Artists committed to social, educational and political project

Cabaret performers or political activists? / Art and Peace /

¿What is the meaning of art in a war zone or for malnourished kids in Chiapas? / Can art denounce injustice and violence?

Meet those that have worked through art with Zapatist and Kurdish women, teenagers from unprivelaged areas of Mexico City, Cali (Colombia) or in Brasilian slums.

• Redefining Art: Recreating Reality 1
  (July  6 – 10  / 13:00-15:00) [Esmeralda 17]
  
  Orlando Cajamarca / Luz Nohemí Ocampo (COLOMBIA) (July 6)
  Ben Benaouisse (BELGIUM) (July 7)
  Las Reinas Chulas (MEXICO). Artivists (July 8)
  Julio Solórzano (MEXICO) (July 9)
  Robert Steijn  (NETHERLANDS) (July 10)
  
  
• Redefining Art: Recreating Reality 2
  (July 6 - 10 / 17:00-19:00) [Aula Magna]
  
  Mia Haugland Habib (NORWAY) / Micheline Torres (BRAZIL) (July 6)
  Patricia Ariza (COLOMBIA). Theater, politics and patriarchy (July 7)
  Agustín Estrada (MEXICO) (July 8)
  Ofelia Medina (MEXICO) (July 9)
  Martha Figueroa Mier (MEXICO) (July 10)
  
  
• Art and activism
  (July 6  / 10:30-12:30) [Blas Galindo]
  
  Moderator: Mia Haugland Habib (NORWAY)
  Patricia Ariza (COLOMBIA)
  David Dorfman (USA)
  Martha Figueroa Mier (MEXICO)
  Keith Henessy (CANADA/USA)
  
  
• Reflections of violence 
  (July 7  / 10:30-12:30)  [Blas Galindo]
  
  Moderator: Georg Hobmeier (AUSTRIA)
  Javier Basurto (MEXICO)
  Orlando Cajamarca (COLOMBIA)
  David Dorfman (USA)
  Martha Figueroa Mier (MEXICO)
  Gabriela Medina (MEXICO)
  
  
• The Art of We
  (July 11 / 17:00-19:00) [Plaza de las Artes]
  
  Moderator: Nina Serratos (MEXICO)
  Dance Community Picture. Trajal Harrell (USA), David Bergé (BELGIUM), Carmen Bojórquez (MEXICO)
  La fábrica de artes y oficios de oriente, el Faro. Agustín Estrada (MEXICO).
  La Granja.Gabriela Medina/Mario Villa (MEXICO)
  Sonideros. Mariana Delgado (MEXICO)
  Sweet & Tender Collaborations (Disorganized Organization) Tommy Noonan (USA-GERMANY)
  
  
• Running into the political equator Gilad Ben Ari (ISRAEL)
   (julio 6 / 19:30-20:30) [Aula Magna]

Learn about a Prisma Extensions project that Mexican and international artists developed in the boarder of Mexicali-USA

• Ciclo de funciones: Violencia. Reflexión y Refracción.

Violence seen through the eyes of:

 A Mexican residing in New York

 Germans re-enacting a Bonnie & Clyde shooting

A group of Mexican capoeira dancers of   limited economic resources.

Young performers from Sinaloa that have lived surrounded by the narco drug lords and gangs.

 A Dutch in Ireland that questions violence as an entertainment

• Gabriela Medina (MEXICO). The Hershey Man
  (julio 9 / 19:30) [López Mancera]
  
  
• Anja Müller- Dennis Deter (ALEMANIA). Memor I am. Basurto / Compañía de Danza Joven de Sinaloa (MEXICO). Tocar fondo / Letitia Tarno (MEXICO). "Todo lo que la boca come"
  (julio 10 / 19:30) [Blas Galindo]