<div dir="ltr">Thanks colleagues of Global Tapestry for sharing this invitation.<div>Sure I will join as I am one who honors and publishes so many articles related to the cosmology for the "good living" of my ancestors and indigenous communities where I come from (Andean-Amazon of Peru).</div><div><br></div><div>Do we need to subscribe to join the meeting? it seems not, isn't it?</div><div><br></div><div>For the next meeting you will organize, I would like to present the cosmovision of the Andean in relation to water, how we see it as a divinity and creator of LIVE on earth. My last publication, related to Marañon River, explains, in part, this: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/rights-of-nature">https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/rights-of-nature</a></div><div><br></div><div>You can also see the video I did, explaining how indigenous people from Colca Valley (andes of Peru) honour water: the video is called <span lang="ES" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15.693334px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“Al Encuentro del Mallku” the water deity in Colca Valley:<span> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo8SDgJt984" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https:///watch?v=fo8SDgJt984</a>.</span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Kind regards, and I appreciate your answer in advance.</span></font></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="600" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="160" style="padding:24px 0px 0px 12px"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="600" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji""><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="160" style="padding:24px 0px 0px 12px"><img src="https://globalforestcoalition.org/images/gfc-email-logo.jpg" alt="Global Forest Coalition logo" width="150" height="122" style="vertical-align:middle;border-style:none"></td><td valign="top" width="440" style="padding:12px 0px 0px 12px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-weight:bolder">Dr. Juana Vera Delgado</span><br>Senior Gender and Environmental Justice Advisor<br>Global Forest Coalition<br><a href="https://globalforestcoalition.org/" style="color:rgb(14,86,162);background-color:transparent" target="_blank">https://globalforestcoalition.org</a><br></p><hr style="height:0px;overflow:visible;margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:6px;border-top:0px;border-right:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(221,221,221)"><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px">Email: <a href="mailto:juanaveradelgado@globalforestcoalition.org" style="color:rgb(14,86,162);background-color:transparent" target="_blank">juanaveradelgado@globalforestcoalition.org</a><br>Phone: +31629342266</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is an international coalition of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples' Organizations defending social justice and the rights of forest peoples in forest policies.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="600" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji""><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="160" style="padding:24px 0px 0px 12px"></td><td valign="top" width="440" style="padding:12px 0px 0px 12px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td valign="top" width="440" style="padding:12px 0px 0px 12px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 8:36 AM Global Tapestry of Alternatives <<a href="mailto:globaltapestryofalternatives@riseup.net" target="_blank">globaltapestryofalternatives@riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
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<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;font-family:georgia,serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Dear all, </span></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;font-family:georgia,serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">We will be having our first episode of the <span style="color:rgb(186,55,42)"><strong>More than Human: Creative Expressions</strong> </span>series on the <span style="color:rgb(186,55,42)"><strong>29th of August</strong></span>, at<strong> <span style="color:rgb(186,55,42)">1 pm GMT/6:30 pm IST</span></strong>. A series of online sessions on creative expressions focussing on the more-than-human, this webinar series features people connecting to other species and the rest of nature in spiritual, artistic, and visceral ways. </span></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;font-family:georgia,serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">What would it be like if a River could sing about her ordeal, turtles could speak of their incredible journeys across the seas as also of vanishing coasts, and Hoolock gibbons could narrate their relationship to trees? Indigenous peoples and other nature dependent local communities have always been in communication with the more-than human world, as everything has been alive with agency.</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;font-family:georgia,serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> In recent times we have also seen people living in modern contexts expressing themselves as if they are a tree or a turtle or a river and so on, finding a voice within through deep listening of the natural world, and manifesting this through their writing, song making, drawing, research and activism.</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">We want to highlight voices from the Global South specifically, and so our first speaker is<span style="color:rgb(186,55,42)"><strong> Alyen Foning</strong></span>, a shaman from the Lepcha community from India. <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">She resides in her ancestral home, Kalimpong -the Lepcha community, with its sacred mountains and rivers, at the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas. Inspired by her Lepcha roots and reflections of her life’s journey, Alyen uses her art and storytelling as a medium to help others remember their own ecological connections. Using fabrics, colours, music and design, her work serves as a bridge between the fields of art and research, and between ancestral pasts and future generations.</span></span></div>
<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Through her storytelling we journey through longing, loss and disconnection. Finding our way forward through remembrance we delve into our origins, shamanism and our deep connection and interdependence to nature.</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span class="gmail_default"></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><strong><span class="gmail_default"></span>Date: <span style="color:rgb(186,55,42)">29th August 202<span class="gmail_default">4</span></span><span class="gmail_default"></span></strong></span></span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Time: <span style="color:rgb(186,55,42)">1 pm GMT/ 6:30 pm IST</span></strong></span></p>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Meeting link: <span style="color:rgb(186,55,42)"><a style="color:rgb(186,55,42)" href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82244547060?pwd=gyuXCZCCdibRUaaLD5bsAyJkxb2bYR.1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82244547060?pwd=gyuXCZCCdibRUaaLD5bsAyJkxb2bYR.1</a></span></strong></span>
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