Umlibo: A community climate change advocacy artwork

Climate change is the biggest existential threat of our time with global warming and extreme weather events already affecting vulnerable communities the most.

To put this into perspective, a group of talented artists from Hamburg in the Eastern Cape of South Africa – whose signature style of colourful embroidery is known across the world – have created a visual masterpiece that tells the story of climate impacts on their community, and the importance of sustainable livelihoods to build their climate resilience.

This masterpiece lands at a pertinent time – for people and nature – with world leaders soon to meet in Dubai for the crucial COP28 climate negotiations.

On this page, you can explore the artists' stories through video and text. Their testimonies are unique but also universal, connecting us all like the threads within a tapestry masterpiece.

UMLIBO

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