Fundraising
In the spirit of ‘the gift’ we are offering this event without charge. We are not collecting fees or making money. There are some hard costs which need to be covered.
As a participant in this event you will be getting access to AMAZING speakers, WORLD CLASS performers, and more than a whole week of fabulous, life changing adventures in the jungle!! If you can afford it, please consider donating more to help cover the costs of those who cannot.
Having a trip like this organized for you would normally cost thousands of dollars per person, but because we are pooling our resources and are run purely by volunteers, we are making is possible for anyone to attend.
The suggested donation is $100 per person.
If you would like to sponsor a specific speaker or aspect of the event, please include the specifics in the ‘comments’ section when you donate.
Speaker-
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Author of ‘The Living Maya‘ Chip is an expert in Maya Textiles and culture and speaks fluent Tzotzil. Chip has devoted his career to preserving and promoting highland Maya weaving. He is a co-founder of Sna Jolobil, an 800-member weaving cooperative based in San Cristóbal de Las Casas. He has organized indigenous artisan groups throughout Chiapas, Yucatan, and Guatemala, and has established community-run museums for the Lacandon Maya and the Itza of Peten. He is currently engaged in a long-term study of costume changes among the highland Maya.
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$150 |
Speaker-
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Carol lives in El Panchan and was the inspiration for this event. She is a writer and editor who has worked on books and films in the fields of anthropology, art, ecology, and educational philosophy. In the past fifteen years in Chiapas, she has edited two books of photography, a collection of Maya women’s poetry, as well as numerous books on Maya culture. She is the author of The Turquoise Trail, a popular book on cross-cultural communication between the Southwestern United States and Mesoamerica. She has also worked as a writer on a variety of documentaries for the Smithsonian and National Geographic.
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$150 |
Speaker-
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Orquídeas Moxviquil was established in 1994 to rescue principally orchids, secondarily other epiphytes, which were being dumped and burned as garbage in the process of burning and clearing the forests: or were being removed for illegal commercial sales, or abandoned in the process as selling these plants is a Federal offence. Craig “Cisco” Dietz rescues, catalogs and guards the plants he finds abandoned and left to die. |
$150 |
Local Guide-
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Gabriel can take us on hikes into the jungle to explore forgotten ruins and hidden treasures. He has been a guide in Palenque since he was a small boy and is a magical character with lots to share. For $500 we could engage his services for the whole week, taking us on adventures.
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$500 |
Event Coordinator |
We need one person to be the point person to coordinate and be on site all week to answer questions and make things happen. It’s a huge job to expect a volunteer to take on, so we would like to raise the money to pay for their flights.
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$600 |
Don Moises
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Although Don Moises said that he didn’t want any money for using the land, we would like to give him a generous donation. He is 87 years old and lives in the jungle with five stray dogs and a pig. A few hundred dollars would mean a lot.
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$1000 |
Day Trip to
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We could take everyone on a bus for a daytrip to two beautiful legendary local waterfalls- Misol Ha and Agua Azul.
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$800 |
Temazcal |
We could book the local Temazcal (Mexican Sweat Lodge). Just a 10 minute walk down the road from El Panchan, it could be ours for the whole week
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$600 |
Production
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Although it’s difficult to know the exact costs, we are estimating that this would cover chair rental, generator, lighting, décor, trash removal, and shipping
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$500 |
Clean up |
Before and after the event we will need some help cleaning up. We could pay people locally to help us with some of the dirty work.
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$200 |