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The Pacific Heritage, a photographic exhibition. 

 

The keys of the marimba announce a caravan of black bodies swaying towards their resistance. The music of the drums, the rhythm of the bodies, the Afro-ancestral orality resists the passage of time and the diaspora that has travelled for centuries from distant lands to Afro-American spaces, such as the Colombian Pacific.


The diaspora as a safe space against slavery, war, hunger, racism, and the colony … maintains life to the beat of the marimba, the drum and the mystical characters that protect black people from total annihilation, maintaining a fine thread between the absent and the living, a thread that manifests itself in funeral songs and in an oral tradition that does not forget those who passed away.

LEARNING TO PLAY THE MARIMBA

The professor Pascual Caycedo teaches the children of the Brisas del Cauca neighborhood in Cali, to play the marimba.

FLAVOURS OF THE PACIFIC

Living Picture by the children of the Brisas del Cauca neighborhood in Cali, representing the traditions of the Colombian Pacific.

FOOD FROM THE COLOMBIAN PACIFIC

A girl prepares typical dishes from the Colombian Pacific.
Brisas del Cauca neighborhood in Cali.

LITTLE COOKS FROM THE COLOMBIAN PACIFIC

Section of the Living Picture “Flavours of the Pacific”.
Brisas del Cauca neighborhood in Cali.

EMPATHY

Workshops regarding embodied empathy with the children of the Brisas del Cauca neighborhood in Cali.

THE CHILDREN FROM THE COLOMBIAN PACIFIC DANCE

In the rural area of ​​Pianguitas, next to the Pacific Ocean, children have fun dancing to the rhythm of Currulao.

CHILDREN AND BODILY CARTOGRAPHIES

 Dynamic of mapping oneself´s body along with the other´s body to identify points of encounter and dissonance.
Brisas del Cauca neighborhood in Cali.

COLLECTIVE BODILY CARTOGRAPHY

Map of the bodies of the boys and girls at the Brisas del Cauca neighborhood in Cali.

I FIND MYSELF IN THE OTHER

Activity performed in couples to look at the emotions of one another.
Brisas del Cauca neighborhood in Cali.

“PURA SANGRE” GROUP 

Pascual Caicedo

In the District of Aguablanca the parks are stages for dance and music of the Pacific.

VEREDA EL CARMELO

At the Vereda El Carmelo, Pascual and his partner teach the children to dance Currulao.

 EXHIBITION OF THE BODIES FOR EMPATHY MUSEUM IN CALI

Celebration of the final presentation of the training and creative process in the Brisas del Cauca neighborhood in Cali.

OUR PORTRAITS

The children paste their portraits to decorate the deteriorated walls of their school.
Brisas del Cauca neighborhood in Cali.

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN

Session to present the Bodies for Empathy Museum in Cali.

ITINERANT PACIFIC

Itinerant presentation of the Bodies for Empathy Museum in Cali, with children in the Colombian Caribbean.

MARIA, MARIA

Presentation session of the Bodies for Empathy Museum, to the rhythm of the song “Maria, Maria…”.

STRANGE GLANCES

Laura Cadena

Workshop “I look at the other” to activate empathy through visual tools.

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I LOOK AT MYSELF IN THE OTHER

Laura Cadena

Workshop “I look at the other” to activate empathy through visual tools.

WE SEE OURSELVES IN THE OTHER

Laura Cadena

Workshop “I look at the other” to activate empathy through visual tools.

 BALSADAS ON THE GUAPI RIVER

Amidst the Patron Saint festivities during the first week of December, the balsadas take place in homage to the saints and the culture of the Colombian Pacific.

BUILDING THE BALSADAS

Amidst the Patron Saint festivities during the first week of December, the balsadas take place in homage to the saints and the culture of the Colombian Pacific.

MATACHINES AT YURUMANGUÍ RIVER

On December 28, the day of the Innocent Saints, the community celebrates an ancient practice that is a paradigmatic event for the black peoples of the Pacific: the Matachines. A group of people disguise themselves using native elements and wooden masks that represent the characteristics of African animals and deities.

CIRCLE OF TRUST

Workshops regarding embodied empathy with the children of the Brisas del Cauca neighborhood in Cali.

WHAT DOES EMPATHY MEAN?

Collectively defining empathy with the children of the Brisas del Cauca neighborhood in Cali.

 TRAINING PROCESS OF THE BODIES FOR EMPATHY MUSEUM IN CALI

Physical workshops at the Bodies for Empathy Museum in Cali.

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The heritage of the Colombian Pacific is a tale about the experience of the black bodies in America. It is a testimony of cultural resistance against forgetfulness and barbarism, about the travel between spaces, displacement, war and death. It is a clamour for the hope of dancing freely and existing in diversity, of justice and dignity regardless of skin colour. Afro-Colombian heritage is a radical sign of life. A drum always survives, it always reverberates like the force that it truly is.

Dolores, Old Bambuco

Yurumanguí, peaceful land

Blackness of mine 

Farewell and death of the Christ

Praised: In the name of God, I pronounce

Pacific Region

Pacific Region: Body as an archive

Pacific Region: Interculturality

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