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The General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed on May 21st World Day of Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development and the festival Much More May, organized by the Department of Culture, wanted to coincide its last day with this commemoration.
The festival, which in this 2019 edition has had as its motto 'The face of the other.
Art and hospitality ', dismisses its eleven days of activity, making visible the great work carried out by citizens and associations with all those who, because of their status as refugees, refugees or migrants in general in precarious situations, are invisible to our eyes and faceless. society.
For this reason, on Tuesday, May 21, at 12:00 a.m. in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, the women from the neighborhoods of San Antón, Virgen de la Caridad and La Vaguada, representing all participating neighborhoods, will be placed in the Gardens of the Wall of the Sea in front of the Town Hall the installation called 'Abrazo.
I welcome you, you welcome me.
I look at you, you look at me. '
It consists of a ceramic hug, in which the participants wanted to reflect their feelings when they look at each other's faces.
The Mural and the installation are designed and directed by Atramceramistasocial and it has been possible thanks to the collaboration of the Department of Equality.
To close this lived moment, we will have the collaboration of Rama Blanca doing among all the sun salutation.
In the afternoon, from 9:00 p.m. in the Plaza de los Carros, the visual and sound artist Eduardo Balanza accompanied by the dj's with whom he works regularly, Pedro Walker and Fernando will perform a live radio session. Cobra Diverse.
Radio Cobra Diverso is a music session and a performance open to all audiences.
A radio session that takes Cultural Diversity as a field of research on which to deploy a live work with dj and music of an hour and a half approx.
The session mixes live interviews on the set with cultural associations, intercultural collectives, original video projections, photographs of spaces in which these communities live, and sound material from interviews made and edited with these groups.
The piece is an open reflection on identity and an opportunity to open a coherent debate on the social vulnerability of those who are forced to move from one country to another, carrying with them the valuable cultural and human burden that is the starting point this work.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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