Shipibo Community Maps

During the Village Earth visits in early 2005, community members were encouraged to map out their communities - showing us the resources and features they value in their communities. The exercise was highly successful and a few of the maps are shown below.

Santa Teresita

Antiguo Ahuaypa

Nuevo Egipto
Dinamarca

Santa Clara
Roya
Nuevo Peru

Soy Andina

"Soy Andina" is a new documentary film currently in production. Check out their website to keep updated on the dates of release.

The Story
Two New Yorkers — an immigrant folk dancer from the Andes, and a modern dancer steeped in hip-hop — journey to the "Real Peru" in search of roots.

After 15 years in New York, Nelida Silva returns to her birthplace in the Andes to fulfill a lifelong dream and host the fiesta patronal — an astonishing week of dance, music, and ritual from Incan times. But Neli's changed, and so has the village. What's it like to go back to the Andes when you've become a New Yorker?

Two years later: Cynthia Paniagua, a dancer raised in Queens by a Peruvian mom, embarks on her own Peruvian journey after meeting Neli — determined to "quench a burning desire to know the real Peru, to unearth the mystery of the dances." Does she find what she's looking for? Well, you'll have to see the movie!
Soy Andina is an exuberant cross-cultural road trip, bursting with traditional music and dance rarely seen outside the country. But the core story is intimate and universal: a yearning for roots and connection in turbulent times.

"A film about the miracle of intercultural integration in a globalized age." - Ambassador Oswaldo de Rivero, Mission of Peru to the UN