Colours of Humanity 2025 – Cultivating Solidarities: Peasant Month 2025

Join us for a screening and group discussion to celebrate Peasant Month and build awareness of climate change in SEA!

Farmers and peasants all over the world are forced onto the frontlines of a worsening crisis - climate change. Typhoons, flooding and heatwaves are increasingly frequent and farmers are seeing their harvests devastated while land and natural resources continue to be violently co-opted.

In Indonesia and the Philippines, Peasant Month is marked annually across September and October to honour the ongoing struggle of peasants. In Hong Kong, Crossing SEAS is organising a solidarity peasant month to build awareness of the struggles of peasants and farmers across the region, the connecting thread of migration and climate imperialism and how issues of Hong Kong farmers are connected to wider systems at play. 

This event will feature two documentary screenings: ‘Sa Ngalan ng Tubo’ (For the Sake of Sugarcane, director Onin Tagaro, 2005) and ‘Buol Bertahan di Tanah Harapan’ (Buol Survives in the Land of Hope, Watchdo Documentary, 2025). 

Following the screening, there will be an open discussion between migrant and Hong Kong farmers and the audience (in English with Indonesian translation). The session aims to facilitate understanding about the specific and common struggles of each region, their practices, to broaden solidarities and to co-imagine what a climate-just future could look like. 

About the facilitator
Crossing SEAS is a loose collective of anti-imperialist migrant organisers and advocates, art workers and researchers concerned with climate justice, migration, capitalism and labour. They aim to facilitate cross-border learning and solidarity with migrants and other climate / environmental justice movements in Hong Kong and across South East Asia(s).