As most of you know, Rowanbank Environmental Arts & Education has been working on a big project this year called Positive Imaginings. It is all about inspiring positive climate action, through empowering children from disadvantaged areas with climate knowledge, and helping them to believe that their voices and imagined futures can (and should!) be heard and listened to! Positive Imaginings has been creating hope and optimism in our younger generations about what the world could look like in the future - and how they can help and join in on the action for a healthy and protected planet to live on!
At the core of our Positive Imaginings Project is a drive for climate justice and widespread accessibility to high quality and creative climate education. We designed the project to be built collaboratively in the runup to COP26, starting with children’s woodland workshops in Craigmillar in Edinburgh, collecting children’s positive imaginings about their futures in the face of climate change, and using their voices to inform the creation of a Climate Circus show, which will be performed around central Scotland during the weeks of COP26.
The show is a combination of circus, theatre, music and climate science and psychology, and aims to empower and inspire confidence to tackle the anxiety and insecurities that many of us hold about our future and turn them into optimistic, solution-based actions.
We have an idea we need your help with!
We have been thinking creatively about how to best enable the children’s voices from our Positive Imaginings Project to be heard at COP26. We are in the process of building a beautiful soundscape with recordings of their voices talking about their positive imaginings for our planet. The soundscape will be 1 minute long, and our amazing sound designer is working on it as we speak!
The challenge is how to get it played at COP26!?
Any ideas you may have to help us with this challenge are welcome! Are you a creative action genius? Do you participate in climate actions? Are you somebody who has access to influential people at COP26? Are you attending COP26? Are you an environmental influencer?
ALL IDEAS WELCOME - no idea is too wild for our Cycling Climate Circus!