At the Cultural Center El Ingenio of the Caguayo Foundation, in the Las Enramadas patrimonial corridor, the participants met for the theoretical sessions and the opening of the meetings of the International Network of Women in Theater in the Virtual Age.
The exhibition of the documentary film M2. A collective voice from Chilean filmmaker Lucía Rojas Maldonado opened the debates after this “homemade” reflection on women’s routines amidst Covid-19, with its negative burdens of isolation, masks and other social traumas of the disease.
In this audiovisual document, around 26 female colleagues from 13 countries have given their testimonies to allow an intimate and accurate recording of those experiences that have had a significant impact on the female part of society.
With the suggestive name “Woman: It is the pretentious smell of plastic flowers”, the winning work of the VIII event also surpassed the Uruguayan Anaclara Alexandrino with a presentation by actors from the provincial radio station CMKC.
Artists from Guatemala, Spain, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and Italy will take part in the conferences, under the inspiration and direction of the Italian actress and playwright Alina Narciso, director of the Metec Alegre Group and champion of the visibility of talent and branded women the tables.
This edition honors the poet Teresa Melo from Santiago, who died last January and was passionately involved in the event that took place in this city in 2011.
With the support of the Ministry of Culture and the National Council of Performing Arts, the main stages are the Casa del Caribe, the Macubá Hall, and the stages of the Cabildo Teatral Santiago and the Guiñol.
The project that gave rise to the meeting arose in 1999 in the Spanish city of Barcelona, Spain, in order to promote this dramaturgy and create an international network of these artists.
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