Arts, Culture, Textile Journey to Santa Fe and Oaxaca
Postponed until Summer 2013: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator collaborates with Australia’s Desert Traditions to bring you Beyond Santa Fe. Join textile artist and group leader Carole Douglas from Sydney, Australia, Santa Fe textile expert Sheri Brautigam, and Norma Hawthorne for a cultural immersion experience of a lifetime.
Three Documentary Videos Produced at 2010 Film Making Workshop
YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/normahawthorne Rescate Seda features the taller of Arte y Seda and the family of Aurora Contreras and Reynoldo Sosa, written and directed by filmmakers Sheri Brautigam and Pam Holland. The interview was conducted in Spanish and translated to English subtitles. The film, below, features the labor-intensive process of growing silkworms, cultivating the cocoons, […]
Honey Do 4th of July Wins Chatham Poetry Contest
What, you may ask, does this have to do with Oaxaca? Nothing, except that I wrote it and submitted it to our local poetry group as part of the 4th of July poetry contest just before leaving for Oaxaca. Lo and behold, I return to discover I “won” for this little, fluffy ditty. We all […]
Woven Together: Entretejidos — Oaxaca Documentary Film
This short film was written, filmed and directed by the team of Eunice Hogeveen and Sarah Kennedy Davis and created as part of the Oaxaca Documentary Filmmaking Workshop: Visual Storytelling, which was held in the village of Teotitlan del Valle from January 31 to February 6, 2009. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwxuUb6fPL4 The film tells the story of […]
Weaving a Curve: A Documentary Short Film
Eric Chavez Sosa and I made this six minute short documentary film during the January 31-February 6 workshop held by Oaxaca Cultural Navigator LLC in Teotitlan del Valle. It was our first film making collaboration and we were definitely novices! Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UHCPpaap3E “Weaving a Curve” featuring master weaver Federico Chavez Sosa. He talks […]
Remigio Mestas: Textile Museum of Oaxaca Exhibition
“Remigio Mestas: A Mirror on the Rich Textiles of Oaxaca” Exhibition at the Museo Textil de Oaxaca November 9, 2008 to February 16, 2009 Here is an exhibition you won’t want to miss if you are in Oaxaca through mid-February. Sr. Remigio Mestas has an incredible shop in the arcade next to Los Danzantes Restaurant […]