The Scream from Nature is happy to take part in UN Evnironment Programme’s activities on World Environment Day, the 5th of June. We challenge you to take part as well, read on and see how!

Our collaborating partner United Nations Environment Programme is preparing for World Environment Day the 5th of June. As stated by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon: “Although individual decisions may seem small in the face of global threats and trends, when billions of people join forces in common purpose, we can make a tremendous difference.”

Through decades of WED celebrations, hundreds of thousands of people from countries all over the world have been mobilized for environmental action. You can join in! If you want to make a Scream from Nature, or you want to participate with other actions, you are welcome to register your activity here.

The 9th of April, Norway hosted a high level meeting on energy and the post 2015 development agenda. The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited The Scream from Nature as part of the program.

The conference participants were invited to take part in making a Scream from Nature with plastic bags filled with water – a symbolic choice of material, water being an important renewable energy resource, and plastic being a major challenge for our oceans.

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairsperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – Nobel Peace Prize winner 2007 together with Al Gore – was one of the persons who contributed in making the Scream. Also HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway took part, as well as Mr. Heikki Holmås minister of International Development.

Water being an important sustainable energy resource, the participants will make a Scream from Nature with water. The water will be filled in plastic bags – visually fascinating, but also a relevant reminder not to litter our rivers, lakes and oceans with plastics.

The Scream from Nature is invited by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to participate at Tuesday 9th of April high level meeting on Energy, in Oslo. The role of energy in the post-2015 Development Agenda will be discussed by a broad range of stakeholders including ministers, representatives of international organizations, the public and private sectors, financial institutions, civil society and academia. More info at http://www.energypost2015oslo.org/

The Gathering (TG) is one of the largest computer parties in the world. This year’s session opened with a huge Scream!

The Gathering is held annually in Vikingskipet Olympic Arena in Hamar, Norway, and lasts for five consecutive days (starting on the Wednesday in Easter each year). Arranged every year since 1992, TG now attracts more than 5200 (mostly young) people. TG is festival catering to artists, gamers, techies and just plain nerds of all sorts that share a common goal of convening together to show off and see what other people with the same or related interests do.

The Scream from Nature collaborates with TG to put focus on the environment. Making the world’s largest reproduction of Edvard Munch’s famous Scream, gives attention to the Scream from Nature project and the message of what each of us can do to contribute for the nature, like recycling and sustainable consumption. Norwegian news channel NRK Dagsnytt had this report from the event >>

The Scream of 70 m2 is made by a rasterbation technique, and is also a tribute to the Munch celebration this year.

The founder of The Scream from Nature-project features as Today’s Expert at United Nations Environment Programme’s web pages. Topic is using the arts to visualize and conveying a message.

The UNEP Division of Communication and Public Information invited Lise Wulff to participate in this session, to recognize her work with the Scream from Nature project, amongst other, related to the UNEP Governing Council in February 2013. To see the questions and answers, please consult the UNEP web pages Ask an Expert.

Vendla Kindergarden in Asker, Norway are joining The Scream from Nature project. They started out this week, making a fascinating Scream out of ice cubes. 

You can see the children and the scream in the forest here:

Norwegian artist Lise Wulff invited the UNEP delegates to participate in making a Scream from Nature with paper lanterns. A feel good event to celebrate nature.

During the UN Evironment Programme’s Governing Council 2013, artist Lise Wulff did several installations of her ecological art project The Scream from Nature. One of the installations was made with the collaboration of the UNEP delegates, placing a paper lantern in the shape of the Scream. Following the link below, you can see the making of the paper lantern scream, with the UNEP HQ in the back ground. You can also hear the comments of Mr. Nick Nuttall, UNEP spokesperson and Head of Communication.

The Scream from Nature at UNEP\’s Governing Council 2013

The Scream from Nature project is a contemporary interpretation of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The Scream, in which the iconic anxiety ridden face is recreated outdoors. Action is an important aim of the Scream from Nature project. Every one who feels the scream from nature are invited to act on this feeling, both by making their own screams from nature and share it in social media, and through effective initiatives such as recycling and sustainable consumption.

The 18th-22nd of February 2013, the United Nations Environment Programme’s Governing Council took place. The Scream from Nature was invited to participate.

Being UNEP’s first universal Governing Council, 130 countires were represented and 60 environment ministers were present in Nairobi, Kenya. The artist behind the Scream from Nature project, Lise Wulff, made a Scream with seedlings, representing new life and hope. It was placed nearby the main entrance of UNEP head quarter, visible for all UNEP delegates and visitors. “I would like to thank all helping hands making this event possible”, says Wulff, “including the staff at the UNEP communication department, the Norwegain Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other Norwegian representatives, as well as the project team and all helping hands on site”.

In the video you can see the making of the Scream with seedlings, as well as other happenings during the stay in Nairobi.

The Scream from Nature in Nairobi

We are proud to announce that United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has decided to work with the Scream from Nature-project. The Scream from Nature supports the work of UNEP.

Mr. Nick Nuttall, UNEP Spokesperson and Acting Director, Division of Communication and Public Information, writes: The Scream from nature initiative, harnessing the iconic image of Munch’s painting, is an excellent way of raising national and global awareness of the challenges facing humanity. It can also serve to bring forward the inordinate opportunities for a transition to a low carbon, resource efficient inclusive Green Economy – we are delighted that this inspiring campaign will assist in focusing attention on UNEP’s work towards a sustainable world where a scream is transformed into a call for action and a sigh of relief that we have found a fresh, clear and better way forward for seven billion people”.

The world’s first “Scream from Nature” launced in Oslo, Norway.

The eco art project “The Scream from Nature” was launched today at Rådhusplassen in Oslo, with 300 torhces that lit up in the dark. The audience participated in this first, of many, “Screams from Nature”. Here you can se the event and hear the comments of Oslo’s Mayor Fabian Stang, The CEO of the environmental NGO Bellona, Nils Bøhmer, the General Secretary of Norway Cup, Frode Kyvåg, and the artist and founder of the project, Lise Wulff.

Did you know that if all Norwegians recycled the empty t-light metal cups, it would equal 30.000 bickes a year? “The Scream from Nature” is an evironmental art project that is included in the celebration of Edvard Munch’s 150th anniversary. The Norwegian artis Lise Wulff is the founder of the project, and she collaborates with Munch150, UNEP, Bellona, Pure CSR and PiStudios, as well as Serbian artist Branislav Nikolc. Wulff wishes to inspire to more recycling and a wiser consumption, through linking Edvard Munch’s world famous the Scream and one of our time’s anxiety drivers – the climate challenge.

“We wish to contribute to action for the environment”, says artist Lise Wulff 

- A contribution that may seem like a drop in the ocean for one person, as a big contribution for “The Scream from Nature”. A few years ago, it was common to throw glass, metal and electronics in the same trashcan. In Norway and in many other countries, this is unthinkable today. Still, the rate of recycling can improve, both in Norway and in other parts of the world.  ”The Scream from Nature” seeks to create an understanding for the importance of this, says Wulff.

“One of the largest environmental challenges we are facing is apathy, that people stop caring”, says Bellona CEO Nils Bøhmer

The project is a contemporary interpretation of Munch’s masterpiece the Scream. where the iconic anxitey-ridden face is recreated in large format. Several “Scream from Nature” arrangments are planned in different parts of the world, and the project has  already got international reputation through the fact that UNEP wish to take part.

- Next summer, during the world’s largest youth football tournament, Norway Cup, we will gather youth from the whole world in a large “Scream from Nature”, says Lise Wulff. Wulff hopes to reach out to people in all countries, and especially the younger generations.

- During our arrangements, we focus on making “The Scream from Nature” with either plastic, metall or electronic waste, and recycle it after on. The most imortant, still, is to inspire people all over the world, to express their screams, and share them through Instagram or our Facebook pages. In that way we hope to spread a message to politicians and dicision makers that people want action, for example that the recycling issues are put higher on the agenda in more countries that today, sier Wulff.

Why link the Scream with an environmental project? Munch wrote about his masterpiece that he “felt a huge unending scream course through nature”. Now we hear another “scream” from nature; extreme weather, melting glaciers, extinction of animal and plant species, droughts and floods. Lost resources shall find their way home.

Some snapshots of the preparation for the first “Scream from Nature”. Artist Lise Wulff is marking the area where the participants shall put the torches.

The Scream from Nature will be launched Saturday 1st of December, at Rådhusplassen in Oslo

- between the City Hall and the fjord of Oslo. People will join in to make the first “Scream from nature”. We are very happy to start out exactly by the fjord of Oslo, as this is the background motive in Edvard Munch’s famous Scream.

The scream formation will be made by torches, that are of course recycled after on.

The Mayor of Oslo, Fabian Stang, will join in to light a torch. So will the leader of Munch150, Elsebet Kjerschow, the general manager of Bellona, Nils Bøhmer, and the secretary-general of Norway Cup, Frode Kyvåg. And of course, the artist Lise Wulff and her close collaborator from Pure CSR, Stine Lise Hattestad Bratsberg.

Want to join in too? Be there at 16.00!