Our Roots, Our Forest: Why This Matters Now

Thu Dec 01 2022 at 05:30 pm to 07:30 pm

SEA-Junction | Bangkok

SEA-Junction
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Our Roots, Our Forest: Why This Matters Now
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[EVENT IN THAI] You’ve heard from Big Oil and politicians at COP 27 - want to know what you can do closer to home to help preserve your environment? Tune in to a discussion on deforestation by a great panel of people living and mapping the change.
Panel Discussion “Our Roots, Our Forest: Why This Matters Now.”
Date: December 1, 2022
Venue: SEA Junction, BACC 4th fl.
Speakers
• Patchar Dungklad, SEA Rainforest Journalism Fund (RJF) grantee
• Warangkana Rattanarat, Thailand Country Program Director, RECOFTC (Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific)
• Aphisit Charoensuk - Bang Kloi Indigenous Karen community, Kaeng Krachan, Pechaburi
• Morn Mean - Kuy Indigenous Youth group, Kampong Thom, Cambodia
Moderated by Anchalee Kongrut, SEA RJF advisory committee member
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Pulitzer Center hosts the “Our Roots, Our Rainforest” art exhibition on the curved wall, 3rd floor of the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC) from November 29 - December 12, 2022, spotlighting underreported stories about our rainforests through the work of regional artists responding to the change they are witnessing around them.
Southeast Asia is home to nearly 15 percent of the world’s tropical forests and 20 percent of global plant, animal and marine species. But the region also has one of the world’s highest rates of deforestation, losing 1.2 percent of rainforest annually from 2013.
In the Mekong - Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam - we’re up against major challenges: big business, huge infrastructural plans and weak governance as money is extracted from our shared forest resources, and our natural defenses from dangerous carbon dioxide levels are hacked back and sold.
Inspired by Pulitzer Center Climate Crisis reporting, this exhibition of paintings, sculpture and film seeks to ignite a conversation between art and journalism about the past, present and future of Southeast Asia’s rainforests. The format aims to engage new audiences with this vital issue in a place where creativity meets research and reporting.
The exhibition is part of the #ShowMeYourTree campaign, a call to action for everyone living in the Mekong region and beyond to defend our vital rainforests. The ‘Our Roots, Our Forest’ exhibition will showcase a collection of artwork across disciplines from regional artists. Paintings from a prominent Myanmar female artist Chuu Wai, who is living in exil to his highly emotive paintings of Hour Seyha, a Cambodian artist born in a Thai refugee camp.
Curated by Cambodia-based photographer Miguel Jeronimo and Thai writer and climate activist Nanticha Ocharoenchai, there will also be artificial intelligence images as well as short film about Thailand’s indigenous community.
As part of the launch event, Pulitzer Center will also organize a panel discussion titled, “Our Roots, Our Forest: Why This Matters Now” on December 1, 2022 at SEA Junction, 4th floor, BACC to discuss the past, present and the future of our vital forest.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

SEA-Junction, Suite 407-8 BACC, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 939 Rama 1 Rd, Pathum Wan,Bangkok, Thailand

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