Art is a form of expression that is intricate and integral to human identity, even survival. It is a catalogue of time, experience, memory, and unique expression.
How is art integral to contemporary planetary challenges? In an ever-demanding human-world, art in the form of digital media (photography, film, sound), design, movement and more has the potential to engage others with more-than-human realms, and platform new ways of seeing our human and living world.
In our upcoming posts, we will be holding space for the many eclectic forms of art and creative expression. Stay tuned for what’s to come, we have further news on the way regarding the evolution of our platform and how you can be involved. 💙🌎
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Recognising who is dictating and determining the fate of our shared planet is imperative. We can continue trying to build alternatives, but until we confront—and dismantle—the forces that brought us to this crisis, we will remain at a crossroads where the small elite rise while the rest of humanity and all species are left to struggle and face extinction.
We know what fuels climate collapse: the same systems and actors profiting from war, genocide, ecocide, extraction, and manufactured misinformation. In response, we are building a framework and structural guide designed for everyone—architecture rooted in creativity, interdisciplinary modelling, and the momentum needed to challenge empire, concentrated power, and fossil-fuel monopolies.
We’ve been building steadily, and our determination is only growing stronger and louder. WOH has been working closely with stewards of land, water and community in different world regions. In the next few posts we will share stories on how to stay informed, take meaningful action, and support those in the struggle for transformation.
Got an idea, a skill, or simply feel aligned with the mission? Reach out and get involved.
In Love, Gratitude and Solidarity,
WOH
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What does healthy eldership look like?
Rutendo Ngara, Indigenous African Knowledge Systems practitioner and scientific researcher, answers this question through the way she speaks, moves and leads.
She embodies an intelligence that is ancient and wise, rooted in the knowledge and remembrance of her ancestors and the important work that they have called her into.
Africa holds some of the world’s oldest knowledge systems, yet is continually overlooked due to centuries of colonial exploitation that have sought to undermine the very real contributions Africa has made to science, culture and history.
Rutendo is one of five elders featured in our upcoming film. You can follow along her journey here and through @theearthelders to learn more about how African wisdom can shape our collective future.
“As we enter the new Dawn, we need to think beautifully, we need to act beautifully and we need to transcend beautifully.
The transcendence is now, and we must practice it in the name of our ancestors. We need to begin with ourselves and our community, in our territories.
We are a global family, loving and caring for Mother Earth and Father Sky in every thought, every word and every act.
This is a key moment in humanity when we need to regain peace with Mother Earth and dignity with animals, plants the mineral world, and all humans.”
- Mindahi Bastida, convener and founder of @theearthelders and a member of the Otomi-Toltec people.
To read Chief Ninawa’s story in English, scroll to slide 8✨
What does healthy eldership look like for humanity and our future?
@theearthelders is a global collective working to preserve the knowledge, ancestral wisdom, lands and cultures of Original Peoples.
Five of the Earth Elders are at the heart of our upcoming film. One of them is Chief Ninawa, leader of the Huni Kuin people.
The Huni Kuin have experienced an onslaught of colonial violence over the past few hundred years; from the rubber boom in the 1870s that threatened their survival, to the ongoing threats of illegal logging and cattle expansion in the Amazon.
Through all of this, Chief Ninawa and his people have remained resilient. He works tirelessly to protect his people’s cultural protocols and way of life, including the sacred protocols around Ayahuasca - a medicine that is being circulated globally without proper understanding.
Chief Ninawa is working towards securing 140 000 hectares of land which will protect Huni Kuin territory for generations to come. Known as the University of the Forest, this will be a place where his people’s wisdom can be preserved and shared.
Chief Ninawa’s story reminds us of the merits of a true leader; one who will stand for his people, and the Original Peoples of the world, as we collectively walk towards a more just and liveable future.
Hi! My name is Dom, I'm an environmental and visual anthropologist working in close reciprocity and coordination with the Bijagós People of the Urok Islands, Guinea Bissau, West Africa.
Last year, I spent 3 months in Guinea Bissau, with 6 weeks in total on the Urok Islands (Nago, Chedia and Formosa Island) with an ethnographic direction rooted in deep-hanging out and observational/foundation-building with the Bijagós people.
Now, with relationships, trust, and respect at the heart of this creative and long-term plant-cultural research collaboration, I am reaching out for your support.
Climate disruption, ecological disaster, christian missionary ventures, ethnic inter-dwelling demographics, poor state handling and NGO funding, city migrations, promises of moderntiy, neo-colonisation, and the fragmentation of ancestral lineages are leading to Urok Island plant life - and accompanying cultural practices - to become fragmented and discontinued.
Now, three plant wisdom healers remain on Nago Island (Nelson, Rapaz and Mussa) accompanied by a limited number of curandeiros on Chedia and Formosa.
We are reaching out to the digital world to help raise funds for 12 cameras! for a participatory media project whereby the Bijagós people can document the plants in accordance with their ontology, cosmology, and cultural direction and community determination.
You can see more information about the project under Land Cinema and Plant Wisdom Revival on WOH's website:
With your help we can preserve plant species, archive key cultural and plant practices, allow the Bijagós people to become self-determined visual stortytellers rooted in their own epistemology and territory, and alllow for this project to spearhead co-creational plant science for justice, transformation and human-Earth re-connection!
Please reach out if you would like to help/hear more! Aié Choghont / Asenta / Thank you!!!
🙌🏼🙏🏼🌍 Gofundme link in Bio 🌍🙏🏼🙌🏼
This project receives support for fieldwork from the Commission on Nomadic People's Bonte and Brisebarre grant.
The seeds are in the hands of the Bijagós People.
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We’ve been cookin…
World Over Here (WOH) critically examines global narratives while amplifying stories of justice, reconciliation and repair. Rooted in plurality, participatory research and decolonial thought, we are a transdisciplinary collective bringing together embodied practice as legal practitioners, anthropologists, audio-visual artists and political, environmental, and system-thinking researchers. United by a shared commitment to challenging the systems and narratives that perpetuate harm, WOH reimagines more just and liberated ways of being.
The founding promise of modernity was
to transcend the earth,
in the dream
of freedom.
But like any virtue,
clues are embedded in the word.
The etymology of freedom means to belong.
When we call for our freedom,
we are calling for our innate belonging.
We believe we all do,
By the sheer miracle in and of our existence.
That’s why we’re here,
to change.
Welcome to World Over Here.
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The Earth is in a moment of huge transition and transformation. Although this can feel scary at times, @theearthelders remind us that this time brings with it a lesson; come back home.
Come back home and learn to be in harmony and peace with all of our relations on this planet; from the Earth, to the Sky, to all the other species.
Mindahi Bastida, convener of the Earth Elders, and a central character in our upcoming film, reminds us that a different future is possible. One in which oil and gold are left in the soil from which they came. A future where we are benefitting from clean and healthy energies so that we can evolve into more beautiful way of living. A future where love is among us.
On this Earth Day, we invite you to learn from the elders and those who have dedicated their lives to the protection and healing of this planet. Our documentary tells their story, and offers a more hopeful vision of the future Mindahi speaks to here. All hope is not lost. It is time to return to an ancient story of what it means to be human. Follow our work here and follow @theearthelders to learn more.
Sacred sites are part of the energetic grid of our planet. Through ritual, ceremony, and tradition these sites have been tended to by Original Peoples since time immemorial. But as humanity loses sight of the ancestral wisdom that has been held in, and passed through, these sites, they have become neglected.
Sacred sites expand far beyond religious sites. They are biocultural sites that hold the convergence of ecology and culture; allowing for those who travel to them to connect with the unseen dimensions, and spirits, of our world.
Many of these sites have been disrupted and degraded due to human activity. This is why the second Earth Mandate handed to @earthelders in 2010, is to identify, defend, and regenerate sacred lands, waters and ecosystems essential to all life. To learn more about this work, and the documentary we are co-producing with the Earth Elders, follow along our journey here.
The Second Mandate of the Earth Elders is to identify, defend and regenerate sacred lands, waters and ecosystems essential to life. These mandates are at the heart of our upcoming documentary film, and the work that @earthelders do.
Sacred sites hold deep ancestral memory. They are beating hearts of our planet’s biodiversity and culture, and a place where restoration and ceremony converge.
Mindahi Bastida, of the Otomi-Toltec people of Mesoamerica, and central convener of the Earth Elders, reminds us that these sites must be protected, ensuring that the Rights of Nature are upheld for present and future generations.
To learn more about this work, you can follow along our journey here, or subscribe to our mailing list for updates on the release of the film.
How do we as humanity learn to adapt?
This is a question posed to us by Rutendo Ngara, an Indigenous Knowledge Systems Practitioner and scientific researcher, as part of our upcoming documentary film.
In these times of greater chaos and uncertainty, it is tempting to try to control the circumstances around us. Rutendo gently nudges us away from this impulse, and into a meaningful contemplation on the adaptive capacity of nature.
She reminds us: “Nature is always in a constant state of adaptation.”
And as nature changes, how do we learn to be with its changing tides?
For more wisdom from Rutendo and @earth elders, follow us here or join our mailing list (link in bio!) for updates about the release of the film.
While glaciers are the main source of water for Argentina, this week the country’s congress passed an amendment making it easier for mining companies to extract mineral resources in glacier regions, putting water at risk.
Grandmother Emma, whose story we follow in our upcoming documentary film, has been working tirelessly for years to protect water in her region from growing mineral extraction. As Lithium mining projects expand in the provinces of Jujuy, Salta and Catamarca, this work is more important than ever.
We know that water is life, and protecting glaciers is essential to preserving the delicate balance of life on this planet. When we protect nature, nature protects us. To learn more about the importance of the rights of nature, follow @earthelders and watch our upcoming film which follows their journey to co-create a world where humans and all life flourish together.
