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- | 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. | ||
- | On November 2nd, we started our stay with visits at graveyards, the panteons, 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. | + | === EITC Blackbird === |
- | At the house of Mauricio Cervantes, an Oaxaca based artist, we set up an altar, typically installed in homes to respect | + | A dozen cultural transformers from Europe, collaborators in the project EITC [[http:// |
+ | 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 house of Mauricio Cervantes, an Oaxaca based artist, we set up an altar, typically installed in homes to respect the ancestors, and make offerings of food, Mezcal and incents. Smells of fresh flowers and burning incense escape from the house altars and immerse the streets of the city making walking around a special experience. | ||
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+ | In the afternoon, the Hub Oaxaca hosted the Forum of Social Innovation [[http:// | ||
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+ | 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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+ | On Saturday (5th Nov), we visited st. bartome, a black pottery village and watched dona Sylvia make a vase while telling us about the process of collecting the clay in the fields and stumping it with her feet to mix it with water to make it moldable, before shaping pots and vases without a wheel. | ||
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+ | Afterwards, we visited st. Martin, where abajes are carved from Copal wood, and painted with natural dyes. The abajes are fantasy animals that are dreamt by the sculptur and are meant to protect and help in difficult times. | ||
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+ | **Kick-off** | ||
+ | On Monday (7th Nov) and Tuesday (8th Nov), the partners of the EITC project from Europe and Mexico introduced their backgrounds and first ideas about the various case studies, and possible collaborations to each other. | ||
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+ | The associated Mexican partner La Piztola presented some of their work on T-shirts and walls. | ||
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