This artistic grant will allow Anja to pursue an audio project documenting local residents’ experiences in the time of COVID-19.
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In February 2020, Markus Brown traveled to Indiana University to deliver a presentation titled “Documenting Community-Identified Cultural Heritage through Participatory Media in South Caribbean Costa Rica.”
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The annual Rich Coast Project calendar shares images from our projects - whether historic photos we have helped local residents to digitize, images produced through one of our participatory media projects, or the work of one of the many artists and photographers who have participated in our work.
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The Rich Coast Project collaborated with Water is Life and Iron Kids of the World to interview local residents about the current conditions of water in their community.
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Katie Beck, Erin Adamson and David Davila Gonzalez hosted a session called "Locals Speak! Participatory media and scholarship in a tourism zone" as part of the "Vidas Digitales" track, which describe the need for community-based participatory research and storytelling in the South Caribbean of Costa Rica.
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The Rich Coast Project was represented at Festival Emerger, the first audiovisual festival in Limon, with Nuestro Puerto Viejo Ayer y Hoy.
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Media School students conducted 15 interviews with 33 different local participants over 3 days. They were asked to select short clips from each of their interviews and pair it with visual material they gathered throughout the week.
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The Rich Coast Project Presents: ROJOVIOLETA
a participatory short fiction film about the connection between people and the environment in the South Caribbean of Costa Rica made with and for young people from Puerto Viejo, Limon, Costa Rica
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Students from The Media School at Indiana University began a week of service learning with a story exchange using the methodology developed by Narrative 4, a nonprofit dedicated to "building a community of empathetic global citizens who improve the world through the exchange of personal narratives."
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Stories from Caribe Sur is a project produced collaboratively by the Rich Coast Project, members of the communities of southern Caribbean Costa Rica, and students from The Media School at Indiana University. The first chapter Sur includes six podcasts that were co-produced by student volunteers from the Indiana University Media School, local story facilitators from Talamanca, and members of the Rich Coast Project staff.
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From September 2nd to 4th, 2017, Hidden Garden Ethnobotanical Sanctuary inaugurated its new Bush Medicine Circle with the First Annual Afro-Botany Conference. In a traditional style, they celebrated with a gathering of elders, teachers, students, plant lovers and community members, sharing wisdom as well as food, music, dance and ceremony.
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El 25 de abril de 1981 un grupo de estudiantes del Colegio Agropecuario de Talamanca realizamos una visita a la población de Amubri, ubicada en el distrito de Bratsi, dentro de la Reserva Indígena. La visita se hizo con el fin de concocer las costumbres y usanzas de los indígenas.
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We worked with a group of 12 local kids from Puerto Viejo to develop a short fiction film about the connection between people and the environment in the South Caribbean of Costa Rica. A team of communications students from the University of Costa Rica offered workshops on storytelling, script development, casting and production. The kids then filmed this short film... COMING SOON
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We spent the 2016-2017 year based in Puerto Viejo, continuing the growth of the South Caribe Roots Archive and working with students from Caribe Sur, San Jose and Indiana. We welcomed new volunteers, received 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, and produced three participatory media projects with local residents.
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View a slideshow video of photographs contributed by Christina Zingrich to the South Caribe Roots Archive.
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Kids from Caribe Sur are making a movie and they need your help!
Jóvenes del Caribe Sur están haciendo un cortometraje de ficción, y necesitan su ayuda!
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Ten local youth are in the process of making a movie with the help of Fer Segura and Dani Hernández, communications students who are rejoining the Rich Coast Project to complete their practicum at the University of Costa Rica.
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On the second day of the 2017 Alternative Break Program in Puerto Viejo, half of the group of Indiana University Kelley School of Business students volunteered at the First Baptist Church, right in the center of town.
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On Tuesday, March 14, 2017, students from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University visited the Hidden Garden Wellness Center to help construct an African Sacred Grove.
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