 Okay, hi everyone. Maybe I'll get us started with a few housekeeping things. This workshop is actually the first one of a series of workshops that we're offering this week on different skills for making change happen. So if you want to see the other workshops happening as part of this week of training, you can go onto a website that I'm basing in the chat box. But for now, I'm just going to pass on to Amalyn and Danny from the Artivist Network to introduce themselves and introduce the session and take us through it. And again, thanks everyone for joining. So hi everyone. My name is Amalyn. I'm from the Artivist Network. Today, Danny and myself from the Artivist Network will be going through with you on different actions and a few different scenarios that we want to put you guys through. And let's be a bit more fun and creative. Feel free to ask us any questions, but we have certain Q&A slots. So if you have any questions, please type it in the chat. So yeah, let me first begin by introducing myself. My name is Amalyn. I work with the Artivist Network and I've been with the Artivist Network now for the past seven years. I'm based in Malaysia. However, I'm currently in Budapest. I also have been working primarily with local grassroot groups back in Malaysia. Yeah, I've also been working with local grassroot groups back in Malaysia. I have more of a background in climate finance. However, with the Artivist Network over the years, I have been more focused towards actions and lobbying and protests, primarily around the UN conference zone and also other big climate events around the world. Today, we're going to be talking to you about different types of actions and different things that we go through when we do these different actions. But before I talk more about our session, I'd like to pass it over to Danny to introduce himself and tell us a little bit more as well about Artivist Network. Go ahead, Danny. Hi, everyone. My name is Danny. I'm obviously also working with the Artivist Network. I live and I'm based in Budapest and it's very funny to have Amalyn in the same city because it's rare that we're so close to each other. So this is a good day for me. I come from backgrounds of public art and mainly focusing on street art and techniques that are coming from this subculture. I'm interpreting these kinds of techniques into training materials and trying to support amusement with different kinds of skill sets. Basically, I think that's it about me. I joined around eight years ago, just a little bit earlier than Amalyn. Today, we're going to have the first part of the training is going to be about inspiring actions that we have done and which our allies have done over the last years, which are in different kinds of contexts and different kinds of surroundings, different parts of the world. After that, we're going to play a little game together. Amalyn, would you like to introduce the game? After Danny comes to you guys and goes through with you all on a few different creative actions and techniques and skills that we hope to pass along, we're going to go through a little game in a sense of put you guys through an action, put you guys through a real life scenario that could or may happen and see how you guys react. I don't want to give too much away right now. We'll explain a little bit more later. But before we jump into Danny's session, I just want to tell you guys a little bit about Archivist Network. I just realized you didn't say much about Archivist Network yet. The Archivist Network, we are a group of artists, activists, or archivists as we like to call it, from a lot of different backgrounds, and we help other organizations with their creative needs. Because a lot of times, I'm sure a lot of you out here know, at the end of the day, the creative side of protest and actions usually are towards the end. We try to help bring that creative process from the beginning of a campaign planning and action planning so that you can get more media attention, you can get things more holistically done, and also to bring about where you're from and your culture through what you're doing in protest or actions or lobbying. You can find out more information about Archivist Network by checking out our cool new website, ArchivistNetwork.org. But yeah, without further ado, I'll pass it back to Danny at our session for today. Thank you. I'm going to share my screen. So yeah, basically, I would just like to start with a little bit of a background story about us as the network and how it was kind of turned in. So the Archivist Network is, as Amalan said, a mixture of artists, facilitators, and people in between the spectrum. What we're trying to do is basically create the bridge between artists and activists. Basically, there are so many activists who are extremely keen on organizing many actions, but lack this kind of creative aspect. And then there's so many artists who are amazingly creating art, but really feel that they would like to kind of find a new way to be able to support something which is important, and especially the climate movement is something where this has become very visible and more and more people are trying to support it. So yeah, basically the Archivist Network kind of started off as one of these social spaces, as basically a networking space for people to come, prepare for their actions, and create, learn new skills. This was originally kind of started for us at kind of the UN climate conferences, and then carried on to different climate camps, various mobilizations all over the world. And as the years are passing, we're trying to develop different kinds of methods to integrate creativity, but the art space was kind of our essential space to work in. So yeah, and basically this is where the movement can come together, can create, can get to know each other, and is also kind of this community space for people to prep, to have meetings. So yeah, basically it's just loads of people who come to these spaces, which we organize depending on what kind of context it is, which kind of country or city or mobilization. I would like to talk a little bit about myself and how I got connected to Archivism, and understood the words Archivism. I started painting walls roughly a bit more than 10 years ago, and I started to just knock on people's doors a little bit past, and ask them if I can paint their wall, like this is more in the time when street art and graffiti was less accepted as an art form. Now it's obviously become a huge movement and very recognized art form. Thank you, internet. So yeah, basically my story comes from like how art can win over a very funny argument with advertising companies. So I knocked on the door of this old couple, and they gave me permission to paint their wall, and I was like 14, and I didn't have a lot of money, so kind of making a huge painting like this is a, it was very difficult, I was going out like every day, but just a little bit of paint, which I was able to find or you know, which I was able to buy. And anyway, as we were finishing, suddenly this advertising company decided to put two billboards onto the wall, which made us extremely sad. And across from this wall, there's a huge mall. This is the outskirts of Budapest. And yeah, I basically just, I was just so sad. And you know, I asked the people who lived there that, so how come there's a billboard? And like, why didn't you tell me about it? And they said, oh, well, they just like knocked, like one week ago, and they offered us money in exchange for the advertising space. And like we can't really say no to extra money. So obviously I have to understand. And a few weeks later, I was passing by and realized that they actually have removed the billboards, and I knocked again on the old couple's door. And as soon as what happened, and they said that the local council turned up and actually said that this company was not allowed to advertise here. And they had the billboards removed, but also gave the company a huge fine because because of the legal advertising. And they let the name card there for me to for us to get in touch and to kind of start working together, which was a really kind of a really important moment because this was kind of in the time where it was very unusual for like local councils or governments or any kind of like bureaucratic system to kind of work together with anybody who's doing street art. So after that, basically we met and we talked about how we could kind of improve public space, how we can like bring more art into the into just like general life of people. And after this, with this specific district, we completed loads of murals. And like, for example, this is on the school, and it was painted in 2015 before COP 21 in Paris. This is before the Paris Agreement. And basically street art has been such a good tool for us to be able to one like bring more color to people's lives, but also start a conversation about why this art is being created and what your message is, because people really want to understand and it's very easy to mobilize, mobilize kind of like, like discussions and also to invite like local media and to tell them what your message is. And so after this, we started to paint murals everywhere, like when there's the COP also, this is in Poland during COP 24, I think, I'm forgetting, sorry. This is in Madrid. And after this, I started to develop a skill set and a tool kit for people to also be able to create on a large scale without without actually having the artistic skills with someone would have. So street art is really based on kind of tricks. And all of these tricks are coming from ways to paint fast and efficiently and also kind of kind of create something, create something visually, visually beautiful in a relatively large or relatively fast pace of time. So I started organizing this street art basics for COP, where people are learning their various types of techniques to create large visual art for different mobilizations or for campaigns or for mural projects and also trying to teach a little bit of graphic design to people. But everything is everything which I have developed is basically through like these like open source free platforms so that it's accessible to everyone and that it's not and that it's not alienating to anybody who is scared to draw something because basically nothing which is being made during these workshops is made by free hands. It's everything is with the tricks as I said. Also 350 already has a pretty nice toolkit from us which contains all of these techniques together with some other amazing things which were made by Amlan and Malike. Yeah, we have used this technique to mobilize for Andigalanda, Portugal, Greenpeace to create different kinds of visuals, climate camps and yeah basically this is what I've been doing is one of my main workshops and main trainings. This is a picture of my Prime Minister with a lot of money. And now I would like to talk a little bit about tools for action and the inflatable cobblestone. Arthur van van is a half Hungarian, half Dutch inflatable artist who first decided to develop the inflatable cobblestone during the COP21 in Paris and we started working together and he taught us how to build these cubes which we organized massive training on mobilizing for Andigalanda in 2016 and we loads of people gathered in Paris and this tool has been something very exciting. So we held this training for people from roughly six countries and everybody was there and learned how to make this inflatable and then went back to their own country and they each made like 30, 40, 50 inflatable cubes which then we all took to Germany and we went there to to block to symbolically block a coal mine. So the funny story is that it has been useful for many different countries and different contexts. Here this is people like building a blockade for the police cars which are coming to stop the protesters who are occupying the coal mine but this picture is taken in Spain where basically police violence is very general during the protest and also people like the police filming people filming the protesters with like through a helicopter and this cube was became called the reflector cube and this tool basically because the sunshine's on it it blinds the cameras but also creates this kind of playful this playful moment between the police and the protesters so it becomes this beach ball scenario and in there is a video where the police in Spain they basically start to hit this inflatable and make a total joke out of themselves and then they arrested the cube and put it into a police fan but the beauty of the story is that nobody in the protest was hurt because the police were focusing on these cubes and everybody managed to escape from police violence and as a mobilizational tool this action happened in Dortmund where Dortmund is in Germany where there is a massive neo-Nazi parade every year and Arthur worked together with a few universities there and they were building all of these cubes but here they put on this mirror foil and basically they surrounded the neo-Nazi parade and people had to face their own reflection because of the mirror foil on the surface of the cube and this way symbolically they had to feel themselves but also as they started to fight against these cubes they are actually fighting themselves so this has been a kind of a useful and very strong symbolic tool for many different many different movements over the years and this is one of my one of my favorite tools because you can use it for so many different things and it's basically this fits into a small backpack one of these so it is very easily transportable and then suddenly becomes this huge cube so it's pretty amazing yeah and coming from this where this is a very well designed object I would like to talk a little bit about like every day objects used in protest which then can create symbols this is the basically these rubber ducks were used in Thailand against the water cannons and yeah basically it became a symbol but also basically it's used as a it can't be defined as a passive weapon because usually this is what makes everything very difficult during the protest is that if you have a slide with you with the stick they can in some countries context they can already arrest you and because of this people are constantly looking for items which they can use this kind of self-protection in the explanation and sometimes it's just these everyday tools similarly to the to the umbrella movement in Hong Kong and yeah it's something beautiful and basically it was also um creates like something very powerful visually and as you can see in the previous picture and on this picture as well people are writing their own messaging onto the onto the umbrellas and for example this is fossil free culture I will talk a bit more about them but they're also using these everyday objects in their actions which are very easily transportable and you're able to just basically you know you have an umbrella and then suddenly if you're well organized then you're able to create a massive massive banner um carrying on to movement song and choreography this is a many of you might notice this is the song called a rapist in your past which was developed by the Chilean feminist movement which became the the world's biggest uh like most widely used feminist song and choreography all over the world as I know it was I don't even want to say the number but this has been massive I'm sure that all of you have seen seen uh seen this um seen this beautiful song being done in protest it's uh extremely powerful and also it's very easy to learn it because you can find so much information about it on the internet um yes and this is also a previous issue showed uh fossil free culture and this is one of their actions basically fossil free culture's mission is to to to basically pressure cultural institutions to not accept any funding from fossil fuel companies and they managed to they managed to basically make the Van Gogh Museum and answer them um resign their resign their contract with Shell to not accept any more um any more funding from them and then similarly also with BT it's very amazing in there basically their creativity is something very very beautiful like the way they're organizing choreography is also this one is in the Van Gogh Museum as well and everything is just made from this like very simple objects and it's very easy to also just kind of take it into these institutions this is also them there it's called drop the shell this action and the people were drinking this uh from the shells they were drinking the black liquid which looked like oil and they were spilling it all over themselves it was a it's an extremely safe but at the same time extremely powerful action because there's not really anything they can do with you if you're doing something so peacefully this is why creativity is so crucial in different kinds of actions and this is done by the collective 23 in Paris and the acts itself was interpreted by performance artists from France um we say this is a anti-colonist feminist action where they're basically protesting producing so many things it's basically it was a very complex action but the person itself is a very known performance artist and all of it is basically kind of this fight fight against this colonial leader which you can see is the statue and that the man itself is basically held on pedestrian by four women and this uh yeah this action was basically covered up by by by like hundreds of police almost because it was happening during uh during a protest and they were really trying to stop everyone from filming it but it still became an extremely powerful and beautiful action they're doing many different things and I really recommend you to have a look at collective 23 they're really really amazing and now I'd like to talk about something which is a a bit more media focused but one of our ongoing projects and it's actually very exciting for us is guerrilla projections and we are now collaborating with gas service on on this project where at the moment we are organizing guerrilla projection trainings and then groups are doing their actions uh in their own countries and now we are doing the actions in seven countries sound correct yes seven countries and this is in Budapest this was the first time we did our training and yeah basically we have this new projector which gas service was kind enough to loan to us and we're trying to integrate different kinds of different kinds of art and also a different kind of ways and messages and different kind of ways to kind of pack important buildings or ways to send messages so basically like for example this image is in Budapest and in the background is the parliament and at the moment with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict Hungary has been extremely unsupportive of obviously people who have been invaded by Russia and this way of targeting targeting targeting their decision making with a peaceful protest but also very safe protest because the worst thing which can kind of happen to you is that they tell you to stop stop projecting so because of this it's a very it's a very safe action but also something which mainly focuses on online media platforms because we got massive media outreach just because of actually using different hashtags which are more connected towards tourism because of the parliament because of Hungary and then obviously all of the all of the different messages we used against the fossil industry and gas industry um this is this was done in Germany last week um pictures I have shown you were from Budapest from Poland and yeah this is in Langsvierge they're going to build a offshore offshore terminal and yes basically it's been something which is very exciting for them because we're trying to involve different visual artists also creating graphics for us working more on projection mapping and also creating like animations to make our actions more powerful um if you go on our website you'll be able to find some cool videos over of all of the actions we are doing um yes and it is something where at the moment this projector is constantly on the road it's a huge projector and it's a huge battery so it's very exciting actually for us and yeah yeah you can find out more on the website and I would like to now talk a little bit about the wheat pasting and randomism as a technique um this is something which is very connected street art but also I would like to focus um a little bit on the different different aspects on how this has been done so this picture is um it's basically in 2015 when we had the we had millions of people coming to Hungary from Syria and Afghanistan and basically the Hungarian government um wasn't reactive and didn't actually support anyone that they created this massive hatred campaign which for example here it says that if you come to Hungary you need to obey you need to respect our culture and under it it says the national consultation of immigration and terrorism so it became a absolutely disgusting hate campaign and these these posters or these billboards were turning up everywhere basically they they bought tons and tons of these and it was just everywhere in your face so there's this um fake political party which was then fake that was actually a real political party called the two-tailed dog party and they started an online campaign and basically they copied the exact same font the exact same coloring and started to create this anti-campaign where basically it just says you entered from Austria to Hungary and the first billboard which greeted you was sorry about our prime minister and it was just absolutely amazing because then the whole fundraiser became so massive and everybody started to kind of chip in and support this campaign and you were able to send in your own slogan and then they would buy a billboard and put your slogan on it so it became something absolutely hilarious and similarly this is arguably a different kind of randomism but I wanted to use this as an example because it's something very funny um every year we have all of our roles renovated because of the the companies who are doing it they're using the worst quality of materials because this way every year they're able to redo the roles and you know get more money from it every year and every one of these companies are close to our government so the two-tailed dog party basically when they get campaigning money then they always turn turn their funding into some sort of social project so this was basically here you are not able to get time for doing this because like basically they are you know shining the lights on this corruption corruption case but at the same time this counts as basically drawing people's attention to safety hazard so because of this there is no fine involved and if you're walking here in the city then loads of the places are just covered with the same paint and you could go to the their office and basically they would just give you paint for free and then you could go and paint your cracks and it was very funny because like basically it was even in the end like like so many students and so many like little children from schools were painting painting these cracks and there's nothing you can actually do but it has been one of the most powerful kind of visual campaigns which they have done. Yes this is done by a media collective in Spain and this is one of the the colonialist statues and on the stairs they they um we pasted people who are getting deportees from Spain or who have been killed by police violence and their actions are very very powerful and they are really amazing and this is also them and this is during Spanish bubble where people who lost their homes went to the walls of the banks and we pasted their own portraits or their own faces onto onto the banks and it's an extremely powerful and beautiful action. This one is done in 2015 by the brandalism team their um English they're an English um collective who really focus on actually like changing changing bus stop ads and changing billboards but without permission so they they are just going around and this is in Paris where they printed hundreds of these and they over the over one day they managed to change really like I think 300 billboards with different kinds of um different kinds of messaging and yeah for example this is when we talk about like actual like we'll add brandalizing this is during post-second scandal the story we're sorry that we got caught it's not that we're sorry that we totally lied about our car being much more uh environmentally friendly so they're working a lot with open costs towards artists and inviting people to to basically share their graphic design with them and then they do the printing and then during different kind of mobilizations they organize these teams to go out and change the she's the bus stop ads and actually there's a very fun story with this uh with this because in Paris when we were when we were doing this action then you know everybody is wearing these um safety vests or you know these uh trans this um these green vests where you know people are working for just the call and there are these people like you can order a key for this through like ebay and they were really struggling to open it and somebody from the company was walking there and was like oh hey oh no they messed up our schedules i was supposed to do this one and they're like uh and you know like really awkward and the person was like oh you're struggling wait let me show you and like the person actually showed them how to open it up how to change it how to put it back and uh yeah basically it was just like it's just extremely funny is that like uh people don't realize you're actually doing an action unless you're visible and because of this like you always need to be an ninja and you know you're always kind of you know you make you make yourself look like you're actually supposed to be doing what you're doing um this is uh the defunct time of people's project by the guest list where they covered the the windows of banks over the weekend with um basically like different places which have which are suffering from from climate and from all of like the climate impacts and yes it's just the beautiful action which i wanted to share with you and yeah i very quickly wanted to rush you through all of these uh different kinds of amazing techniques and i really hope that i managed to inspire you because i hope that you will be able to use it in our next exercise and if anybody has any questions then please feel free to yes the presentation will be available after this training um we're going to do a quick um not a quick we're going to do one round of q and a now for 15 minutes so if anyone has any question um either raise your hand uh or put a star in the chat and we'll get to you um so yeah we'll just do about a 15 minute round of q and a so does anyone have any questions they'd like to ask uh anything about the techniques or about the actions that Danny uh ran with us anybody i can come in go ahead i mean thank you so much that was so incredibly cool super inspiring um and it just like it sparks a lot of ideas so i i really really appreciate that thank you um i i don't know if it's a question it's more of a comment but i think the security situation is different in different countries it's something to think about but i do wonder if um if you've thought about that and about risk when it comes to creative action and you know any mitigation strategies uh i know it's not straightforward and in europe either especially in the more authoritarian context but yeah would love to hear any thoughts that you've had or experiences in in more authoritarian or less pure or less free context yeah sure thing um Danny do you want to answer this question and i can add on as well um yeah for sure um well yeah this is uh exactly it's very difficult basically a lot of the the examples i have shown are actually from western european for example wouldn't be successful even in hungary where i am and probably also not wouldn't work for example in eminent context in malaysia so uh but he can talk a bit more about that i think that there's um there's like some things where like some techniques which are very kind of um powerful to use when you know basically if you're not allowed to protest or if uh kind of the reaction comes for it is is immediate and very violent it's like for example we had this like the government sent out this referendum about um about this like basically like everybody do you agree with like immigrants coming and taking over your culture and this is like it was such a stupid campaign but um at that time they were basically using everything saying that like because there is like um terrorists there's like the danger of terrorist attacks you're not allowed to protest you're not allowed to be on the streets you're not allowed to gather and basically people just for example made they folded airplanes out of the questionnaire and everybody went to the parliament and threw their paper airplane at the parliament and that is like kind of i think maybe something which is kind of very symbolical very powerful but also kind of easy to maybe get away with but maybe amelain could like i just wanted to bring one example which came to my mind amelain do you have something which you would like to share yeah um so what you mentioned disson uh it's it's um very true for a lot of the things we do as well um in different countries uh like i'm from malaysia where it depends on who is in power on how radical you can go and be on the street um like for us if you want to be protest we need to notify the police ahead of time or things like this um in indonesia for example foreigners can't protest but as an indonesian you can do whatever you want police can't stop you um so security situations definitely change and differ according to different countries and i think it's really about applying what you want and how in like the different contexts for example like with the billboards and the signage um that was a really smart and interesting way to do something without having to gather people physically in locations and it was um like doing these billboards and vandalism for example is one way you don't necessarily need a lot of people to create a visual but the visual is in a high visibility place or something like this which helps propagate your message and also um when it comes to things like this do remember that what you're seeing for example now that danny has been showing there's a lot of other aspects to those protests to those campaigns the online communication the facebook um social media push uh the the different um things you need to do to get your actions ready all these things also do um matter and are important as well so don't just uh say like see it as that only the security side of things is a problem so we're just not going to protest they're not going to do anything there are workarounds and like i always like to recommend groups that we work with to always talk to someone from your local bar council or like local lawyers association they are more than willing to tell people about what you can do and can't do um and also sometimes about being creative in the un you aren't allowed to simply carry around signs and things you need to get them approved if you want to do an action in the cop for example but there's a workaround what people do is they wear the slogan so they make a shirt with the slogan or their campaign hashtag and you can't tell me i can't wear my shirt this is my traditional attire with my shirts saying this and that um and these are like workarounds like you can put stickers on your laptop with your campaign and everything and go and stand in front of the cameras um and you get a little bit of attention in that direction so yeah it's about being a bit more creative and i think um for most asian countries and non-western countries generally global south countries they have a lot more stricter police presence not always but some in most in general but there's always a workaround and there are some really creative things that can be done yeah i hope that answers your question anyone else with any questions before we move on to our next round uh thank you very much for the wonderful presentation uh my comment is also i want to comment uh something which is more aligned to what uh bisani is is asked before uh i feel like the the political climate uh in your in in the western and the in the european side i think it's more flexible as compared to the the african context i'm from zimbabwe and uh you know this activism uh especially in the south southern african part you know they can be uh they can be viewed as catalysts for a change so uh my question is uh how how best can we uh is in is there is there any successful uh campaign that you have done in africa that can also be a testimony to other countries like my country in zimbabwe um yeah that's a it's a very important question and i think very important comments also um but i like personally what i think is that in kind of in context where where many kinds of actions which do work in western context are not doable like this is for example where i think that like arts as a tool for community organizing can be extremely important and for example painting murals i have heard them i saw that christian is here from 350 so for example they were painting murals together and basically using kind of art as like you know kind of a community tool and for people to you know basically network and to meet each other and to form a bigger kind of trust and community around climate so i think that even in like you know the kind of thing about public art and street art is that if you're not directly using anti-governmental wording you are still able to send an extremely important message to the public so as i understood from like a previous conversations for example with uh with from last year then for example like kind of public art and street art is kind of a technique which could work pretty well there but if anybody like if there's anyone here in the room who has a good example then please feel free to raise your hand and tell us about your experience or the successful campaign i am then do you have anything to add um yeah so uh that's a really good question both well um it really depends on the political situation as well but like you just said um in zimbabwe and in south africa in southern africa and different african countries as well there's a lot of movements that have taken down regimes that have changed governments because of the power of the people and yeah like daniel's also mentioning um christian who's here i'm hoping he will share with us a little bit of the examples that they've done in the different countries in africa but like some of the things that they have done as well have had amazing power in unifying and spreading the message to the people as well and this is one thing that we i would say in the global south um have an abundance of is our culture our um different roots in the ground in that sense uh that maybe the western side doesn't have as much um compared to uh what we in the global south have like here in indonesia in malaysia we used our culture and the art behind it the techniques like shadow puppetry and things like this to highlight and bring about messages and this becomes easier for people to relate to because it's relatable that needs their culture it's something like colors that they're common to see or like messaging and wording that is similar to what they hear in everyday life so yeah these kind of things are very important as well and they are like like an amazing tool art can be used as not just to push out your message to the big media but also can be used to communicate what you want to the people around you that you need the support from um and also just as a little comment as uh to both of us comment um sometimes some of these movements you can radicalize them in different directions in malaysia we had uh an artist um his name is pahmi reza he drew a character of our ex prime minister who stole our money the malaysian people's money and because of this character they we managed to mobilize our whole country everyone to topple down this prime minister changed him through elections and actually four days ago he was just put into jail and that is a huge victory that all came about because one artist um decided enough was enough and i'm gonna start making fun of this guy um and yeah it can really make a powerful impact uh with what you do but yeah christian is it okay we asked you to share a little bit um of an example of something uh that you guys have done recently thank you so much for the presentation um my question is uh that uh how much are you thinking about like a eco-friendly mediums like mediums for example like a non-plastic or like a like a solar panel energy those kind of like things for example in japan when we make some like a burners in japan we try not to use the plastics because it's not eco-friendly and also when we do some like led actions we try to use uh solar panel energy because it's eco-friendly so how much are you consider it about it because sometimes it's too expensive it's sometimes so you know hard to you know prepare for it so yeah if you have some kind of like guidelines or like uh ideas that's going to be great all right this is such a huge uh issue for all of us i think who are working in like a anything creative is that you try to not cause more harm by doing something um i think that is very difficult for us also because we are constantly working in different countries context so it's kind of you know we we're like we do something in one country and then next context in a different country and there is like only so many things that you can take with yourself so it's like you know just to not have to buy new um i think that there's great examples of um people using kind of recycled plastic to to create for example these like uh like lights like the light banners or not light banners but like creating basically like installations from the cycle plastic and i don't know it's something where i we are all struggling to to um to be as friendly as we come to to the environment but yeah like your examples are basically the best ones i have as well because we are constantly struggling with this and i think the best we can do is that you know we try to reuse what we already make and then you know at least like just you know repaint a banner something and it's very difficult like i don't have a an answer to to this sadly i mean we are all just struggling to make it work somehow because you're as you said it's like sometimes like the environmentally friendly one is unaffordable so it's uh it's very difficult but yeah if anybody has any good ideas on this please share because we i think we all need the we all need ideas yeah and also just to add like uh Tanaka what you guys mentioned and like how you guys are doing things this is like a very positive way of handling things as well not everyone does this um and like definitely commend you guys for pushing and pursuing this because like even for us like Dany said when we go to different places and do things sometimes we have to buy new equipment or new items or things like this but at the end of the day like it also depends on perspective and how you view these things like um if you're going to be do doing something make sure it's worth it if you're going to be making a plastic um puppet or something make sure you get the most out of it don't just like do it once and throw it away um use that plastic well you know um I don't know if you guys have this in Japan um but like for example in Malaysia when you get a plastic bag from the store which you now have to buy um no one throws away a plastic bag after one use everyone like stores it away ends up using it more and more for like different different things so in a way you can try and look at what you're doing with your activism as well don't just use it once and it's done um if you have like extra banners or extra flyers that you guys made you can always take that and use it for something else or use it as materials for different bills or something like this so don't always say no because it's like not environmentally friendly but also just think about if you're going to do it if you're going to buy the bullet make sure it's the most effective um that you can I hope that answers the question as well and like like Danny said they definitely are not the best at doing this and if anyone has suggestions and stuff on how we can be more um environmentally conscious as artists and artists be more than welcome to hear anything I saw Christian you had your hand up uh yes Amlin uh I hope you can hear me uh yeah we can hear I'm facing some internet issues here so uh thank you about your previous question on our experience in in Africa as the uh yeah the guy from Zimbabwe said it is it is not easy I'm mobilizing uh in Africa it is not easy uh it is very difficult but we started something with some of our group in in Africa in West Africa uh around our solution work on renewable energy uh by using banners uh and uh with our groups in DSC and uh I'm very happy to have some of the organizer on the ground from DSC here on this training on this session so I would like to maybe to invite them to to share uh what we are doing around uh for Silphri Virunga in DSC in Guma we have Pascal we have Francois uh both of them are from DSC from Guma uh but uh if you you allow they will speak French and uh to share because it is it is uh most better to hear from uh the the organizer on the ground who are yeah taking action so if we we all agree I can invite Pascal and you guys can take the translation in English and so Pascal can share what they are doing in DSC especially in Guma uh around for Silphri Virunga yeah and I will I will search some link from what we did with them and share here from link we we posted on Twitter I will search in and share send with you so Pascal are you able to to share what you are doing around public uh in Guma Pascal in French you can go to Pascal there is the translation Pascal or Francois or Justin thank you very much I am Justin Mutabesha from DSC we act very actively with 350.org in the city of Guma uh in a very complicated context in the war context today even there are a lot of seats where the military is leading the province uh since June the 30th of 2020 until our day uh we act in the campaign for Silphri Virunga for Silphri Virunga it's a 350.org campaign uh we we are carrying out land actions uh demonstrations uh in any case we are protesting against the exploitation of oil in the Virunga parks as you all know the Virunga parks are a world heritage that is under threat of fossil fuel companies like Total, Soco and Effora from South Africa they are fossil fuel companies that threaten the exploitation of oil in the Virunga parks next to these fossil fuel companies we also have the air fumes that exploit the wood which is for the coal the coal of the woods are all threats if the Virunga parks and from all these threats we we always act we act we we carry out land actions for example the manifestation I said also artistic activities so we have the tables on which we can read our exploitation of the Virunga it is a table that is found if the world does not have provincial governance uh it is in the passage it is in the passage of provincial authorities this is an artistic activity that coincides with the campaign for Silphri Virunga but also we there are other actions of artistic exhibitions that we carry out uh we organize shows and public places where we call the people we mobilize the population uh to come see these artistic expositions uh all these are in the context of the campaign for Silphri Virunga apart from the the the artistic expositions uh so far we have prepared a public concert that will mobilize artists slamer to in the event of denouncing the threats that may be on the national parks of Virunga also currently we are acting with journalists we are with journalists here in the city of Goma each Monday they invite us to the radio for an emission of the population's and it is there and listened by the political authorities but also the population who did not understand nothing about the protection of the environment who did not buy climate change who did not buy anything from the campaign with this mission we try to reach a great a great a great mass of the population that is to say a great public that's all that we do with 350 orc at the level of Goma which is a city of rdc but also everywhere in kinshasa we work with journalists we there are articles that are written in the context of the campaign apart from the the articles there are also there are also conferences conferences at universities and samas we have made a great tour in schools in great schools university of the city of goma to project a film a documentary that we had made with 350 orc in the documentary films we are going to denounce the exploitation of oil in the city of goma we are also going to call on the population to understand the list also to ask us to call on the leaders for example to withdraw all the license of exploitation of oil that they have given to all these fossil fuel companies total soco and ephora and we are going to call on the government to invest a lot of forces in renewable energies in renewable energies because beyond denouncing we offer a solution to invest in renewable energies and today the fight is not so easy because rdc has just made the 20th at the end of this oil block we the activists here in goma and rdc we are not we are not agree with this government decision we are going with the cost of 350 we are going to continue to act until that the government that is going to come back on its decision to give or to make the sale of oil blocks here are the actions that we have now as I said at the beginning in rdc the context is very complicated there is a lot of repression of the leaders in case of manifestation there are policemen who are deployed a little everywhere in the public arteries and this prevents us from bringing actions as it is necessary despite all this we are trying to persevere and bring inaction that's it if i'm not done here to not take a lot of minutes thank you very much thank you very much to everyone thank you very much to the organizers of this training thank you very much christian and at 350 p.m. thank you very much so thank you pat car i i found some link and i share here with you guys we can see some of the actions they took previously in dsc and we we are doing the same thing with some of our group in west africa around solution work i will try to to find some of the link and also continue to share here thank you amlan thank you christian and um yeah this is like i think um pascal amazing work what you guys are doing over there this is a perfect example of groups that are really resilient and pushing forward no matter the circumstances and yeah definitely the more creative you are with things the more you can try different things with the cops as well because if they're always used to the same thing they also will know how to deal with you but if you have new exciting things different things they can't always react the same way um but yeah thank you so much for sharing that story um we are going to go into a little game now uh we if you have any more questions don't don't worry you can save them for the end we will have one last q and a before the end uh today's session in an hour um i just want to double check is everyone here able to talk and use their microphone because in our next session we'll be breaking out into groups and it will be very necessary for everyone to speak yep everyone's okay with using their mics if you can't you can also use your chats uh in the in your groups in the breakout room uh so yeah let's jump on into our next session so before Robert is continuously connecting to audio okay there are a few people with some technical issues if you do have any technical issues um just please notify the support or if you can't connect to the audio um just try with the chat if possible so uh first things first i am making four breakout rooms here uh i've assigned everyone to the first three however if anyone needs french translation or french translation please join room four you don't have to join jump into the breakout rooms yet i will uh do an explanation for everybody and then i will prompt you to jump into the breakout rooms but for now please just uh if you need french translation please choose room four in the breakout rooms all right uh everyone is back here correct everyone is here nope i see some people have jumped into the breakout rooms uh please give me one minute uh let me jump into this room and call everybody out so what we're going to be doing right now is we're going to be playing a little game uh this game is commonly known as the river roleplay game i am not so sure if some of you here have played this game before uh if you have um play along is it's fun to play it more than once as well uh if you have not uh feel free to listen and we'll go through um everything right now so uh first thing first i've assigned you all into four different groups with the french interpretation being group four and the rest in groups one two and three so you must be wondering what are these groups and what's going to happen so what we're going to be doing is we're going to be running through a scenario each and every one of you of your groups is going to be given a designation so in this situation we are not going to be doing a river roleplay but we will be doing a united nations roleplay so i will give you guys a situation and each group has to react to this situation however each of your groups have something to do with each other everyone has a relationship with one another some of you all might be ngos some of you all might be government some of you all might be um media um but we'll go through that uh shortly once uh you go through a scenario you will then have about seven minutes to react to the scenario after which you will need to place your uh response into an excel sheet that i will place the link here shortly and then we will go through what each group has reacted to the scenario we will do this three times or for a total of four different scenarios and um at the end of it we will discuss whether uh is it a positive reaction or a negative reaction um to this to this situation i know it's a little vague right now um but is everyone clear on that for now that you need to work together to react to different situations that are about to happen yes okay so let me tell you all about uh what we'll be playing today so i have divided groups into rooms one two three and four and each of these groups will be represented by the first group will be the united nation slash government room two will be policy ngo's room three will be grassroots groups and room four will be journalists and media just remember this for now and then i'll tell you guys what's going to happen next so i'm going to tell you guys the situation and each of your groups needs to react to this situation it is one continuous situation and every seven minutes is going to be represented by a time frame of eight hours okay so the situation which we are going to be dealing with is that the united nation group one uh cancels the paris agreement so group one um which is the un uh is going to cancel the paris agreement so i want groups uh two three and four which is the policy ngo's grassroots ngo's and journalists to react to this situation because um just as an explanation policy ngo's um would be more towards groups that have been following climate research groups like climate action network that constantly follow what the different policies are happening in different situations and they might sometimes agree or disagree with the paris agreement grassroots ngo's are specifically that people who are on the ground people who are affected by climate change directly and um people who are facing the impacts of climate change today and the fourth group is i think doesn't need much explanation it's those of you who will be like the journalists the media what are you guys going to do about this are you going to hype it up hush it down change the context different things so i will be giving you all a situation that happens every eight hours but basically the situation is that in 12 hours uh the un cancels the paris agreement right now with an announcement and in 12 hours the un cancels the paris agreement you will have seven minutes to discuss uh what the situation is and then react to that situation once you've reacted to it we will discuss your reaction and then discuss what happens next is that okay with everybody does everyone understand this for now you'll get much easier when once we start the game okay i say aren't all right um here is the first question for everybody and now i want you to join your breakout rooms go into your breakout rooms and discuss this according to uh who you are you have seven minutes at which at the end of these seven minutes i want you to paste your reactions into this excel sheet that i pasted in the chat everyone should have access to this and please only put your reaction in your situation at the correct time so the first situation is at 12 noon and each group will paste and write their reactions here so the reaction which i'm expecting now is the on the first situation which is the un pulls out of the paris agreement how do you react so thank you everyone uh we'll go back into another round of discussion shortly but firstly i just want to go through uh the different groups uh here um you have again the un the government the people who are actually making this decision right now right here um of cancelling the paris agreement then you have the policy NGOs uh who are those again like groups like third world network uh climate action network people who follow the paris agreement and different climate policies around the world uh the grassroots groups um and then last but not least the journalists so does anyone maybe from uh the un government or from group one want to just like explain what they uh how they are reacting to their own news or i'm i'm happy to go if that's okay with us well and and eri so uh i think a part of uh our text got cut out but basically the reason that the un decided that we don't want to uh we want to cancel the paris agreement is that is because it's toothless it was too capitalist um global north governments weren't being very serious about supporting climate action and they weren't serious about um supporting global south governments and adaptation and mitigation efforts um so in terms of you know that's kind of our narrative and in terms of the protest action or the kind of like loud visual thing that we would do is we would just say um the un has given up on climate change because no one's taking it very seriously so we're just going to focus on on immediate issues like um you know covid 19 and then just let the planet die because we're we're going there anyway um yeah and then the other idea was to do something that demonstrates that the impact as well felt greater than in the global south and in the global north to kind of draw that distinction on climate impacts all right thank you for the government uh eri you want to add on no i was just applauding applauding sorry all right um okay awesome so we've heard from the un they've canceled the paris agreement because they think it's toothless they think all the governments are useless so they've given up on climate change remember this yeah this will be important for later um anyone from the policy NGOs want to tell us your reaction sure i can summarize um so we are being very proactive and just moving ahead regardless of the un and we're going to bring like-minded countries together for a new legally binding agreement that's better than paris leaving out all the countries that would never have implemented paris anyway and instead bringing indigenous and marginalized communities directly to the decision-making table even if their governments don't we will focus on actions instead of words and we will also at the same time go about trying to reform the un make a new version of the un of course that will be easy and we will focus on making the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty a great success instead of paris okay well i like that too another group which is all about note the un screw you guys you're too slow we'll do it ourselves love that um anyone from the grassroot NGOs would like to tell us your response elizabeth or nabulime okay um i'll go so in the grassroot group how we react into this is that um the the paris agreement is a long-term plan that wasn't going to do anything for us right now and the impact of the climate crisis we already faced it the COVID-19 was a case in point for us we were being to wash our hands wash our hands both in the grassroot most people don't even have access to water to eat bathe or even drink so we don't have they didn't have water to wash their hands so we need a short-term plan why the UN and the policy groups and the government get themselves together for a long-term plan which was what the paris had been plans was all of that we're facing the impact right now so for us we're looking at the short-term plan of we need access to phones we need access to infrastructure so we're not extinct we're now wiped out at the grassroot level before the policies that they are going to bring themselves together all the big boys and decide that all this is what we're going to do in 20 hundred we need action now and for all that action is we need access to phones we need access to infrastructures why the work on the left-hand plan so that's how we react in the grassroot group I love it I love that you guys instead of focusing on the big stuff you guys are focusing on what's on the ground and that's very important because at the end of the day what all these big policies and everything are talking about is always about things that are going to happen in the future and not necessarily right now that's amazing I love that anyone from the media team I know the media team only had a couple of people or one person but anyone from the media team from the French group would like to tell us what you guys are going to react to or how you guys are going to react sorry okay it's all right we can hear back from them a little later then this is the situation right now based on what all of you all have said there is no in the UN even from within the UN there is no faith in the Paris Agreement doing anything in this year or the X amount of years to come and a lot of you all want to focus on doing things yourself okay this is the current situation and context so I'm going to give you one more session like one more scenario like this again following the same thing that you guys just talked about and this is the last one then we'll end and this will be a bit more quicker just five minutes for you all to quickly discuss the reaction to what I'm about to say okay is everyone ready all right so after all of you all have come back and said that there's no faith in the United Nations to handle climate change Shell the Dutch oil and gas cooperation Shell has now been appointed of worldwide worldwide climate change relief Shell is now in charge of the UNF CCCC okay I repeat that since all groups have no faith in the United Nations to handle climate change Shell the oil and gas company Shell is now in charge of worldwide climate change relief basically Shell is now in charge of UNF CCCC okay I'm going to open the rooms you can go and join back the same groups again quickly have this discussion and then come back here yeah okay I see everyone's here so this is interesting I like some of the discussions I was hearing in some of the rooms some were willing to bite the bullet say we need to just believe in Shell some were very aggressive to get Shell I can understand that I didn't like this company to terrible people um but anyways let's see what you guys have to say thank you very much uh from our discussion we we we realized that we we asked the UN we should vote we we should put too much pressure on Shell number one we should promote hard sanctions on Shell so that we we disengage their operations in in in their area of of work and then we we also made sure that we we we sanctioned each and every country that is going to accommodate Shell so that we creep its operations again and then we also discussed that we should also promote individuals that are advocating for green energy the likes of Elon Musk so that we can have a little bit of competition with Shell so and we also promoted a heavy tech system on Shell so that we do not want its presence to to to contaminate our planet that I don't know if I left anything else from our from our group just one more thing that we captured the money that you know Shell made profits out of you know making this catastrophic family crisis and then give it give it give the money to the new secretary out of UN to foresee that the police NGOs just you know advocated and just made made so yeah that's it awesome okay so the I like this idea the the old UN basically is saying that they're gonna destroy and take over Shell take all their money and sanction them and give all the power to the policy folks who have said in before that they want to recreate a UN to be more better and more efficient and actually successful um policy NGOs do you guys have anything to say I see your answer is kind of completely opposite from the UN answer anyone from the second group want to share quickly so yeah we we thought about doing a big angry reaction to this and boycotting the UNF triple C and just encouraging all the countries not to show up because it would be run by Shell but then we thought well maybe what if we flip this whole thing on its head and we embrace this whole decision and we make them pay to fix all the problems that they've caused and we hold them accountable by installing a governing body over the top of them and they also have to bring on BP Total Exxon Chevron and all together they're charged with the task of fixing the climate crisis that they're largely responsible for with a time frame and if they fail they go to jail I love it I love it anyone else from the third group would like to tell us what the um civil societies are feeling or the grassroots groups are feeling anyone from group three I'll go again um so we're still living very much with our first stand but this time around we'll also be working very closely with the policy groups so in the communities where there's all your companies where all of these people have their have their facilities where they're benefiting from we're going to ensure that they are paying tax that they are impacting your community and not just short term but also long-term plan which is why we're working with the policy groups to ensure that all of these people come together and they are actively making sure that the communities are benefiting from it so but short term but long term everything is in place we don't want promises we want action so we're ensuring that all of these things are going to happen and then like the policy groups say which is something we're getting very much behind if there's nothing done I rest them all awesome awesome I like that um very much in line with uh supporting each other that's good um I don't think there's anyone really in the fourth group uh anyone in the fourth group was there I think there's one or two people there was there any discussion that happened sorry anyone from the fourth group if not I'm just going to go towards the closing all right um so just to wrap this up before we wrap up the whole session this is a little exercise that I hope have opened your eyes a little bit um because I want you to now ask yourself this is not a question for everybody but for you yourself to ask yourself is do you think everything that we just did is better than the current situation or is it worse because a lot of times when we do actions protests campaigns lobbying we only think about things from our perspective or sometimes we try to see our stakeholders etc but when it comes to the fight against the climate crisis and the climate emergency it's not just one person or one group or one association doing one thing everyone is doing a lot of different things concurrently and if these things don't always match up sometimes there can be disasters sometimes there can be no movement sometimes things can just become stagnant which like the paris agreement kind of has become over the past five to seven years the stagnation since the paris agreement was formed is um not a healthy thing for us in civil society and for the world in general so the reason I mean this exercise is usually done an hour long in person and like people can run between groups and negotiate etc but I just wanted to give you guys this little experience to know that sometimes what you're doing is not necessarily right it's not necessarily wrong um but do look at the bigger picture there's more to things that are going on than what you are just doing there and sometimes you can link your work with other actions other groups um with other movements as well and don't always look down on yourselves um this is also just the last thing to say that um sometimes we have a saying in malaysia small small grains of sand over a long period of time can become a mountain um so do continue the work that you're doing actions and protests and campaigns are really important work that you need to do to get your voices out there to get what the people want to be heard heard and um yeah that's all for my little session uh danie I pass it back to you to wrap up for today I hope you're all had fun if you have any questions about the river roleplay um do drop me a message and maybe I can tell you guys a little bit more or organize a separate session for your uh a bit more longer and extensive um thanks everyone yes it is uh it's always difficult when there is limited time and so many ideas um yeah thank you everybody very much for coming to our session and for listening to the work what we do and taking part in the river roleplay game um yes um I hope that we managed to inspire you with the projects which we which we showed you as a few examples and as uh as cop is coming up again we know that everybody is starting to organize a lot of different kind of mobilizations and uh different kind of actions um if there's any way that we can support you please feel free to get in touch with us um you can either do that through finding our contact on our website at artivistnetwork.org or just write an email to yes I'm gonna just put it in there in the chat contacted artivistnetwork.org we're really happy to support you with any skills or any kind of input which you need so yeah thank you very much and I hope you have a nice rest of the day um depending on which part of the day you are in at the moment in the world and I will pass it back to you Lise and thank you very much thank you so much Daniel and Amelaine uh it's always a pleasure to do trainings and sessions and work with you too uh and thank you Johnson for helping with the tech today thanks to the interpretation uh interpreters for helping us make this session more accessible uh and amazing huge thank you to everyone who attended today um if you have any questions about uh the training or any of the other trainings from this week the session anything uh you can email me uh here I've just pasted my email in the chat box uh as I said this is the first session of uh quite a big program that we're running this week you can see uh the other sessions on the website I'm going to paste that in the chat box as well um and as I said as well earlier we have an evaluation form for you to fill in to give us a bit of feedback on what you thought of this session of the trainings in general as well as uh this is a way you can ask for a certificate for attending this session so do have a look in there as well uh and yeah just uh I hope to see you all on some of the other sessions uh or other spaces and thanks again for attending and um thank you to Amelaine and Daniel again for for running this session for us and have a great rest of your day everyone thank you very much have a nice day bye thanks everyone bye