{"id":9287,"date":"2024-05-15T17:50:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T09:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=9287"},"modified":"2024-05-15T17:51:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T09:51:03","slug":"bafi-usaid-deliver-biodiversity-projects-mind-s-cool-tv-and-biodiversity-crisis-escape-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/bafi-usaid-deliver-biodiversity-projects-mind-s-cool-tv-and-biodiversity-crisis-escape-room\/","title":{"rendered":"BAFI, USAID deliver biodiversity projects, MIND S-COOL TV and Biodiversity Crisis Escape Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bonifacio Art Foundation, Inc. (BAFI) and the United States Agency for International Development have joined forces to bring you a two-part biodiversity special of MIND S-COOL TV as well as a traveling Biodiversity Crisis Escape Room (BCER). Both projects serve to innovatively highlight the critical concepts of \u201croles\u201d and \u201ccollaboration\u201d in addressing the biodiversity crisis as well as the \u201cmeasures\u201d of the values, not only monetary, that we should all consider living with nature.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BCER is\nthe first, traveling, experiential, immersive space, made up of 3 main rooms\nthat will stand for the biodiversity crisis. The goal is for the participants\nto escape the crisis TOGETHER by helping one another realize and fulfill their\nroles. BCER will be hosted by BAFI\u2019s The Mind Museum right after its opening at\nthe museum on May 22 and will travel to host venues in Subic (Harbor Point,\nJune15), Puerto Princesa (Robinson\u2019s Mall, June 29) and Davao (Abreeza Mall,\nJuly 27) to enjoin participants who include \u2013 legislators, enforcers,\nregulators as well as community leaders \u2013 including cultural leaders AND local\nflora and fauna as well in the form of life-sized moving puppets, manned by\nprofessional puppeteers. It will also welcome the general public to experience\nthis very unique and meaningful escape room on the dates mentioned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside BCER, participants will take on roles that they would randomly\npick. They will enter 3 connected rooms that they could only escape from if\nthey understand what needs to be done and that they work together. The\nchallenges they will face in each room are closely tied to realizing the \u201cMga\nSukat ng Kalikasan\u201d (measures\/values of nature) in order to escape the\nbiodiversity crisis. The experience will be facilitated so it will mimic the\nreal human conversations and actions that need to happen in decision-making\ninvolving our natural heritage in which we all share in terms of not just\nbenefits but also responsibilities.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2-part biodiversity special of MIND S-COOL TV, the #1 science show\nacross all channels[1]<\/sup><\/a>\nis a TV version of BCER fleshing out a narrative that will involve our main\nquesters as well as non-human \u201cplayers\u201d who will be called to help out since\nMIND S-COOL has been held hostage by the biodiversity crisis. They will\nexperience being trapped in the rooms together with other characters, including\nlife-sized puppets that represent non-humans such as flora, fauna, habitats,\nabiotic elements giving nature a \u201cvoice\u201d. The story of this special 2-part can\nbe summarized as \u201call life is embedded in\nnature and we need to realize its many values because if we don\u2019t, the quality\nof our interconnected lives will be degraded.\u201d<\/em>  Part 1 of this special will air on May 26, 11 am and replayed at 4:30 PM\non OnePh Channel on Cignal while part 2 will air the week after. These will be\nfollowed by replays for 6 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathy\nWachala, Chief of Party for USAID\u2019s Sustainable Interventions for Biodiversity,\nOceans and Landscapes (SIBOL) project, says: \u201cThis partnership with BAFI to do\nBCER and MIND S-COOL TV enabled us to roll-out a very powerful way for\nstakeholders to internalize their actual roles and work together to come up\nwith solutions to the biodiversity crisis.\u201d Maria Isabel Garcia, Managing\nDirector\/Curator of BAFI, also comments on the project, saying, \u201cWe are so\ninspired by the kind of partnership we have with USAID SIBOL since it allowed\nus to recruit very imaginative ways of engagement for science to serve life,\nbiodiversity.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can all\nescape the biodiversity crisis if we understand that all lives are\ninterconnected and that we all work together, now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To know\nmore about the USAID SIBOL project and its interventions, you may send an email\nto info@ph-sibol.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mind S-Cool TV\nand Biodiversity Crisis Escape Room were conceived and created by the Bonifacio\nArt Foundation, Inc., the creator and operator of The Mind Museum and the BGC\nArts Center. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To know more, or if you wish to know how you can support mind s-cool and the other projects of the Bonifacio Art Foundation, send an inquiry to: mindscool@bafi.org.ph<\/a>, inquiry@themindmuseum.org<\/a> or info@bgcartscenter.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> According to the latest Nielsen\nRatings Survey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both projects serve to innovatively highlight the critical concepts of \u201croles\u201d and \u201ccollaboration\u201d in addressing the biodiversity crisis as well as the \u201cmeasures\u201d of the values, not only monetary, that we should all consider living with nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[220,244,214,217],"class_list":["post-9287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-corporate-social-responsibility","tag-environmental-protection","tag-environmentalism","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9289,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions\/9289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}