Through a visit to the community of San Pedro Actopan, Milpa Alta, in collaboration with Calpulli Tecalco, we invited children and young people living in this territory to take walks in planting areas. The artist Melissa Paredes led a mapping and environmental observation session, as well as sharing some tools she uses as a landscape artist. The participants produced a series of watercolor landscapes and reflected on the changes the place they inhabit is undergoing and what impacts are visible in it.

Walking time and nature was a space for encounter, affinity, and collective construction. Three years after forming as a group, the participants reaffirmed their commitment to recognize the symptoms of time in nature and walk together towards new forms of articulation.

On this occasion, the group was welcomed at Casa Pitahaya, in Santo Domingo Tomaltepec, where they shared knowledge, tools, and experiences. Through dialogue and listening, they charted new work paths that will allow them to strengthen their management processes, create common strategies, and stay connected remotely. This encounter not only strengthened existing ties but also opened new possibilities to continue weaving living networks between territories, knowledge, and affections.

Community cultural project with an emphasis on children, whose objective was to encourage the imagination and representation of the relationships of the communities adjacent to the Papaloapan River, from the different meanings and images that are communally built around water bodies. Its core and tool was the second edition of the publication We make our river, its portfolio of 50 postcards and the curatorial kit derived from it. For four months, curator Catalina Pérez managed various activities with local groups, promoters, artists, teachers, and cultural actors, such as: deep listening, body dynamics, drawing and photography workshops, community exhibitions, radio programs, presentations, mediations, and conversations that were carried out in co-participation with schools, regional cultural centers, and independent cultural spaces.

This is the third version of the exhibition previously shown in USBI at Boca del Rio, in the state of Veracruz and in the Geology Museum in Mexico City. This exhibition was displayed with a more adult curatorial focus to address a university public. During the 57 guided tours offered by the university’s team, the gallery received various groups of students as well as 1,153 girls and boys. It included parallel activities that foresaw the inclusion of the local artistic community in a dialogue about their territory. This version of the exhibition was a resounding success with many visitors/inhabitants of Xalapa, since many of them have links to the Papaloapan river basin.

In collaboration with Calpulli Tecalco, through a visit to the community of San Pedro Actopan in Milpa Alta, we launched an invitation for boys, girls and youth who live there to go on walks in planting areas. The artist Melissa Paredes directed a mapping and observation of surroundings session, and shared certain tools she uses as a landscapist. The participants produced a series of watercolor landscapes and reflected on the changes the place they dwell is undergoing and the visible effects there are.

“Walking Time and Nature” was a space for encounters, affinity and collective construction. Three years on from the group’s formation, the participants reaffirmed their commitment to recognize the symptoms of time in nature and walk together towards new forms of expression.

On this occasion, the group was hosted by Casa Pitahaya, in Santo Domingo Tomaltepec, where they shared knowledge, tools and experiences. Through dialogue and listening, they traced new work routes that will help them strengthen their management processes, create common strategies and stay connected at a distance. This encounter not only reinforced existing links, it also presented new chances to keep weaving living networks between territories, knowledge and affections.

A session was held in order to familiarize collaborators of the Ciudad Cuauhtémoc Community Center with the book Life In My Surroundings. This ally decided to use the book published by Casa Gallina as didactic material for the annual summer course program the venue offers.

Support sessions were held with promoters and teachers from the State of Mexico, Puebla, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Yucatan and Mexico City, in the activation of the publication Life In My Surroundings, published by Casa Gallina. Certain activities designed by the teachers were implemented on June 4, in the framework of World Environment Day.

To commemorate World Environment Day, promoters from Alas y Raices and Ketzalli Arreola, from Casa Gallina, activated the Casa Gallina publication “Life in My Surroundings” with children in various venues in Jalisco, Mexico City, Oaxaca and Puebla. They played, reflected and created a map of their surroundings, imagining possible solutions to help lead a better life.

To present the book "Flavors and Knowledge of the Milpa" in San Pedro Atocpan, Milpa Alta, the illustrations from the book were adapted to create a mural intervened by the workers of the local factory Jarabes San Pedro.

As part of the 9th "Encuentro con la Tierra" (Encounter with the Earth) event, organized by the Geology Museum at the Alameda de Santa María la Ribera, we conducted educational activities based on Recrea: a compilation of educational strategies. We drew, wrote and proposed alternatives to care for water along with the visitors. In addition, we offered two guided visits to the exhibition Rainy and Dry. The Ancestral Vision of Time in Milpa Alta in the Geology Museum.