perfect gimmick.

My name is Cecilia Lim and the name of our installation today is Mushroom Power.

When people want to know about how did this project come about, I get to say a little bit around my own connection and the path that I've taken to reconnect with life forms like mushrooms, like plants that my people had relationship with.

for many years and there was a give and a take and not just an exploitation and a consumption bringing creativity and the arts ways to help people think about this topic and put our attention on this topic and of course creativity and the arts are part of it because our new culture has been part of people's existence ways of life especially people who have been the original protectors of our environment the indigenous people the original peoples of a place If we understand all of that, then none of it actually is separated and all of it is interconnected.

There tends to be a very narrow understanding of what it means to be pro-environment or pro-climate or trying to address the issue of the climate.

If we have a more expansive view of the environment and understand that we can't talk about the environment without talking about humans, and not just what humans have done to negatively impact the environment, but the ways that human justice is also part of the issue of the environment.

and think about the people who are most impacted by the environment are those people in less developed nations, poor nations, people of color, people of the Global South.

I think seeing a lot of familiar faces and people who can speak different languages is also really important in this work, but totally makes a difference.