While you are in Mexico City, we want you to really see and feel the culture, almost as if you lived here. We will help you see the connection between Mexico’s past and present, as it is reflected in so many ways around you.
We aim for you to experience the vibrant chaos in a way you can understand: you will be surrounded with a symphony of colors and sounds, and we hope you will appreciate the unending efforts of people to live full, creative and joyful lives regardless of their limitations.
We will not show you a rosy-colored exotic country, nor the paralyzing drama of helpless poverty — both of these are creations of a system that divides us, and by no means describe what is happening. Rather, we will introduce you to a small part of a contradictory history and a many-sided reality that is neither black nor white, neither evil nor good, always evolving, always alive.
We hope you will go beyond the surface to the real Mexico that is unseen or ignored by the media. Beyond the surface, real people find ways to survive and grow.
In your time here, we hope you will perceive the ways that people live, so different from your own ways but made understandable by your guide. We hope you realize that there are also other ways to BE, even in your own places of origin.
In all our places of origin, we can find people modifying their world, confronting challenges with creativity and imagination and resisting injustice — always alongside the simultaneous and painful history of divisions and violence between allies and friends. Our offer is to open a window for you to glimpse the specific experience of Mexico, very close to and yet very far from your own world.
