The collective’s creative work is an area that is in constant development. To find the balance between our sustainability work and our creative production is not easy. Yet, it is our creative production that provides the cement between us, it is the glue that binds the collective (whether it be through the arts or in the garden).

At present we are working on two projects:

• the publication of collective member Gabriel Jiménez Espinoza’s first novel: El día de la torta (loosely translated as Cake day). This novel recounts the experiences of a small child who is abandoned in a police-run orphanage in the early years of the Chilean dictatorship. It exposes the violent and inhuman treatment that the children received, at the hands of older children and the adults in charge. It also tells the story of deep friendships forged in adversity. With a recent UNICEF report exposing abuse and mismanagement in Chile’s “child protection” system, this novel is very timely. Below is an extract (in Spanish).
• a new theatre production that takes as starting point the Juan Radrigan play “Without apparent motive”.