Prakriti Prem (Nature Love) - Street drama to raise awareness on sustainability issues on the Road to Rio+20

[Tek Jung Mahat]

Prakriti Prem (Nature Love) - Street drama to raise awareness on sustainability issues on the Road to Rio+20 

Language: Nepali, with subtitles in German and English

 

Dear Friends,

 

As we are looking on for different options to raise awareness and get communities involved to maintain ecological sustainability, I am pleased to share with you one of our recent attempt through staging a street drama. Together with a local theatre group Mandapika Art Group we organised a street drama in Kathmandu in early January 2012 to sensitive audience from different backgrounds on why they have to love the nature and what makes sustainability matter this much?

 

The street drama enacted the conflict between humankind and nature by putting Hindu mythological symbols in a twenty-first century setting. Lord Shiva, the ocean, mountains, ozone, clouds, and greenhouse gases were characters dwelling on problems such as temperature rise and loss of snow cover in the mountains, eventually realising that anthropogenic activities are behind the problems. The drama stressed the need to conserve forests and mountains and was attended by school children and invited guests including Mr Rajesh Hamal, the well-known cine artist from Nepal.

 

A low-resolution video is available on YouTube for your viewing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXPeP5UU45c). Please make sure to enable the subtitles by clicking CC button just below the YouTube video screen.

 

I am now waiting for the final version (with some rework on timing between frame and subtitles) on DVD. If you want one, I can send, pls send your postal details to:  Tek Jung Mahat, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), GPO Box 3226, Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel +977-1-5003222 Ext [104].

 

Hope you enjoy watching this!

 

Regards,

Tek

 

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[Tek Jung Mahat]

Dear Livia,

Yes, as long as the local artists are available, otherwise it is going to be too expensive. However counterproposal can be screening this kind of activities where people are likely to stop for a while.

As you might have noticed, I work for a institution that has specialised on mountain issues, and that's why you see that impression often times in my writing and work. At Rio we are planning to formally launch a global initiative called World Mountain Forum for Sustainable Development (WMF-for-SD), for which we are preparing since October 2011 and had WMF's test launch on 11 December 2011 with implementation of series of activities from October 2011 to January 2012. The drama I shared earlier was prepared in this context.

Here I have another interesting video to share with you:

Celebrating Pachamama was prepared with SDC support in the context of Latin America, aiming to bring people's thought and emotions closer to mountains with the theme CONSERVE, CONSTRUCT and CELEBRATE.  Have a close look at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrNVa8RnMdg . This can be another thing you may like to showcase.

Simialrly, we can take these presentations as inspirations and develop something new in the context or Youth and RIo+20 or say the Brazilian context as you seemed to have tried to indicate.

Best,

Tek

On 23 February 2012 23:32, Livia Achcar <livia....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Tek

That is amazing.

I was just wondering the other day how to make our traditional action of marching in the name of something more interesting. During Rio+20 - on the 17th and on the 20th of June - two great marches are being planned. One of them probably will be at the beach, on the streets. Do you think it would be possible to organize something like this that accompanies the march as it goes... Maybe on the sand or some space on it's side. Could be pretty emotional...

Just an idea...

Congrats!

L

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