15 /mi’au, my’au/ - United Kingdom

Entering Institute: University of the creativ arts, Farnham
Contact / Supervising teacher: Sue Loughlin
Author/s: Vida Vega
Length: 1 min.

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What’s in a word? A dialect? A language? Surely what is being said is more important than the way it is being said.

It is dawn. A tree is silhouetted in the pinkish morning light and a bird on a branch bursts into song: ‘cui cui cui’. Soon a second bird flutters down and begins singing: ‘cip cip cip!’. The first bird listens attentively and then replies: ‘CUI CUI CUI’. As the birds try to outdo each other, another bird joins them and adds his song ‘tweet tweet tweet’. Soon there are 5 birds on the branch, singing loudly, each trying to be better and more elaborate than the other.

While the birds are engrossed in their bickering, a large, fat and hungry cat begins to clamber clumsily onto the branch, edging closer and closer towards the unsuspecting birds…
Mi’au, my’au focuses on how we can all be ‘united in diversity’. Different is neither better nor worse. What counts is that we all read from the same page.