Walking Into The Winds of Change

Covid19 redefined the corporate capture of language because as the winds of the Pandemic swept through Global politics, governance and corporate incompetence, arrogance and hubris, revealed the depths of political hypocrisy and laid bare the cultural toxicity of blaming the victim. As communities struggled to maintain sustainability and resilience, the mass media chimera which had dominated political narratives for more than 75 years began to unravel globally as an anxious and fearful public brought their voices together to reject the propaganda of the ‘Wealth before Health dogma and its Corporate masters.

As the dissenting voices became louder they were to both challenge and disrupt the political spectrum. Protests that targeted municipal organisations and the private/public partnerships that supported them demonstrated how Corporatisation was failing to mitigate the increasing social hardships and civil unrest. So, as the chimera of neoliberalism failed to deliver or maintain a cohesive, inclusive conversation capable of leading and supporting the people and their communities as they worked and walked together to mitigate the pandemic, an ancient media was revived and it is this media that Walking Into The Winds of Change now explores and celebrates.

Walking into the Winds of Change rediscovers, through language and conversation, the drama that lies beyond the reality of people’s lives and reconnects with a traditional media which incorporates all of the individual or personal artistic mediums crucial to communal learning and expression. This traditional media, although ‘flying under the radar’, has a long-standing presence in communities ranging from the ancient past to the present day and it has long been recognised as an important vehicle that conveys information, culture and education through communities from generation to generation. That this media is freely available and accessible without technology is also an important consideration since the language and the cost of mass-media and unfettered Social Media today represents a major anxiety within local communities and their leadership. So come, walk with me as we explore, “some of the most vibrant forms of traditional media” that has for millennia represented the masses of people most deprived of specific messages.
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