Mayagüez, PR

Four mutual aid organizations from across the Puerto Rican archipelago share their digital justice projects that combine digital humanities and social justice. Listen to the women coffee farmers’ collective of CAMJI Bartolo, learn herbal healing from elders at CAMJI Lares, hear stories rooted in place from La Perla with Colectivo PerlArte, and follow the history of music and community with Fundación de Culebra. Be sure to find our listening station and record your own story! This project is generously funded by a Digital Justice Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies.

9am Coffee Tasting with coffee from Carajillo Coffee House, Yauco, UPRM Library Patio

10:30am Digital Justice Project Showcase, Sala A in the UPRM Library

Pluma Bárbara, CAMJI Lares – Lorel Cubano Santiago, PerlArte – Douglas Lang, Fundación de Culebra – Marian Martínez Vidal, CAMJI Bartolo – Andrés Octavio, CAMJI Bartolo – Tommy Padrón Friedman, Fundación de Culebra – Carlos Rafael Pitirre, CAMJI Lares – Luz Rivera Cantwell, Fundación de Culebra – Elisa Sánchez Torres, CAMJI Bartolo – Yadianis Umpierre, PerlArte – Diana Viera, CAMJI Lares

Watch our documentary film, Todavía Estamos Aquí, about the water crisis in the underserved community of Bario Rucio in Peñuelas, and the work that our partners at the mutual aid organization Impacto Juventud have done to help through their project Aula en la Montaña. To be followed by a Q+A with community members, project leaders, and student and faculty filmmakers. Stay after the film to listen to a panel of water protectors and water quality experts tell stories about the most urgent issues related to clean and safe water—and how we can protect it! Be sure to find our listening station and record your own story!

8:30am Opening of the Exhibit

9am Todavía Estamos Aquí screening with Q+A, Sala A in the UPRM Library
Raisa Bonnet Ocasio – Eduardo Lugo Hernández – Helga Maldonado – Jorge Santiago Fernández – Carhianie Vargas Padín

10:30am Water Protectors’ Panel, Sala A in the UPRM Library
Anthony Díaz, Newark Water Coalition – Eduardo Lugo Hernández, Department of Psychology, UPRM – Graciela I. Ramírez-Toro, Center for Environmental Education, Conservation and Interpretation (CECIA), Interamerican University of Puerto Rico – Steve Tamar, Blue Water Task Force of Surfrider de Rincón – Pedro Tarafa, Department of Civil Engineering, UPRM

Th, Sept 19: Storytelling in the Aftermath

Join storytellers from multiple genres as they share excerpts from their work related to disaster, trauma, survival, and healing. Bringing together children’s book authors, comix artists, filmmakers, oral history narrators, poets, and social media curators, the storytellers on this panel explore together how telling stories based upon personal experiences helps them navigate challenges and changes.

10:30am Storytellers’ Panel, ONLINE
Zaira Arvelo Alicea, OHL @UPRM – Loretta Collins Klobach, Department of English, UPR-Río Piedras – Rosa Colon, Soda Pop Comics – Linda Rodríguez Guglielmoni, Department of English, UPRM

Moderator: Edcel Cintrón González, Illinois State University

Sept 26: Mutual Aid Stories, A Celebration of Come Colegial
Learn about our digital archive built in partnership with the Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico, a collaboration between the OHL, UPR-Río Piedras, Michigan State University, and the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC). This project builds digital spaces for conversations between mutual aid organizations in the Puerto Rican archipelago and the event spotlights our partner, Come Colegial, as we unveil the Omeka S subsite we built to celebrate their 10 years of addressing food insecurity on our campus. Be sure to find our listening station and record your own story! The day closes with a presentation from UPR Caribe Digital, the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective, which is leading conversations about and actions around digital humanities in the archipelago. This event is supported by the Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico through a generous grant from the Presidential Stream of the Mellon Foundation.
8:30am OHL + Come Colegial Free Breakfast, Chardón Placita
9am Nuestro Pedazo de Tierra screening, CELIS 116 [bring your breakfast!]
10:30am Come Colegial 10th Anniversary Event, CELIS 116
Lucy Serrano Gastón
11:30am OHL Digital Humanities Presentation, CELIS 116
Natalia Betancourt Malavé – Aleyshka Estevez Quintana – Natalia Hernández Mejías
3pm Caribe Digital Presentation, GRIC in the UPRM Library
Nadjah Ríos Villarini, UPR-Río Piedras