Listening to the Locals: Marine Silent Lab

A 1 hour workshop where you will use silent disco headphones to dive under the ocean soundscape while we paint the St James beach mural as part of the update facilitated by CareCreative in collaboration with The African Bioacoustics Community.

Headsets, paint materials, paint aprons & light refreshments provided.

Suitable for ages 7+

NB: Please arrive 15mins before the workshop so that we can start promptly.

Funds raised from ticket sales contribute towards us being able to offer free workshops to diverse youth & locals. If you are in group/ family (4 people +) get in touch about a group discount.

Tickets are limited due to the number of headsets per session.

April/ May: St James Beach

Wed 29th: 9am-10am or 4 - 5pm

Thurs 30th: 9am-10am or 4 - 5pm

Fri 1st: 9am - 10am or 11am-12pm (public holiday)

“Listening for Life” aims to promote active and mindful listening to nature, encouraging conservation at the community level by connecting people to nature through art and sound. On this multidisciplinary path, bioacoustics intersects with creative arts, environmental outreach, mindful wellbeing, wildlife advocacy, community science and conservation. Through mindful listening to nature, in nature, creative harvesting, recording, painting, poetry, public participation, community science, and more, we can foster a greater appreciation of, and responsibility for, the natural world, as well as a deeper connection to ourselves.

The “Listen & Sea” Silent Lab

Our “Listen & Sea” workshop aims to connect different groups to False Bay’s natural soundscape, their local marine life, and their community. These workshops increase awareness and understanding of the diversity of marine life they live alongside, and the importance of sound in this aquatic environment. Along with its natural, picturesque, beauty, False Bay is home to some of the most biodiverse marine life on the planet. False Bay is also incredibly important socio-economically, for example, being one of South Africa’s top tourist attractions. The kelp forests play host to a wide variety of inhabitants, such as sea anemones, nudibranchs, sponges, molluscs, fish, rays and sharks, while the rest of the bay offers important refuge to iconic giants like the humpback whale. In 2014, False Bay was declared as a South African “Hope Spot” – an initiative of the Sylvia Earle Alliance, defined as an important area, critical to our oceans’ health. Thus, we feel it is of great necessity that we as a community work to conserve and protect False Bay.

Using an innovative Silent Lab immersive painting experience, we take participants on an underwater sound journey of False Bay, in which they will experience life in the ocean through the sense of sound, using a pair of headphones, and encounter False Bay’s local, marine inhabitants along the way. During this adventure deep beneath the waves, participants will take part in a variety of creative exercises, hear poetry by local poet Toni Giselle Stuart and paint the soundscape into the updated 'MEET THE LOCALS' mural on St James Beach.

www.carecreativeza.com

www.africanbioacoustics.org/single-project

Info doc on St James Update: link