Ren Buhay showcases youth climate art. This 27-year-old New Westminster BC resident co-founded and leads Solastalgia, a project that empowers youth living with eco-anxiety to become engaged environmental citizens by building community through digital magazines (zines), interactive workshops and other resources. Ren is also a public health researcher helping decision makers make active transportation safer and enjoys mentoring newcomers from his native Philippines. Tell us about your project Solastalgia’s first digital zine, was published with the support of RISE – Apathy is Boring in the Fall of 2022. It curated the visual art, poetry and songs of ten young people across British Columbia aiming to normalise eco-anxiety. Solastalgia’s Volume II zine collected painting, poems, writing, photos and other art from youth across Canada. Artists communicated how they transformed their emotions into action. Readers learn what gave them energy, agency and a sense of community in the face of their experience of the climate crisis. We hope it will reassure readers knowing that other young people do feel optimism and hope. In partnership with the Suzuki Elders, Solastalgia convenes intergenerational gatherings to use shared art creation and storytelling to explore climate emotions. We create and illustrate a story about the experiences of a human family and an orca family as they each explore how to protect the worlds in which they live in the face of our changing climate.

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