The Fernando Benítez/ In cualli Ohtli Book Club is a cultural recreation space dedicated to children, young people, and the occasional elder. It incorporates reading and art as essential arguments to carry out various playful and educational activities. Located in the south of Mexico City, in the Señorío Momoxca, a little point of Nahuatl culture, with a 25 year history and a record of more than 450 members. It is a benchmark within the community; an authentic option to access the world of arts and entertainment for free, freely, in a plural and inclusive way, since the population that makes it up and has constituted it includes the indigenous (mainly migrants), rural, urban, working class, merchants, professionals, etc. Shaper of several generations of children and young people in whom the book club has sown the seed of curiosity, doubt, contemplation, love, and respect for our mother, earth. It stands as a thick foliage tree that invites you to enjoy the shade on a sunny day, the shelter of a cloudy and stormy day, to escape, to the laughter and playfulness of its leaves in autumn... come, you may find something that interests you, that steals the attention of your senses, its doors are open every Saturday from one to three; if you're lucky, you might find a workshop given by one of our foreign friends who often stroll through here... and remember, as the fox said "if you say you're coming at three, I'll start to be happy from two o'clock." In Cualli Othtli.
With 25 years of experience, the Fernando Benítez / In Cualli Ohtli Book Club is the social platform through which the work of Callpulli Tecalco moves to various cultural programs in a transdisciplinary way, with literature as the axis of activation.
Program taught by the poet Francisco Trejo, carried out with the aim of encouraging the qualities in writing in a playful way.
The agenda addresses the exchange between various agents, organizations, and indigenous nations, to strengthen the waves of languages and ancestral knowledge and wisdom. In 2028, the agenda hosted a program of literature in indigenous languages with the participation of the poets, researchers, and artists: Juventino, Nadia López García, Natalia Toledo, Martin Tolnameyotl, Jose Antonio Farfán, the rap native singer Juan Sant. It has also welcomed the Koori (or Koorie) communities of Australia, David Kopenawa Chief of the Yanomami Nation of Brazil, the Sami community of Lapland, the P´urhépecha community; the Cherani collective, and cultural agents of the Ayuujk community. Yásnaya Aguilar.
Gastronomy is of vital importance for indigenous communities, through the preparation of food community
life is nourished, new work perspectives are born, critical thinking is developed, politics is done, new
alliances and friendships are also established; all around food.
The preparation of food is as important as the registration and documentation of the culinary wealth of
the region.
In 2005, a first publication was made on documentation of plants associated with the system. terrace agriculture, including Nahuatl nomenclature and its uses in the region, as well as aspects scientific basics and in 2011 a publication on vegetation for edible use was published, magical and medicinal: The Xopantlacualli/the food of the green time that also includes dishes from the zone a playful work of plant identification by the book club Fernando Benitez, In quéli Ohtli. Calpulli Tecalco is currently working on the creation of a community herbarium. Visit our bookshop.
