The Herds, a Vast Act of Theater to Spark Climate Action | Amir Nizar Zuabi | TED

翻译人员: Lening Xu 校对人员: Yip Yan Yeung

Two years ago,

两年前，

I was standing in the ancient city center of Gaziantep,

我站在位于叙利亚和土耳其 边境的加济安泰普古城中心。

on the border of Syria and Turkey.

We were about to start an incredible journey

我们即将开始一段奇妙的旅程，

that would lead us through Turkey,

我们将穿越土耳其，跨海到达希腊，

across the sea to Greece,

through Europe, and finally to the UK.

穿越欧洲，最后到达英国。

This 5,000-mile journey across eight countries was led by a child.

这段穿越八个国家的 5000 英里 行程由一个孩子带领。

A 10-year-old, vulnerable, unaccompanied refugee.

一名 10 岁、脆弱、无人陪伴的难民。

She was called Little Amal, and she was vulnerable

她被称为小阿迈勒（Little Amal），

她很脆弱，但又很强大，很坚定。

but also powerful and determined.

Oh, and this is the moment I can tell you

哦，现在我可以告诉你，

that Little Amal is a 13-foot puppet.

小阿迈勒是一个 13 英尺长的木偶。

In her first walk,

在第一次行走中，

Amal walked across 65 cities

阿迈勒走过了 65 个城市，

and was met by more than a million people on the streets,

在大街上遇到超过一百万人，

whilst millions more followed her online.

还有数百万人在网上关注她。

Since she completed that first walk,

完成第一次行走后，

she visited the Ukraine, Poland, Canada,

她访问了乌克兰、波兰、 加拿大、荷兰和纽约，

the Netherlands and New York,

and we are now in the final stages of preparing a three-month journey for her

我们现在正在为她为期三个月的 穿越美国旅程作最后准备，

across the United States,

all the way from Boston to San Diego,

从波士顿一直到圣地亚哥，

and we are also going to pass through Detroit.

我们还将穿越底特律。

I'm a theater director and a playwright,

我是一名戏剧导演和剧作家，

and the Little Amal project is essentially a vast act of theater.

而小阿迈勒项目本质上 是一个大型的戏剧表演。

Imagine one side of the stage in Gaziantep, in Turkey,

想象一下土耳其加济安泰普舞台的一面，

and the other side of the stage in Manchester in the UK.

以及英国曼彻斯特舞台的另一面。

And whilst walking with Amal,

在和小阿迈勒一起行走时，

we started to understand the power of telling a story

我们开始懂得横跨广阔地域 讲述故事的力量。

across a vast geography.

Evolving over time and inviting many people from many different places

随着时间的推移影响不断扩大，

邀请来自不同地方的人 来帮助我们讲述这个故事。

to help us tell that story.

A story where everyone can contribute

在这个故事中， 每个人都可以有所贡献，

and everyone has a role to play.

每个人都可以扮演角色。

As theatermakers,

作为戏剧制作人，

the main achievement of the Amal project

小阿迈勒项目的主要成果，

was to take one of the pressing issues of our time

是解决了我们这个时代的一个紧迫问题，

and turn it from a news story to a human story.

将新闻报道转变为人类故事。

We wanted to talk about the millions of refugee children

我们想谈论数以百万计的难民儿童，

but turn the hardship and misery into a story of potential and hope.

但想把苦难和不幸变成 一个充满潜力和希望的故事。

We wanted to change the numbers and statistics

我们想将数字和统计数据，

into emotions and heart.

变成情感和内心。

As a young boy,

小时候，

I used to go into the desert in my country, in Palestine,

我曾去过我的祖国巴勒斯坦的沙漠 ，

看着大自然中最奇妙的现象之一：

and watch one of nature’s most marvelous phenomenons:

the great migration of birds from Africa to Europe and back.

鸟类从非洲大规模迁徙到欧洲， 然后返回欧洲。

Twice a year,

每年两次，

the sky would darken with millions of birds,

天空因数百万只鸟而变暗，

herons, buzzards, kites, swifts, storks,

苍鹭、秃鹰、鸢、雨燕、鹳，

all flying in breathtaking formations,

它们以令人叹为观止的编队飞行，

all flying home.

全部飞回家。

As I would lay there on the ground, looking up to the sky,

就像我躺在地上仰望天空一样，

these days were defining.

这些日子意义重大。

They placed me in the world.

它们把我置于这个世界。 它们鼓舞人心，令人谦卑。

They were inspiring and humbling.

Here I am, one organism,

我在这里，一个生物，在我之上，

and above me, thousands of other organisms flying for safety.

成千上万其他生物为了安全而飞行。

As I grew, the flocks of birds became smaller.

随着我的成长，鸟群变小了。

The sky became less thick of them.

它们的天空变得不那么厚了。

And whilst walking with Amal across Europe,

在和阿迈勒一起在欧洲行走时，

I would often look up to the sky looking for birds.

我经常抬头寻找鸟的痕迹。

Somehow it felt connected.

不知何故，感觉紧密相连。

The migration of people,

人们的迁移，

this misery all around us,

我们周围的痛苦，

felt connected to the migration of birds.

感觉与鸟类的迁徙息息相关。

Two mirror migrations, now both extremely vulnerable.

两种相似的迁移， 现在都非常脆弱。

A sign of a system collapsing.

是一个系统崩溃的表现。

With that in mind, a nagging question started.

考虑到这一点， 一个棘手的问题出现了。

Can we create a project that would deal with the climate crisis

我们能否像阿迈勒处理难民问题一样 创建一个应对气候危机的项目？

like Amal dealt with the refugee issue?

Can we make people feel?

我们能让人们感觉到吗？

Can we make people care?

我们能让人们关心吗？

Can we embark on a project

我们能否着手开展一个能够解决 我们这个时代最大问题的项目？

that will tackle the biggest issue of our time?

So we took everything we learned from the Amal journeys,

我们吸取了阿迈勒旅程中的所有教训，

and we are now ready to start our new project: The Herds.

现在我们准备开始新项目： 《兽群》（The Herds）。

In the spring of 2025, we will journey from Central Africa

2025 年春季，我们将从中非出发 一直到挪威的尽头。

all the way to the tip of Norway.

We will create a massive herd migration,

我们将形成大规模的“动物”迁移，

a migration of puppet animals,

木偶动物的迁移，

hundreds, perhaps thousands of them, fleeing climate disaster.

数百甚至数千只动物逃离气候灾难。

They will emerge out of the jungles of Africa,

它们将走出非洲丛林，

across the deserts of the Sahel,

穿越萨赫勒沙漠，

across the Mediterranean to Gibraltar,

穿过地中海到达直布罗陀，

then climb their way through Europe, all the way to the north of Norway.

然后穿过欧洲，一直到挪威北部。

I'm very happy to share with you some early sketches

我很高兴与大家分享一些早期的草图，

that will help us imagine this.

这将有助于我们想象。

These sketches were created by a group of young students

这些素描是由伦敦艺术大学 一群年轻学生创作的，

from University of the Arts, London,

which is one of our foundation partners on the project.

该大学是项目基金会的合作伙伴之一。

Evolving, changing, constantly growing as it moves,

兽群不断发展，变化， 随着移动而不断增加，

The Herds will be joined by new species native to each country they encounter.

它们到达的每个国家的 原生新物种将加入兽群的行列。

They will be an alarm bell, impossible to ignore,

它们将是一个警钟，不容忽视，

a wake-up call, urging us to change our ways.

一个警醒，敦促我们改变自己的方式。

Animals are the early warning system of nature.

动物是大自然的预警系统。

Birds flocking before volcanic eruptions,

火山爆发前鸟类蜂拥而至，

herds fleeing before earthquakes.

地震前牲畜们逃离。

And although we live in a world with constant alarm bells and warnings,

尽管我们生活在一个 不断的提示和预警的世界中，

the urgency is not registering.

但紧迫性并未显现出来。

We want to disturb this indifference.

我们想打破这种冷漠。

兽群的遭遇也会发生在我们身上， 在我们周围，在我们身之上，

The Herds will happen to us, around us, on top of us,

crashing through our metropolis cities

席卷我们的大都市，

where the effects of the climate change are still largely ignored.

那些都市很大程度上依然 漠视气候变化的影响。

And they will do that in order to remind us

它们这样做是为了提醒我们，

that underneath the layers of asphalt and concrete and vanity,

在沥青、混凝土和虚荣的下面，

there is nature.

是大自然。

And it is wild, vivacious and uncontrollable.

它狂野、活泼且无法控制。

We will work with leading arts institutions

我们将与领先的艺术机构合作，

and invite them to create their own unique artistic response

邀请他们创作独特的艺术作品，

to The Herds taking over the streets.

响应占据大街小巷的《兽群》。

We will work with top artists in Africa and Europe

我们将与非洲和欧洲的顶级艺术家合作，

to create unforgettable moments of dystopian calamity.

创造令人难忘的反乌托邦灾难时刻。

The Herds will happen in our immediate surroundings, in our familiar.

《兽群》将出现在我们周围， 在我们熟悉的地方。

This is important.

这非常重要。

It needs to happen to us, not to someone else,

它必须发生在我们身上，

而不是在遥远的地方发生在其他人身上。

somewhere far away.

It needs to happen where we feel safe

它需要在我们感到安全的地方发生，

so we understand that we are not safe.

这样我们才能明白自己并不安全。

We imagine that The Herds will be a story of humanity losing control.

我们想象《兽群》将是一个 人类失去控制的故事。

A story of the wildness of nature overwhelming civilization,

是一个大自然野性席卷文明的故事，

but also the story of what is left behind,

也是关于车水马龙之后 留下什么、剩下什么的故事。

what remains when the dust from the stampede settles.

What are the lessons we have learned?

我们吸取了什么教训？

So much of the climate debate

许多关于气候的讨论都发生在 普通百姓的头顶上。

is happening above the heads of ordinary people.

We're given data, we're slammed by scientific explanations,

我们得到了数据，却被科学解释所困扰，

we’re given dire prophecies.

我们得到了可怕的预言。

But we’re never given an emotional sensory experience.

但是我们从来没有过感官体验。

We're never made to feel that this is ours.

我们从来没有意识这是自己的问题。

We're never given an experience, and it's always cerebral.

我们从来没有经历过， 总是很理智。

We want to challenge that.

我们想挑战这一点。

As storytellers, we know that people are moved to action because they care,

作为讲故事的人，

我们知道人们之所以采取行动， 是因为他们在乎，

and nothing breaks the walls of indifference more than beauty.

没有什么比美丽更能打破冷漠之墙。

The minute you add beauty into the equation,

当你将“美”添加到等式中的那一刻，

it becomes personal, it becomes yours.

它就会与你有关，它就会变成你的。

It becomes something worth fighting for.

它成为值得为之奋斗的东西。

That's why we are working with an amazing team of puppeteers

这就是为什么我们与一支

由来自南非的木偶演员和设计师 组成的出色团队合作的原因。

and designers from South Africa.

They will create beautiful animals

他们将创作出漂亮的动物，

because although The Herds need to be powerful and devastating,

尽管《兽群》强大而具有毁灭性，

they also need to be beautiful.

但它们同时也具美感。

They will create dozens of species out of recyclable, reusable

他们将使用可回收、可重复使用 和易于采购的材料制作数十个物种。

and easily sourced materials.

And our puppeteers, our puppeteers are some of the best in the world,

我们的木偶演员， 他们是世界上最好的木偶演员，

and they will evoke animals that are ferocious, tired, frightened,

他们会唤起那些凶猛、疲倦、害怕 但又优雅和自豪的动物。

but also elegant and proud.

And our call to action to artists and audiences everywhere

我们呼吁全世界的艺术家 和观众行动起来，

is, come and join us.

来加入我们。

Every school, every university,

每所学校、每所大学、每个城市 都可以帮助我们塑造这个故事。

every city can help us shape this story.

And our call to climate organizations everywhere is use us,

我们呼吁全世界的气候组织利用我们，

use us to spread this message.

利用我们来传播这一信息。

Together, we can create a movement, a movement that demands change.

我们可以共同发起一场运动， 一场要求变革的运动。

And I know, I know,

我知道，我知道，

we're just water dripping on a stone.

我们只是滴在石头上的水。

But it's crucial to continue dripping because slowly and over time,

但是持续滴水至关重要，

因为滴水穿石。

water shapes the stone.

And when lions and gazelles,

当狮子和瞪羚，

when zebras and hyenas,

当斑马和鬣狗，

when wolves and deer are running together,

当狼和鹿一起奔跑时，

predator and prey running alongside one another,

捕食者和猎物并肩奔跑，

and they're running away from us,

它们正在逃离我们，

they're running away from a disaster that we have created,

它们正在逃离我们制造的灾难，

who are we in that story?

故事中我们是谁？

What does it say about us?

它对我们说了什么？

Because like with all great stories, this story is really about us.

就像所有精彩的故事一样， 这个故事实际上是关乎我们自身。

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause and cheers)

（掌声和欢呼）