We're grateful to mindfully reconnect with these ongoing and necessary weeks of re-pacing and looking out for one another in these challenging times with an event that radiates togetherness and hope. It is an online song workshop on Wednesday 29th April, 16-17.30, led by Chihiro Geuzebroek, who has contributed song lyrics to the Climate Knowledges Climate Visual Cultures Library.

'Sometimes people do not conceptualize the mediated climate movement as ‘white’. Yet upon examination of contestation in decolonial chants and songs we see clear differences in framing, visual and spoken language and understanding what it means to be alive, to be a good person, maintain community and the meaning of environmental activism. There is a difference between “Act now, we have 12 years to save the world” and “Our house has been on fire for over 500 years. Decolonize earth”.

In this workshop we will first learn about different chants and protest songs from Indigenous artists and identify some difference and spectrum. Through reflection and practice we will situate ourselves in the struggle for good health for our planet, the people and all our relations. We will end with an exercise in making intersectional chants and put our voices to the test and build a collective moment in our digital meeting space.' - Chihiro Geuzebroek

Sing-a-long: a Decolonial Climate Justice Workshop with Chihiro Geuzebroek
Wednesday 29 April 2020
Online video call (a private link will be shared)
16:00 - 17:30 (CEST) (so it will start at 14:00 for any UK friends)
Free registration with name and email address through this link



About Chihiro Geuzebroek

Chihiro Geuzebroek is a filmmaker, songwriter and performer active in the climate movement. Her background as Bolivian Dutch with Quechua ancestry informs her body of work in which she aims to restore and restory our relationships with earth and each other. As Director Producer she released the activist coming of age movie RADICAL FRIENDS (2014) for which she traveled to Bolivia. For this movie she wrote five songs; 10 feet tall, Naked, Turkish apple tea, Fearless Future and Radical Friends. In Bolivia she performed with the Bolivian Quechua-pop band Aullagas and reconnected with her Bolivian musician father and uncle through making music together. She recently released a song Shell Must Fall with the new band the Sound of Climate Justice.

Chihiro is one of the core organizers of Climate Liberation Bloc and co-founder of the decolonial foundation Aralez. She filmed and edited diverse videos for the climate groups Code Rood and Fossil Free Culture. She wrote for the nY publication Rape enters the scene about Climate & sexual abuse, and for the climate book Nu het nog kan an article on decolonizing the climate movement. Some of her dearest moments in activism include participating in Ende Gelande mass direct action to shut down lignite mining and giving a workshop on climate justice for the program A Week with Angela Davis (2018).

About the Climate Visual Cultures Library

The Climate Visual Cultures Library is an evolving archive of visual material from campaigns by Indigenous, Black and people of colour climate activists, who organise in the Netherlands. Initiated by Worm: art + ecology together with local activists for the exhibition project Climate Knowledges at MAMA in Rotterdam, the CVC Library extends on the many types of knowledges that shape our understanding, communication and action towards climate change issues.
Please see this page for more information.

Images: Chihiro Geuzebroek