{"id":31044,"date":"2019-07-14T14:24:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T18:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrateurbanbirds.org\/?post_type=event&p=31044"},"modified":"2020-04-18T17:21:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T21:21:31","slug":"the-first-community-festival-to-celebrate-the-birds-of-campeche-with-the-lmi-community","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/celebrateurbanbirds.org\/community\/events\/the-first-community-festival-to-celebrate-the-birds-of-campeche-with-the-lmi-community\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe First Community Festival, to Celebrate the Birds of Campeche” with the lm\u00ed community!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Semilleros de Alas Campeche<\/a> organization of the Urban Birds Program (PAU<\/a>) in Mexico, organized a beautiful festival in the lm\u00ed community. The festival was called \u201cThe First Community Festival, to Celebrate the Birds of Campeche<\/em>“! This organization is dedicated to bird conservation as well as environmental conservation through educational activities for the community. These workshops were filled with amazing ideas for how the community can come up with actions to take care of the environment and birds of the region.<\/p>\n

Many participants attended the festival including children from local schools accompanied by their teachers and students from higher education centers in the area. The schools included Juan Escutia, Benito Ju\u00e1rez Primary<\/a> and Telesecundaria No. 122<\/a>. The higher education institutions represented included, Mundo Maya University<\/a>, Internacional Iberoamericana University<\/a>, Technological Institute of China (Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico de Chin\u00e1<\/a>), Technological Institute of Lerma (Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico de Lerma<\/a>) and Autonomous University of Campeche (Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Campeche<\/a>). Also present were organizations such as the Independent Scouts Association of Mexico (Asociaci\u00f3n de Scouts Independientes de M\u00e9xico<\/a>), the Sak-Xik\u00edn Biodiversity Promotion Club (Club de Promoci\u00f3n de la Biodiversidad Sak-Xik\u00edn<\/a>), members of rural groups and the community theater, Club Plantando Campeche, Yax-Ha Ecotourism, Magic Xpicob, Fofuchas Artesidades Campeche, Reading Collective for Children, Semarnatcam, and many more! Because so many different schools, institutions, and local organizations participated, it was possible to have many different perspectives, ideas, and thoughts. This helped the festival become a total success!<\/p>\n

During the festival, there was art, gardening, bird watching, photo exhibitions, and many more activities! In the artistic activity\u2019s participants learned how to make bird origami and draw their favorite birds. The participants also heard emotional stories, beautiful poems and interesting talks about birds and their conservation. In addition, participants enjoyed watching a play involving birds, and building colorful bird masks for fun! In the end, the youth drew an amazing mural dedicated to their beautiful local birds. It was inspiring to see everyone working together to draw and paint the birds of their community. Look at the following gallery with the photographs of the artistic activities. They are marvelous!<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n