The Power of Culture brought together these 16 organizations from the city to show that, even in a pandemic, culture never stops. It always resists. We understand that we need culture to live in the present and imagine the future, which is why we signed 13 contracts, Comfama invested $1,195,922,171, we mobilized 3,000 people in person and virtually, and we jointly developed more than 150 activities including meetings, conversations, workshops, publications, and exhibitions. 

Schedule yourself:

Poster workshop Charts in resistance by the Pirañas Crew Collective. Artists participating in the Born in Quarantine project.
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
In this workshop on resistance graphics we will share mixed techniques that are used to create posters with powerful messages ready for use in public spaces.

Free admission with prior registration (materials included)

Conversation Scream with a mask – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Discussion about artistic creation as a response to submission. Guests: Esteban Duperly (writer), Felipe Tabares (The New Terrace Band), Juan David Quintero (La Ración). Moderated by: Jenny Giraldo.

Free admission with prior registration.

Intervention Filarmed brass quintet – 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
The scream with a mask groans or tissues? Music by Laura Gutiérrez. Free admission from the Pablo Tobón Theatre.

Conversation Our people: a story of resistance.
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Thirty years ago, Medellín faced a pandemic that we now know as “the lead plague,” which took an entire generation of young men and women. Today we remember that many people live to transform their territories and that, in this city, culture had the power to save many lives.
Jorge Blandón talks with Laura Martínez.
Free admission with prior registration.

Filarmed string quartet performance – 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Introduction to schizophrenia. Music by Felipe Tovar. Free admission from the Pablo Tobón Theatre.

Conversation Closed rooms
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Theatres closed their doors and museums closed their exhibition halls. They were among the first to close and almost the last to reopen.
They talk Maria del Rosario Escobar (Antioquia Museum), Juan Posada (Otraparte House Museum), Andrés Moure (Small Theatre).
Moderated by: Alfonso Buitrago.
Free admission with prior registration.

Uncertain Concert 
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm with invitation
Interdisciplinary work for visual design, chamber orchestra, soprano and mixed choir. Music: Juan David Osorio López. Visual design: Juan Fernando Ospina

Exhibition Born in Quarantine

Opening March 20 – Closing April 10
Public posters created by artists and collectives to free ideas from restrictions and keep graphic channels of expression open.

Pandemic Stereo
Interviews, talks and music with the guests. Live radio through https://mixlr.com/pandemia-estereo/

To enter the Poster Workshop and the discussions, sign up here: https://forms.gle/T262aBjrAYHFF9fP9