Music, dance and theater took over Solferino

Here you can see the photographic record of the event.

(writing via La Patria) by:

TATIANA GUERRERO

HOMELAND | MANIZALES

in a tent, sheltering from the rain, The members of the Huellas de Vida foundation and the inhabitants of the Solferino neighborhood were there yesterday. Who, despite the weather, made the cultural takeover possible in the sector.

With interpretations of popular songs, Santiago Sánchez and Daniela Trejos, infected the young people who participated in the event that commemorated Women's Day and Men's Day. Two dates celebrated in the month.

Once the rain stopped, The inhabitants took on the task of locating large-scale photographs in a corner of the neighborhood. The images showed the portraits of representative figures of the community who have contributed to its construction and the replication of values..

The dance group So Dope delivered a burst of energy to the public, while the Corpos Grammaticales collective with its staging of the play Manos de mujer, kept them focused and silent.

next events

Huellas de Vida together with the Ciudad Impresa collective will hold a photography festival in the Ciudadela Norte commune. It will have three axes: photography laboratories, exchange spaces with national and international guest photographers, and large-scale photography montage.

The event will start on 18 of May and will end on 7 of June.

Laura Montoya, member of Grammatical Bodies: These spaces serve to show that community development for social transformation is very important..

Harm Gerdes, visitor from Germany: I am in love with the Huellas de Vida process and I highlight the construction of the foundation's headquarters.

Daniela Trejos, singer: I think it's good, because it helps the community and is inclusive.

The next Sunday 31 March at 2:00 P.m, Community Footprints of Life Foundation will commemorate the Women's Day and the day of the man who made this month in Colombia. The event will take place in the Solferino neighborhood plan, one block from the school.

It will make use of photography in the large-scale event (large photos), where the importance of the figure of men and women in the construction of the neighborhood and all the values ​​that are reflected in the community are described. The large-scale photography then aims to show the portraits of representative inhabitants of the neighborhood and highlight the relationships of solidarity that have always existed in Solferino.. Likewise, activities related to the topic will be carried out., like cinema in the park, sexual education workshops, urban dance show and the staging of the play “Manos de Mujer”.

The great novelty is that it also aims to present to the inhabitants of the Ciudadela del Norte commune the value of the history of the neighborhood and its initiative on the construction of the organization's headquarters., In this way, it creates a relationship between these elements and invites people to reflect on these two important days and to connect with the construction of that dream of the organization..

This event has the participation of Ciudad Impresa. Ciudad Impresa is a Documentary Photography Festival that will take place in the city of Manizales on the date: Mayo 18 al 07 of June of 2019. It is an initiative that is woven to create bridges between subjects and crowds. Ciudad Impresa thinks of photography as a means to make visible from otherness, telling silenced stories, from images that result from collaborative construction in community spaces. The festival has three fundamental axes: Photography Labs, Sharing space with national and international guest photographers; Mounting spaces and large-scale photography in the streets and neighborhoods of Manizales.