Nature KwenTour: Exploring Island-Urban Dialogues from Siargao to London

To bring their year-long Nature KwenTour project to a close, Green Lions and Lokal Lab present a 3-day joint showcase across both London and Siargao.

Nature KwenTour is a collaborative and creative storytelling programme which aims to map local ecologies, memories and shared knowledge across Siargao, Philippines, and London, UK, exploring how creativity and technology can reconnect us to embodied, ancestral, and local knowledge.

Presenting collective outputs from across the programme – including nature walks, digital storytelling workshops, discussions, and the digital archive – this showcase will centre the voices of Siargaonon youth and London’s pan-Asian diaspora to reimagine our relationship to land and community.

By mapping out the transnational dialogues and knowledges exchanged, this showcase invites audiences to explore their own personal and ancestral ecosystems, reflect on local-global challenges and our individual stories of the land, and explore how creative storytelling and technology can inspire more grounded, collective responses to ecological and cultural (dis)connection.

Nature KwenTour is supported by the British Council’s Connections Through Culture grant programme.

Please note that this event is comprised of a ticketed opening event on Friday 7 November (5pm-8pm) and drop-in hours on Saturday 8 – Sunday 9 November (11am-4pm).

About ESEA Green Lions

ESEA Green Lions is a UK-based space for East and South East Asian (ESEA) diaspora to connect and organise for a more equitable and climate-just world through a creative and decolonial lens. Their work includes political education, community gardening and creative programming to encourage ESEA engagement with climate justice.

Lokal Lab

Lokal Lab is a grassroots NGO in Siargao, Philippines, focused on sustainable community development through local knowledge, creative exchange, and ecological empowerment. Their programmess range from nature-based livelihood training to hosting artist residencies and cultural events.