in a performance at COP26 and a piece of textile art capturing the voices of the people we met along the way.
