Series consists of records pertaining to the research, organization and writing of Barndt’s book “VIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas”. These records document the involvement of project partners, as well as the funding for and editing of the book. Records in these files are correspondence, e-mail, notes, proposals, pamphlets and brochures, video and audio recordings, papers, reports, and manuscripts.
Contents: "Buy nothing day", "Baby TV turnoff autosaurus", "The product is you" and "Culture Jammer's video".
File consists of notes and an agenda (written in Spanish) pertaining to a VIVA! meeting held at the Universidad de las Regiones Autonomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaraguense (URACCAN) as well as elements for a proposal for VIVA's future for 2006-2007 and notes about the project in Feb. 2007.
File consists of a government publication entitled "Cooperativas en marcha", handwritten notes on MIDINRA, and a paper entitled "Breves apuntes sobre las experiencias de educacion popular del MIDINRA (11 May 1984) produced by the Ministerio de Desarrollo Agropecuario y Reforma Agaria (MIDINRA).
File consists of journal and magazine articles about literacy in Nicaragua, as well as graphs detailing statistics on education programs for adults.
File consists of Spanish-language papers and reports, many produced by the Republica de Nicaragua's Ministerio de Educacion.
File consists of a document written by Deborah Barndt and Amy Shimshon-Santo entitled "New tools and old contradictions: the VIVA! Project engages tekhnologia and new technology", presented at the LASA Congress on 8 Sept. 2007 in Montreal.
File consists of a document entitled "Ano de lucha por la paz y la soberania" produced by ANDEN, the May 1983 issue of "Educadores: publicacion de la Asociacion Nacional de Educadores de Nicaragua (ANDEN)", and a Feb. 1984 issue of "Boletin Internacional: organo informativio de la Asociacion Nacional de Educadores de Nicaragua".
File includes excerpts from a 1983 interview with Ernesto Vallecillo, the Deputy Minister of Adult Education, translated into English, and a keynote paper by Robert Saenz, director general of the Adult Education Program of the Nicaraguan Ministry of Education, entitled "Solidarity as an alternate form of international cooperation: the experience of the National Literacy Crusade in Nicaragua", presented at "Cooperating for Literacy", an international seminar held in Berlin on 16-20 Oct. 1983.
File consists of records pertaining to BilwiVision, a youth-run community television program in Nicaragua and VIVA project collaborator. Included in the file is an itinerary and other information pertaining to a post-hurricane fundraising event for BilwiVision held on 15 Oct. 2007, sample video recordings by BilwiVision, a paper entitled "Vivimos y sobrevivimos en un pais multiduelos", a paper entitled "Race and revolution in Bluefields: a history of Nicaragua's Black Sandinista movement", and a July-Sept. 2003 issue of Wani featuring an article by York University's Christine McKenzie.
File consists of research materials pertaining to the subject of food biodiversity, including a newsletter, fact sheet, and articles.
Item pertains to a book retreat, "Women working the NAFTA food chain" held at Kimbercote Farm on 4-5 May 1998.
Item pertains to a book retreat, "Women working the NAFTA food chain" held at Kimbercote Farm on 4-5 May 1998.
Item pertains to a book retreat, "Women working the NAFTA food chain" held at Kimbercote Farm on 4-5 May 1998.
Item pertains to a book retreat, "Women working the NAFTA food chain" held at Kimbercote Farm on 4-5 May 1998.
Item pertains to a book retreat, "Women working the NAFTA food chain" held at Kimbercote Farm on 4-5 May 1998.
Item pertains to a book retreat, "Women working the NAFTA food chain" held at Kimbercote Farm on 4-5 May 1998.
Item pertains to a book retreat, "Women working the NAFTA food chain" held at Kimbercote Farm on 4-5 May 1998.
Item pertains to a book retreat, "Women working the NAFTA food chain" held at Kimbercote Farm on 4-5 May 1998.
Item pertains to a book retreat, "Women working the NAFTA food chain" held at Kimbercote Farm on 4-5 May 1998.
Item pertains to a book retreat, "Women working the NAFTA food chain" held at Kimbercote Farm on 4-5 May 1998.
Item contains a slide presentation entitled “Curriculum Diversity/Equity Workshops, Faculty of Environmental Studies, From “Perfect Strangers” to “Creating a New Imaginary”.
File consists of interview transcripts in English and Spanish and a published paper by Rosa Maria Torres entitled "La post-alfabetizacion en Nicaragua".
File consists of a draft of a chapter entitled "Tangled roots and routes: women workers along the tomato trail" and reader feedback on the draft chapter by Jan Kainer, Stephanie Conway and the Loblaws cashier featured in the chapter.