By Agencies In April 2025, a herd of animals will travel from Central Africa to the northern tip of Norway - drawing attention to climate change. Forced out of their natural habitats due to global warming, they will be displaced and traversed through cities and urban environments to meet the people there. But they won't be real animals - they are puppets.
This project is from the team behind The Walk in 2021, where a 12-foot tall puppet of a refugee girl called Little Amal drew attention to the refugee crisis by traveling to 15 countries - from Turkey to the U.K., Ukraine, Mexico and the U.
S. The Herds will be a much bigger and more complicated project. Along the route, animals native to the countries they are traveling through will join the group, meaning that by the time they get to Norway, they will have assembled around 150 animal puppets.
Amir Nizar Zuabi, who also worked on The Walk, is the artistic director of the project. "I don't know if what we add to the conversation will change the world. Most probably it won't.
Doesn't matter. It's worth trying. But the idea of creating a project that deals with climate change from an emotional stance, from a sensory experience and not from, 'This is the science.
" "Because I think we know. I think the problem is not lack of knowledge. I think the problem is we know so much we're becoming desperate.
We're becoming defeated. But we need a good reminder of how beautiful nature is," he explained. And while the herd of puppets won't s.
