The Hear Us Through collective’s Cacophony Project was developed to express a viewpoint that looked a climate change and environmental degradation being inflicted through political will. This project involves a group of grade 12 students at a local secondary school. The Hear Us Through Collective was born out of the notion to form a democratic collective, where voices are shared and ideas put forth and discussed on an equal footing. As the elder, I (Mike) will share and not control the process. The schoolteacher in the room, June Sully also follows this process. Before I instigated the community art project June and I discussed Paulo Friere and were complete agreement as to follow his example portrayed in Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Breaking down the hegemonic system of schooling through a democratic creation processes. The collective shared control of the work being produced through open discussion leading to an environment that promotes agency in the students involved in the project through a shared professional fine art process that will be recognized by both the public and the visual/sound art community. As the collective consists of young woman students, who are possibly most effected by climate change. Agency for both the members of the collective as well as the public is formed through developing messaging displayed through the artworks. In this work the collective is critiquing aspects of climate change through anti-development messaging of protected or conservation areas. Mike Hansen MFA. PhD student