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Rios de Encontro (Rivers of Meeting), is an eco-cultural and socio-educational project based in the community of Cabelo Seco, Pará, Brazil. The project spent the last two weeks of November in national and international activities to celebrate the role of young arts-educators who, in the midst of worrying and uncertain times, are searching for creative ways to promote social...
Edgardo Fernández Sesma and Esteban Mioni dance, alternating and mixing up roles without changing their hold. They are dancing a typically Milonguero tango ("Farewell Buenos Aires" by Sciamarella-Torres Ríos, and the Orquesta Víctor-Angel Vargas, 1938) - Performed at the closing night of the "IX BUENOS AIRES INTERNATIONAL QUEER TANGO FESTIVAL" in the beautiful art-nouveau "Unione and Benevolenza"...
Sulay Pino is waiting for us at the main entrance to the San Javier metro station wearing a bright green t-shirt that reads ‘Stairway Storytellers’, the name of the project she founded along with her friend and co-worker Stiven Álvarez.
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We are booked to go on the popular ‘free graffiti walking tour’ of the Comuna 13 neighbourhood in Medellín which...
An incredible high energy performance that had faces set to 'stunned'.
Video: Boiler Room, June 2018
DjLu, a prolific stencil artist and former DJ, hails
from the high-altitude Andean city of Bogotá, Colombia. The city, as he
describes it, is his artistic playground and a fitting setting to
express his views on the current state of his country at large. Though
his art maintains an aesthetic beauty, he consistently incorporates
strong messaging behind everything he...
Casa Maauad, Mexico City, presents Pièce de Résistance: Margot, a project by Mexican choreographer, artist and dancer Stéphanie Janaina in collaboration with Mauricio Ascencio, Juan Pablo Villegas and Rolando Hernandez. Pièce de Résistance: Margot is made up of a video, installation, and performance. (TIME, SPACE, TRACE)
If nothing saves us from death, at least having her close will save
us from life. Death...
Lesbian Reggaeton: 'Lo que las mujeres quieren' (What girls want). With English subtitles.
Chocolate Remix is the reggaetón project led by Romina Bernardo (aka Chocolate) since 2014. It criticises the machismo associated with this genre and 'resignifies' it, using the same musical logic, creating a new concept of what it calls 'Lesbian Reggaeton'. This idea plays with the stereotypes and...
Mauricio explains the origin and work of Dexpierte Colectivo.
Video: Colectivo Tomate, March 2018