Participatory Workshop: Environmental Stories in Motion

About the Workshop

What stories do we carry with us when we move? How do the landscapes, environments and places we have lived in shape who we are? And whose stories are missing from conversations about climate change?

Environmental Stories in Motion is a participatory creative workshop led by Migrants in Action (MinA), in partnership with ECOLA — Environmental Communication in Latin America. Through storytelling, movement, theatre and creative activities, we will explore personal experiences of migration, memory and environmental change, and reflect on what climate justice means from our own lived experiences.

No prior knowledge of climate change, theatre or creative practice is needed. There is no right or wrong way to participate — you can contribute through speaking, movement, images, writing or simply listening and reflecting.

THE WORKSHOP INVITES PARTICIPANTS TO

• explore memories and relationships with places, landscapes and environments

• share and listen to personal stories and experiences

• reflect on whose voices are included — and whose are missing — from climate conversations

• experiment with creative and embodied approaches to environmental storytelling

• collectively imagine more inclusive and just ways of telling stories about climate change

Workshop Facilitator

Migrants in Action (MinA)

The session is facilitated by Migrants in Action (MinA), drawing on their experience of using arts-based and participatory approaches to create spaces where communities can explore and share their own knowledge and experiences. MinA’s methodology centres the voices and perspectives of people with lived experience of migration.

This workshop contributes to ECOLA’s wider research into how environmental stories are created, shared and understood, particularly by communities whose perspectives are often missing from mainstream climate narratives.

Programme

About the Research

ECOLA: Environmental Communication in Latin America

This workshop is part of ECOLA, a postdoctoral research project exploring the challenges of producing, framing and circulating environmental stories — with a particular focus on Brazil and the wider Latin American context. ECOLA is supported by the UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global Fellowship scheme and hosted at King’s College London.

The project explores how storytelling can be a practice of climate justice — repositioning communities most affected by the climate crisis as the authors of their own narratives, rather than subjects of coverage. Rather than focusing on the technical dimensions of climate change, ECOLA asks: whose voices shape the stories we tell about the environment, and what is lost when those voices are absent?

Dr Claudia Sarmento

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow · King’s College London (UKRI funded)

Research focuses on environmental communication, climate justice, and independent journalism in Latin America, with a particular emphasis on Brazil. Extensive professional background in journalism.

Dr Patria Roman-Velazquez

Reader in Culture, Place & Social Justice · Principal Investigator, ECOLA · King’s College London

Research explores migration, identity, and urban cultures, with a particular focus on Latin American diasporas.

You may also be interested in attending the screening of Jari Project, a powerful documentary by Amazonian filmmaker Priscila Brasil, followed by a roundtable conversation on territory, power, and narrative. More information here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/kingsartshums/2447468