Arts to Breathe 2024

Festival for the Dignity of the Peoples. Arts to Breathe 2024.

This Saturday, October 19, at 4:00 p.m. (Mexico time), the Fifth Edition of the Festival for the Dignity of the Peoples. Arts to Breathe 2024 will be held, in which, through art and culture, various groups, organizations, communities or peoples share their struggles, bets and proposals.

On this occasion, 13 experiences from Brazil, Chile, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico and Puerto Rico will participate.

The activity will begin at 4:00 p.m. (Central American time, Mexico) and will be held online on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/FestivalPorLaDignidad) and You Tube Live (https://www.youtube.com/festivalporladignidad), as well as with synchronous projections in various parts of Abya Yala and the world.

From Mexico, the Casa Click Collective, Atemaxaque and the Committee for Solidarity with Palestine in Guadalajara will participate, while from Brazil, the Círculo de Mulheres do Pium, the Associação Nagôas de Capoeira Tradicional and the Centro Cultural Armazem Multiverso Caparao of the Jacutinga Permacultural Association will participate.

Cuba will be present through the Socio-Cultural Community Project Huellas Azules, Maravillas de la Infancia – Cultivador de Sueños, Manus Aureus, a collective focused on capacity building in the craft of artistic crafts, and the EPA Network Environmental Voices and Ceprodeso.

Also participating will be the singer-songwriter Vlankho from El Salvador, the Chilean musical group Sonkho and the Colectiva Agroecológica de Masificación y Unidad from Puerto Rico.

The cultural-political action is collectively “designed” by the Popular Education Council of Latin America and the Caribbean (CEAAL), Wayna Tambo – Diversity Network (Bolivia), Cultura Viva Comunitaria, CEP Parras (Mexico), Radio Imagina (Mexico), Rede Pacra (Brazil), Red RecreArte (Mexico), Casita Caminos del Corazón (Peru) and the Mexican Institute for Community Development (IMDEC) (Mexico), with the objective “of being a meeting space between diverse artistic and cultural expressions, to make visible the diverse struggles throughout our Abya Yala, to share complaints and announcements, and above all to strengthen our hopes to breathe.”

The festival has already been held four times in previous editions, between 2020 and 2023, fueled by fresh air, water, earth and intense, vital fire from 115 experiences from 21 countries in Abya Yala/Latin America and the Caribbean and 6 from other Souths (Africa, Asia, Europe and the USA).

«We realize that the Festival has planted emancipatory seeds, that it has borne small but deeply significant fruits on other ways of life that re-inhabit the world from within us and strengthen us in our struggles, because we feel like a people, a people that weaves bonds and solidarity,» comments the collective organizer of the activity.
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