How do grassroots cartonera publishers work together across national, cultural and linguistic barriers? How do they break down walls of stigma and exclusion? What impact has their work had in Latin America over the last two decades, especially in relation to vulnerable communities affected disproportionately by What happens when cartonera publishers from Latin America meet in London? How do cartonera books fit into UK library collections? How do these collectives relate their work on social justice, housing, environmental degredation and indigenous rights issues in Mexico and Brazil to community actors in the UK? This new documentary by Julia May supplements the previous Cartoneras films by highlighting some of the outcomes of the Activating the Arts research project in collaboration with cartonera publishers Catapoesia, Dulcinéia Catadora, La Cartonera, La Rueda Cartonera and Viento Cartonero.
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Cartonera is a social, political and artistic publishing movement that began in Argentina in 2003 and has since spread to countries throughout Latin America and, more recently, to Europe and Africa. In this video, Maria Aparecida Dias da Costa of Dulcinéia Catadora in São Paulo, Brazil, shows us how to make a cartonera book from scratch.

In this short clip, the ‘cardboard publishers’ Dany Hurpin and Nayeli Sanchez from Cuernavaca, Mexico, show us how to make books using recycled cardboard for covers.
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