Featuring / Presentando
Lokandes @lokandes
Mulata Dance Company @mulatadancecompany
Eco-razonar & Puinamudt @ecorazonar @4cuencas
Claudia Ramirez Julio @light.dot
Tere Chad @terechad
Leandro Fidelis @fidelis080980
For Dom, Bruno & the Amazon @dombrunoamazon
Claudio Muñoz @claudiomunozillustrator
Artur Soar @artur.soar
Y.A.N.G (You Are the Next Generation) @y.a.n.g._
José Canepa @chameleon.creations
Luciano Di Filippo
Tania Daniela Gómez @tania.daniela.gp
Emily Colipi @emilycolipi__
Centre For Postcolonial Studies @postcolonialcentre
La Wayaka Current www.lawayakacurrent.com
Tanya Houghton @tanya_houghton_
Exhibition
Tere Chad
Ecoranozar & Puinamudt
Claudia Ramirez Julio
For Dom, Bruno & the Amazon
Claudio Muñoz
José Canepa
Luciano Di Filippo
Artur Soar
Y.A.N.G
Emily Colipi
La Wayaka Current
Tanya Houghton
Saturday 6th July
Workshops / Live Music / DJ’s
11am-12.30pm: Capoeira Angola Workshop
Capoeira is an African martial art which takes its last forms in Brazil. Dance and combat meet magic and mind games through ceremony. A resistance movement born in times of colonialism and cultural perseverance, honouring the ancestry. Movement of the body, movement of the mind, movement of the soul.
12.30pm-1.30pm: Afro-Peruvian Percussion Workshop
Led by the rhythmic section of Mulata Dance Company and by its maestro Kieffer Santander, this workshop will explore a variety of instruments and their function in traditional Afro-Peruvian music. There will be a chance to play along and understand how the musical elements are fundamentally tied to the dance in the Afro-Peruvian tradition.
1.30pm-2.30pm: Afro-Peruvian Dance Workshop
Led by the first Afro-Peruvian performance group in London, Mulata Dance Company presents its workshop on their traditional dance. Spreading the joy of life through dancing is something they are proud of doing and the feeling is catchy. They will share the first steps of the way with the involved participants, and perform as a collective later in the program.
3-4.30pm: Leandro Fidelis (DJ Set)
The Afrobrazilian record collector from Sāo Paolo is currently based in London where he does regular DJ sets of roots native grooves, selecting between the rich indigenous, latin and afro influences which make Brazil's music & dance so colourful and lively.
4.45-5.15pm: Eliana Rosas ft Manos Negras
London's first Afro-Peruvian music & dance collective Mulata Dance Company will perform their set after running the morning workshops on both elements of the tradition. Expect percussion and music and for the participants to immerse in the Afro-Peruvian culture by participating in the dance live.
7.15–7.45pm: Jag-Wah x The Bath House Band
Jag-Wah the musical project of José Canepa explores rhythms and styles from around “Los Paises Hermanxs” where he lived and worked in Chile, Panama and Brazil collaborating with local artists & residencies. The wider pluriculutural influence of the region has shaped his multi-disciplinary creative direction and has widened his perspective from the London streets where he grew up and now he is based again. He will be joined onstage by Hackney Wick music residency locals, The Bath House Band.
8.00pm-8.45pm: Titii Orinoko Tundama
Afro caribbean spanish speaker, london born and bred. Son to a barranquillera, son of the brown diaspora of the world. Titii is influenced by traditional folk in his mothers mother land. From cumbias to salsas, folk from the streets of london such as grime to sound system stepper. Titii is influenced by the likes of Marcus Garvey and Malcom X, taking him further into questioning the roots behind the new age traditions of the so called "latino" aswell as no further identifying with the spanish name given to him at birth.
9.00-09.45pm: Lokandes
Lokandes is an Andean Latin Afro groove fusion band based in London since 2009. The name is the combination of two words: ‘Crazy’; and ‘Andes’; which means making unconventional and alternative music with the Andean instruments and bringing it up to date making a fusion of traditional roots and Afro- rhythms with other contemporary genres such as Reggae, Cumbia, Ska, Jazz, Son, Rumba Folk and funky Latin rhythms. All of these made the band special and unique. This year they are celebrating their 15th anniversary together as a band.
10.00-10.45pm: Lokandes Tropical + special guests from Chicha 4UK
11pm-Midnight: The Bath House DJ’s
Sunday 7th July
Presentations / Workshop / Closing Performance
11am-Noon
Claudio Muñoz: “Perdido (Lost)”
Chilean artist who fled to the UK a few years after the US backed military coup of 11 September 1973. He has worked for the country’s main newspapers and magazines, including 22 years for The Economist, where his running portrayal of president GW Bush junior was discontinued by the editors under pressure from the White House. His illustrations for children’s stories have appeared in some thirty books published here and internationally. He will be presenting his new book of illustrations “Perdido”, which translates as lost, documenting his time in exile from the Chilean dictatorship.
Noon-1pm
Tania Daniela Gómez: “How to Fight the Stories of Petropower”
“How to Fight the Stories of Petropower” released in July 2024 is a collaborative project between Ecorazonar, a Peruvian eco feminist organisation and Puinamudt, indigenous federation from the North Amazon of Peru, with support of the Antipode Foundation. It disputes the toxic stories of petropower through the indigenous defense of the territory. By combining ancestral knowledge, countermapping, community environmental monitoring, healing houses and others, this experience offers creative lessons to other resistances to extractivism. The video-essay will be accompanied with a talk by Tania Daniela Gómez, a representative of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies and current PhD student at Goldsmiths University.
1.20-2.20pm
Luciano Di Filippo: “Amphibious Reports from La Mojana”
The video archive "Relatos Anfibios", published in July 2024, is an evolving project that continues to add testimonies to the archive of communal land appropriation in the region of la Mojana, the delta of the Magdalena River in northern Colombia. She unravels the conflicts and complexities of the territory through four non-human actors. By combining interviews, counter-mapping, remote sensing and OSINT, this experience offers a dual knowledge of forensic architecture avant-garde knowledge with traditional peasant knowledge to create links of resistance between different local communities. Luciano Di Filippo will present this talk of his work produced during his time at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University.
2.40-3.40pm
Tere Chad: “Neo Norte Talk” (New North)
is an ongoing research project where Tere Chad invites a Latin American collective to turn the map of the world upside down. Inspired by the example of Joaquín Torres García, the artists involved have banded together to suggest that the South be viewed as the New North. Neo Norte manifests itself in various ways, through exhibitions, publications, performances, workshops and events. It attempts to challenge traditional curatorial practices with their ongoing Eurocentric vision and promote instead its own identity, where Latin America is presented as offering a new creative direction. The project has been showcased in 4 countries, Santiago de Chile, London, Helsinki and Sicily, with the participation of more than 80 artists and received more than 565.000 attendants. Tere Chad has been invited to present the 5th edition at the Memorial da América Latina, in Sao Paulo, Brazil between 2024 and 2025 to commemorate it’s 35th anniversary. Neo Norte 5.0 invites the community to use performance and upcyling as a method to reimagine the voyage of the Global South.
4-5pm
Andean Aerophone Instruments Workshop
Led by Kanti Qena and Phaxsi Coca of Lokandes, who carry the spirit of the Andes both on the Peruvian and Bolivian side. They will share with us the story and meaning behind the long tradition of aerophone music from this region and present a range of indigenous flutes, giving those involved a rare chance to try the authentic native instruments.
5.20-6.20pm
Domonique Davies: “For Dom, Bruno & the Amazon”
Dom Phillips, a British journalist who worked for the Guardian newspaper & Bruno Pereira a local interpreter were collaborating on environmental work in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest until like many others before them were murdered for their risky work. Since then the exhibition "For Dom, Bruno & the Amazon" was produced, a foundation is being prepared by his family to educate about the Amazon and their legacies, and Dom's final book that he was working on there is being prepared for publication. Dom's niece Domonique Davies will give a talk complimenting their exhibition and updating us on their actions.
6.40-7.30pm
Sumaq Ayllu - Sagrada Familia (performance & talk)
'Sagrada Familia' is a trio specializing in Andean music which consists of family members Kanti Quena (Carlos Saldana) and Phaxsi Coca (Jeanette Rojas), and their 11-year-old son Raymi Willka. Phaxsi, from Bolivia, and Kanti, who is from Peru, are both well-known Andean musicians based in London, and are members of the ground-breaking fusion band 'Lokandes'. Raymi, who was born in London, has been brought up steeped in his Andean heritage, and is already showing some of the virtuoso musicianship of his parents. They will perform for the closing ceremony of the mini festival.