16th November: Here We Are and launch

In spite of the deaths and the oppression, here the defeat never drowned us, nor diminished our desire to continue being.

This 16th of November, in the afternoon, it will be 485 years since the invasion, of the wrongly called "Encounter of Two Worlds". We will remember our departed, but our hearts shall not be at half mast: standing we honour their memory.

That is why we celebrate in the Network of Rural Libraries "The day of Here We Are".

At night, at 7:00, we will have the launch of the 20 fascicles of the series "... and other tales", from the Biblioteca Campesina collection: Our grandparents continue to tell and keep saying.

It will be in the House of our Network: Avenida Perú Nº 416.

We are punctual. You are all invited.

The big circle

Each year, our brother Ramiro Yglesias – Coordinator and librarian of Contumaza –, organizes a great reading circle.

Spirited with their spirit, this time nearly one hundred people gathered: together, community members and teachers, librarians and parents, children and students shared the joy of reading their land and reading their books.

The event was held in the community of Amanchaloc, on the 12th of October, as if to say "Here we learn sharing".

Gazette No. 1

Here, the first of ‘Cosmovivencias’, the ‘Feeling-thinking Gazette’ of the Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca.

As part of the development of the doctoral thesis project on the Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca, its routes and Andean geographies, we present the first issue of the Network Gazette.

This monthly publication collects and systematizes, in various thematic axes, the conceptions that orient the actions of our educational and cultural organization. To this end, we review some documents produced by the co-founder and executive advisor of the network, Alfredo Mires Ortiz, in which we can appreciate the guiding thought and the journey of the network.

We want with this, in addition to disseminating the principles that identify and orient the process of the Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca, to promote a Latin American dialogue around the campesino identity and dignity, the Andean cosmovision and the deep links that we have with nature, life and community.

The full text can be found at:

Https://issuu.com/docs_bibliotecasrurales.caj/docs/gaceta_br_n___1

A review

A review of the award-winning film, Libros y Nubes - which expertly captures the essence of our Red de Bibliotecas Rurales de Cajamarca, has just been published in the popular Irish journal 'Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review', by the Centre for Global Education.

The journal is published in both physical and virtual form; its web version receives approximately 145,000 visits annually from 150 countries. The journal aims to celebrate and promote good practice in global education and to debate its underlying conceptions.

The review of Libros y Nubes, written by our sister Lynda Sullivan, appears in the autumnal Issue No. 25: Development Education and Human rights, and presents the key concepts and highlights of the film. Global educators and policy makers are told how the Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca is a valid example of a literacy movement; community education; cultural affirmation in the face of colonisation; indigenous knowledge and its oral transmission; volunteerism and community cohesion.

Our humble inspirational work travels to the corners of the Earth where the seed may germinate and, if cultivated, produces its own fruit, but with flecks of Andean beauty.

Here, the link:

https://www.developmenteducationreview.com/issue/issue-25/books-and-clouds 

Wanderings in Santa Cruz II

(Notes of Alfredo Mires Ortiz, visit to the area of ​​Santa Cruz, September 2017)

In the community of Poroporo the assembly decided that the head of the school would be in charge of the library, taking turns with the other teachers.

We had not finished signing the agreement when the community members began to request the books.

In a way, two schools coexist in Latin American education: that which the system imposes, governs, controls, harasses, disciplines and forces, and that which the indomitable soul of the people resists, prods, digests, challenges, contrasts, contests, rebates, faces, creates and makes the most of.

Us Indians have never been defeated: they crushed our forms and verbs, burned down dwellings and the forest, cut off hands and sliced faces, speared hearts and chained legs, but the starch remained, spermatozoa dodged the scythe, the earth hoarded its eggs, the duck crouched in the feeder, the seed waited for the rain, the furrow made the revolt.

Wanderings Santa Cruz I

(Notes of Alfredo Mires Ortiz, visit to the area of ​​Santa Cruz, September 2017)

It had been a while since we had been communicating with Professor Luis Calderón, a teacher from Poroporo and Catache, in the province of Santa Cruz.

Whether for distance or time - given that we are so few in the Central Team of the Network, we had never met with community members in this area ... until this September.

The night of the meeting in the Poroporo community there must have been about eighty people. All had returned from their labors in the fields, gathering themselves to rest; all were curious to know what was this about rural libraries.

We do not go where they do not invite us. That of arriving "as an institution" to start a project has an intrusive aftertaste, as if "the conscious" knew in advance what the "straggling peasants" need.

So we went there, talking, telling them what we were doing, and leaving open the possibility that they formed their own library: the decision, after all, must be communal and sovereign.

There was a lot of doubt floating about: the history of our people is a mass of absences and broken promises. The book was always an alien character, and when it was present: an improper, irresolute neighbor.

So I began to read one of our books, those that try to be an extension of our assembled elders; those books that have been born of our own seed and our own crop.

Now the eyes were different:

"I need those books for my children," a community member said suddenly. “Come to my community: there we are not shy, there we are already decided."

That night we formed the first rural library in the province of Santa Cruz.

How come we have not been there for 46 years? That is no longer the question: these wanderings are always new.

Yossi reading

My name is Yossy Katherine Carranza Guevara, I am sixteen years old and I am from San Luis de Lucma, in the province of Cutervo.

Reading for me is magic: when I read or take up a book I immerse myself in its words. There are words that make me laugh, or make me cry. Reading is my life because I love to read: it is incredible to jump into stories and hallucinate that I am the author.

Rural libraries helped me a lot because one of the main inspirers was the Coordinator of my area, bringing books. With my classmates we read and it was there where I discovered that I loved reading, it impassioned me. That is why reading is now my passion.

It pains me that many people do not place so much importance on reading; more prefer to go to the internet and all that, when they could, for example, read works. But they no longer read them, they buy the movies instead and watch them on TV.

There we have a great challenge.

In the Geography Congress

Our sister Nathalia Quintero, volunteer of the Network, traveled to Tacna to participate in the Congress of Geography with the paper titled: Books and rural geographies: the case of the Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca - Peru.

There she presented some reflections on the cultural geography of books and the Andean geography of Cajamarca; she told the audience who the readers, writers and speakers of the Network of Rural Libraries are: where, how and what they read, write and talk about.

In her presentation she stressed that: "the campesinos, community members of Cajamarca members of the Library Network, are deeply linked to life and happiness. They are part of a sacred vision of nature, united with the enunciating and creative force of solidarity and encounter; to the complementary rhythm of the soil: of their farm and their crops, which are food, water, living substance of the land they love, care for and protect.

Nathalia emphasized that in the Network we do not stop examining the meaning of the task, the impacts of the actions, the reasons that founded us and allow us to be present even today; we ask ourselves about the kind of society we dream and deserve, for the world we want for our children, for the reverence and sacredness we owe to the land, the water, the Apus, the deceased, our food, the sustenance of a life worth living. And she made it clear, as we usually do in a coherent and consistent way, the nonnegotiable position in the defense of nature.

The Network also reaches academic universes where it moves, inspires and, as Professor Miroslawa Czerny said, fills with optimism because it makes one feel that yes, it is possible!

Launch of the Cajabamba Tourist Inventory

At the end of September the presentation of the book 'Tourist inventory of the province of Cajabamba' was held during the traditional cultural night held in the framework of the celebrations of this province of Cajamarca.

In the presentation that our brother Alfredo made, he emphasized the usefulness of books like these, since they offer relevant information of the territory itself, of what we love and that makes us feel proud. Cajabamba, said Alfredo, "has countless fortunes, and this book is a mirror in which we can rediscover them as we look at ourselves. That is to say, in these pages we see ourselves reflected as the earth and the beauty with which we have been made is reflected". He emphasized the effort, persistence and love with which Miguel Rodríguez Sánchez and Miguel Rodríguez Roncal - authors of the book - have directed their research and projects.

The tourist inventory of Cajabamba joins the circulation of the books by the Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca. It is a sample of the passion for places and geographies, seals of the vital presence of nature, time and space, of the permanence and memory of the people.

It is the moment to congratulate the authors and to exalt the bonds of an imperishable friendship, that has crossed times, dissertations, learnings, teachings and the deep passion to know the environment that inhabits us all.

Wanderings in Cuntumazá

"Colladar mountain announces rains: the apu has put on a cap," said Alfredo. They are the signs that nature in her fullness- by the roads towards Contumazá - showed us. We could say that this province, besides being "Land of intellectuals and good wheat", as announces a huge poster at the entrance of the town, is land of librarians and community members, as the movement of books, readings and conversations daily encourage families from Cuntumazá. And the encounters had heart and feeling.

With the family of Ramiro Yglesias, coordinator of the area, Doña Isabel, her son Javier and the pleasant company of Roque Florián, veteran coordinator of the sector La Cocha, we learned the meaning of the word Community, how this way of land tenure works, the difficulties and the organizational strategies.

With Andres Léon, another of the network's veteran librarians, we had an interview to recall the beginnings, his recollections of Father John Medcalf and Alfredo Mires ("When he was a little one" he told us).

With Marcos Florián, librarian of Taya El Colal, we also had a memorable encounter. He, with enthusiasm, showed his rescue book full of letters, memories, wisdom and simplicity; the words, drawings and peasant knowledge made available to be published, to share and enliven our voices.

Contumazá is really a province of immense community members; they, with the books, the readings and the writings of their own traditions, have made of the Network of Rural Libraries an exemplary experience for all this family.

Interview

On 18th September, the first program was broadcast ofRadiolibros (Radiobooks), on Radio Nacional del Perú (National Radio of Peru). For this occasion they interviewed our brother Alfredo Mires Ortiz about the experience and work of our Network.

Here the interview link (which starts about halfway through the program):

http://www.radionacional.com.pe/audios/radiolibros/radiolibros-ya-esta-en-el-aire 

In Catache

At the end of September we traveled to Catache, in the province of Santa Cruz. There we met with teachers, students, authorities and parents interested in learning about our Rural Libraries.

The participants of the meeting - at the San Agustín de Catache Educational Institution - watched, listened and spoke: they were the creators of a moment in which sensitivities sprang up and projections flourished.

How is it possible to forget the words of a communal authority when he said that, in his 72 years of life, he had never heard a proposal like ours. Or the words of one of the young teachers, recognizing with joy the fact of being a peasant and to be proud of the dignified and firm references of the agricultural tradition. How is it possible to forget the reflective and attentive look of all the participants and the words of our brother Alfredo saying that reading is a developer of the mind, that reading is a frank passion and that the book is a source in which we can see ourselves ...

The participants, in communion, wove with words the possible encounters, the possible community and educational links; they laid out the haystack of joint projects where books, readings, stories, traditions, the Andean world and a future reading plan can open up vibrant and generous paths where we will most surely walk together.

Coming alive in Santa Cruz

Memories of the roads traveled at the end of September, previous conversations, rock art sanctuaries to be visited and the exuberant sacred and planetary geography united with the immense and warm presence of the people of the community of Poroporo, in the district of Catache, Cajamarcan province of Santa Cruz.

In all these years, we had never been an institution in Santa Cruz: so we traveled there after much coordination by telephone and correspondence with Prof. Luis Calderón, who also acted as our gracious guide.

Our brother Alfredo, to the rhythm of some stories collected in the communities of Cajamarca and published by the Network, demonstrated how the voices of the community members extend from province to province, from family to family, from heart beat to heart beat through the extensive territory of Cajamarca. Alfredo exalted the treasure that is being a farmer: to cultivate and to read the earth, to live in community; he explained how it is to work as volunteers, with books, readings and rescue of the traditions of our peasant communities and the ways of doing it.

Many interested eyes and hearts, enthused, showed that they wanted to have the books in their hands. Many voices told how many stories they have to relate, how many meetings are left to go forward.

The community assembly decided to form its Rural library.

After delivering the batch of books and choosing their librarian, the community of Poroporo integrated into this desire to read and be read, to write and be heard, to meet letters, conversations and presences.

We welcome teacher Gabriel Paz, the new librarian, and the entire community of Poroporo. It is an immense joy that they are part of this family of the Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca and that together we start this walk, this journey, this communal beat.

In the communities of Socota

At the beginning of September our sister Rita Mocker travelled to Sócota, in the province of Cutervo, to visit the Community Program Coordinators in the area, accompanied by Ilse, a visitor, and Hannah, a volunteer for the Network. The green of the mountains and the song of the river welcomed us to this pleasant village.

In the house of Abel we had a meeting with the parents and children in his charge. The mothers had made a great effort to come, they were animated and in a good mood. Rita talked with each mother and child to see how they were doing and whether to start some other therapy or support them in some other way. Coordinator Nadia also came and attended the meeting: we were very impressed with the effort that the coordinators and the families of the children are making. And we very much regret the death of one of the children: we think a lot about his mother and all his family.

The next day we left early to the town of San Luis de Lucuma, and with Abel we visited some children in the village of Chilac. In the afternoon we met in San Luis de Lucma with the coordinator Luz Nelva and the children she attends. Rita talked to each child and their mom or dad and showed them some exercises and foot and face massage.

The last day of our stay we visited the coordinator Angela in the town of Huarrago. Arriving, Angela introduced us to the teacher and her daughter Aldana's classroom, and the girl Fiorela who is also in the Community Program. The two girls, attending classes every day, were attentive to the teacher's instruction, and had become good friends with their classmates, thanks to the efforts of Angela and the teacher. During the meeting at Angela's house, we met all the children in her care, as well as their fathers and mothers.

For lunch the adults cooked, while with the children chopped fruits to make a salad. For dessert, Ilse prepared a quinoa mazamorra with fruit salad that we all liked! To end the meeting, Ilse gave a short presentation on nutrition, explaining what we can eat to feed ourselves. Quinoa, an ancestral grain native to the Andean highlands, has a nutritional value that can not be compared to any other grain. In addition to being good to eat, it is easy to plant, so everyone should leave a little space on their farm to grow their quinua. We give our sincere thanks to those who voluntarily support the Community Program and who accompany us in our work!

Upon returning to Cajamarca on Thursday, we said goodbye to the coordinators, the children and their families, and the beautiful valley of Sócota, with a heart full of good cheer.

A new encounter

The last training encounter of the Community Program for this year was carried out during the first weekend of September. Unfortunately, for various reasons, not all coordinators could participate in this event. We know that they are the first to regret his absence, since our meetings are not only to learn and share, but above all to meet in family.

After this shared weekend we received a very pleasant and kind mail from our Colombian sister Nathalia Quintero who participated actively during this meeting. Here we share her words with you:

“I would like to congratulate you on the Encounter; the proposed agenda was excellent and its development orderly, illustrative and essential for the attendees. Infinite thanks for all your teachings, your immense wisdom, generosity and clarity to illustrate essential themes for the 'healing' coordinators of the program. They are very important subjects for anyone - how much I learned listening to you!

With all my admiration and affection.

Strong hugs!"

Thank you, Nathalia, for encouraging and accompanying our way.

Pascual

The road from Cajamarca to Chuco, in the province of San Marcos, took us about three hours; then we arrived with Alfredo to the house of Juana and Pascual Sánchez. The journey was full of enthusiasm and green tones, mountains, seeds, evergreens and hummingbirds.

When we arrived, after greeting Juana, we went to look for Pascual on the farm. In the distance we saw his thin silhouette and his San Marcan hat: he collected the wheat in the company of his son Manuel, coordinator and librarian.

His steps slow but steady, his head lowering to watch his steps and then rising to direct his eyes towards us, with that generous smile of welcome.

It was great to see the kind and wise Pascual again. In those moments it is not easy to contain the emotion, sealed with the genuine and affectionate greeting of Pascual. It is moving to see two great people embrace with everlasting affection, to see together the two veterans of this movement of books, communities, reading circles and families. It makes you want to continue reading, to be a farmer, to be a librarian and travel the countryside of Cajamarca again and again.

We went to the house and the magic continued. Pascual told us about his link with books, with reading, with knowledge. His father went regularly to the pharmacy, not to buy medicines, but to buy books that were sold there, books to take home. Hence he and his brothers had provisions for the soul. He told us that among his readings are books such as 'The Pillars of the Earth', the Bible, History of Ancient Rome and 'The Story of Charlemagne', among others.

With great historical solvency, Pascual told us the names and histories of several Lombard kings and Carolingians of medieval European times. He also explained to us the process of sowing wheat, potatoes, lentils, beans, alfalfa and many other crops that the earth offers us; he reiterated that he does not sell what springs from her, because they are gifts that are to be served in the family's food, to share with his neighbors and his community.

Then a rich lunch enlivened by the sonorous rhythm of Pascual's voice: life stories, experiences, deep and present reflections and much, much wisdom.

Thank you Pascual, thank you Alfredo, thank you to the community members of the Network for being, existing and persisting!

Welcome Hannah

Since the end of August Hannah Parschat has been accompanying us in the core team of the Rural Libraries Network.

Hannah is multicultural: of German parents, she was born in Holland; a few months later she moved with her family to Norway where she grew up on a small island, connected to the land and community. She is now studying in Canada and volunteers with us here in Peru.

Hannah's volunteering is also part of her studies in Linguistics and Anthropology. And Hannah is always present with a positive attitude, simplicity, criticality and frankness.

"Getting to know the Network of Rural Libraries has been an experience beyond anything I could ever have imagined," says Hannah. “The little that I know so far has entered my heart directly, and not even the forgetting of time can draw it from my memory. Especially Alfredo, Rita, Rumi, Mara, Nathalia, Karina, Lola and the rest of the central team, besides the coordinators and members of the Network that I have been fortunate to meet, have received me with so much friendship and affection, with a altruism that can not be explained by the knowledge of the sciences.

What is the most amazing about the Network, so far? For me, it's definitely the volunteer and community effort you make here. In addition to the hard work of the farms and other jobs, they are dedicating themselves to cultivating this land that is the Network, planting as seeds their wisdom and their history, thus sowing their culture to sustain those who come. I am speechless because of your conviction, your efforts, your goals and visions, and the incredible people I have known so far.

When I arrived in Cajamarca, I felt the kisses of her sun, the caresses of her air, the freshness of her water, and the strength of her land. It is something very special, and I thank you with all my heart for the effort you make in the Network of Rural Libraries of Cajamarca to protect your culture and our land.

Thank you very much for having received me and included in your community."

Welcome Hannah!

Teaching in nature

A few days ago, during a brief excursion to the apu Qayaqpuma (whose mysteries and secrets our brother Alfredo Mires has been studying for more than 25 years), we met with a large group of children who were visiting the mountain accompanied by their teachers.

Talking with them, one of the teachers told us: "I usually organize these outings with my children every year, because it is very sad that we are almost never taught to value what is ours."

In fact, it seems that the price of modernity is borne by the conscience of the little ones.

We wholeheartedly congratulate all those who, despite the hardships of present-day society, make - like these teachers - a fond and fervent attempt to rescue the traditional values of the Cajamarcan culture.

Happenings like this remind us that "As we did not know it was impossible, we did it".

Rumi Mires

Visit from the National Library

On 23rd August past we received a visit from the director of the National Library, Mr. Alejandro Neyra Sánchez.

Our executive advisor, Alfredo Mires Ortiz, showed him the facilities of the headquarters and explained the conception and purposes of our Network of Rural Libraries.

We express our greetings to those who come to our organization to get to know or to acknowledge the community and creative fabric that for 46 years - in an autonomous and sovereign, coherent and consistent manner - we have been weaving thanks to the committed and voluntary work of the community librarians with our books and their reading, and the defense of the land and the Andean culture.

Moseñor José Dammert: Education and peasantry

During the years 1962 to 1992, Monsignor José Dammert Bellido was bishop of the Diocese of Cajamarca. He and his work - rooted in the foundations of the Latin American Episcopal Conferences of Medellín and Puebla, Liberation Theology and the Option for the Poor - marked the course of the Catholic Church in Cajamarca in these times.

In this religious, political and social context, the English priest Juan Medcalf founded in 1971 the Network of Rural Libraries. A few years later Alfredo Mires also arrived in Cajamarca to be part of the Christian community of Baños del Inca, along with Father Juan and other brothers.

In 1982, Juan Medcalf returned to England and Alfredo stayed, in charge of the Network. Since then he has walked alongside the humble, sharing his life and his stories, and working as a link and "translator" between cultures.

This year, Monsignor Dammert would have celebrated 100 years of life, a cardinal reason to celebrate a homage. Alfredo Mires was invited to give a conference with the theme Education and peasantry for this occasion. Those of us who were present at this keynote address were frankly impressed by the extent of Dammert's work and his support and appreciation for our Network of Rural Libraries.

Grateful, we share some passages from this conference with you:

"In the mid-1980s, when I told him that I was going to make a book about the Cajamarcan oral traditions related to the apparitions of God, the saints and their miracles, Dammert was enthusiastic and began to rescue stories as well from his students in the religion courses he had during the holidays in the Departmental Office of Catholic Education.

On one occasion, while we were reviewing the texts, he made a kind of confession. He told me that once, riding on horseback to a distant community, on reaching the top of a hill, he saw an orderly pile of stones by the side of the road. He asked the peasant and well-trained catechist who guided him what it was. The peasant told him that these were the old beliefs of the people, that only unprepared Christians were accustomed to leaving a stone offering in that apachite in gratitude to the mountain ... They walked on in silence, him ahead on the horse, when suddenly he turned to see the same peasant, devoutly and quietly leaving his pebble of offering.

It was like understanding that one does not educate the heart.

Monsignor never concealed his deep concern for the dignity of the poorest. And it was not just in speech: he visited them, he attended them, he took care of them ... Dammert has not been here for twenty-five years, but that does not mean that there are no poor people and no impoverishment: poor people remain, but it's like now it is forbidden to see them. There is a persistent optical misery that is distorting us ... or is it that the conscience is also subject to extractive privatizations."

In the community of Quinuacruz

At the end of July the school of Quinuacruz - in the province of Cajabamba - was filled with everlasting sacredness: the children and their teachers had asked for an all'pata paguikun the offering to the land.

In the early morning, our brother Alfredo explained the value and meaning of this ancient ceremony of ours, remembering where each food comes from and invited us to thank these prodigious gifts.

The children and their parents had brought seeds and produce from their farms and their animals; they made their offerings by giving them their breath and revering the mountains, the land and the dead.

Remembering that the earth lives and feels, the morning in the School of Quinuacruz continued full of drawings and songs, readings and images, finishing with a conversation and joint construction with the teachers on the techniques of animation of reading.

At the end of the day, the warm sunshine still brightened the intense green surrounding the school and the children of Quinuacruz. Already their library has an environment in which everyone is accompanied, encouraged, reading.

In the community of Pingo

We went to Cajabamba to have the joy of sharing with the teachers, principals and students of the school of Pingo, as one of our rural libraries operates there.

The children's hugs were the most beautiful reception we could have had; the sincere and cheerful smile of their teachers and the pleasing and colorful spaces of the school reminded us that living in the countryside is a privilege and a source of pride, it is an immense gift from nature. The school, surrounded and protected by its Apus, became pure sensibility and beauty.

Miguel Rodriguez, a teacher at the school of Pingo, told us that children are the ones who teach them the names of their sacred mountains, the meaning of the peasant soul, the colors of the mountains, the greens and the crops, the feeling and the expressions of the land of Cajabamba.

The vivacious and enthusiastic children drew and listened to the reading animation workshop and played joyfully; the teachers told us about the various activities they do with reading and how they manage to inspire children to read.

The conversation about reading, teaching and feelings in the countryside spread out across a colorful and wise morning, between the teachers and the children of a place that incites us to return again and again.

Thank you for being united in this journey between books, readings and encounters!

We are capable and refrains

As part of the General Assembly of the network the launch of our recent books took place.

Our brother Javier Huamán, General Coordinator of the Network, opened the event. The presentation of "We are capable - Guidelines for the recognition of disabilities" was carried out by the special education specialists María Trinidad Arana and Yenny Ugarte, as well as by Rita Mocker, Community Program Manager.

The presentation of "Water that you have to drink - sayings and phrases in the Cajamarcan oral tradition" was lead by Nathalia Quintero, who invited our brother Alfredo Mires, Director of the Enciclopedia Campesina Project, to talk about the construction process of the book.

Lola Paredes was the maestra of ceremonies and encouraged everyone, as always, to share and enliven reading.

Coming together

Nobody knows more than anyone else

nobody is more and nobody is less:

we all teach together

we all learn together.

Signs in the Encylopedia

Two days we were gathered in the Encounter of the Encyclopedia Campesina, animated with the presence of almost all the provinces of Cajamarca and Huamachuco, celebrating the incorporation of new companions.

We continue to build our dictionary of cajamarcanisms: it is a beauty to see how the sayings and knowledge flow... And the debate of the meaning, the critic of the contexts and the construction of strategies that allow us to consolidate the wanderings that reaffirm our journey.

Our project continues to investigate the various issues that the collective has decided and, at the same time, we find ourselves finishing identifying the signs that nature has taught us from the beginning and that have been forming our culture.

There is so much to keep on knowing!