Projects tagged
Latin America & Caribbean
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Training in Dance and movement Psychotherapy as a tool for reconciliation
Read more: Training in Dance and movement Psychotherapy as a tool for reconciliationFor over 60 years, Colombia has been facing war between guerrilla groups, the State, paramilitary groups and drug dealers. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, raped, displaced and threaten by this armed conflict. The common trait of this…
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The time when Colombian students hugged and kissed the police
Read more: The time when Colombian students hugged and kissed the policeDuring 2011, students around Colombia decided to create a National Student organization that would organize thousands of them to reject a harmful educational reform (Reforma a la ley 30). Before this year, student organizations were characterized by their segmentarity and…
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Welcome to the Cantareira Desert
Read more: Welcome to the Cantareira DesertA grey minivan rattled through São Paulo’s hilly suburbs, loaded with spray cans, paint rollers, buckets and a ladder as five street artists drove to the Atibainha river, rap lyrics blaring from their speakers. On the sweltering afternoon of 26…
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Hall of Fame, Ciudadela México, Quito
Read more: Hall of Fame, Ciudadela México, QuitoTranvía Cero is a group of artists from Ecuador who have been creating artistic projects with the aim to empact community lives and change the ideas of art as an exclusive terrain. The describe their goal as a redefinition of…
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Blu Gets Political in Mexico
Read more: Blu Gets Political in MexicoItalian street artist Blu was recently in Mexico to participate at the ManifestoMX Street Art Festival where he completed this intense and politically charged mural in opposition to the Mexican authorities. The new Blu mural that appeared in MexicoDF, titled…
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Contra-Tiempo Urban Latin Dance Theater in “Full Still Hungry”
Read more: Contra-Tiempo Urban Latin Dance Theater in “Full Still Hungry”Contra-Tiempo’s first Miami dance performance will bring Ana Maria Alvarez back to her roots. Her father’s family settled in Miami after leaving Cuba in the early ’60s. Most of them, including his four siblings and their spouses and children, still…
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Acción Poética
Read more: Acción PoéticaThe Acción Poética movement is a literary phenomenon that began in Monterrey, Mexico in 1996. It was founded by Mexican poet Armando Alanis Pulido and involves painting and intervening abandoned walls in cities with fragments of poetry. The content is…
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Women In War – Oropéndola
Read more: Women In War – OropéndolaWomen in war is a theater play written by Colombian authors Carlota Llano and Fernando Montes. It is based on 4 stories of women that participated and were victims of Colombian armed Conflict: Dora Margarita, a guerrilla women from the…
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All The Time. Every Day.
Read more: All The Time. Every Day.Last September, Fusion commissioned artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, 29, to travel to Mexico City and create an installation of her highly-acclaimed art project protesting street harassment, “Stop Telling Women to Smile.” Fazlalizadeh’s visit to Mexico was her first to the country;…
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Bogota smiles: canned Sardines
Read more: Bogota smiles: canned SardinesA Colombian college student created this idea to improve Bogotas citizens experience when using the public transportation. According to one scientific study, the worst problem Bogota citizens had to deal within the public space was public transportation; this problem represented…