Drones in the sky before the UN's 78th General Assembly in New York.
On September 15th 2023, the New York City skyline will come to life with a thousand drones above the East River Adjacent to the United Nations Building, with a series of synchronised drone shows that will inspire, educate, unify, and activate our local and global collective around the climate crisis and other important environmental campaigns.
This coincides with the 78th United Nations General Assembly and the UN-Secretary-General’s Climate Ambition Summit and SDG Summit, sending a strong message to world leaders - and will serve as a kick-off to Climate Week.
In anticipation of this key moment, Projecting Change has developed an aerial art show with the support of Avaaz, Eat Differently, Fortescue, The Ford Foundation, The Oceanic Preservation Society, TMRW, Holtzman Wildlife, and, alongside production partners Nova Skystories, Minds Over Matter, Soren West, and HELO which sheds light on key initiatives driving climate change policy and action.
The Eat Differently initiative, which inspires people to eat plants, not animals
● In advance of president Lula's speech opening the General Debate, Avaaz, a global civic movement campaigning for Brazil to commit to protect the Amazon, is drawing attention to the Amazon emergency as a global climate emergency.
● The support of the advancement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) and the UN Act Now Campaign
● The launch of the TMRW competition, which will run until October 14th
The show has been directed by Academy Award-winning director of The Cove and director of Projecting Change, Louie Psihoyos, who stated, “Our creative teams have programmed a thousand drones to dance over the New York City skyline to form magical creatures that deliver messages on how to save the planet—you won’t want to miss this show.”
In 4 days, the UN will hold their climate ambition summit.
