A filmmaker from Costa Rica and Catalonia named Kokopelli is running this platform called ATAEC that links up artists fighting climate change across different continents. She's been working with Bulawayo artist Fisani Nkomo and indigenous business owner Makhosi Mahlangu from Lupane, and they're putting together exhibitions about food systems and decolonization. The network started as a digital space back when everyone was freaking out about ecological disasters, and it turned into this whole collaborative thing based on anti-capitalist values.
Nkomo curated an exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo, and Mahlangu runs Lupane Veggie Guys while making baobab juice. ATAEC helps artists get paid gigs and visibility instead of just asking them to volunteer forever. Kokopelli studies evolutionary anthropology when she's not playing saxophone or raising her kid, and she thinks African communities preserved their cultural knowledge way better than Latin American ones did. She's never actually been to Zimbabwe but wants to visit eventually.
Nkomo curated an exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo, and Mahlangu runs Lupane Veggie Guys while making baobab juice. ATAEC helps artists get paid gigs and visibility instead of just asking them to volunteer forever. Kokopelli studies evolutionary anthropology when she's not playing saxophone or raising her kid, and she thinks African communities preserved their cultural knowledge way better than Latin American ones did. She's never actually been to Zimbabwe but wants to visit eventually.
