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Everyone Loves a Feria

Above: Un desfile de los caballos / the horse parade.

The long anticipated Feria de las Flores, one of Medellin's most anticipated events of the year, filled the city with flowers, music, horses, and good cheer. Together, we visited Santa Elena, a town infamous for its flowers, where the floats or silleteros are made by hand and then transported down the mountain and the next day, saw the fruits of the labor as the flowers were proudly displayed in the Desfile de los silleteros downtown.

A very nice family gave us an unofficial tour of some of the flower displays in progress. A father carries his daughter in the rain.


Brightly colored costumes and dancers during the parade.


The beautiful but cumbersome silleteros are carried on the backs of the viejos.

Photo credits: Sue Li

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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