World Premiere of KLC Reporting

We are incredibly excited to share the first of many videos created in the popular education workshops we are running in Juanacatlán and Guadalajara.  Karen, Lety, and Cristian live in and around Juanacatlán, and are students at the local high school.  Their video is moving and they worked very hard to piece it together.  We are so proud!  Please ost the video and share it; they made the video to make positive change for their communities and we want to help spread the word.

To learn more about the process, watch the video we created on the workshop process.

Social Media Workshops, Stories, and Mango Trees

Hello Wonderful Readers,

Steve reporting here: My week was full of integrating and learning. It included meeting IMDEC folks, going to Juanacátlan to facilitate social media workshops, and eating bacon. Juanacátlan is my focus. I’ve met wonderful people there, including lifelong residents who told me of the glorious history of this laid-back, lovely pueblito.

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Steve Meets IMDEC

In the spirit of community and communication, we made an introduction video for Steve to meet IMDEC.  Let me just say, we had a lot of fun with it.  We have been playing around with our Flip Cameras and iMovie to prepare for our workshops in Juanacátlan, so we made the video with those tools.  Tomorrow we have our second video workshop with a group of high schoolers and we look forward to seeing the footage they have taken and introducing storytelling and editing techniques.  We are designing the workshop to be popular education based, and look forward to its co-evolution with the participation of our students.

A2S Keeps Growing: Steve(o) is here.

I made it to Guadalajara! This week was spent adjusting, catching up with my sweet pals Sarah and Arthur. We’ve known each other for nearly 5 years and are incredibly exicted to finally be collaborating after following each others’ work for so long. My name is Steve Fisher and I now coordinate interviews and promote community outreach for A2S (Adapting to Scarcity). I’ll be working with them for at least three months. My background is in Latin American politics, anthropology, and popular education. Check out my bio to learn more about me.

Yesterday we went out to Juanacátlan where I saw (and smelled) why we have to use gas masks to film near the river. I also talked with Rodrigo, an incredible community organizer who explained some of the issues they were dealing with in regards to the Rio Santiago. I’ll be living in Juanacátlan part-time doing the prep work for workshops and filming.

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