2023
Facing Climate Colonialism at the UN
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Action for Climate Empowerment
Director Simone Laureline, Marion Atieno Osieyo, Alois Reinhardt, Komi Mizrajim Togbonou
Founder + Concept + Teaching Simone Laureline
Teacher Marion Atieno Osieyo
Teacher Alois Reinhardt
Teacher Komi Mizrajim Togbonou
50 youth activists and sustainability students participated in a one-day workshop on ‘Facing Colonialism at the Roots of Climate Change to Envision Decolonized Futures and Rethink Climate Action’ for the Action for Climate Empowerment initiative of the United Nations Climate Change secretariat in Bonn (Germany). The workshop was facilitated by theatre artists Komi Mizrajim Togbonou and Alois Reinhardt, as well as by environmental experts Marion Atieno Osieyo and Laureline Simon.
Emotional and Real
Throughout the workshop, we mobilized visual arts, music and theatre-based practices to express emotions and explore ways of being and doing that could contribute to actual solidarity and repair.
Feedback shared by participants at different moments of the workshop was profound and enthusiastic, confirming a need for more in-depth work, bringing in scientific facts and emotional explorations together, to be offered in relation to colonialism and climate change.
After the workshop, participantsreported gaining ‘a new perspective on climate change’ and viewed it as ‘emotional and real’. They also noted that the workshop will have a deep and lasting impact.
