Tag: justice

Around the Flor of Inírida

January 17, 2025
by sina

Around a Tree continues in Guainía, Colombia, with Around the Flor of Inírida, celebrating the region’s unique flora as a legacy of COP16. The Flor of Inírida was the official logo of the COP16 in Cali, representing the message of ‘Peace with Nature’. While this plant endemic to Guainía shows flowers that never die, this metaphor of eternal life should leave aside the threat of extinction. Biodiversity loss and climate change happen right here in Guainía, Colombia, far from the places where Conferences of Parties take place. Become part of this story by watching this video.
Even more a reason from “Around a Tree” led by Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA) to co-create this event with botanical expert Mateo Fernandez. along with partners atbc.

Rapateacea, maroa flowers, southern starlets or flowers of Inírida – who are they?

This collaboration between science and art asks:

  • What is their history, where, how and with whom do they live?
    What adaptations do they have, what is their shape and structure?
    How do they reproduce and what is their importance?

With: Mateo Fernandez, botanist and expert on the Inírida flower from the University of Oldenburg, Germany; Rubén Dario Carianil-LIWI; Más Arte Más Acción; Miguel Navas; Andrés Vélez; Magally Ortiz-MCG, James Richardson, Sina Ribak, Mateo Suarez, Juan Posada, Universidad del Rosario.

23th of January 2025 / 18:00
DEPARTMENTAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF INÍRIDA, COMMUNITY MUSEUM of GUAINIA, Colombia

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Around a Tree – A marathon of voices to connect plants and people

July 15, 2024
by sina

From the perspective of plant life, what does climate justice mean?

Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA) presents an artistic public intervention in the Edinburgh Art Festival in partnership with Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Together with the Colombian cultural foundation MAMA I will host encounters between visitors, artists and scientists co-creating a space to experience and discuss interconnections between humans and plants in times of rapid biodiversity loss.

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