Teakeyland

In the 2020s, Tasha is an adventurous six-year-old with nothing on her mind except for creating a beautiful harmonious world from her bedroom. Tasha creates an imaginary world called Teakeyland, where she uses her stuffed animals (Budda & Michelle) and toys to create worlds where anything is possible. Climate change may not be something that a six-year-old can wrap their head around quickly, but sometimes all you need is a little hope and imagination, and the changes you seek in the world can quickly happen. Would this impact the way young children do view themselves in the world and how powerful visualization truly is?

“Hello everyone, my name is Aishah-Nyeta Brown, and I am in my last semester here at George Mason University. I study environmental sustainability studies with a concentration in climate change and society. My research project for this semester has been all about A children’s animation show that I am dedicated to working on beyond this semester with the OSCAR office. And that project is called Teakeyland. So this video will be a short rundown of What Teakeyland is all about and some of the research and creations that came out of this semester.

So to start out Teakeyland Is a row and I completely imagine the world not only to me as the creator and producer of Teakeyland but also in the realm of our main character Tasha. Teakeyland is a space that she creates inside of her childhood bedroom where anything is possible, including solving climate change. Now Tosha is our main character, but we have two other main characters named butterscotch and monkey Michelle. Who are Tasha’s two stuffed monkeys Who spring into life once Tasha builds a world around where she wants them to go? Within these alive places and realms that Tasha creates butterscotch and monkey Michelle get hard to work solving issues that are placed in front of their path. For example one of our locations is Indonesia Indonesia has really really really big issue with deforestation.

An endless episode we talk about we talk about orangutans habitat deforestation, did I say palm oil.? And we break it down in away… or we plan on breaking g it down when we have full episodes which will be no more than eight minutes. They will be given a challenge, challenge to come up with a cool creative realistic solution, and they will solve it does bringing the episode to an end. Next I will play you are concept trailer that myself and my animator came up with so I wrote and produced everything you see was once paper and I don’t know how to animate so I had an anime to help out and the music is written and produced by myself and you’ll hear a harpist and clarinetist who are my buddies who were able to help out on this project but these are all written by myself so I am the primary artist on us and I hope you enjoy and I’ll be back after.

Thank you all so much for watching my concert trailer and listening to what I’ve learned including the research but which I found very helpful. To take such a prominent a PhD level topic like the climate crisis and break it down in a bite-size elementary school way for young audiences to be able to comprehend and consume and maybe spark their own great ideas about how to solve the climate crisis. And if you have any interest in this project please leave a comment down below and if you have any questions also leave those and I hope to hear from a lot of you and I look forward to conversating with you all once I see your comments all right, thank you! bye!