Esmeraldas is a wrap up. First community finished, down in the books. Now it’s documenting time- videos, audio, photos, and text. The question I ask myself is how to present the individuals singularly. The experience is own entity, meanwhile we…
Vivimos para el esfuerzo que hacemos nosotros Cuando pregunté a un joven ‘como percibe su rol como joven en la comunidad’, el me responsdió deciendo las palabras de arriba. ‘Nosotros’ se puede interpreter a varios nivelas: primero se significa que…
To be honest when this project was launched with a mind for working with youth aged 18 -25, I never really conceptualized a clear idea of what these people would be like. Here is what I knew: they are costeña…
I will often be the first to rant about the impossibility of defining an individual’s identity. Simplifying it to ethnicity, race, gender, religion and all that fun census stuff – does not quite cut it. The fact is that once you explore each of these further you realize that the boxes are not accommodating anymore.
What I have been feeling is perfectly normal. Wow this might be one of the first not projected statements I have written, and which now I am condemning as projected as I reflect on this. Development Theater, developed by many…
When you start a journey, a 100 voices journey, to collect stories of people you have never met, whose homes you have never visited, and whose deepest thoughts you cannot even imagine, you wonder how the first voice will be…
Some news: the project, in an official sense, has yet to begin. Yet were I might have once allowed this to bother me I feel oddly reassured in the plan that lies ahead. That is, even though the start we…
Today is the last day of RecrearAppy Kazan and it’s almost the time to wrap up our project.This makes me sad, but also very excited for more projects to come! We will write a detailed report on the project, but…
8 days of the workshop has passed. Few weeks ago I didn’t know anything about Recrear organization, I didn’t know exactly why I had agreed to take part in this workshop, and only now (or maybe 2 or 3 days…
From the very beginning of the project we were saying that we are in Kazan to work. When the project participants were asking whether we had a chance to walk around Kazan, either me or Nolan would probably say that…