Parque Biblioteca España in Santo Domingo
Medellín might be the most beautiful city in the world. The population of two-four million sits in a bowl of mountains and nearly everyone has a spectacular view out their window. We have been welcomed with abrazos abiertos by everyone we have met: Our host families, compañeros, COMFAMA (the community partner we are working with), and the people of Medellín. We've been salsa dancing, eaten arepas (thicker versions of tortillas), and been to each corner of the city with COMFAMA and DE Directors to brainstorm multi-media stories for our historical memory project. Below are a selection of pictures:
Tres señores overlooking the city of Medellín
Vista from Metrocable San Javier.
Everyone with the compañeros on the metrocable
Graffiti at La Universidad Nacional
Translation: Welcome to study, fight and transform
Our directora Tamera Marko at the Biblioteca Piloto in our neighborhood, looking at old original newspapers from Medellín
Caught in the rain at the opening of the Festival Internacional de Poesía
COMFAMA, our community partner, has a program where they give away free books in the metro for passengers to read and then pass along. Here is a stand where you can get your free book
Rishi, Anne and Doris with some of the 300 kids at the Jardín Social (daycare) in the middle of Comuna 13, a neighborhood once infamous for gang violence
Chatting (Jota Samper) with residents of El Pajarito, a new housing development built by COMFAMA in collaboration with working families in Medellín.
At the office of Diego Lopez & Nathalie Montoya Arango, the architects whose design was chosen for the next Parque Biblioteca 12 de Octubre.
We are working hard and there will be more to come!
Photo credit: Danya Taymor
Photo credit: Danya Taymor
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