The One Ocean Hub, Peace Boat, and Blue Planet Alliance are organising a joint side event for the United Nations World Ocean Day 2023 on arts-based methods for inclusive ocean decision making. This event will showcase the various collaborative arts-based projects facilitated by Empatheatre and the One Ocean Hub in South Africa, that created new pathways and collaborative solidarity practices that facilitate meaningful knowledge and evidence co-production in national policy, legal, and judicial processes. In addition, these projects have supported the development of a Knowledge Action Network in South Africa for plural approaches to ocean governance. The workshop takes participants through five key stages of conducting iterative, ongoing, ethically and politically rigorous knowledge action in the space of ocean governance. Using mixed-media, interactive performance, and generative dialogue, the workshop will explore how these approaches could be adapted and included in the work of international development projects by the UN, NGOs or academic researchers to support the protection of indigenous knowledge holders’ human rights and advocate for their inclusion in decision-making processes, and generally support more inclusive and meaningful consultation processes at the national level. At the event, the Empatheatre team will also screen a new short documentary “The Making of Umkhosi Wenala: the Festival of Abundance,” a new theatre-based research project co-developed with 13 young artists (Mbazwana Creative Arts) in northern KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa.
Panellists:
Dr Dylan McGarry (Director, Empatheatre, Lecturer Rhodes University, Project Co-lead, One Ocean Hub)
Prof Elisa Morgera (Director, One Ocean Hub)
Ms Alison Cassels (Actor, Empatheatre)
Ms Phumelephi Mthombeni (Actor /Director, Empatheatre)
Mr Rory Booth (Actor/Empatheatre) Mr Neil Coppen (Director, Empatheatre)
Ms Marí Stimie (Production manager, Empatheatre)
Molly Rosaaen, and Sara Van Eerde, Peace Boat US Youth leader and Blue Planet Alliance Global Ambassador
Registration and more information can be found here: oneoceanhub.org/hubs-world-ocean-week-events