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🌊 Leave Only Footprints 🌿

Walk gently on this earth. Enjoy the beauty, colours, landscapes and people of different cultures.
Connect, express, exchange, enrich, empower, interact, create.
Plant the seeds for tomorrow and make an impact for a future you like for yourself and your children.

Take only memories, experience life to the fullest, leave only footprints behind
Respect, cherish, and protect the world around you.

This "global arts initiative for youth well-being" through interdisciplinary music and dance programs is a global movement expressing and dealing with the world surrounding us while looking into the future, our future.

To all the children living in Palau who used their voices for our global future, a warm-hearted and big thank you. You made us aware of the beauty, animals and nature we want to preserve for our next generations. May we all see that beauty and do our own small part. 🌍 "Voices of the Earth - Sing for the future" climate awareness song: FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND .... How can we help? This project invited elementary school children from around the world to raise their voices for the future of our planet — celebrating our shared heritage and the power of young voices in climate action. ...leave only footprints in the sand. A celebration of culture, climate, and creativity. let’s raise our voices — for the Earth and the ocean! 🧒👧💙 Song, lyrics, arrangement: Benina Berger (with help of dear Akisha Natashi) @musicdance_art Palauan translation: Malo Paulus @malopaulus Film, sound and edit: Nishida Ryota @nishidaryota Piano: Rocío Rodríguez @academiarociorodriguez Contrabass bars: Clara Johnson Funded by @mhhspalau @palau_prevention_unit and @belaunationalmuseum Thank you to our supporters @officeofclimatechangepalau @palaupledge @Picrc @belau_eco_glass @palauredcross Thank you to our solo singers: Aya • Lana • Feli • Kiki • Clara • Myiah • Theodosia • Mana • Aria • Elyzah • Jaylene • Ashley • Gomer • Annemarie • James • Kasey …and to all the other singers from the Creative Music & Dance Program in Palau who joined their voices together. *We are the voices of the earth — singing for our future!* #voicesoftheearth #voicesfortheearth #singforthefuture #SingForThePlanet #FootprintsInTheSand #ClimateActionKids #climateawareness #sing #music #musicvideo #recording #iwilldomypart #MusicInPalau #BelauNationalMuseum #MusicAndDance #PalauYouth #ArtsEducation #ElementaryMusic #JoinTheFun #CreativeKids #artivism #domypart #globalactivism #GlobalVoices #globalawareness #plantatree #plantatree #culturalawareness #environment #elementaryschool #environment #Elemen #plantatree

Tia Belau Newspaper
🥰🥰🥰😊 Mesulang for sharing our message! @ Elilai Rengiil

We’re thrilled to announce that our climate awareness song & music video FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND will be officially released and publicly shown next week Wednesday, September 24th, from 6–8PM!

This special event is part of the 70th Anniversary Celebration of the Belau National Museum, where we honor heritage and culture while raising awareness for our planet’s future. 🌱🌏

Join us for an evening of music, community, and inspiration as we share the voices of Palau’s children with the world. 💙

We are the children in this world.
This is our future.
We want it to stay beautiful, healthy and happy.

Musicdanceart

Our Creative Music & Dance Program has come to a beautiful close here on Peleliu island 💙 The children of our local elementary school filled the space with music, movement, and joy — sharing their voices for the earth and the ocean. 🌍🎶

Through our climate awareness song and expressive dances, the students reminded us that even the youngest voices can rise together for a better future. Their performance showed how creativity, community, and care for our planet are deeply connected. 🌱

We are proud of every child who participated and grateful to the families, teachers, and community who supported this journey. Together, we are stronger — together, we make waves. 🌊

..so when we do our part, it's for the world 🌏
"footprints in the sand" environmental awareness song

Improvisation invites us into the now. It’s where sound and silence, movement and stillness, breath and beat all meet — and transform into something new. There is no script, no perfect version — only presence, listening, and response.
An untold story yet.

Soundscaping is the creation of layered sound environments, using voices, bodies, instruments, objects, or technology — painting atmospheres with tone, rhythm, and texture. It’s not just about making sound, but about shaping experience.

In this space, music is movement and movement is music. A gesture becomes a melody. Graphics become music. A footstep echoes a rhythm. A breath carries a story.

Through improv and soundscaping, we explore how art emerges in the moment, how we connect to ourselves, each other, and the world around us — deeply, honestly, and freely.

No moment is ever the same.
No sound is ever wasted.
Every movement is music waiting to be heard.

behind the scenes

VOICES OF THE EARTH
summer performance June 2025

part.2 of VOICES LF THE EARTH
summer performance 2025

Creative Director: Benina Berger
Director’s assistants: .n02
Light design:
Costumes:
, Margo Johnson, Yliana Rudimch
Sticker art:
Music, Media:
, Simon Ramarui
Face Painters: Elsei Tellei, Stella Miguel, Margo Johnson, Riley Cavalluzzo

Glass art:
Plants incentives: Palau Community College - CRE
Upcycling fabric donations: Morey’s Dress shop

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