Pizcando Sueños

[Guest guest]

We are very excited to share with you that the Rural Women’s Health

Project has been awarded funds from Fideicomiso Para La Cultura

México-Estados Unidos [uS-Mexico Fund for Culture], a bi-national

partnership of the Rockefeller Foundation, The National Fund for Culture

and the Arts (FONCA) and the Bancomer Cultural Foundation of Mexico.

This award will be used for Pizcando Sueños [Harvesting Dreams], a RWHP

project which will serve as a cultural documentation of the Mexican

Farmworking Women’s journey to Florida.

While Pizcando Sueños has many components and phases, key aspects of

this project include:

- Recording Oral Histories of Mexican Farmworker Women in Florida

- Compiling the three composite fotonovelas into a magazine-format

- Developing three fotonovelas from the women’s Oral Histories to

preserve the women’s journeys, memories and cultural legacy for their

children and community

- Working with host Community-based organizations in 5 different regions

of

Florida to utilize the Pizcando Sueños experience as a tool for

empowerment, to give the community a stronger voice, as well as an

opportunity to support Farmworking women

- Transforming one fotonovela into a gallery presentation for exhibition

in the

United States and Mexico, including the Crealdé School of Art, Florida

and the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, Mexico

- Offering the fotonovelas as a tool for promotor/outreach worker

programs in

Florida and throughout the US

If you would like more information, we look forward to hearing from you.

-Robin Lewy

352-372-1095

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Rural Women's Health Project | P.O. Box 12016, Gainesville, FL 32604 |

352.372.1095 | Fax: 352.338.8211

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