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The Citizen
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Citizen
24 hours in pictures, 3 July 2025
24 hours in pictures, 3 July 2025 Through the lens: The Citizen's Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world. A tiger enjoys frozen food at Rome Zoological Garden 'Bioparco' during a heat wave in Rome on July 2, 2025. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) Siya Kolisi and Marco van Staden of South Africa during the 2025 Qatar Airways Cup captains run for South Africa at Cape Town Stadium in South Africa on 27 June 2025. Picture: Ryan Wilkisky/BackpagePix Debris and burn marks are seen along the A-52 motorway at the crash site where Liverpool sriker Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Felipe died in a car crash near Cernadilla, province of Zamora, in the northwestern Spain, early July 3, 2025. Liverpool forward Diogo Jota and his brother died in a car crash in Spain today, police said, sparking widespread grief just after the Portugal star had got married. The Civil Guard said a vehicle veered off a motorway and burst into flames shortly after midnight in the municipality of Cernadilla in the northwestern Zamora province, confirming the deaths of Jota, 28, and his brother Andre Silva. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP) Puppeteers operate puppet animals during a preview for 'The Herds' ahead of an evening performance in Manchester, Britain, 03 July 2025. 'The Herds' is a dramatization of the climate crisis utilizing puppets, which are traveling 20,000 kilometers from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle, symbolizing animals fleeing climate disaster. The Herds are appearing in Manchester from 03 to 05 July. Picture: EPA/ADAM VAUGHAN A child plays along Manila Bay on July 3, 2025. (Photo by Jam STA ROSA / AFP) An inflatable artwork entitled Panda Seven, created by Chinese artist Leo Huang, at the Yimu Art Exhibition at ICONSIAM shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, 03 July 2025. The Yimu Art Exhibition, in collaboration with China's Yimu Art Studio, showcases the inflatable sculpture Panda Seven by Leo Huang to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Thai-Chinese diplomatic relations. Picture: EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT Players from the Manchester City academy do kick-ups inside 'The Playmaker', an interactive series of pods and tunnels by architect Stefano Boeri and Italian footballer Sandro Mazzola, during a photo call for the exhibition 'Football City, Art United' at Aviva Studios in Manchester, Britain, 03 July 2025. The exhibition pairs 11 former and current footballers with contemporary artists to produce brand-new works, alongside a series of videos documenting the creative process. The exhibition was conceived by former Chelsea, Manchester United, and Spain player Juan Mata with curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Josh Willdigg and features players including Eric Cantona, Edgar Davids, Ella Toone, and Vivienne Miedema. The exhibition is part of the Manchester International Festival and runs from 04 July to 24 August 2025. Picture: EPA/ADAM VAUGHAN This general view shows performances during the opening ceremony ahead of the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 Group A football match between Switzerland and Norway at the St Jakob-Park Stadium in Basel on July 2, 2025. (Photo by Bernadett Szabo / POOL / AFP) Smoke comes out of the chimneys of a factory in Yumbo, near Cali, department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia, on July 2, 2025. (Photo by Joaquin Sarmiento / AFP) China's first domestically built aircraft carrier Shandong's escort ship destroyer Yanan sails into Hong Kong waters as it arrives in Hong Kong on July 3, 2025. Commissioned in 2019, the 305-metre-long (1,000 feet) Shandong is China's second carrier and key to the country's regional ambitions under President Xi Jinping, who oversaw a massive naval buildup that has rattled Asian neighbours. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP) US actor and cast member Rachel Brosnahan attends a 'Superman' fan event at Leicester Square in London, Britain, 02 July 2025. The movie will be released in the UK on 11 July 2025. Picture: EPA/ANDY RAIN A young woman holds her head into the cool water of a fountain at the Lustgarten park on Museum Island in Berlin on July 2, 2025, as temperatures were predicted to reach up to 37 degrees Celsius. A record-breaking early summer heatwave spreads across Europe. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP) MORE: 24 hours in pictures, 2 July 2025
ITV News
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- ITV News
The Herds animal puppet spectacle comes to the North West
70 life-sized safari animal puppets know as 'The Herds' are to make several appearances in the region. The huge artwork depicts the animals travelling north to 'flee the climate disaster' and is part of Manchester International Festival. Tonight they will be at the Cathedral Gardens in Manchester where they will interrupt a performance by the Manchester Camerata On Friday 4 July they will be in Heywood in Rochdale in the evening. The Herds feature elephants, giraffes, antelope, and lions made from upscaled or recyclable cardboard and plywood. The animals began their 20,000km journey in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in April before making their way through European cities and then arriving in the UK. Councillor Sue Smith, cabinet member for communities and co-operation at Rochdale Borough Council said: 'Seeing The Herds in Heywood is a once in a lifetime opportunity, a combination of dance-theatre, awe-inspiring life-size puppets creating something very powerful and moving. "It's very exciting, The Herds are capturing the imagination of everyone who sees them and I hope through these creatures we will spark thoughts and raise awareness about everything that is happening to our environment worldwide too." The Herds will appear in the residential area around Aspinall Street in Heywood from 7pm on Friday 4 July on a mission to find a way back to nature, before they move to the lake at nearby Queen's Park to find a tranquil oasis. For the final stop on their Greater Manchester journey, The Herds find a fleeting refuge in the wild beauty of Pennington Flash Country Park on Saturday, July 5.
Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
In Nigeria's floating slum, ‘The Herds' tour spotlights climate change where it's felt the most
MAKOKO, Nigeria (AP) — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria's economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard puppet animals along with their puppeteers dressed in black. Once on the water, the animals — a gorilla, a leopard, an elephant, a wildebeest, a giraff and a donkey — all come alive. The gorilla hoots, the donkey brays and wags its tail as the leopard bends its neck toward the surface as if to drink but halts just before its face meets the water and then turns to look around. It is Saturday, the second day of ' The Herds' theatrical tour stop in Nigeria on a journey 20,000 kilometers (12,427 miles) from Africa's Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle with puppet animals. It's a journey organizers say is meant to bring attention to the climate crisis and 'renew our bond with the natural world.' The tour started last week in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, and will continue across the world with Dakar, the Senegalese capital, as the next stop. The story goes that the animals will be forced out of their natural habitats due to global warming and displaced north, stopping in cities along the way and being joined by more animals. The sprawling slum of Makoko — an old fishing village — was perfect to illustrate that because it has for many years shown resilience in the face of climate change, often finding ways to adapt to extreme weather, said Amir Nizar Zuabi, 'The Herds' artistic director. Dubbed the Venice of Africa, the Makoko slum is a low-lying community vulnerable to rising sea levels and flooding. Lagos itself is no stranger to the impacts of climate change, with roads and houses across the coastal city often engulfed during annual flooding. 'We are on the edge of one of the greatest global crises, and ... I think the global south offers a lot of knowledge and a lot of resilience,' Zuabi said, referring to developing countries in the Southern Hemisphere with lower incomes and higher poverty rates compared to the 'global north.' Spread out beneath the Third Mainland Bridge that connects much of Lagos, Makoko came alive as 'The Herds' moved in. People poked their heads out of windows in awe of the exhibition. Children and women stood on the plank porches outside their rickety wood houses, watching as the animals paddled in through the narrow waterways. Some mimicked the animals while others applauded and waved at them. 'It looked so real,' Samuel Shemede, a 22-year-old resident of Makoko, said in awe of the puppets. 'I had never seen something like that before in my life. It is not real, but they made it look so real.' As the tour left Makoko and moved to the Yaba suburb, the city's notorious traffic stood still for the puppets as they towered over people and vehicles. The big animals had been joined by smaller primates like monkeys who hoot noisily, prance around, and even dance. The tour was punctuated by dance and choreography performances from a local theater group whose performers, clothed in beige sack material and straw hats, intermittently charged toward the puppets as though they were about to attack them. As they journeyed through the streets, spectators were treated to chants from the Hausa language song "Amfara," which loosely translates to 'We have started.' At a time when African nations are losing up to 5% of their gross domestic product every year as they bear a heavier burden than the rest of the world from climate change, 'The Herds' organizers said it is important to break down climate change and its impacts in a way that many people can relate to. 'A lot of climate debate is about science … and scientific words don't mean anything for most people,' Zuabi, the artistic director, said. 'I wanted to create a piece of art that talks about nature, beauty and how animals are wild and majestic." The animals invading cities is a metaphor for abnormal things now becoming normal as the world deals with climate change, he said. 'And hopefully this becomes a way to talk about what we are going to lose if we continue burning fossil fuels.' Pelumi Salako, The Associated Press
Yahoo
20-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
In Nigeria's floating slum, ‘The Herds' tour spotlights climate change where it's felt the most
MAKOKO, Nigeria (AP) — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria's economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard puppet animals along with their puppeteers dressed in black. Once on the water, the animals — a gorilla, a leopard, an elephant, a wildebeest, a giraff and a donkey — all come alive. The gorilla hoots, the donkey brays and wags its tail as the leopard bends its neck toward the surface as if to drink but halts just before its face meets the water and then turns to look around. It is Saturday, the second day of ' The Herds' theatrical tour stop in Nigeria on a journey 20,000 kilometers (12,427 miles) from Africa's Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle with puppet animals. It's a journey organizers say is meant to bring attention to the climate crisis and 'renew our bond with the natural world.' The tour started last week in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, and will continue across the world with Dakar, the Senegalese capital, as the next stop. The story goes that the animals will be forced out of their natural habitats due to global warming and displaced north, stopping in cities along the way and being joined by more animals. The sprawling slum of Makoko — an old fishing village — was perfect to illustrate that because it has for many years shown resilience in the face of climate change, often finding ways to adapt to extreme weather, said Amir Nizar Zuabi, 'The Herds' artistic director. Dubbed the Venice of Africa, the Makoko slum is a low-lying community vulnerable to rising sea levels and flooding. Lagos itself is no stranger to the impacts of climate change, with roads and houses across the coastal city often engulfed during annual flooding. 'We are on the edge of one of the greatest global crises, and ... I think the global south offers a lot of knowledge and a lot of resilience,' Zuabi said, referring to developing countries in the Southern Hemisphere with lower incomes and higher poverty rates compared to the 'global north.' Spread out beneath the Third Mainland Bridge that connects much of Lagos, Makoko came alive as 'The Herds' moved in. People poked their heads out of windows in awe of the exhibition. Children and women stood on the plank porches outside their rickety wood houses, watching as the animals paddled in through the narrow waterways. Some mimicked the animals while others applauded and waved at them. 'It looked so real,' Samuel Shemede, a 22-year-old resident of Makoko, said in awe of the puppets. 'I had never seen something like that before in my life. It is not real, but they made it look so real.' As the tour left Makoko and moved to the Yaba suburb, the city's notorious traffic stood still for the puppets as they towered over people and vehicles. The big animals had been joined by smaller primates like monkeys who hoot noisily, prance around, and even dance. The tour was punctuated by dance and choreography performances from a local theater group whose performers, clothed in beige sack material and straw hats, intermittently charged toward the puppets as though they were about to attack them. As they journeyed through the streets, spectators were treated to chants from the Hausa language song "Amfara," which loosely translates to 'We have started.' At a time when African nations are losing up to 5% of their gross domestic product every year as they bear a heavier burden than the rest of the world from climate change, 'The Herds' organizers said it is important to break down climate change and its impacts in a way that many people can relate to. 'A lot of climate debate is about science … and scientific words don't mean anything for most people,' Zuabi, the artistic director, said. 'I wanted to create a piece of art that talks about nature, beauty and how animals are wild and majestic." The animals invading cities is a metaphor for abnormal things now becoming normal as the world deals with climate change, he said. 'And hopefully this becomes a way to talk about what we are going to lose if we continue burning fossil fuels.'
Associated Press
20-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
In Nigeria's floating slum, ‘The Herds' tour spotlights climate change where it's felt the most
MAKOKO, Nigeria (AP) — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria's economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard puppet animals along with their puppeteers dressed in black. Once on the water, the animals — a gorilla, a leopard, an elephant, a wildebeest, a giraff and a donkey — all come alive. The gorilla hoots, the donkey brays and wags its tail as the leopard bends its neck toward the surface as if to drink but halts just before its face meets the water and then turns to look around. It is Saturday, the second day of ' The Herds' theatrical tour stop in Nigeria on a journey 20,000 kilometers (12,427 miles) from Africa's Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle with puppet animals. It's a journey organizers say is meant to bring attention to the climate crisis and 'renew our bond with the natural world.' The tour started last week in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, and will continue across the world with Dakar, the Senegalese capital, as the next stop. The story goes that the animals will be forced out of their natural habitats due to global warming and displaced north, stopping in cities along the way and being joined by more animals. The sprawling slum of Makoko — an old fishing village — was perfect to illustrate that because it has for many years shown resilience in the face of climate change, often finding ways to adapt to extreme weather, said Amir Nizar Zuabi, 'The Herds' artistic director. Dubbed the Venice of Africa, the Makoko slum is a low-lying community vulnerable to rising sea levels and flooding. Lagos itself is no stranger to the impacts of climate change, with roads and houses across the coastal city often engulfed during annual flooding. 'We are on the edge of one of the greatest global crises, and ... I think the global south offers a lot of knowledge and a lot of resilience,' Zuabi said, referring to developing countries in the Southern Hemisphere with lower incomes and higher poverty rates compared to the 'global north.' Spread out beneath the Third Mainland Bridge that connects much of Lagos, Makoko came alive as 'The Herds' moved in. People poked their heads out of windows in awe of the exhibition. Children and women stood on the plank porches outside their rickety wood houses, watching as the animals paddled in through the narrow waterways. Some mimicked the animals while others applauded and waved at them. 'It looked so real,' Samuel Shemede, a 22-year-old resident of Makoko, said in awe of the puppets. 'I had never seen something like that before in my life. It is not real, but they made it look so real.' As the tour left Makoko and moved to the Yaba suburb, the city's notorious traffic stood still for the puppets as they towered over people and vehicles. The big animals had been joined by smaller primates like monkeys who hoot noisily, prance around, and even dance. The tour was punctuated by dance and choreography performances from a local theater group whose performers, clothed in beige sack material and straw hats, intermittently charged toward the puppets as though they were about to attack them. As they journeyed through the streets, spectators were treated to chants from the Hausa language song 'Amfara,' which loosely translates to 'We have started.' At a time when African nations are losing up to 5% of their gross domestic product every year as they bear a heavier burden than the rest of the world from climate change, 'The Herds' organizers said it is important to break down climate change and its impacts in a way that many people can relate to. 'A lot of climate debate is about science … and scientific words don't mean anything for most people,' Zuabi, the artistic director, said. 'I wanted to create a piece of art that talks about nature, beauty and how animals are wild and majestic.' The animals invading cities is a metaphor for abnormal things now becoming normal as the world deals with climate change, he said. 'And hopefully this becomes a way to talk about what we are going to lose if we continue burning fossil fuels.'
