Storytelling with palm leaf fish

A POETRY FELLOWSHIP
Lilián Pallares and Charles Olsen were invited to give creative poetry workshops in the orphanage for girls, Our Little Roses, and the Holy Family Bilingual School, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras in 2022 and 2023.

Writing a poem
Poster of poetry film Grey Silence

GREY SILENCE
From the poem Silencio gris (Grey Silence), written by Gissel Orellana in the Poetry Club, they made a poetry film with the girls. It was selected for Berlin: ZEBRINO, international competition for poetry films for children and youth, in the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Wisconsin: Midwest Video Poetry Festival, Mexico City: Fotogenia, and presented in San Pedro Sula: Museum of Anthropology and History, Madrid: Centroamérica Cuenta, Oeiras: MOON Festival de Videopoesia.

Our Little Roses

Poetry – a way to transform the reality of girls in an orphanage in Honduras

Through the OLR Poetry Fellowship, poets from around the world have the opportunity to spend one month at Our Little Roses in San Pedro Sula, live on-site at the home, and teach in the co-ed bilingual school next door.

LINKS

  • Our Little Roses Poetry Fellowship
  • 'Vídeo poesía de niña San Pedrana está participando en festival en Berlín' in La Voz Internacional, Sept 2023 [in Spanish]
  • Screening and conversation with Gabriela Lovera 'En una casa flota una nube: dos videopoemas de las niñas de Nuestras Pequeñas Rosas' ('In a House a Cloud Floats: Two Poetry Films by the Girls of Our Little Roses') in Centroamérica cuenta, Casa América, Madrid, Sept 2024 [In Spanish]