Project Wings of the Butterfly founded in Costa Rica

February 18, 2006.

Today Folk Singer and composer Guadalupe Urbina and writer of the thesis Women at the Cutting Edge of Paradigmatic Shift, Maria Suarez Toro formally co-founded the Project Wings of the Butterfly that Hill take the dissertation to the theater stage. The project also plans to promote a diversity of actions including training, research, and committed art to challenge patriarchal paradigms and highlight women’s alternative contributions.

A group of feminists from diverse disciplines were convened by them to form part f an Advisory Groups that Hill contributes to conceptualize and construct the proposal. Among them are Alda Facio, feminist lawyer and activist, and Anna Arroba, feminist historian and health activist.

The first phase of the Project will take place between March and December 2006, expressed in the metaphor the conch: “Conservation, transmitter of sound, eco of the pas and interior life and resonance”. (Programa de radio “Voces de Mujeres”, Guatemala).

It will create a collective and creative space where women can contribute to the development of alternative paradigms to domination, control and dichotomization so characteristic of the patriarchal paradigm. It seeks to contribute to the reactivation of the feminist movement challenging patriarchal paradigm assumptions

It will include systematization of each experience, a methodology that will enrich each participant alongside the contribution to the project, and t4eh constitution of an international advisory board to help internationalize the project eventually. It includes a communications plan of action that contemplates the creation of a web page, TV shows, radio productions and the like.

It will seek funding in a three pronged strategy funding agencies, volunteer work and fundraising cultural activities. The second phase in 2007-8 has the double helix Aztec butterfly as a symbol.

It will put the show on stage, create a collective and implement all of the components and its tasks, expanding alliances, further research, training, communications, promoting art events and activities and internationalizing the show.

Read about the project at Alas de Mariposa