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Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres
- Report on the July 2019 Ruta Pacifica workshop in Caceres. In Spanish.
- Methodological Guide to Ruta Pacifica's Theatre Work. In Spanish.
- Ruta Pacifica Report explaining the theatre work conducted in Caceres and Caucasia in November 2019. 33pp. In Spanish.
- Read the script of the play Tejedoras de Vida y Paz (17pp). In Spanish.
- Read the script of the play El Retorno (10pp). In Spanish.
The Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres (Women’s Pacific Route) used theatre with women victims of the armed conflict in Caucasia and Cáceres, two marginalized municipalities in Antioquia. Ruta Pacífica has spent many years developing and honing this methodology, which has been shown to support women to share what happened to them and heal the wounds of the war. Here you can watch them talk about this work and what it means, see photographs of their theatre in action, and read their analysis of the significance of working in these ways.
"We feel we are healing because we can tell the truth of the horrors lived through the play. We let our emotions travel across our bodies and this allows women who had not spoken before to speak out. When the stories come out we can rebuild ourselves. There are similar stories, but each woman who gets it out lives the experience in a particular way. The stories allow us to ask questions that go beyond the individual, ques tions that are connected to the destruction of the social fabric and of nature." (Aura Celmy, Pueblo Bello, October 2019).
