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“Engaging Affective Memory and Imagining Futures: ‘Tambadoras’ and Digital Tools for Afro-Colombian Cultural Preservation” at Maira C. Castro Mina, LASA 2024
In “Engaging Affective Memory and Imagining Futures: ‘Tambadoras’ and Digital Tools for Afro-Colombian Cultural Preservation,” Maira C. Castro Mina presented parts of her MA thesis focusing on a group of artisanal gold miners from the Colombian Cauca region, known locally as Tambadoras. In the presentation Maira discussed the role that Tamboras play in preserving Afro-Colombian…
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Tambadoras Dancing with the Palo River: A Research-Creation Exploration of Traditional Gold Mining in Colombia
Congratulations to Maira Cristina Castro Mina, who defended her MA thesis, “Tambadoras Dancing with the Palo River: A Research-Creation Exploration of Traditional Gold Mining in Colombia,” and passed with no revisions. In this project, Maira Cristina Castro Mina explores the traditional gold mining practices of Tambadoras, a group of Afro-Colombian women from Guachené, Colombia. Reflecting…
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Activating the Archive: An Overview of Media-Based Research-Creation projects across the Americas
On Wednesday August 24 I will be chairing a panel on media-based research-creation projects with colleagues, collaborators and members of cMAS. If you are participating in CALACS this year, please join us. Sarah Shamash, Catherine Pearce, Maira Cristina Castro Mina, Daisy Quezada, Lois Klassen and Gabriel Juliano will present various creative engagements with Latin American…
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Body as Border preview night and Boundless, a short program of videos curated by prOphecy sun and Freya Zinovieff for the Surrey Urban Screen, Feb 10 @ 6pm
We are thrilled to invite you to the preview screening of our new site-specific commission, Body as Border: Traces and Flows of Connection,at the UrbanScreen at Chuck Bailey Recreation Center and to introduce Boundless, a program of short videos curated by prOphecy sun and Freya Zinovieff. The preview screening will take place on Thursday, February…
