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MEET THE FIRST 2026 HCWN FELLOWSHIP COHORTWe’re excited to introduce the six storytellers selected for the first Himalay...
04/07/2026

MEET THE FIRST 2026 HCWN FELLOWSHIP COHORT

We’re excited to introduce the six storytellers selected for the first Himalayan Climate Watch Network (HCWN) Fellowship.

Representing diverse Indigenous and community-rooted perspectives from across the Himalayan region, this cohort will spend the next three months documenting how communities understand, experience, and respond to environmental change through their own knowledge systems, histories, and lived realities.

At HCWN, we believe many of the most important climate stories began long before climate became a global conversation and continue to evolve today. They live in oral histories, cultural practices, and the everyday knowledge of communities that continue to care for these landscapes.

Through editorial mentorship, peer learning, and publication in collaboration with our editorial partners, the fellowship supports storytellers in documenting knowledge, experiences, and environmental change from within their own communities.

Meet the first 2026 HCWN Fellowship cohort:

• Dawa Dolma —
• Ehsam Ullah Baig — Ehsam Ullah Baig
• Mohd Irfan — Irfan
• Chhaya Namchu — chhaya_namchu
• Sushan Bhattarai — sushan__
• Yalember Yakha Dewan — Yalember Yakha Dewan

This is the beginning of a growing network of storytellers documenting the Himalaya from within. Over the coming months, we’ll be sharing the fellows’ reporting and published stories across HCWN and Mudland channels, in collaboration with our editorial partners.

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The Himalayan Climate Watch Network (HCWN) is an initiative of Mudland Climate Lab, strengthening Indigenous- and community-led climate storytelling across the Himalayan region through journalism, research, and regional collaboration.

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We will be opening our doors for Open Labs at A Lab Amsterdam on 3 July in Amsterdam Noord.We will be sharing Borders,...
01/07/2026

We will be opening our doors for Open Labs at A Lab Amsterdam on 3 July in Amsterdam Noord.

We will be sharing Borders, Belonging & Freedom, an installation bringing together three documentary films from Mudland Studio’s Democracy Lab.

If you are around, come by and say hello.

Heading to ?Our collaborator and filmmaker .films will be attending the festival from 11–14 June and taking meetings th...
10/06/2026

Heading to ?

Our collaborator and filmmaker .films will be attending the festival from 11–14 June and taking meetings throughout the week.

Maryam is currently developing a new documentary project with producer and the team at Mudland, offering a rare and intimate perspective from a region and reality that remains largely unseen. The film is still in development, so we are keeping details close for now, but early conversations have already sparked strong interest.

If you are a producer, funder, commissioning editor, festival programmer, impact strategist, or simply curious about powerful stories emerging from the region, we would be delighted to connect.

Feel free to reach out directly to Maryam to arrange a coffee or meeting during Sheffield.

If schedules do not align during the festival, we would be happy to continue the conversation online afterwards. For meeting requests and enquiries, contact [email protected].

Mudland joins the conversation at in Paris.Our founder, , will be part of the screening and discussion of The Cost of ...
26/03/2026

Mudland joins the conversation at in Paris.

Our founder, , will be part of the screening and discussion of The Cost of Growth, alongside and .hartog

This conversation brings together perspectives on rethinking growth, climate justice, and how narrative and knowledge systems shape the futures we are building.

📍 Cinéma Le Balzac, Paris
🗓 30 March 2026
🕣 8:30 PM

Join us for an evening of film and dialogue on the real cost of growth.

Tickets in bio:
https://www.cinemabalzac.com/reserver/F634717/D1774895400/VOST/

Applications are now open for the Himalayan Climate Watch Network Fellowship.We are inviting Indigenous and frontline st...
19/03/2026

Applications are now open for the Himalayan Climate Watch Network Fellowship.

We are inviting Indigenous and frontline storytellers, researchers, and practitioners from across the Himalayan region whose work is grounded in community, lived experience, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).

This fellowship is grounded on a simple but urgent belief that climate knowledge does not begin in reports or institutions. It exists within communities, in memory, in practice, in language, and in the ways people have long understood and responded to their environments.

Through this fellowship, we aim to document, strengthen, and bring forward these knowledge systems, not as extractive stories, but as living, evolving practices that shape climate resilience and futures on the ground.

We are looking for people who are already embedded in their contexts. People who are not speaking about communities from a distance, but working within them, listening, documenting, and contributing with care.

Selected fellows will develop stories rooted in TEK and community knowledge, in collaboration with partners including Mongabay India, Meander Magazine, Icarus Complex Magazine, Earth Journalism Network, and Rooted Futures Lab.

Apply: hcwn.org/fellowship
Deadline: 28 March, 23:59 CET

We encourage thoughtful and grounded applications.

Developed within the Mudland Climate Lab, with initial support from beVisioneers The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship

Applications are now open for the Himalayan Climate Watch Network Fellowship.We are inviting Indigenous and frontline st...
19/03/2026

Applications are now open for the Himalayan Climate Watch Network Fellowship.

We are inviting Indigenous and frontline storytellers, researchers, and practitioners from across the Himalayan region whose work is grounded in community, lived experience, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).

This fellowship is grounded on a simple but urgent belief that climate knowledge does not begin in reports or institutions. It exists within communities, in memory, in practice, in language, and in the ways people have long understood and responded to their environments.

Through this fellowship, we aim to document, strengthen, and bring forward these knowledge systems, not as extractive stories, but as living, evolving practices that shape climate resilience and futures on the ground.

We are looking for people who are already embedded in their contexts. People who are not speaking about communities from a distance, but working within them, listening, documenting, and contributing with care.

Selected fellows will develop stories rooted in TEK and community knowledge, in collaboration with partners including , , , , and Rooted Futures Lab.

Apply: hcwn.org/fellowship (Link in Bio)
Deadline: 28 March, 23:59 CET

We encourage thoughtful and grounded applications.

Developed within the Mudland Climate Lab, with initial support from

Mudland will be pitching at 2026 in Paris, one of the world’s leading global gatherings for climate solutions.Our found...
13/03/2026

Mudland will be pitching at 2026 in Paris, one of the world’s leading global gatherings for climate solutions.

Our founder will present Mudland’s work and the Himalayan Climate Watch Network - - an initiative empowering Indigenous and frontline communities to generate climate knowledge and bring it into global climate decision-making.

The pitch will take place under the “Changing Habits” category.

📍 Garden Stage
🗓 March 31
⏰ 12:30 PM

Learn more:
www.mudland.studio
www.hcwn.org

Introducing the Himalayan Climate Watch Network 🌱An emerging platform strengthening Indigenous climate knowledge and res...
17/02/2026

Introducing the Himalayan Climate Watch Network 🌱

An emerging platform strengthening Indigenous climate knowledge and resilience across the Himalayan region.

Developed within Mudland Climate Lab and supported through

Visit https://hcwn.org and follow for updates and opportunities to engage.

Between ceasefires and cloudbursts, life in the Himalayan borderlands is shaped by forces far beyond control. When guns ...
20/12/2025

Between ceasefires and cloudbursts, life in the Himalayan borderlands is shaped by forces far beyond control. When guns fall silent, floods arrive. When systems fail, culture becomes infrastructure.

The essay reflects on how conflict and climate collapse into the same ground, and how memory, ritual, and care hold communities together, from the Himalayas to the Amazon 🌱

Read the full piece on mudland.studio
Link in bio.

As the cultural climate community reflects on the outcomes of in Belém, Brazil, we wanted to share how Mudland has bee...
08/12/2025

As the cultural climate community reflects on the outcomes of in Belém, Brazil, we wanted to share how Mudland has been contributing to the broader We Make Tomorrow movement — a collective effort shaped by the knowledge, creativity, and leadership of communities across continents.

Over the past years, our founder and We Make Tomorrow Champion, Syed Jazib Ali, has taken part in conversations that explore how culture and Indigenous storytelling can strengthen climate action. His lived experience from the Himalayan Indigenous communities of Kashmir continues to inform our commitment to ensuring that conflict-affected and ecologically fragile regions are present within global climate discussions.

From the early groundwork around culture-based climate action at COP28 in Dubai, to joining the Julie’s Bicycle Cultural Climate Action delegation at COP29 in Baku (supported by the European Cultural Foundation’s Culture of Solidarity Fund), to reflecting on cultural organising during Art + Climate Week in London — our role has been to help strengthen the narrative for culture-led climate justice.

Through Mudland’s work at the intersection of climate, culture, and democracy, we are proud to stand alongside artists, Indigenous leaders, youth groups, cultural institutions, and civil society partners who are pushing for climate policy that recognises culture as a structural force, not an afterthought. The momentum seen at COP30 is the result of many hands and many stories moving in alignment, and we look forward to continuing this work alongside the movement.




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