Negra Fest 2024 Opening
Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Teatro MAMM
Format: In-person
Free admission
Negro Fest is a Black Culture Festival held every year in the city of Medellín since 2017, establishing itself in the country as a platform that enables the appropriation of knowledge through the performing arts, academic components, and spaces for visibility and empowerment, bringing together in one place creators, artists, entrepreneurs, actors, and Afro cultural managers from across the country in concerts, exhibitions, gastronomic experiences, and other activities for the whole family.
For 2024, it changes its name to Negra Fest to foster dialogues and reflections where diverse expressions, knowledge, and visions coexist, where we can understand the past, live the present, and build possible futures through the recognition and reconnection with our history and our roots, with a gender focus.
Opening program
From 6 p.m.
Teatro MAMM
Poetic ritual
Viche altar installation and performance
Led by Maria (Maja) Mina.
Opening talk and music video premiere
Past and present of marronage and the fundamental role of women
Led by Edna Liliana Valencia and Robe L. Ninho
Premiere of the music video “Cimarrón” by Robe L. Ninho
Panel
Anti-racist narrative: Black women in the media
Led by Colectivo Wiwas.
About
Edna Liliana Valencia
Social communicator with an emphasis in international journalism and communication for development. News anchor and reporter. Expert in Afro-Latin American studies.
Robe L. Ninho
Cuban rapper, producer, activist, and cosmetologist.
Colectivo de Mujeres Wiwas
It is a grassroots organizational process dedicated to working for the social and political empowerment of Afro-descendant women in the city of Medellín and the recognition of the rights of Afro people, through a gender, ethnic, and territorial approach.