THE HERDS is an act of public art and climate action on a scale so vast it will demand the world pays attention. In the Spring of 2025, herds of life-size puppet animals will rampage through city centres on a 20,000km route from the Congo basin to the Arctic Circle, fleeing to escape climate disaster.
We are inviting thousands of people to take part.
Leading artists and arts and educational institutions across Africa and Europe will join together to create a vast herd that vividly dramatises the climate crisis and demonstrates the power of people working together to demand change.
We are currently in conversation with potential partners in Kinshasa (DRC), Lagos (Nigeria), Dakar (Senegal), Marrakesh and Casablanca (Morocco), Malaga, Madrid and Barcelona (Spain), Marseille and Paris (France), Manchester and London (UK), Copenhagen (Denmark), Malmö and Stockholm (Sweden) and Trondheim and the furthest tip of northern Norway.
We will create a mass-participatory story that reacts, develops and changes as it travels.
We believe that what is lacking in the climate debate is not data or a scientific understanding, but a sensory, emotional experience that has the power to stimulate action and strives to bring a perspective shift to the climate crisis.
Watch our glimpse into the puppetry workshop for THE HERDS in Cape Town, where Ukwanda Puppetry and Designs Art Collective have been designing and building the first few animals that will become a vast herd of hundreds of life-size puppet animals.
(c) The Walk Productions Footage captured in Cape Town by Rocket Films and edited by Loft Films, London.
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