León, Gto., November 28, 2017.- Campus León of the University of Guanajuato (UG) celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Foundation of the Laboratory of Interpretative Audiovisual Ethnography (ETNOAI) with the Second Festival "Trotamundos".

Activities were carried out to reveal the work done for ten years, where they combine art and science allowing high school, college and postgraduate students to generate audiovisual materials, in addition of developing competencies for planning, managing, follow up and evaluation of liaison projects with public, private and civil society institutions.

The event had conferences, workshops, and a round table called "How to live from social anthropology and don't die trying", where they analyzed the work of an anthropologist, the new work fields where they can contribute knowledge and innovation and the importance it has in society.

With themed topics such as the liaison science and art, consulting, marketing, social entrepreneurism, oral expression, mobile devices and empowerment of the towns of origin, they held several activities in the venues San Carlos of Campus León of UG and other places in the city such as the Kino Room, Cultural Center "La Casa Azul", Chiaravalle school, House of Youth, "Instituto Municipal de la Juventud" and "Refugio del Barrio".

Likewise, they presented the show "El tlachuache y otros mitotes mexicanos" with the participation of Marconio Vázquez, recognized the local orator, scholarship holder from the National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA), who is also, a musician, actor, writer and announcer.

It is important to mention that, they showed the results of the application of the ETNOAI's methodology with which they produced 45 audiovisual materials and have obtained five awards, besides participating in projects such as the Institutional Program of Environment of the University of Guanajuato, International Week of the Brain, in 2012 celebrated at Campus León and the outstanding production "Medicina Sagrada: Temazcalli" by Miguel Agustín "Jackson" García, premiered in the academic stay of Dr. Maricruz Romero Ugalde at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

In an interview, Dr. Maricruz Romero expressed her satisfaction for coordinating the ETNOAI laboratory and sum efforts to generate creative knowledge through the audiovisual knowledge, in which students from different areas have enriched the project.

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