DukeEngage Medellín
La Violencia is Not the Whole Story

Medellín Take Two











Our tour guides show us the process of making panuela and guarpo, juice from raw sugar cane.




This week, we had the privilege to attend tours of Comfama’s facilities in Itagüi and in Las Caldes as well as the opportunity to take a walking tour of downtown, provided by one of the professors at the University. It was interesting to see photos from Medellín’s past juxtaposed with the images of present day Medellin today. On Saturday, we visited Comfama’s recreational park, Tutucán, in Rionegro where our tour guides, dressed as one of the first settlers and a doctor from the 19th century, showed us how to make panuela and let us taste raw coffee beans.










A painting by the famous Colombian artist Vásquez found on the ceiling in one of the salas of Comfama's sede in la Ceja.








All of us in this bar in El Hueco before we learned some tango moves downstairs.







The Típico, a traditional Colombian meal of rice, eggs, meat, chorizo, blood sausage, maduro, and arepa.







Group picture of us at the finca.





Vendors sell a plethora of exotic fruits on a downtown street.









One of the coolest kids at the Jardín Social in Comuna 13.









Women in the sewing workshop in a Comfama sede.
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WELCOME TO MEDELLIN

Funded by generous grants from Duke University and donations from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, DukeEngage has made it possible for us, a group of six Duke students, to embark on a 7-week civic engagement project, The Historical Memory/Community Literacy Project, in Medellin, Colombia. Our team also includes 57 students from Emerson College in Boston who created a multi-media catalog & a short film "108 things you might not know about medellín".

In collaboration with our directors, Dr. Tamera Marko of Emerson College and Jota Samper of MIT, we are producing 7 short documentaries about various communities in Medellin. We want you know to know that in Medellin, a city in the process of peace, la violencia is not the whole story.

COLLABORATORS
Emerson College Medellin
DukeEngage
DukeEngage Colombia 08
Parques Bibliotecas
COMFAMA
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Carlos E. Restrepo
Pajarito Vivienda


DIRECTORS

Tamera Marko, Ph.D.
seasalt17@gmail.com

Jota Samper
jota@mit.edu