CETMAR celebrates world oceans day with a participatory campaign to collect words related to the sea
To celebrate the World Oceans Day, which is commemorated on 8th June, CETMAR is launching a participatory campaign under the title ‘Un Mar de Falas’.
The aim is to immerse in the collective imagination the diversity of voices and words linked to the sea and collect all of them.
The campaign, which starts today in the different social media of CETMAR, is articulated through a unique hashtag #UnMarDeFalas. Any language is welcome.
How can you participate?
1. Choose a word: e.g. ‘fishnet’, ‘tide, ‘conch…”…
2. Share its context: an anecdote, an associated family memory, a verse or the work that describes it.
3. Post on your social media profile with the hashtag #UnMarDeFalas
Then, each contribution will integrate a big wave with all the words collected: a collective mural in digital and physical format representing a testimony of the living marine memory
This initiative, which CETMAR directly links to the SDG 14 target ‘Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources’, responds to the aim of promoting public participation and environmental awareness through a symbolic approach to the sea.
By inviting citizens to keep and share marine vocabulary, ‘A Sea of Falas’ claims the sea as a common good, at the heart of local culture and identity, and opens doors to co-responsibility in its conservation.
Looking to the future, CETMAR intends to make this initiative an annual event that adds new languages, new people and new words.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
