New Website Coming Soon!
Hello friends, We have been working behind the scenes to improve Oaxaca Cultural Navigator and have a few big updates to share. First, after we go live on or around April 15, notices will be coming from hola@oaxacaculture.com. That’s change #1! Please add us to your contacts so these emails continue to land in your […]
Thanks to Your Vote: New Logo
Thanks to all the 85 people who responded to our request to help us choose a logo for Oaxaca Cultural Navigator LLC. Your opinion matters and we listened! In my graduate school statistics study at The University of Notre Dame, I learned that any survey response of N30+ is valid. We are secure in our […]
Gratitude and Introducing Eric Chavez Santiago
Every day that I wake up here on the mesa overlooking the Rio Grande Gorge in Taos, New Mexico, I give thanks. It’s that time of year for giving thanks, for renewal of spirit and reaffirmation of life, for expressing gratitude to family and friends for all they have contributed to my well-being and for […]
Open Letter: It’s a struggle! I’ve migrated to a self-hosted WordPress site.
This is a do-it-yourself blog/website that I am struggling to learn how to manage. I must say, I am a content person and the “back end” mystifies me. I probably have no business managing this self-hosted blog myself. Nevertheless, the deed is done and I’m trying to figure out now how to get the Subscribe […]
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, […]
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 […]