OUTREACH
We use museographic, curatorial, and cultural production tools to raise public awareness about the importance of the Huichol People's biocultural heritage. Over the past 30 years, we have produced and collaborated on a variety of scientific and cultural events, exhibitions, videos, and publications.
2025
“Our Ancestors' Guide to Facing the Planetary Crisis” video for the Indigenous Cosmographies as Agents of Change International Symposium at University College London (june). Co-production Susie Vickery, Jennie Gamlin, CHAC.
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2023
“Women's Stories” Video. Animated video about the history of gender colonialism in Huichol communities. Narrated in Huixárica with English and Spanish subtitles. Animated by textile artist and activist Susie Vickery.
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2012
Co-production of the “WirikutaFest” music festival (with over 58,000 attendees) at Foro Sol in Mexico City, in collaboration with the entertainment company OCESA, the international musicians’ consortium Colectivo Ahó, more than a dozen Mexican civil society organizations, and the agrarian authorities of various Huichol communities.
2010
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Production of the "Virtual Huichol Museum." A 16-part video series. Two Huichol delegates interpret the historic collection of Huichol artifacts collected by Konrad T. Preuss during his 1905 expedition to Nayarit, now housed at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. Supported by the Berlin University of the Arts and Peoples & Nature e.V.
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Production of "Memories of a Saga", the making-of for the "Virtual Huichol Museum".
2009
Mucu mú ta iyari - This Is What We Think From the Heart. A 22-minute documentary about the illegal Bolaños-Tenzompa-Huejuquilla highway project in El Alto, Jalisco. Co-produced with the Festival de Cine en el Campo and the Tuapurie Community.
2005
The Path Forward. A 10-minute video to promote the Huichol People's Cultural Landscapes Conservation Initiative.
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2002
Research and production of the video documentary The Path We Will Follow. A 50-minute documentary about the Huichol Biocultural Corridor. In coproduction with Luz Machado and Producción Dinámica, S.A.
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2000
Production of the informational video Huiricuta – Natural and Cultural Reserve, in both Spanish and English. With the support of the production company La Maroma and Grupo ACIR.
1996
Co-editing and post-production of the 35mm documentary film The Magical Land of Peyote by John and Colette Lilly, based on footage filmed during pilgrimages to sacred sites and in the Huichol Sierra since 1969. This work included sessions with maracate and jicuritámete from Tuapurie at our post-production facilities to ensure careful handling of the content. Supported by CONACULTA – FONCA. Project in progress.
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2025
“Totu's Big Journey.” A children's story for non-Huichol children ages 3 to 6 who live along the Huichol Biocultural Corridor. This educational project for social transformation is implemented by Think Equal in collaboration with CHAC. Distributed through CONAFE to promote equality, empathy, and critical thinking in areas affected by violence.
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2018
Editorial coordination in partnership with the Zacatecano Institute of Culture Ramón López Velarde for the book Those were the times: The Huichol Sierra, Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitlán Community 1969–1986 by Colette Lilly.
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2014
Development of the first digital atlas of mining concessions, conservation, and Indigenous peoples in Mexico, created in collaboration with the Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature and Fundar – Center for Analysis and Research.
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2006
Production of the book The Path of Grandfather Fire – Tatehuarí Huajuyé, co-published with the Secretariat of Social Development.
Featured Publications
Productions
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Research, curation, and co-production of the virtual exhibition "Coloniality of Gender and Sexuality: How the Intimate Lives of the Wixárika People Changed Forever." The exhibition explores gender and sexuality practices, identities, and cultures that have transformed from the Colonial period to the present, based on extensive research and historiographic review. Interactive materials were used, including videos, art, music, narrations in Wixárika, Spanish, and English, as well as archival documents. The exhibition is a collaboration among the Huichol community of Tuapurie, the Santo Domingo Center of Excellence for Latin American Research (SDCELAR) at the British Museum, University College London (UCL), CIESAS Occidente, and CHAC.
2005
Development of the Museological Script for the Casa de Moneda Interpretation Center in Real de Catorce, commissioned by SEDUVOP – Government of San Luis Potosí.
2001
Collaboration on the permanent exhibition (photographic and ethnographic): Images of the Huichol World, 1895–2000 at the Zacatecano Museum, Zacatecas. A project by John and Colette Lilly.
2012
Adaptation and production of the exhibition The Huichol Nation: From the Sea to the Desert at the Real de Catorce Cultural Center, San Luis Potosí. In collaboration with the BBVA Bancomer Foundation, the Real de Catorce Cultural Center, the Ministry of Culture of San Luis Potosí, the Zacatecano Museum of Culture, and the National Museum of Mexican Art.
2018
In collaboration with artist Eduardo Abaroa and Regina Tattersfield, curation, production, and installation of the exhibition "Huixárika Biocultural Codex – 23 Years of Conservación Humana AC" at the XII FEMSA Biennial Nunca Fuimos Contemporáneos. Zacatecano Museum, Zacatecas, Zacatecas.
2013
Installation of the exhibition Golden Eagle Gallery – Living Symbol of Mexico at the Real de Catorce Cultural Center. Artwork loaned by NIKON de México S.A. and Gaia Editores. Real de Catorce, S.L.P.
2011
Research, design, and museographic production of the exhibition The Huichol Nation: From the Sea to the Desert at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, from January 21 to August 7. In collaboration with the Zacatecano Museum, the Zacatecano Institute of Culture Ramón López Velarde, and MetLife Foundation.
1999
Collaboration on the Huichol art exhibition Sacred Visions – Contemporary Art of the Huichol Indians of Mexico at The October Gallery, London, UK.
