The theater joins the front line of the national strike, using art to protect life and culture. With the participation of independent theaters and local groups, offering virtual and face-to-face performances, the performing arts reject the violence that the country is experiencing.
With the initiative “Theater on the front line”, the independent theater halls, as well as some local performing arts groups, pay tribute to the victims of the national strike. With face-to-face and virtual performances, planned for May 28, the Colombian theater joins the peaceful demonstrations led by young people.
We suggest: The arts rule the street
“Seventy groups and theaters from all over the country, affected by the early death and disappearance of young people in the marches of the national strike, we respond with art and theater in the streets, squares and in digital spaces. While we are hurt, we are also full of hope for a better future for the youth of Colombia. We unite from the theater to the front line to protect life, culture and art. With this sample we mourn and at the same time we sing to life ”, it reads in the program of the initiative.
From Apartadó, Barranquilla, Bello, Bogotá, Cali, Cartagena, Chía and Duitama, passing through El Carmen de Viboral, El Colegio, Ibagué and Jericó, as well as through La Calera, La Ceja, Manizales, Medellín, Neiva, Palmira, Pasto, Pereira, Riohacha, Rionegro, Salento, Santa Bárbara, San Gil, Santa Marta and Villa de Leyva, the national theater joins the demonstrations that the country has experienced over the last month. The La Candelaria Theater, the Petra Theater, Ditirambo Theater and the Free Theater are some of the project participants, as well as several local groups from each city and municipality.
Patricia Ariza, one of the voices present in a series of reports on how the cultural sector has behaved in this pandemic year, and who participates in “Theater on the frontline” with the direction of the play Camilo , affirmed that Colombia not only faces the threat of the coronavirus, but also that of the worsening of the war, and that in the midst of it, the theater fulfills a critical and peace-building function.
