Talking Wings collaborates with environmental storytellers from around the world to create ECOCENTRIC and healing tapestries of resistance. Their films and works of art are an invitation and a rallying call. Through stories and actions, they nurture a renewed consciousness for land and water, their inhabitants, and the rights (rites) of all. Talking Wings is currently weaving together communities across the Kaniatarowanenneh (St. Lawrence River) Watershed to create a:
Talking Wings is primarily comprised of the artist and activist couple, Blake Lavia & Tzintzun Aguilar-Izzo.
Talking Wings is acting from a settler community in Haudenosaunee territory, specifically the territory of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk) Nation. Blake and Tzintzun are currently collaborating with communities across what is now known as New York's North Country. The duo is the core team behind the North Country Rights of Nature Symposium, Confluence: A Tapestry of Rivers and their Guardians, the Art, Land and Environment Summit, and much more.
To learn more about Talking Wings' projects go to their collective: