The schedule for the day will be as follows:

9:00-10:00 a.m. OPENING EVENT


First demonstration of the transmedia action Be a Tree Now!

10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. TOWARDS AN ENERGY TRANSITION?: RESILIENCE, RECYCLING, REDESIGNING THE FUTURE.

10:00-10:20 a.m. “Changing the narrative in the media” Gemma Teso, coordinator of the Climate Change Communication Observatory. (20 min.)

10:20-10:40 a.m. “Ecosocial education for the future,” Luis González Reyes, responsible for eco-social education at FUHEM. (20 min.)

10:40-11:10 a.m. Colloquium (30 min.)

+ Break

11:30-11:50 a.m. "Youth cooperation on water in the Mediterranean," Kholoud al-Ajarma, University of Edinburgh. (20 min.) (to be confirmed)

11:50 a.m.-12:10 p.m. “Environmental challenges and responses by Arab cities" Karim Elgendy, Chatham House. (20 min.)

12:10-12:40 p.m. Colloquium (30 min.)

12:40- 1:00 p.m. Second demonstration of the transmedia activity Be a Tree Now!

The afternoon schedule is as follows:

4:30-6:00 p.m. PROJECT PRESENTATION

4:30-5:15 p.m."Capturing clouds in Morocco." Titouan Lampe, a consultant at Dar si Hamad and the president of Green Resistance Paris. (TO BE CONFIRMED)

Rain may be a rarity in the Moroccan desert, but there is no shortage of fog. Because of the largest fog collector in North Africa, drinking water can be produced right out of the air. The Dar Si Hmad Foundation for Development, Education and Culture, of Morocco, established an innovative method to collect water from fog for Amazigh communities living near the edge of the desert in Aït Baamrane, one of Morocco's poorest regions. Using a unique technology, 600 square meters of fine webbed nets have been stretched across the region's largest mountain, Mt. Boutmezguida. Co-founded by anthropologist Dr. Jamila Bargach in 2000, the foundation has been active in bringing clean water to marginalized rural areas around the world, as well as creating meaningful cross-cultural exchanges. The innovative CloudFishers now have sister projects in Eritrea and Ghana. Other agricultural areas are also benefiting, in the form of an increased water supply for crops and an educational farm that teaches agro-ecology in dry regions. As a model for sustainable humanitarian development in regions majorly affected by water scarcity, the CloudFishers offer unprecedented opportunities.

5:15-6:00 p.m. "Regenerating the Sahel with satellites, AI and blockchain." Norman Martín Casas, Programming and Advocacy Advisor on Climate Change and Resilience for Oxfam Intermón.

JESAC is an initiative which lies at the crossroads between community participation, scientific expertise and cutting-edge technology. Funded by the EU Delegation to the African Union and operating under the AU-EU Youth Cooperation Center instrument, JESAC is a cooperative effort led by Oxfam, Lobelia Earth and Caelum Labs in a partnership with communities in Niger and Burkina Faso. JESAC's mission is clear: to offset CO₂ emissions transparently and accurately and to engage youth and women actively in land regeneration. By implementing Assisted Natural Regeneration methods, youth and women are revitalizing more than 200 hectares of dry lands in Burkina Faso and Niger. This is not only leading to carbon storage and increased biodiversity, but also bolsters rural livelihoods.

Abdellah M. Hassak is the name behind DJ and producer Guedra Guedra, A Moroccan performer who is a self-declared nomad that channels the vital experience of being integrated in a multitude of cultures in his music.The African sounds he explores dive deep into the rhythms of his surrounding environment, creating a unique approach that cannot be defined within one single genre. It is a project based on electronics, beats and a fine-tuned bass line with no lack of sounds inspired by the African continent, and especially the identity of the desert. He plays with vocals from Berber communities, claps, dances and rhythms found all over the continent, thus creating a new kind of sound experience. Guedra Guedra's music ends up sounding like no other: the body, the rhythm and the idea that history repeats itself all form an integral part of his sound. Influenced in large part by Africa's rich history, Guedra Guedra is basically a product of its past, which he carries over into his works today.

The climate emergency is the biggest problem we face as a species, and it is essential that we take action to make the urgent need to seek climate justice more visible. Be a Tree Now! is an open-ended activity for mobilization that uses dance to get people to see themselves as a tree and portray themselves as one.

"Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order." Samuel Beckett

For 48 hours, Casa Árabe's garden will be putting up an installation containing a green-screen* in order to carry out this transmedia activity, which consists of dancing and recording yourself and then having the project's app turn the person into a tree, more specifically a palm tree. It is an original proposal by Eugenio Ampudia, created with the cooperation of Spain's National Dance Company.

*an audiovisual technique widely used in film, television and photography, which consists of extracting one color from an image or video (usually green) and replacing the area occupied by that color with another image or video.

Coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of Iraq's invasion in 2003, a conference by Iraqi writer, painter and political activist Haifa Zangana (Baghdad, 1950), known for her novel Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London about political repression, violence and exile, is being presented. She has written novels, short stories and non-fiction, mainly about current political events related with Iraq, Palestine and Tunisia.

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