In Ciudad Juarez the workshops were conducted at El Museo de Arqueologia en El Chamizal. Mario Parra, the director, arranged for the transportation of groups of young people from local schools and from a center for homeless kids. There were one hundred students ranging from preteens to teens. Participants in both cities were given the same theme of "Border Community" with which to develop their imagery and text..It was an interesting situation working with so many kids in a museum setting while sharing the space with visitors and other workshops. For many of the students this was definitely an unforgettable experience, being their first direct involvement in an art project.

"Border culture means boycott, complot, ilegalidad, clandestinidad, contrabando, transgresion, desobediencia binacional: en otras palabras, to smuggle dangerous poetry and utopian visions from one culture to another, desde alla, hasta aca.

but it also means to maintain one's dignity outside the law. But it also means hybrid art forms for new contents-in-gestation: spray mural, techno-altar, poetry-in-tongues, audio graffiti, punkarachi, video corrido, anti-bolero, anti-todo: la migra (border patrol), art world, police, monocultura; en otras palabras y tierras, an art against the monolingues, tapados, nacionalistas, ex-teticistas en extincion, per omnia saecula speculorum....."

Warrior for Gringostroika by Guillermo Gomez-Peña

This is a selection of quotes written on the shirts by the Ciudad Juarez participants:

"Monday, October 6th......The workshops have started in Juarez although not exactly how they were planned; the original group that was scheduled did not show up. Twenty little kids were visiting the museum; I asked the visiting teacher if her group would like to be involved. She was delighted, called the school, rearranged the bus pick up time and stayed an extra two hours.....

.Friday, October 9th...I need a miracle. Today I worked with forty students who ranged in age from six to fifteen years old. A meteor was spotted over El Paso and Our Lady Of Guadalupe appeared on the back of a chair in the yard of a small house in Juarez. People are flocking to see it; I tried to find it but got lost. Teresa, a volunteer from Juarez has saved me this week; she has been my miracle........