RADIO INTERNACIONAL FEMINISTA-FIRE

Junio 2006

Guadalupe Urbina, lead producer of the project, Wings of the Butterfly, is a Costa Rican singer and composer with a long career in producing music and artistic productions that reflect a commitment to women’s movements.  Since 1991, she has been producing scenic productions about the history of Latin-American women including a monologue, Half Face Moon.  In 1994 Urbina worked with a Dutch woman, Paula Van Ginneken, to produce Homage to Mother Earth, a work of music, dance and painting presented in San José, Costa Rica and New York,  USA.  Urbina also sang and acted in two documentary films of the Costa Rican filmmaker Patricia Howell in 1996 about women in Central America and the UN World Forum in Beijing.  In 1998, she brought to Costa Rica singers, composers and young interpreters from around Central America.

María Suárez is a social communicator from Puerto Rico and Costa Rica.  She is co-director of Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE/RIF) together with the lawyer and communicator, Katerina Anfossi.  FIRE is an internet radio station produced by women.  Suárez based many of the stories in her dissertation and this upcoming theatrical production on those of the multitudes of women interviewed by FIRE since it began in 1991.  Suárez has a long career as an activist for human rights, women’s rights, and the right to the communication.  She has written several books, including most recently:  Se Vende Lindo País (A Pretty Country for Sale) (2001) and La Tranca (The Spell) (2002), which she co-authored with the Costa Rican activist, Cristina Zeledón.  Both of these recent books focus on the struggle to stop oil exploration in Costa Rica.