Storying our Futures : Climate change and storytelling in East Africa
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Storying our Futures is a new podcast series looking at the climate crisis in east Africa and the ways in which storytelling can help to spread information to the local population. Through the eyes of two Kenyan storytellers, Mara and John, we travel with them through South Sudan and northern Kenya to see how the crisis is affecting local communities.  "Storying our Futures: climate resilience through indigenous knowledge" is a UK/East Africa collaborative project bringing traditional oral storytellers together with East African pastoralist communities, scientific meteorologists, journalists, and indigenous traditional climate forecasters known as Rainmakers, to amplify and explore the many ways that storytelling can support system change.  Chris Gregory from Alternative  Stories undertook the sound design and editing work for this podcast series.  The podcast series is a joint venture between Adverse Camber, a UK based arts production company, ICPAC, a specialised organisation fostering climate services and knowledge to enhance community resilience in Africa, The British Council, Cath Heinemeyer of York St John University and storyteller / activist Hannah McDowall.   To learn more and listen you can go to to the Adverse Camber website www.adversecamber.org or listen via Spotify here https://open.spotify.com/show/4Jof3zj7OY68TLjIfdndXw?si=2aa371d9d24f433a or YouTube here https://youtu.be/ZIOdlh80Rx4 You can follow Adverse Camber and find out more about their work by following them on social media  Twitter.  https://twitter.com/adversecamber20 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/adversecamberontour/   If you would like to find out more about the Dex Legacy season two kickstarter campaign you can do so here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/emilyinkpen/the-dex-legacy-science-fiction-audio-drama-season-2  Here you’ll find information about why we need funding, what your pledges will pay for and the rewards you can get by backing the project.  You’ll also be able to find out about our cast and listen to a new and exclusive piece of music by our soundtrack composer Allen Stroud.  You can follow The Dex Legacy on twitter here https://twitter.com/thedexlegacy And on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/thedexlegacy1/   Thank you as always for listening to this edition of Alternative Stories and Fake Realities You can follow Alternative Stories on twitter here https://twitter.com/StoriesAlt And on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/stories.alt/  You can contact us by email via [email protected]  Support the show
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