Mexico-Manchester 2010

On Thursday we had a long journey from Mexico City to Oaxaca, which was a 6-7 hour drive. We were supposed to set off at 10am. However, we were finally on ‘Mexican time’, so we eventually set off at 1pm. We left Casa Blanca, having been SO busy that we never got to use the beautiful [...]

Apologies that we’re SO many days behind with these blogs, but we just aren’t getting any ‘down time’ at the moment, and we’re getting very little sleep which is starting to affect a lot of us. It’s quarter to midnight on Saturday as I write this, and they’re just cooking our tea. Colin has fallen [...]

Well folks, we have finally arrived in Oaxaca in the south of Mexico and the journey was great fun but I’ll talk more about that later. Yesterday we started to tell you about the families that we visited in Mexico City and now I’d like to carry on a little more about that. The last [...]

I think we underestimated this trip when we described it as a ‘working holiday’! We last updated this blog yesterday morning (Tuesday) fully intending to update it again later in the day with all of our news! So here we are, around 36 hours later, with our first bit of breathing space to fill you in [...]

Hola!! Our group of 15 intrepid adventurers landed in Mexico City last night at 9.15pm local time (3.15am Tuesday morning in the UK) after travelling since 6.30am on Monday and a four hour transfer in Paris, so as you can imagine everyone was pretty exhausted and headed straight to bed. We were up early this morning to [...]

On June 7th 2010, 17 artists from Manchester are heading to Mexico for two weeks to work with the poor on groundbreaking new arts projects. Visual artists, pianists, marimba and violin players, singers, music producers and actors are joining together to perform and create new works for and with the Mexican people. The trip is being [...]

Welcome to 2 Boards & A Passion’s Mexico-Manchester blog! Follow us on our journey over the next month as we prepare for, and embark on, our Arts Exchange trip to Mexico City and Oaxaca to bring our experience and understanding of the Arts to some of the poorest people in the world.