Puppets in Aguadas
SECOND PUPPETS INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON BIODIVERSITY “AWAQ IN AGUADAS” 2023.
From April 23 to 30
Abierto
20-01-2023
15-05-2023
Colombia
Aguadas – Caldas
Cultural – Ambiental – Educativo
To carry out the II International Puppetry Encounter on Biodiversity “AWAQ EN AGUADAS” 2023
in the municipality of Aguadas-Caldas, in order to promote the formation of audiences that generate citizen awareness for cultural development and environmental preservation.
The Puppet Encounter “Awaq en Aguadas” is an artistic space that seeks to generate an environmental culture towards the construction of sustainable societies (“Think globally and act locally”).
This project seeks to bring quality artistic events to rural communities, while supporting national and international puppet theater artists, who due to the pandemic have been affected economically and professionally by the lack of spaces for the circulation of their artistic works.
As a chain effect, by promoting theater in rural areas, cultural and nature tourism is boosted, since it makes it possible for different audiences to travel to the countryside to enjoy cultural programs, generating not only the cultural development of the territory, but also the economic development of the artists and the local community.
Caldas is a diverse, multicultural department, attached to its traditions and beliefs, which gathers the largest number of municipalities of the Coffee Cultural Landscape, however, the rural population of the north of Caldas, as well as a large percentage of the rural inhabitants of the department, have difficulties to access both educational and cultural offerings, not to mention the connective and technological, due to the state of the tertiary roads leading from urban centers to the different villages where a significant percentage of the local population lives.
This project shows the need to decentralize the cultural offer, which is concentrated in the cities, making it possible for the rural territories to have access to a quality cultural and artistic offer, allowing to overcome the cultural gap that exists because they are isolated in the national territory thanks to a precarious infrastructure.
The Second International Meeting of Puppets on Biodiversity “AWAQ IN AGUADAS” will be held from April 23 to 30, 2023 in mixed modality: virtual and on-site, in the municipality of Aguadas, Caldas (Colombia).
“AWAQ IN AGUADAS” 2023 is a citizen and participatory event; its call is open and is aimed at professional puppet theater groups that prove a solvent and committed trajectory in the performing arts (maximum three members per group in the classroom mode) local, national and international, whose works address issues with environmental content.
Participation may be individual or collective.
Groups and artists interested in participating in “AWAQ IN AGUADAS” 2023, you must send the following documentation to [email protected]:
Proposals that have a coherent relationship with the thematic axis of “AWAQ IN AGUADAS” 2023, that are viable, solid, and relevant within the contexts in which they are framed, will be selected.
The call will remain open until 20 February 2023; no proposals will be received after the deadline.
The jury, with full autonomy, will select the proposals considering the following criteria, and its decision will be final.
Click on the boxes below to download the Rules of Participation and the Registration Form.
Professional puppet theater company that works in favor of human ecology, promoting spaces of transformation around environmental issues, using theater as a sensitizing tool.
Official endorsement for the development of the different activities of the Encounter in the municipality of Aguadas, as well as direct dialogue with the community to position the Encounter in the city.
