Stories about Amazonia
Sharing the “Living Forest” Through Community Cinema Workshops in Sarayaku
From November 13-15, 2014, a community cinema workshop was held in the Sarayaku community, which was organized by El Churo Collective in conjunction with the communications department from Sarayaku.
Preparing for the Chariboan Joi Cultural Festival Festival in Shipibo Communities
The Chariboan Joi team tells us about the cultural festival, prepared along with representatives from involved communities, Betania, Palestina, Bethel and Alva Castro.
First Jatta Wöötanö Organizational Meeting in Boca de Ninchare
The project Jatta Wöötanö begins with a meeting with representatives and leaders from the Yekuana commmunity that live in the Caura River Basin in Venezuela.
Achuar and Shuar Community Voices Broadcasting Online
Radio stations in Achuar and Shuar indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are preparing to establish an online presence to broadcast in their own language, as part of the Rising Voices Amazonia initiative.
Sarayaku: Images of Resistance and Alternatives
From the Ecuadorian Amazon, we get to know the community of Sarayaku that said no to road, but connect to the rest of the world through the Internet.
Jatta Wöötanö – Yekuana Ethno-Communication About Their Culture
Let's meet the Jatta Wöötanö – Yekuana Etnocomunicators project, one of the Rising Voices Amazonia grantee projects from Venezuela.
Yadiko Uruk – Children of Tobacco, Coca and Sweet Cassava
This is the first update by one of our Amazonia Rising Voices projecto grantees, Yadiko Uruk + Children of Yadiko, located in Colombia.
Revitalizing the Tsimane’ Language in the Bolivian Amazon
Tsimane' Language Universe is one of the grantees of the project Rising Voices Amazonia, a long term initiative where members of the Tsimane’ society are involved.
Shipibo Citizen Journalism Soaring Like the Maracaná Macaw
Rising Voices note: This is the first project update written by our grantee project in Peru as part of the Rising Voices Amazonia initiative. Every month, grantees will write a blog post highlighting their progress. We are very pleased and grateful to be be able to start the project “Chariboan...
Announcing the Rising Voices Amazonia Project
In partnership with Avina Americas, Fundación Avina, and the Skoll Foundation, Rising Voices will be working directly with communities in the Amazon Region that want to tell their own story and participate more actively online through the use of a variety of digital media tools through a microgrant competition and a mentoring program that will launch next month.
