We meet at Pastora’s place to take a bus for a 90 minutes drive to the milpa. 40 people, all family of the weavers are joining us for a showing of the carpet, and lunch. For many people, especially the children, it’s there first visit to the sierra. On the way up (2200m) to Benito Juarez the bus breaks down at ‘El Horno’ (the Oven), and hot it is there.. The driver thought he’d fixed the problem yesterday, but apparently it didn’t last. All the drinking-water on the bus is poured in the cooling reservoir, but it all just drips out again. So we are out of ‘juice’ and the bus is stuck halfway the route. Some giggling girls volunteer to go, and find water from the nearby Rio Verde. Pastora shares a ride with the first passerby that takes her to the rancho where she can get help. Half an hour later the girls return with multiple recipients filled with water, and the trouble seems over. When we are five minutes on the road, ‘Super’ Mario (the newly wed) arrives with his jeep loaded with water. We definitely can move on now. After all it takes us two, and a half hours to get to the milpa, where some of the women are already preparing the food. Don Enrique, the local farmer helps us to find a good spot in the fields to spread out the carpet. We came at the right time, he says since they ‘ll start harvesting tomorrow. Once set up all come and have a look at the carpet. The families are very enthusiastic about the work of the weavers. Patricia gives them an introduction to the project to have an idea of the overall project.
Then it’s time for lunch. Cornsoup, rice, beans, meat, and ‘postre’ made by Zenaida. With full bellies we try a last photo-shoot surrounding the carpet, and after the group shot, it’s time to pack up again, and return to Teotitlan.
That night we’re invited by Patricia to a concert of Steven Brown, and Blaine L Raininger. Paulo, and Steve know each other from quiet some time ago. After the concert they have a brief chat across the orchestra pit, and agree to meet each other next fall in Oaxaca.
To be Continued…
Nadine kindly welcomes everyone for our RusClub #14.
(NL) RusClub is een platform voor Russische cinema. Alexandra Dementieva gidst het publiek doorheen de geschiedenis van de Russische cinema aan de hand van geselecteerde films. De RusClubs vinden plaats in Plateau (Herdersstraat 30, Elsene). De deuren openen om 7u30 en de eerste film start om 8u.
(EN) RusClub is a platform for Russian cinema. Alexandra Dementieva selects Russian movies and guides you through the history of Russian cinema. RusClub takes place at Plateau (Rue du Berger 30, Ixelles). The doors open at 7:30pm and the first movie starts at 8pm.
The RusClub #14 takes place on Tuesday 14 July at 19.30 and the movie that will be shown is:
“A depressed woman has just lost her husband and is about to destroy everything and everybody, but mainly herself. An exhausted man tries to find an escape from the daily chaos and routine in perpetual sleep. No, their paths don’t cross, but each of them is destined to survive.
This has been called ‘a magnificent fresco’, an ‘apocalypse’ (Silver Bear, Berlin 1990). But it proved to be a diagnosis of an era. Muratova captured the state of Russia and Eastern Europe in images that are typical of an era on the eve of revolution, full of aggression and apathy. The Asthenic Syndrome is constructed like The Well-Tempered Clavier, full of polyphonous elements. The first part is in black-and-white and is a film within a film, nervously shot like Muratova’s first films. The second part is in colour and tells the story of the life of an insignificant author and literature teacher who suffocates in the dull routine of his mindless environment. Muratova’s realism is full of contrasts, irony and rage and shows every character from different sides. She presents a complete picture of personal syndromes and collective apathy, meanwhile stunning the viewer with shock therapy and destroying every illusion.”
RusClub #14
14/07/2015
doors: 7:30 pm
start movie: 8:00 pm
Plateau – rue du berger 30 herdersstraat – ixelles/elsene
Please feel free to bring some movie-snacks or movie-drinks.
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