Project · Travelling outreach
Spreading information through films and travelling performances. Protecting the environment, hygiene, waste management, prevention of STIs, AIDS and malaria. And celebrating ancestral knowledge. From the cities to the forest villages.
A theatre that travels
The caravan is a stage that takes to the road. Films, puppets, summoning of spirits, music: one and the same set-up, carried from the city to the forest villages, to pass on messages of health and environment in each person's own language. Information that does not come down from a distant screen, but arrives on the village square, in the evening, by the glow of the generators.
In urban settings
Protecting the environment, public hygiene, household waste management, and calling out the harmful behaviours carried over from a campsite mindset and left to fall apart in the city.
Encouraging young people to respect the environment, prevention of and information about STIs, AIDS and malaria, taking into account the specific local conditions of Gabon.
In rural settings
Summoning the spirits of the forest with a striking environmental message, to raise awareness of sound behaviour: against reckless deforestation, against poaching, and against epidemics (AIDS, malaria, STIs, Ebola).
Using a flatbed trailer as an orchestra/puppet stage to give value to essential heritage and apply ancestral knowledge to contemporary situations.
On the ground
The caravan does not stop at the big cities. Its reason for being is to reach the towns and hamlets that little information reaches, where the road becomes a track and the track a footpath.
It is there, on the village square, that the film and the show take on their full meaning: they speak of a shared everyday life, and elders and children alike recognise their own in it.
One and the same gesture, two worlds
The same crew, the same repertoire, adapted to the place. In the city, the talk is of waste and prevention; in the forest, the spirits are summoned and water, tree and animal are sung. The caravan carries a single message, respect for the living, in the grammar of each audience.
Existing resources
The equipment is here, inherited and maintained. What needs funding is the fuel, the upkeep and the time spent on tour.
Equipment inherited from the company T.R.I.P., overland transport, founded by Tatayo in 1984. Actively used for Ebando's tours.
There is more for humankind to gain by gathering the new leaves of the canopy than by cutting down a whole tree.
— Professor Francis Hallé, Radeau des Cimes (Canopy Raft)
Possible extensions
To support is to keep the caravan rolling
A tour means fuel, upkeep and teams mobilised for weeks. To support a specific component, write to Ebando: we direct your support according to the priorities of the moment.
