VR Experience “Kamukuwaká: A Call of the Forest”
When: Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Where: Graduate Centre Foyer , Mile End Campus
As part of Climate Action Week 2026, Queen Mary University of London is hosting events that explore how climate action moves from global negotiations to cultural, research-led, and community-driven change. “Kamukuwaká: A Call of the Forest” An Indigenous-led VR experience connecting culture, ancestral knowledge, and environmental sustainability.
About the event
Step into the Amazon through Kamukuwaká: A Call of the Forest, an immersive VR experience that centres Indigenous voices from Brazil’s Xingu region and confronts the urgent pressures of climate change, land expansion, and cultural violence.
Created by Queen Mary’s People’s Palace Projects and directed with Indigenous partner Piratá Waurá, the story focuses on Kamukuwaká, a sacred Wauja site known as a “book of learning,” and reveals how ancestral knowledge, cosmology, and cultural survival are inseparable from the forest under threat.
The event begins with a short introduction from Yula Rocha and Thiago Jesus (People’s Palace Projects), reflecting on how the project was developed and its significance following its presentation at COP30 in Belém.
A trailer screening leads into a drop-in VR exhibition with time for questions and reflection.
Created by Queen Mary’s People’s Palace Projects and directed with Indigenous partner Piratá Waurá, the story focuses on Kamukuwaká, a sacred Wauja site known as a “book of learning,” and reveals how ancestral knowledge, cosmology, and cultural survival are inseparable from the forest under threat.
The event begins with a short introduction from Yula Rocha and Thiago Jesus (People’s Palace Projects), reflecting on how the project was developed and its significance following its presentation at COP30 in Belém.
A trailer screening leads into a drop-in VR exhibition with time for questions and reflection.