How can creativity and artistic practice be used to document the losses and damages caused by climate change?
That’s the question that will be explored at the next of Stroud District Green Party’s Cloud Café online debates, on Wednesday February 8 from 7.30pm to 9pm.
Elizabeth Lee, organiser of the event, held in conjunction with Hawkwood College, said: “We’re all only too familiar with how climate change is affecting vulnerable communities, but this aspect of the loss and harm confronting them is something we don’t hear so much about. This talk promises to be a fascinating insight into how creativity can document the challenges. ”
Following the talk there will be an opportunity for audience questions and debate.
Everyone is welcome to join this free online discussion and debate. Register here to attend or to receive a recording to watch another time.
The speaker
Sarah Queblatin’s work with climate-vulnerable communities in the Philippines involves revitalising cultural heritage through ‘storymapping’ and the recognition of indigenous and traditional ecological knowledge.
This process also protects and restores natural heritage through ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and adaptation. Weaving such relational tools with rational tools help scale solutions up, wide, and deep for resilient and regenerative futures.
Sarah works with artists and communities to shape ways to translate data into story through cultural memory and imagination, designing from the wisdom of past with the desired future in emergence.
Sarah is an inclusive regenerative design strategist passionate about transforming the narrative of Disaster Risk Reduction into “Design for Resilience and Regeneration.” With a background in mental health and psycho-social support, ecopsychology, and expressive arts, she applies a trauma-informed understanding of regenerative resilience in her work with climate and conflict vulnerable communities.
Sarah is a founding member of Permaculture for Refugees and has worked with the Global Ecovillage Network for its UN and Advocacy program and served as representative to the UN climate COPs. She founded Green Releaf Initiative in the Philippines, one of the most climate-vulnerable nations in the world, working with regenerative solutions for food sovereignty, regenerative livelihood, and ecosystem restoration.
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