Watch How To Recall!

A multi-media project that seeks to find common ground through common connections

Created by professional mountain biker Christopher Blevins, How To Recall communicates that solving climate change means a reorientation of our natural connections with the outdoors. Through animation and spoken word, it highlights the stark reality of our society’s exploitative ways, but more importantly, it shows the simple reality of our human connection to our environment. Through a blend of artistic animation and spoken word poetry, How To Recall examines the reality of climate change and the theme of how our natural connections to the land can inspire solutions.

Go Behind the Scenes with Christopher on the POW Blog!

We chatted with Christopher to learn more about How To Recall, his inspiration for creating the project, and how his experiences in the outdoors have empowered him as a climate advocate.

I end the poem with the line “There may be a thousand steps from this point on but there will always only be one here”. I hope people can reflect on how innate it is to love and care for the environment, and I hope the project helps people understand how “playing outdoors” is a part of this. There will be a thousand steps that we need to take from this point on. We’ll need to show up, vote, build community, think critically, and make hard decisions to get on the right track with climate change. But this work has to come from the common feeling we get when we’re doing what we love outdoors. It doesn’t really matter whether it comes from a mountain bike ride, fishing on a river, or walking your dog in a park. Let’s make that feeling our compass with where we need to go with this work, and let’s remember it’s one of the simplest, most natural things we all share.

Christopher Blevins

Professional Mountain Biker & POW Athlete Alliance member

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About the Poet

Christopher is more than just a professional biker. Through POW he hopes to blend his poetic voice, tapping into the climate experiences we have outdoors, and how they can point us toward stewardship and connection.

ATHLETE PROFILE

About the Animator

Climate change and preservation is something that sits close to Nico after observing the drastic impact that extractive economies have on the place you grow up. Nico is looking forward to using animation in combination with the beautiful cinematics of our world’s landscapes to express spiritual scientific and artistic concepts that can often escape us when we don’t abstract reality.

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