How to pronounce "herds"

In the spring of 2025,

we will journey from Central Africa

all the way to the tip of Norway.

We will create a massive herd migration,

of puppet animals,

hundreds, perhaps thousands of them,

fleeing climate disaster.

Although The Herds need to be powerful

and devastating,

they also need to be beautiful.

They will create dozens of  species out of recyclable,

reusable and

easily sourced materials.

And our puppeteers,

our puppeteers are some of the best in the world.

The Herds will happen in

our immediate surroundings,

in our familiar.

This is important.

It needs to happen to us,

not to someone else,

somewhere far away.

It needs to happen where we feel safe

so we understand that we are not safe.

A story of the wildness of  nature overwhelming civilization,

but also the story of

what is left behind,