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| | === EITC Blackbird === |
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| A dozen cultural transformers from Europe, collaborators in the project EITC [[http://beta.fo.am/eitc/]], set out to Mexico for the kick off days and some field research. Arriving in the state of Oaxaca, in the middle of the "day of the dead" celebrations - Mexico welcomed us with flowers, candles and traditional sweets to remember the ancestors and some bottles of Mezcal 100% agave. While tasting and toasting, blackbird became the nickname for the European Mexican project on transformative culture. | A dozen cultural transformers from Europe, collaborators in the project EITC [[http://beta.fo.am/eitc/]], set out to Mexico for the kick off days and some field research. Arriving in the state of Oaxaca, in the middle of the "day of the dead" celebrations - Mexico welcomed us with flowers, candles and traditional sweets to remember the ancestors and some bottles of Mezcal 100% agave. While tasting and toasting, blackbird became the nickname for the European Mexican project on transformative culture. |
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| On November 2nd, we started our stay with visits at graveyards, the pantheons, where we got surprised and inspired by the Oaxacan way of remembering their dead. Colourful decorations on the tombstones - flowers, candles, and tapetes - images skillfully made of died sand with glitter - give the graveyard a cheerful and friendly vibe. The dead are visited by their families who get comfortable for the party, on top of the grave, to get the dead involved in the party. Who liked music while alive, gets to listen to their favorite tunes from under the earth, on the 2nd of November. Musicians are hired to play to the dead, while friends and family are eating and drinking, dancing and singing in the graveyard. | On November 2nd, we started our stay with visits at graveyards, the pantheons, where we got surprised and inspired by the Oaxacan way of remembering their dead. Colourful decorations on the tombstones - flowers, candles, and tapetes - images skillfully made of died sand with glitter - give the graveyard a cheerful and friendly vibe. The dead are visited by their families who get comfortable for the party, on top of the grave, to get the dead involved in the party. Who liked music while alive, gets to listen to their favorite tunes from under the earth, on the 2nd of November. Musicians are hired to play to the dead, while friends and family are eating and drinking, dancing and singing in the graveyard. |
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| At the Xaquixe glass workshop [[http://www.xaquixe.com/]] we got an impressive show of how material can be turned to a previous stage in a cyclic process. The workshop collaborates with 4 families that collect and wash used bottles from the village. This starting material is molten at 2010 degrees Celsius, mixed with pigments, and transformed into colourful, vases, glasses, bottles, ornaments. Christian, the man of fire, who welded the furnaces for the glass workshop himself and is now the artistic director of Xaquixe, shared his concern about making the place fully sustainable, replacing the fuel for the furnaces with bio-fuel. | At the Xaquixe glass workshop [[http://www.xaquixe.com/]] we got an impressive show of how material can be turned to a previous stage in a cyclic process. The workshop collaborates with 4 families that collect and wash used bottles from the village. This starting material is molten at 2010 degrees Celsius, mixed with pigments, and transformed into colourful, vases, glasses, bottles, ornaments. Christian, the man of fire, who welded the furnaces for the glass workshop himself and is now the artistic director of Xaquixe, shared his concern about making the place fully sustainable, replacing the fuel for the furnaces with bio-fuel. |
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| In the afternoon, the Hub Oaxaca hosted the Forum of Social Innovation [[http://huboaxaca.wordpress.com/english-blog/oaxaca-forum-on-social-innovation/]] with invited lectures and a TEDx Oaxaca City featuring Lucina Jimenez, Paula Moreno Zapata and Dougald Hine and closing with a concert of Lila Downs in the big auditorium Guelaguetza. | In the afternoon, the Hub Oaxaca hosted the Forum of Social Innovation [[http://huboaxaca.wordpress.com/english-blog/oaxaca-forum-on-social-innovation/]] with invited lectures and a presentation of the EITC project by Robert and Geska. |
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| | November 4th |
| | The Forum for Social Innovation continues with talks featuring Lucina Jimenez and Paula Moreno Zapata, more examples of social entrepreneurs and an open space round around the topic of social innovation. The afternoon introduces 11 Oaxacan business, non profit organizations and projects in a Pecha Kucha style series of presentations. |
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