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Ésta Que Soy: International Women’s Day 2013

Ésta que soy - International Women's Day 2013 - Chiapas, Mexico

On March 8, 2013, in honor of International Women’s Day, the Centro Hemisférico invited the community of San Cristóbal de las Casas to the steps of la Iglesia de Guadalupe for a poetic urban intervention centered on Chiapanecan poet Mirtha Luz Pérez Robledo’s work Ésta que soy. For more on the Centro Hemisférico’s work using [...]

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¡Ni Una Más! Valentine’s Day The San Cristóbal Way

¡Ni una más! Contra el Feminicidio - San Cristóbal de las Casas

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Stories of the Apocalypse: Fall Back, Move Forward

We wanted to own the future, so we started with the soil, taking people as prisoners, making them slaves to “progress.” Knowing the earth held the answers, we raped her. We stole from her. We brutalized the planet, demanding she give us the way forward, and when she wouldn’t give us the answers we wanted, we tried to enslave her, too. Centuries later, we live in plastic cities built on the ashes of our forgotten ancestors’ altars to the earth.
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It’s Here! The Very First Chalchihuitán Telenovela

Miss me? I disappeared on you there for a spell. But I had a pretty darn good reason. I spent the spring and early summer working the night shift at a San Cris posada and sleeplessly dashing out to Chalchi High during the day. In just two (very busy) months, we prepared a play for [...]

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¡Ni Una Más! Because No One Wants To Be a Martyr When They Grow Up

Justice for Itzel Méndez Pérez! End femicide! Basta!

Last month, 1,200 people marched through San Cristóbal de las Casas to demand justice for Itzel Yaneth Méndez Pérez, a seventeen year old woman whose body was discovered on [...]

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Let the Games Begin!

A week ago we left our beautiful, new world of theater and community activism in Xela, Guatemala, also known as the Second Latin American Reunion of the Theatre of the Oppressed. But the fun is just beginning! Check out Days #2-3–Raquel and I had the unforgettable experience of leading an introductory T.O. workshop with a youth association [...]

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We’re Going Boal-istic!

We made it! I am writing from Café R.E.D., a fair trade coffee shop and food solidarity network here in Xela, Guatemala, where 500 artists from all over the world have come together for the 2nd Latin American Reunion of the Theatre of the Oppressed. Over the course of 10 days, my compañera Raquel and I will be taking courses in participatory theater techniques [...]

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