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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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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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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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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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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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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Students from the University of Costa Rica (UCR TCU 127) joined the Rich Coast Project in Puerto Viejo for a week of participatory video and photography aimed at documenting local Puerto Viejo history and culture.
Read MoreStudents of the Hidden Garden's Traditional Latino Herbal Medicine joined the Rich Coast Project for a morning of learning from local community members about the bush medicine they grew up with.
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In November 2016 a group of Indiana University students will travel to Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, to spend a working with the communities of the south Caribbean in developing content for the South Caribe Roots Archive.
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We successfully finished year 2 of our collaboration with the Alternative Break Program at Indiana University.
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The Rich Coast Project joined the Hidden Garden for two days of important sessions on local Afro-Caribbean wellness traditions and a tour of local businesses who are acting as knowledge carriers of customary healing practices.
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After a successful inaugural trip with the Alternative Break Program from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, RCP Director Katie Beck was invited to Bloomington, Indiana, to share the vision of the growing partnership between the Rich Coast Project and would-be-volunteers from the business school.
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Santa Clara law student Brittany Delbridge spent her summer as an intern and research assistant with the Rich Coast Project, helping us conduct community outreach, develop important background research, and develop organizational strategies to help us keep moving forward.
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Last March we hosted our first group of student volunteers from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, who joined us in Manzanillo for a week of service and learning through the Kelley Institute for Social Impact's Alternative Break Program.
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Representatives of the Rich Coast Project attended the final presentation of the Legal Skills in a Social Context (LSSC) Program's 2014-2015 Social Justice Project.
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