On July 14, Mi Valedor hosted a Fanzine Workshop at Museo Jumex as part of the exhibition Football and Art: The Same Emotion. During the session, participants created football-inspired fanzines to share stories, ideas, and reflections drawn from their own experiences.
Football and Art: The Same Emotion explores football as a cultural, social, and political phenomenon in the context of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Inspired by this premise, Mi Valedor invited participants to create their own fanzines based on personal experiences, approaching football as a language capable of connecting vastly different stories.
The workshop brought together a group of older adults. From the museum terrace, where the activity took place, participants could see the large screen broadcasting the day’s matches, allowing the games to become part of the experience itself. While some followed the action on the field, others wrote, drew, and assembled their fanzines.
Many of the phrases and reflections committed to paper might have seemed like simple workshop exercises, but they revealed something much deeper: personal histories, lived experiences, and traces of journeys that are both individual and, undeniably, collective. Among the magazine clippings, handwritten notes, and collages, one phrase stood out: “War cannot stop us from creating and imagining.”
Among the many hardships the world faces today, one seems to grow more persistent: the tendency toward conflict, especially when it becomes collective and widespread. Moments like this remind us that nothing can extinguish our capacity to create. Creating remains a way of responding. An artistic intervention, in any form, may not transform reality overnight, but it keeps alive the possibility of imagining a different future. And sometimes, that possibility is exactly what we need.
This collaboration between Mi Valedor and Museo Jumex continues to grow through workshops and activities designed for diverse audiences. The museum’s Education Department remains committed to creating spaces that bring culture closer to older adults, neurodivergent people, and anyone eager to discover new forms of learning, expression, and engagement with the world.
Mi Valedor extends its sincere thanks to Museo Jumex’s Education Department for making these gatherings—where art, community, and creativity come together—possible. We also thank valedora Emigdia Hernández for joining and contributing to this workshop.
In the heart of the Historic Center, a group of Mi Valedor members gathered at Fundación Herdez to share much more than recipes: life stories, culinary knowledge, and the joy of building community around the kitchen.
Circo Volador, a renowned arts and cultural center, is one of Mexico City’s most iconic spaces for underground culture. Founded in 1995 by UNAM researcher Héctor Castillo Berthier, it has become a landmark social project, widely recognized as the city’s “cathedral of metal and rock” for its concerts, workshops, and community outreach. On this occasion, its Art Gallery became the home of a very special photography exhibition: “The Other Side of the Pitch”.
On Friday, June 26, the Mi Valedor team took part as a guest at FEZME, a vibrant fanzine fair held at La Esmeralda School of Arts, located within Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (CENART). The festival brought together a wide range of independent projects, students, and artists to share their work and creative practices. It provided an ideal space for exchanging ideas, engaging with community-based art, and celebrating the free expression of the participating collectives.
On July 14, Mi Valedor hosted a Fanzine Workshop at Museo Jumex as part of the exhibition Football and Art: The Same Emotion. During the session, participants created football-inspired fanzines to share stories, ideas, and reflections drawn from their own experiences.
In the heart of the Historic Center, a group of Mi Valedor members gathered at Fundación Herdez to share much more than recipes: life stories, culinary knowledge, and the joy of building community around the kitchen.
Circo Volador, a renowned arts and cultural center, is one of Mexico City’s most iconic spaces for underground culture. Founded in 1995 by UNAM researcher Héctor Castillo Berthier, it has become a landmark social project, widely recognized as the city’s “cathedral of metal and rock” for its concerts, workshops, and community outreach. On this occasion, its Art Gallery became the home of a very special photography exhibition: “The Other Side of the Pitch”.
