REBECCA NAVA SOTO
Xinanchkalko is a collective indigenous space in Cuentepec. Morelos, Mexico and the core inspiration for my project TEPOZZANILLI: LIVE STREAM TRANSMISSION


Cuentepec resident mud works

View at Xinanchkalko
Cuentepec artist and kiln

Home in Cuentepec

Xinanchkalko Property





Xinanchkalko in Construction
Multigenerational Cuentepec women artists
Cuentepec resident mud works
Cuentepec resident mud works
"Xinachkalko is a space of refuge and development of our identity through our Nahuatl language. It is born of the necessity to protect us in the face of linguicide that the state continues to advance towards the pueblo. This is an effort to preserve the language of our ancestors.
This stronghold is sustained not just as a community of Nahuatl, but of a nation with our own ways of seeing and naming the world; through our language, our tongue and our normative systems.
Xinachkalko is not a cultural center, beyond a sanctuary for cultural roots, it holds a way of life which has been denied to us. It is a space of flourishing of our art, philosophy, literature and all that exists in our Nahuatl world."
Cuentepec artist teaching pottery techniques


10% of any sale from the Tepozzanilli: Live Stream Tranmission series will go to support the Xinanchkalko collective indigenous space in Cuentepec, Morelos, México.
-Victorino Torres Nava Nahuatl Scholar and founder of Xinachkalko