THE HERDS is public art and climate action on an unprecedented scale – an ambitious coming together of culture and climate.
From April to August 2025, life-size puppet animals will travel a 20,000km route from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle, symbolizing their flight from climate disaster.
THE HERDS unites leading artists and organisations committed to driving change. Key stops include Kinshasa, Lagos, Dakar, Marrakesh, Casablanca, Madrid, Barcelona, Marseille, Arles, Paris, Venice, Manchester, London, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Trondheim, culminating in a final event in the Arctic Circle.
From the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle, we are crafting world-class artistic events that challenge perspectives on the climate crisis. By collaborating with leading artists and environmentalists from Africa and Europe, we aim to spark meaningful change and drive global awareness.
THE WALK PRODUCTIONS presents large scale participatory public art that brings together artists and partnerships of many kinds, creating events of artistic excellence, challenging assumptions, rethinking narratives and provoking change.
Led by producers David Lan and Tracey Seaward, Artistic Director Amir Nizar Zuabi and Executive Producer Sarah Loader, we were founded in 2019 to create the journeys of Little Amal, the 12 foot high puppet of a refugee child who has reached 2 million people in 18 countries and millions more worldwide.
For THE HERDS we are building a team of local and international creatives from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle, who are experts in their respective fields of production, education, environment and communications.
“What is more important in our days than bringing all the people around the world together to change the destructive paradigm that we have been living in way too long? The world is exhausted. We need to measure the urgency of this challenge, which touches on the essential. Let’s dare to reinvent ourselves.”
Artist – Dakar, Senegal
“Creativity has the power to inspire, provoke thought and drive change.THE HERDS is a stunning representation of the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss and the journey we must all make towards a brighter future. The IUCN UK Peatland Programme shares the goal of THE HERDS to educate society about the climate emergency in ways that bring people together as a collective force for change. Habitats like peatlands are globally important, providing a home for many special species, and helping store huge amounts of carbon.”
“This is exactly what we need right at this moment in the growth of the global rewilding movement. We need to plant the seeds of imagination in people’s hearts. We know that THE HERDS is going to reach millions of people and bring the fierce, exciting beauty of nature right onto the streets, into people’s lives and be an incredible talking point and a way of engaging people in our movement with hope, imagination and excitement.”
The Global Rewilding Alliance
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