Well, the first of our Farewell Fiestas came off well last night. Thanks to everyone who came, was a great mix of mine and Claire's friends, some faces I know and love and some new faces that I came to love by the end of the night! Thanks to Robin at Django's Riff for sorting out the 23-glass round of Tequila for us :-) Claire did a great job of hosting the hoards when we got back to her place: food, booze and much merriment!
At home recovering today, starting to put bits and bobs in boxes to make space for Glyn to take over my room while I'm away. We've recieved final notice at 52 Roscoe Street, so have to clear out my studio into storage over today and tomorrow.
On the list of jobs for the week:
-buy compact camera
-Get anti-malaria medication
-get Immodium(!)
Looking forward to seeing some more old faces down in London next weekend.
(a little reminder:Saturday 17th; 9pm; The Foundry, Old Street)
The party's only just starting.....
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Street-sign project Mexico 2007
Milpa Alta Community background
Milpa Alta is a 30,000 strong Nahuatl indigenous community located to the South East of Mexico City. Known for its agriculture of Nopal (prickley pear) and Maize, it is a rural area that is farmed in the much the same way now as it was 500 years ago. The Nahua are part of the Mesoamerican group of peoples, and orginally descend from the Aztecs.
The Milpa Alta Community is led by a circle of Elders, who have struggled to maintain traditional values and practices.
Rather than being a closed community it is known for international collaboration and has hosted academics from around the world, anthropologists, archivists, environmentalists and artists and has been the subject of numerous research studies. Although it tries to maintain the wisdom of it's ancestors, the community is not disconnected; electricity, telephones, internet and Tv are commonplace. As with many ancient minority languages, Nahuatl is struggling to survive as a living language as the younger generations are using the language of the mainstream media.
Street-sign project
- Milpa Alta Project
- The aim is to produce aproximately 200 ceramic disks to give traditional Nahuatl names to streets and districts in the community. The disks will display the names in Latin script as well as traditional pictograms. They will be fired at a local brick factory and decorated using locally sourced mineral glazes. Several others will be joining the project from the UK and Germany, joining members of the local community in the production of the disks.
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