Imagine Colombia - Festival of Arts and Peace- 7- 9 Oct, Southwark

Imagine Colombia is a community celebration inspired by the richness of Colombia's diverse heritage, embodying themes around peace, reconciliation and the search for an optimistic future. In 2016 Colombia signed a peace agreement and although we still face many challenges, we are in transit to an era of post-conflict. Creative interdisciplinary artists, dancers, musicians, poets and storytellers will be sharing our collective and individual memories of human rights struggles, peace, reconciliation and resilience. Six decades of war have left many scars on the fibre of our community, to overcome our painful past we have turned to creativity and art as a way to build new social paths in a post-conflict era. Our diaspora has a diverse cultural heritage nurturing a wide palette of artists whose creativity borrows from hybrid forms of traditional and contemporary art practice. The festival brings a message of community resilience and hopes for a better future.

Programme

Friday 7 Oct. (5.45pm – 9pm) Living Space, Waterloo, SE1 7BE

Canelazo Reception/Festival Opening

Latin American Chorus

Audiovisual projection Colombian Commission of Truth, Exile Chapter

Poetry by Mujer Diáspora and Andrea Millán -Liga Poética Jamundí

Theatre Monologue Mariana Aristizábal Pardo, Mariana Theatre Company.

Cumbia Por La Paz New Tribe Quartet

DJ Sounds for Peace by Zooverano

Saturday 8 Oct (2pm – 6pm) InSpire, Walworth, SE17 2HH

Workshops, Open Level. 16+

2 pm - 3:30 pm Interdisciplinary Dance Session with Calu Lema

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Embroidery Workshop Memory and Peace with Jimena Pardo

4:30pm - 5:30 pm Creative Music Workshop with Wilmer Sifontes

Sunday 9 Oct( 3pm – 8pm) Copleston Centre, Peckham Rye, SE15 4AN

3pm - 3:30pm Children's dance class (rondas infantiles) with Talentos Director Freddy Martínez. (7 years+)

Group Performances 4pm - 8pm

Catufa Dance Group. Pueblito Viejo Performance.

Somos Chibchas, Dance Theatre ‘Buscando a Marino’

Talentos Dance School

Matices Latinos Quintet featuring Luz Elena Caicedo

DJs, Grooves for Peace, Festival Closing Party.

Host or Publisher Arte Latino Cultural Project