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		<title>FOMMA &#8211; collaborative women&#8217;s theatre</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, at the invitation of Doris Difarnecio, Director of the Centro Hemisférico/FOMMA in San Cristobal, I visited FOMMA and was introduced to a truly fascinating organization and set of projects. In a previous post I mentioned the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, which is based at NYU and has partnered with FOMMA (Fortaleza del las Mujeres Mayas de los Altos) to found their first Latin American centre in San Cristobal De Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. In 1994 Petrona de la Cruz and Isabel Juárez Espinosa founded FOMMA – which aims to support and stengthen Mayan women of the highlands of Chiapas. Both women had been writers with Sna Tzi’bojom (The House of the Writer) (see a previous post for a few links to things about Sna Tzi&#8217;bojom) and had written a number of successful plays about Indigenous womens lives in the highlands of Chiapas.  If you read spanish check out their biographies on the FOMMA webpage. FOMMA does a variety of community development and support projects, including supporting literacy and education of women in 2 local Indigenous languages (Tzotzil &#38; Tzeltal), providing training and enterprise development, such as running a bakery, a clothing and textiles workshop,  providing childcare and [...]]]></description>
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