I had a meeting with the teacher in the morning. We made the corrections of the written diaries until now, trying to identify as many things as we could about the intergenerational process of transference. Making a detailed revision was very exhausting but useful. After that, I met the new girl that is in charge of doing the visual record and the narratives about the intergenerational process, and I explained to her, in the presence of the operator, how does it work and gave her some tips to do it. I think she really got the idea.
We had lunch with the teacher and after that we went over two of the remaining workshops of ceramics in the town “Ceramica Renacer” and “Ceramica El Dorado”. The teacher helping in the project, Nelson, has a close relation with the directors of the workshops (which are also ceramists). We walked all over the place recognizing every step in the process of making the ceramics. It was very interesting to visit a place like that, full of history of the town and life stories.
Some of the adults that are going to participate in the project work there (they haven’t gone yet because of their jobs but are going to help us during the last weeks of the project in the sessions of decoration, which is their specialty). We told them how the project has been doing and re–invited them to attend whenever they are free. At the same time and after we spoke with the manager of the place, we presented the project to some other women that we couldn’t met before but who might be interested. They said that it would be nice to be involved but they refused to make a formal commitment or to promise to go every week to one of the three workshops. Anyway, they are invited and there is a real chance to count on them for at least a couple of weeks, but we have to remind them, that’s a fact.
We asked the manager if it is possible to visit the place with the groups of the workshops; he said it was fine and even if we couldn’t set the schedule immediately, we have the approval and the freedom to go anytime we want (we just have to organize ourselves and make a decision about the visit).