Maya Traditions Foundation Thank You Video - Fair Trade Artisans from Guatemala
Thank you for supporting Las Casas (MakeLifeFair.com). With your purchase you've helped Maya Traditions Foundation from Panajachel, Solola Guatemala.
Background music credited to Gabriel Hurtado in Bajo Los Puentos de Paris with the traditional latin sounds.
The Story of Maya Traditions
Maya Traditions is a social enterprise based in the highlands of Guatemala that works to preserve and celebrate the art of backstrap weaving through the creation of handmade products. This video is an introduction to the work that we do to support skilled indigenous artisans, their families and their communities. For more information, please visit our website at mayatraditions.org.
Maya Traditions Foundation - Artisan Thank You Story
Thank you for supporting Las Casas - Make Life Fair. With your purchase you've helped Maya Traditions Foundation based in Panajachel, Guatemala.
Background music credited to Mix Cumbias with the traditional latin sounds.
Maya Traditions Foundation University Campaign
We are Maya Traditions Foundation, based in Panajachel, Guatemala. Together with Maya Educational Foundation (MEF), we are asking for your help in supporting ten of our brightest students attend university.
In Guatemala, there are more than 6 million indigenous inhabitants (60% of the country's total population), yet the majority continues to lag behind the non-indigenous population in social statistics: they are 2.8 times poorer and have 13 years less life expectancy. It is estimated that only 5% of university students are indigenous.
We want to change this reality.
The students involved in our Youth Education Program are bright, creative, socially-conscious individuals that hope to contribute positively to their communities and create significant change in Guatemala. We want to provide them with all the support necessary in reaching their highest potential and achieving their dreams.
We currently have 10 students who would like to attend university next year, but because of financial difficulty, they won't be able to without your help.
Our students have a range of desired interests. Pedro wants to study system engineering. Sonia wants to study architecture. German wants to study medicine. Vicky wants to study social work.
Depending on the desired field of study, university tuition in Guatemala can cost anywhere from $750 to $1,200 a year. This price does not include the costs of commuting to and from school, food, books, printing, or the myriad of other costs associated with attending school. Many of these families struggle to make ends meet and simply cannot afford to send their children to university, when they can be working instead.
Through your donation, you will be directly supporting our students in their efforts to further their education, increase their knowledge, and better their lives as well as that of their families and communities.
Give 7 Weeks To Guatemala - Maya Traditions Foundation
On December 3rd we launched our: GIVE 7 WEEKS TO GUATEMALA campaign!
Each week, we’ll share how our organization supports: 1) Guatemalan Women Artisans, 2) Natural Health, 3) Ethics in Commerce, 4) Youth Education, 5) Conscious Travel, and 6) The Maya Traditions Team. We'll dive into each pillar week by week, and explain how and why you should support it too!
Week 7 is when it all comes together. It will be the final week we have to reach our goal of $10,000. We can’t do this campaign without you, so we welcome you, your family, friends, co-workers, and even your childhood crush’s best friend’s mother-in law to join us in our efforts!
Watch our brand new video on all that Maya Traditions does and GIVE 7 WEEKS TO GUATEMALA by donating here! bit.ly/Give7WeeksToGuatemala
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¡Hoy marca el comienzo de nuestra campaña: DA 7 SEMANAS A GUATEMALA!
Cada semana, compartiremos cómo nuestra organización apoya: 1) Mujeres Artesanas Guatemaltecas, 2) Salud Natural, 3) Ética en el Comercio, 4) Educación Juvenil, 5) Viajes Conscientes y 6) El Equipo de Tradiciones Mayas. Presentaramos cada pilar semana por semana, ¡y explicaremos cómo y por qué deberías apoyarlo también!
Semana 7 es cuando todo se reúne. Será la última semana que tengamos para alcanzar nuestra meta de $10,000. No podemos hacer esta campaña sin ti. Te damos la bienvenida ti, tu familia, amigos, compañeros de trabajo, e incluso a la suegra del mejor amigo de tu enamorado cuando eras niño para que se unen a nosotros en nuestros esfuerzos.
¡Mira nuestro nuevo video sobre todo lo que hace Tradiciones Mayas y DA 7 SEMANAS A GUATEMALA donando aquí! bit.ly/Give7WeeksToGuatemala
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The Story of Maya Tradition's Backstrap Woven Products
Maya Traditions is a social enterprise based in the highlands of Guatemala that works to preserve and celebrate the art of backstrap weaving through the creation of handmade products. This video is a a step-by-step guide to how we create our handmade, backstrap woven products. It includes the processes of natural dying, ikat tying, preparing the thread and loom and creating the weavings. The art of backstrap weaving is hundreds of years old and although our artisans make it look easy it requires years and years of practice and training
Indigenous Mayan Women are the backbone of the Family in Guatemala
Local women working amazingly hard, hour after hour, to support their families. Inti Raymi Fund was recently in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala supporting the Indigenous Community's local School and Safe Home in partnership with Quetzal-Trekkers, an all volunteer guiding service which supports these facilities as well.
Spread Your Wings | Gilberto's Dream, Guatemala - Documentary
This docu-series profiles young people in many countries around the world learning to become skilled in occupations or trades that carry on a familial or cultural tradition from respected mentors.
Cette série documentaire trace le portrait de jeunes gens à travers le monde qui s'intéressent à une tradition culturelle ou familiale et suivent l'enseignement de maîtres respectés dans le domaine.
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Fourteen-year-old Gilberto Leopoldo lives in Salcaja, in the central mountains of Guatemala. He is learning the traditional Guatemalan art of weaving beautifully coloured materials. He is apprenticing with his father, Don Jose, who is himself a master craftsman. Gilberto has always dreamed of visiting the Mayan city of Tikal, still full of ancient ruins and the glory of the now dead civilization of his ancestors. The Leopoldos are not well off and Don Jose finally agrees that if Gilberto himself weaves a piece of cloth good enough to sell in the market, they can use the money for the journey.
Gilberto Leopoldo, 14 ans, vit à Salcaja, dans les montagnes centrales du Guatemala. Il y apprend l’art traditionnel du tissage de matériaux aux magnifiques couleurs. C’est son père Don Jose, lui-même un maître artisan, qui lui enseigne cet art. Gilberto rêve depuis toujours de visiter Tikal, une cité maya jonchée de ruines anciennes rappelant la civilisation disparue de ses ancêtres. Or, les Leopoldo n’ont pas beaucoup d’argent. Don Jose finit par proposer à Gilberto de fabriquer une pièce de tissu d’une qualité telle qu’il pourra la vendre au marché, et l’argent pourrait alors servir à payer pour son voyage.
1978
Only available in English / Uniquement disponible en anglais
Produced by/Produit par: Deepa & Paul Saltzman, Fred Harris, Sunrise Films
Director/Réal.:Robert Pyke
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Help 50 Guatemalan Girls Continue Their Education - FUNDAP
The situation of disadvantage for girls in Guatemala is demonstrated by the lack of opportunities and percentages of school abandonment, since most do not finish primary school and many of those who pass cannot finish high school. Extreme poverty, need to provide for their families, illness or lack of family support, these are some causes that force school dropout without finishing the necessary levels, leaving them with no future. Donations to this fund will go to scholarships for 50 girls between the ages of 13 and 16 so they can complete high school, all of them living in the department of Retalhuleu, an area of Southern Guatemala in poverty.
Creating a Zapotec Rug
The process of creating a Zapotec rug. See tapetesreynaldo.com for more information.
Mayan Family Carpentry Program - Panajachel, Guatemala
Mayan Families is a charitable organization that serves the needs of Panajachel, Guatemala. With an initial donation by the Rotary Club, Mayan Families established a carpentry and trade school. The boxes and humidors created by the carpentry school may one day fund the entire school. These boxes are being used to create a sustainable income that will allow Mayan Families to direct their efforts where they are most needed. Learn more about Mayan Families and how to purchase one of these jewelry boxes or humidors at mayanfamilies.org.
Guatemala: Weavers Find International Markets
United Nations, New York, May 2012 - In a poor village in a rural region of Guatemala, many women have woven traditional textiles for generations, earning little revenue for their efforts. Now, with the support of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), these local weavers have found ways to sustain their community and preserve their Mayan traditions by teaming up with industrial designers to create top-selling textiles for export.
UNIA program # 1348
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Guatemala and the Descendants of the Ancient Maya
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Join an inspiring journey of discovery as Christina Christou departs Australia for the homeland of the ancient Maya, Guatemala. She meets the descendants of this fascinating civilisation to uncover the truth of the 5000+ year old Mayan calendar and the predictions beyond 2012.
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Guatemala faces a uncontrolled increase in food prices
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), warns about the excessive increase in food prices during the last months of 2012. Guatemala is one of the countries which is already suffering this effect. teleSUR
Uk'u'x Ulew: Heart of the Earth 2
Grupo Sotz'il is a Kaqchikel Maya contemporary music and dance group founded in El Tablón, Sololá, Guatemala in the year 2000 by the Tat Lisandro Guarcax (1978–2010). Here Grupo Sotz’il presents Uk'u'x Ulew, Heart of Earth, their latest collective choreographic and musical creation. Uk'u'x Ulew, a 60-minute performance of xajoj q'ojom, stresses our interdependence with the Earth. In the performance, all the elements interact in harmony and conflict. From the collusion and collision of these elements, K'aslemal, or the essence of life, is born. The birth of K'aslemal provokes a great jubilance that transgresses the borders of the performance space and reaches into the audience’s world. But when a sudden contrary force disrupts this balance, Tz'i'—the hound that embodies the word—howls to alert us of the danger. Life oscillates between light and dark, order and chaos.
• Daniel Fernando Guarcax González: musician/dancer and Grupo Sotz'il’s coordinator, in the role of Iq' (Air/Bird)
• Jorge Chiyal Chumil: musician/dancer, in the role of Ya (Water/Fish)
• Marcelino Chiyal Yaxón: musician/dancer, in the role of Q'aq' (Fire/Bat)
• Juan Carlos Chiyal Yaxón: musician/dancer, in the role of Tz'i' (Word/ Dog)
• Luís Cumes: musician/dancer, in the role of Ik' (Moon)
• Mercedes García: musician/dancer, in the role of Ix (Earth/Jaguar)
• César Augusto Guarcax Chopén: musician/dancer, in the role of K'aslemal (Life)
• Víctor Manuel Barillas Crispín: Artistic Director
With the coordination of María Regina Firmino-Castillo, coordinator for Grupo Sotz'il’s New England Foundation for the Arts/National Dance Project 2017–2018 Touring Award and acting assistant professor of Critical Dance Studies, University of California-Riverside
The presentation of Uk’u’x Ulew: Heart of the Earth is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and with special thanks to the International Mayan League and the Indigenous Arts Institute. Grupo Sotz’il gave these two performances on September 16, 2017, in the Potomac Atrium of the National Museum of the American Indian as part of the museum's celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
For more on Grupo Sotz'il, visit
Grupo Sotz'il: iq.sotz.xajoj@gmail.com
Grupo Sotz'il, en Uk'u'x Ulew: Corazón de la Tierra
Grupo Sotz'il es un grupo de música y danza contemporánea Maya Kaqchikel fundado en El Tablón, Sololá, Guatemala en el año 2000 por Tat Lisandro Guarcax (1978-2010). Aquí Grupo Sotz'il presenta Uk'u'x Ulew, Corazón de la Tierra, su última creación colectiva coreográfica/musical. Uk'u'x Ulew, un montaje escénico de xajoj q’ojom que dura sesenta minutos, enfatiza nuestra interdependencia con la Tierra. En el montaje escénico, todos los elementos interactúan en armonía y en conflicto. De la colusión y colisión de estos elementos nace K'aslemal, o la esencia de la vida. El nacimiento de K'aslemal provoca un júbilo que traspasa las fronteras del escenario y llega al mundo de la audiencia. Pero cuando, repentinamente, una fuerza contraria interrumpe este equilibrio, Tz'i'—el perro que encarna la palabra—aúlla. La vida fluye entre la luz y la oscuridad, el orden y el caos.
• Daniel Fernando Guarcax González: músico/danzante y coordinador de Grupo Sotz'il, en el papel de Iq '(Aire/Ave)
• Jorge Chiyal Chumil: músico/danzante, en el papel de Ya (Agua/Pez)
• Marcelino Chiyal Yaxón: músico/danzante, en el papel de Q'aq '(Fuego/ Murciélago)
• Juan Carlos Chiyal Yaxón: músico/danzante, en el papel de Tz'i' (Palabra/ Justicia/Perro)
• Luís Cumes: músico/danzante, en el papel de Ik' (Luna)
• Mercedes García: músico/danzante, en el papel de Ix (Tierra/Jaguar)
• César Augusto Guarcax Chopén: músico/danzante, en el papel de K'aslemal (Vida)
• Víctor Manuel Barillas Crispín: Director Artístico
Con la coordinación de María Regina Firmino-Castillo, coordinadora del Premio de Gira 2017–2018, NEFA/NDP de Grupo Sotz'il y profesora de Estudios Críticos de Danza, Universidad de California-Riverside
La presentación de Uk'u'x Ulew: Corazón de la Tierra es posible gracias al Proyecto Nacional de Danza de la Fundación de New England para las Artes, con apoyo principal de la Fundación Caritativa Doris Duke y la Fundación Andrew W. Mellon, y agradecimientos especiales a la Liga Maya Internacional y al Instituto de Artes Indígenas. El Grupo Sotz'il ofreció estas dos presentaciones el 16 de septiembre de 2017 en el Atrio Potomac del Museo Nacional del Indio Americano como parte de la celebración del Mes Nacional de la Herencia Hispana.
Para más información sobre Grupo Sotz'il, visiten
Grupo Sotz'il: iq.sotz.xajoj@gmail.com
University of Pittsburgh 2015 Nourish Internship
This past summer (May 2015) the University of Pittsburgh 2015 Nourish Chapter traveled three thousand miles to the Lake Atitlan region of Guatemala to intern with Maya Traditions Foundation. Our objectives in San Juan La Laguna were to build a holistic garden, teach children English, and hold health clinics and workshops where we would learn about how the Maya Healers utilize natural medicine.
Local Inspiration: Alaska Native Artists Study the Collections
Local Inspiration is a program that connects emerging Alaska Native artists to Smithsonian collections at the Living Our Cultures exhibit and at the Anchorage Museum as a resource for research and study to advance their development as an artist, and to strengthen the relationship between Alaska Native artists and the museums. The first pilot artist (July 9-10, 2014) was Allison Warden, an Iñupiaq inter-disciplinary artist whose work you can learn about at
GUATEMALA - LAND OF ETERNAL SPRING
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2015 Tz'utujil Maya translation series
Produced by the Maya Traditions Foundation
Translators: Jose Maria 'Chema' Vasquez Perez and Carlos Agustin Vasquez
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