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Connecting for Climate Change
55 people came together at MosaicMoments Studio at the past weekends to make mosaic tiles for the Climate Change Group Mosaic in Beijing. After using words to express hopes and fears about Climate Change now hands are penetrating the topic. Let participants speak for themselves what they have experienced during these community crafting sessions:
“You work on these mosaics so very detailed and carefully, so this is how we should care for the creation and environment, that we work and handle it carefully. Many small details make a bigger image, like many small actions make a world.” Lorenz B. , from Germany
“It’s a great time to reflect on what we were thinking our aims were and to see this come in action. At the same time it was fun to learn a new skill.”
Anna W., from UK
“I am very glad to join this project, it is very meaningful not only for us its also for others who finally are looking for opportunities to contribute … I really enjoy doing this …. I appreciate the team work, which is great. We don’t know each other and you bring us together, we get to know each other and in the future we can communicate definitely with all of you …”
Tong L. From China
“in transforming the words into art and pictures it makes it even more deeper and clearer how important for example the corals are ….for our survival”
“In our first community assembly meeting we had words and with making this mosaic and the building of the motives it means action…. The transfer from words into action belongs to this climate change where we really need action.”
Michaela S., From Austria
“Thank you. Everything was so efficient. This is a very meaningful art project.”
Ivy Y. , from China
Raising Awareness of Climate Change – A Mosaic Mural in Beijing
Community projects will play an important role on the journey to become emissions neutral, the key goal of the Paris Climate Agreement that 196 states, including China, are striving to meet.
https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement
Following the UN Conference of Parties (COP26) Climate Change summit held in Glasgow in Nov 2021, the Global Assembly called on artists around the world for creative responses reflecting people’s fears and hopes for a world threatened by climate change. It hopes to raise awareness through art projects and to mobilize society at grassroots level – every household and every community – to protect and sustain the environment by changing the way we use natural resources. The artwork can be viewed on the Cultural Wave website managed by the Global Assembly.
As an offshoot of this initiative, we recently organised the Community Assembly of Beijing involving a group of dedicated women from China and abroad. We are now putting our words into action by undertaking a community art project in the form of a mosaic mural symbolizing our deep respect for our planet, its life-giving climate, and global biodiversity, which we have a duty to protect. We believe this action will help to raise public awareness of the threat of climate change and the need to keep our climate goals in mind, in everything we do.
