[Please note: This is a a free IN-PERSON discussion at The Hidden Gardens in Glasgow.]

TOTEM LATAMAT by Totonac artist Jun Tiburcio, has travelled over 9000km from Mexico to the UK to finally get to Glasgow, for the duration of COP26 and will be in The Hidden Gardens between 28 October - 14 November.

A panel from Indigenous and non-Indigenous backgrounds, who have different but complementary perspectives on Climate Change, will explore the meaning of the totem’s journey to COP26, and its presence at The Hidden Gardens. This will be an engaging and lively conversation, that will enable reflections post COP26.

The panel includes :

Graham Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at The Open University, UK. His research largely concerns “the new animism,” especially in the rituals and protocols through which Indigenous and other communities engage with the larger-than-human world. He is editor of the Routledge series “Vitality of Indigenous Religions” and the Equinox series “Religion and the Senses”.

Naoko Mabon is a curator based in Oban on the west coast of Scotland. She was born and raised in Fukuoka, Japan. Informed by a lived experience as an immigrant and ethnic minority, in her curatorial practice, Naoko aims to weave relationships among differences with what we see as “disparate others” beyond common ground. Ongoing and recent work includes: Eco Creative Cluster, a project focusing on natural dye led by The Rockfield Centre, Oban (2021); Ilana Halperin: The Rock Cycle (Yamaguchi), a cross-disciplinary project between Yamaguchi, Japan and Orkney, Scotland (2019-). Naoko was the curator in residence of the ON TIDAL ZONES residency programme hosted by Skye-based ATLAS Arts and CLIMAVORE (2021). www.wagonart.org

Stephen Peake is Professor of Climate Change and Energy at The Open University. Additionally he is a Fellow of the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and Senior Associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Previously he has served as a civil servant at the International Energy Agency at the OECD in Paris and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), based in Bonn, Germany. From 1993-1995 he was Research Fellow in the Energy and Environmental Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London.

Friends of the Earth : speaker to be confirmed

Indigenous voices : contributors to be confirmed

The event is free and places are limited so please register to confirm your place in advance.

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TOTEM LATAMAT is commissioned by Border Crossings’ ORIGINS Festival, co-presented by Centro de las Artes Indígenas with the support of The Open University and the Embassy of Mexico.