Brazil: a gift of honey
At the Monument to 500 Years of Resistance by the Indigneous Peoples of Brazil, Braga, a Pataxó chief, imagines a gift of honey for senators as they debate PL490, which threatens indigenous land rights. It is a gift 'to disarm the media, touch the people, enchant the world'.
International Festival of Human Rights Films
Miradas Diversas is the International Festival of Cinema about Human Rights, being held in Caracas, Venezuela, from 2-12 December 2021. Entries include Lat Libertad no Tiene Fronteras, a documentary short by LAB partner Ojos Ilegales
Peru: Women of Influence
Indigenous women from the Junín area of the Peruvian Amazon made their own short films, depicting their lives and the challenges they face.
Milongueros Edgardo Sesma y Esteban Mioni at the Queer Tango Festival...
Edgardo Fernández Sesma and Esteban Mioni dance, alternating and mixing up roles without changing their hold. They are dancing a typically Milonguero tango ("Farewell...
Ernesto Cardenal: everyone is a poet
Nick Caistor writes: The Nicaraguan poet and Catholic priest Father Ernesto Cardenal died at the age of 95 in Managua on Sunday 1 March,...
Tintin in the forests of Guatemala
The rainforests of Central America have come to north London.
One day Tintin decided he would like to sit on one of my freshly...
La Población: an album for a shanty town
Victor Jara's 1982 album told the story of the población Herminda de la Victoria. It will be celebrated at this year's El Sueño Existe festival (on Zoom from Machynlleth, Wales). Malcolm Boorer tells the story behind the album.
Stéphanie Janaina | Pièce de Résistance: Margot
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...
Linn da Quebrada – hybrid sounds São Paulo
An incredible high energy performance that had faces set to 'stunned'.
Video: Boiler Room, June 2018