PROYECTO 34ºS
ARTISTIC EXCHANGE: AFRICA-LATIN-AMERICA
Proyecto 34°S is an independent organization that produces festivals and events with a focus on contemporary performing arts and active artistic exchange and contact between the diverse peoples and cultures of Africa and Latin America. Our activities aim to foster creative relationships and dialogue between artists and audiences, as well as artistic appreciation, social consciousness and cultural understanding.
Proyecto 34ºS long-term goal is to establish a biennial festival of African theatre in Latin America and counterpart festival of Latin-American theatre in Africa.
In 2009, Proyecto 34°S was nominated in the category of Institution by the Teatro del Mundo Awards in Argentina.
LATEST NEWS
THEATRE IN TRANSLATION / TEATRO EN TRADUCCIÓN LIBRARY LAUNCHES!
Proyecto 34°S is pleased to launch its online library containing the top twenty plays from the 2011 inaugural edition of the TT project. The plays are from South Africa and Argentina and are available for free download in English and Spanish.
We congratulate the winners, finalists and semifinalists and thank the judges, translators and coordinators for their efforts!FEATURED ARTISTS
LUZ MARÍA BOBADILLA - PARAGUAY
World famous due to her virtuosity and profound knowledge of the musical legacy of the guitar genius Agustín Barrios, Luz María Bobadilla is one of the most highly-acclaimed Paraguayan artists.
With a repertoire that stretches from classical to contemporary music, she has taken her interpretations to the most prestigious settings of London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Brussels, Stockholm, Madrid, Geneva, Lisbon, Washington, Mexico, Havana, Caracas, Bogota, San Pablo and Buenos Aires among others. The Paraguayan classical guitar has come alive in her hands in cities as distant as Moscow, Cairo and Tel Aviv.
She has performed as soloist in symphony orchestras in Spain, Chile, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. She has participated in numerous international guitar festivals, and adjudicated in the International Contest of Aranda del Duero, (Spain), Ville d' Antony (France), Caxias do Sul (Brazil), Asunción (Paraguay) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) among others.
In the realm of education, she has directed master classes and conferences at the University of Sherbrooke (Canada), Tokyo University of Music, Duke University, Guitar school of Hong Kong and the School of Music in the National Center for the Arts in Mexico, to name but a few.
At present, she is Director of the "Agustín Barrios" Conservatory of Music at the Municipal Institute of Art in Asunción and holds a Professorship in the guitar section of the Degree in Music at the National University of Asunción. She is also the Artistic Director of the International Festival "Spring of the Guitar in Asunción".
The prestigious London magazine Classical Guitar has said of her "She possesses a wealth of perfect technique and an intuitive subtlety of the interpretation of the musical forms, the Paraguayan guitarist Luz María Bobadilla will certainly delight those that appreciate the beauty and depth of the guitar".
For more information and to listen to the music of Luz María:
www.luzmariabobadilla.com
YouTube Luz María Bobadilla
YouTube Carmen
Facebook Primavera de la Guitarra en Asunción
Translation: Daniella Cadiz Bedini
THE MOTHERTONGUE PROJECT - SOUTH AFRICA
The Mothertongue Project (South Africa) was founded in 2000 by Sara Matchett and Rehane Abrahams and formalised into a Section 21 (not for profit) Company in November 2003. It is a collective of women artists, facilitators and healing practitioners committed to healing and transformation through the employment of participatory theatre approaches that integrate arts methodologies. Mothertongue’s methodologies include Forum Theatre, Image Theatre, Physical Theatre/Movement, Storytelling, Visual Arts, Creative Writing and Expressive Arts Therapies.
Mothertongue Project’s focus is on creating enabling spaces within which women can discover and recover their own resources for self-healing. It is one of the few women only arts collectives in South Africa, and the collective believes that spaces such as those that they have created in the course of their work are important in recognising, embracing and celebrating the stories and lived experiences of women. By taking the first step and acknowledging that these stories exist, those involved begin a process of healing and recovering their/our own resources for transforming their/our situations.
Mothertongue Project is committed to offering theatre as a tool for activism and to fostering cultural exchange through integrated arts methodologies that celebrate and contribute to positively transforming the status of women in their communities. They seek to have a society where women are able to assertively engage with the national rhetoric of “gender equity” through a gendered interrogation of their experiences. Mothertongue Project envisions a society where (self) recognition, (self) honouring and (self) celebration of women is commonplace.
Links:
Facebook: The Mothertongue Project
Twitter: The Mothertongue Project
Website: www.mothertongue.co.za
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/MothertongueSA
Email: info@mothertongue.co.za
Info provided by The Mothertongue Project
FEATURED COLLABORATOR
Proyecto 34°S is sad to say farewell to Cynthis Dávila Velarde who completed an internship as P34S General Assistant from March to December 2010. We thank her for all her hard work and dedication and wish her all the best in the future.
CYNTHIA DÁVILA VELARDE (General Assistant 2010)
She began her exploration of theatre with the Peruvian drama group Maguey. Under the tutelage of the maestro Willo Pinto she did research on physical and vocal expression. She decided to continue with her acting studies and in 2006 travelled to Buenos Aires, where she currently resides; in 2008 she completed a course in Acting and Stage Directing at the Centro de Investigación Cinematográfica (CIC). Alongside her formal studies she also studied The Creation of the Actor at CELCIT with the theatre director and teacher Carlos Ianni.
During her education she has acted in plays by dramatists such as T. Williams, J.P. Sartre and H. Pinter and performed in scenes from plays by Latin American playwrights.
She has worked on various theatrical productions as an actress, assistant director and physical trainer.
Her first experiences in production and postproduction were in the play Viene Nieve, the public performance of Cyclico and in the unconventional interventions of public spaces, AlienA2 and TrajeA2. Those experiences led her to the decision to centre her work more on production and management.
During 2010 she worked as a general assistant for Proyecto 34?S alongside Nikki Froneman, working on the administration and realization of various projects.
Cynthia is currently working on an artistic project that promotes Peruvian theatre as well as cultural exchange between Peruvian and Latin American artists that live in Argentina.
Translation: Stephen Monaghan
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