ArteSumapaz Foundation with Peppa Herrera and Ric Dragon, shared their vision of an intentional community and sculpture park in Cundinamarca.
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R.A.R.O. shared its cross-border residency model through a visit to its studios in Bogotá, a site once marked by privatization and now reclaimed by artists;
Casa Sanacion Montana Mujeres with Bertha Neris, a safe haven for women in La Calera Mountains;
ER-RRAL’s first ER-Resident at Plataforma Caníbal, Ulises Matamoros, presented his work on the preservation of the Ngiba language through community digital repositories in Mexico;
Plataforma Caníbal, with Jaider Orsini, a community-based platform in Barranquilla, on Colombia's Caribbean coast;
Kibii Foundation, with researcher Nicholaas Pinas, which works to preserve Maroon cultural heritage in Suriname;
Pukañawi association, with by Humberto Mancilla, which uses film to defend human rights in Bolivia;
💬 Hosting organisations from across the region participated, including the Wuasikamas project, with the Inga indigenous leader Hernando Chindoy, which transformed illicit poppy cultivation into sustainable agriculture in Colombia;
Co-Directors Marita Muukkonen and Ivor Stodolsky introduced the work of Perpetuum Mobile (PM), including Artists at Risk (AR) and the new Ecologists at Risk (ER) network, a long-term initiative supported by grants from the Nordic Culture Fund’s Globus and Globus Forward Programmes.
👥 The Finnish Ambasaddor Eija Rotinen opened the event by highlighting the importance of cooperation among civil society, cultural institutions and diplomatic actors.
Led by Perpetuum Mobile (PM), Ecologistas en Riesgo (ER) - Red de Residencias en América Latina (ER-RRAL), in Spanish, brings together representatives from Latin America and the Caribbean, founding a continental support network for eco-cultural practitioners at risk.
BOGOTÁ: Inaugurating the Ecologists at Risk (ER) Latin America Residency Network (ER-RRAL) 🌿
