Mara the Storyteller | Education for Climate Justice (Event 3) | 17 April 2021

13:30 –14:00 Storytelling with Mara Menzies Mara is an award-winning performance storyteller and narrative artist, drawing on her rich, dual Kenyan/Scottish cultural heritage, to create worlds that explore contemporary issues through legend, myth and fantasy. She fuses ancient and modern in an intoxicating experience where the audience takes centre stage leading to invitations to perform around the world. Education for Climate Justice Programme: https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/UNGlobalGoals/EducationforClimateJustice.aspx Education for Climate Justice (Event 3): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/education-for-climate-justice-moving-from-despair-to-hope-event-3-of-3-tickets-140978242719 What do recent initiatives to ‘decolonise’ education really mean? What will this mean for climate education and how can we confront and address structural injustices? Learning about injustices - in schools, in communities and through activism - means that we make space to explore the range of emotional responses that might help or hinder our learning. People may get angry, they might grasp for positive emotions, or they might simply close down if they feel as though they can’t to do anything. This event will provide space to participants to critically reflect on and discuss the need for critical emotional literacy in education for climate justice.