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Culture & arts

Music, street art, film and heritage that tell the story of Suriname's nature in its own voice.

Projects

  • Irene Meulenberg teaching the community archaeology training in a wooden hall, beside a table of survey tools and a projected slide asking what tools an archaeologist needs

    Active

    Community-archaeology training in south Suriname

    A Trio-led project that validates and documents historic finds in south Suriname, training community members to locate and register their own heritage.

    • Culture & arts

    1 ambassador

  • Architectural rendering of the proposed bamboo buildings: four open pavilions on stilts with thatched roofs and woven bamboo walls, set among planting and forest

    Completed

    Bouwen met Kwamala (Building with Bamboo)

    How traditional Indigenous building knowledge and locally available bamboo can inspire sustainable, nature-inclusive construction in Kwamalasamutu.

    • Culture & arts
    • Research

    1 ambassador

  • Title card: “Mama Sranan”, Byciel Watsaam, in white on black

    Completed

    Mama Sranan, the campaign song

    The Forest93 campaign song, sung in Sranantongo by Byciel Watsaam, in which Mama Sranan (Mother Suriname) tells how her guests are treating her.

    • Culture & arts
    • Awareness

    1 ambassador

  • The finished mural on the utility building: "93% BOS. 100% SURINAAMS." painted above a blue poison dart frog, an armadillo, a monkey and a jaguar, beside a young girl in red face paint with a waterfall behind her

    Completed

    Street art with Paramaribo Live Museum

    A retired utility building on the corner of Heiligenweg and Waterkant, turned into a meeting point with murals, the first of them bringing nature into the city.

    • Culture & arts
  • Children reading the Forest93 information totem at the Amazonemarkt in Paramaribo's Palm Garden

    Completed

    Launching 93% Bos. 100% Surinaams.

    The campaign's first public moments in 2019: a soft launch at the Amazonemarkt on Indigenous Day, then the launch at the first Urban Heritage & Art Festival in Paramaribo.

    • Awareness
    • Culture & arts

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