The Encounter of Art, Communication and Health

The Arts of the Earth are summoning us!

The Second People’s Health Assembly will be a vast space for the exchange for information and wisdom. We need to speak to calm fears. We need to speak to create antidotes to oppression. We need to speak to tell our dreams. But let us pause to listen to the water that taught us all to sing. Let us speak of health with truth, compassion and beauty. Let us learn to speak with respect and clarity. Let us create an encounter where the ‘popular’ can meet the ‘alternative.”

Who can participate and How?

To find ourselves, to share what is learned but it involves people from different parts of the world who have been producing educational and communication materials for covering diverse themes such as ecology, opportunity, peace, interventions, militarism, culture, agriculture. Calling people who have been promoting a conscience of solidarity and a liberating practice. This will be an encounter of storytellers, narrators, musicians, dancers who will either come to Cuenca or send their works to share with the world.

How will this happen?

Exhibitions, displays and installations: Photography, popular irreverent painting, caricatures, plastic arts, cinema and video in-creation, graphic exhibition hall, posters, flyers, popular booklets, didactic illustrations…

Workshops, debates and conferences: How to create caricatures without being an expert. Communication of love and sexuality. Art and communication with children. Play, body and communication. Communication from the feminine perspective. Radio with children. Building Andean musical instruments. Popular art and culture…

Encounters: Oral narration. Ethnic music and dance. Folkloric music, poetry, Son and rock street-troubadours. Street theatre. Community theatre. Poetry readings. Local bands, drumming sessions and samba jazz sessions. Street circus, stilt clowns, puppet shows.