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AtlasNews: 24 June 2021
Weekly adventures in a better tomorrow
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Walking into a brighter future

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#CultureFutures month has taken us from filmmaking in the depths of the Amazon to clowning around the streets of Beirut and making music in a remote Haitian village – so to round things off, we’re celebrating our favourite super-creative, world-changing project. And it’s a BIG one: literally.

Meet Little Amal, a giant puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian girl, who is journeying 8,000 km across Europe to celebrate the contributions of refugees. FutureHeroes Amir Nizar Zuabi and Naomi Webb are the ambitious creative thinkers behind the scenes – read our interview with the Good Chance team to discover why movement is what makes us, and how art keeps hope alive.

And now, with next month’s topic of biodiversity just around the corner, what better to discover than the places where culture meets nature. It’s the perfect people-planet mashup: ecology meets rap, laboratories meet stories, and murals meet marine life.

Artivism for the oceans
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US – In Hawaii, PangeaSeed Foundation are combining science, education and artivism (art + activism) to give the world’s oceans a voice – in the form of colourful murals that raise awareness on important issues like overfishing.

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Diverse green cities
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UK – The Black & Green Ambassadors want everyone to get outside, spot an orchid or go mushroom-hunting. In particular, they’re working to include black and minority ethnic communities in environmental efforts – because nature is for everyone.

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Honeybee-ing
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SPAIN – What can human beings learn from bees? That’s what artists and local communities at Beetime are exploring, by observing the natural ways of bees kept using ‘bee centred’ beekeeping.
 

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Beats-based news
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SENEGAL – Ever seen a newsreader rap the news? You have now: meet hip hop duo Journal Rappé. Dressed in an ironic suit and tie, they take important news stories – about human rights, democracy and the environment – and put them to a beat.

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AtlasAgenda

Fixing the Future is back!

Join us for the first special online edition to explore the future of biodiversity. An online talks series from nature's defenders and champions, exploring how we respond to the biodiversity crisis and what we can do to protect our natural world. The event will be broadcast live in English and Catalan.

Register FREE now!EN | CAT

Enter a world of Science Friction

What if humans didn't reign supreme? Is it possible to imagine other earthly stories? Can we conceive of other ways of living among Earth's species? For those in Barcelona over summer, CCCB's Science Friction exhibition explores these questions via art and science, to create a whole new perspective on human beings' place on our planet.

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Today’s picks

Innovative, future-focused, socially impactful projects from around the world featured this week:

BEIRUT ► Uniting communities with laughter

AUSTRALIA ► Occupy space, occupy history

ITALY ► All the world, on one stage

UK ► Small people, big inventions

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