INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION

Address: 73 Avenue No. 48ª – 47. Underneath the Football Stadium Atanasio Girardot, local No. 30, Medellín, Colombia.
Phone: (57) (4) 230 05 08, Cell phone 310 503 84 55
Email: losjuglares@epm.net.co arlequinylosjuglares@gmail.com

THE CULTURAL CORPORATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT ARLEQUÍN Y LOS JUGLARES, was born in Medellín in 1972 with students graduated from de Theater Municipal School and the “Taller Theater” of the Antioquia University. It is a civil nonprofit organization with a collective interest, which has its premises in the city of Medellín, the Department of Antioquia, and the Republic of Colombia. Its objectives are to promote the creation, development, investigation, publication and transformation of culture, in its artistic, environmental and social dimensions. It operates as a legal society listed by the Medellín Commercial Chamber, officially registered by the resolution No. 1471, issued the 2th of May 2007 and its tax code is 900147756-6.

During its thirty seven (37) years of uninterrupted artistic life, has sided with the social, popular, cultural, human rights, and communitarian organizations, carrying the hope and life messages, strengthening their organizational process, and handing out the tools of work by means of art… thus contributing to the construction of a democratic, equitable and just society, always from the trade.

TROUPE MEMBERS

ADRIANA MARÍA DIOSA C.: Sociologist, formed at the Universidad Autónoma Latinomericana of Medellin, actress and human rights defender in several organizations, both regional and national. She has been part of the group since 1990.

OSCAR MANUEL ZULUAGA U.: Oscar is the group’s founder and today’s director. He is a graduate from the dramatic arts school of the Antioquia University. He is a trouvere, and first mention of the First Iberoamerican Concourse of decimal verses, in Villazul, Cuba, 2001. He is a well known popular artist in Medellin, Colombia and other brother countries. He is also a writer of educational booklets in verse, of puppet, theater, poems and songs works, winner of several awards, among others.

ELKIN GIRALDO M.: He is a professional mimic, founder of the group called, the Paper Vats. He was educated at the History School of the Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana.

SANDRA MARYORI BENÍTEZ D.: She is a professional communication worker from the journalist school of the Antioquia University. She is in charge of the Communications Area of the Corporation; she also takes part of the Youth Promotional Center. She is a graduated from the Youth Policies courses and participates in several projects undertaken by the Medellin municipal administration in different programs related with the topics of youth, women and audiovisuals.

JUAN ESTEBAN DIOSA C.: Dancer, stilt walker, puppeteer, and student of theater and physical education. He has been acting with the group for twelve years.

LAIDA MARÍA ZULUAGA R., is a sociologist of the Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana. She is an actress that has taken part in the setting in stage of several dramatic works for more than 20 years. Now days she helps with the Area of Management and Projects of the Corporation.

LAST EVENTS AND PROJECTS IN WHICH WE HAVE PARTICIPATED:

- WSF, Tematic World Social Forum, Cartagena Colombia, June 2003.
- Human Rights Week, Medellín and Bogotá, September 2004.
- Regional Victims Encounter (of the Colombian’s social and armed conflict) for
Justice and Reparation, with the Corporation AVRE, Tolú, Sucre, Colombia, August
2004.
- Theater and Puppets International Festivals:
- Titirifestival, “El Zanco Vive”, (“The stilts are alive”) in Mesitas del Colegio,
Colombia.
- Popular Theater Encounter in México. (Federal District, 1996)
- International Youth Camp, Ecuador.
- Titiritay in Bolivia.
- Project “Hermanarte”. (“Brotherhood”) Artistic tour trough Europe: Spain, France,
Belgium, Germany and Norway, 32 cities and 45 shows. September to November
2005.
- Alternative theater festival, within the frame of the Bogotá Iberoamerican
Festival. “Women’s theater”, en 2007.
- Project: “Terruño y Aruño”, (“Land and Scratch”) with two phases and places:
. An artistic tour around the Colombian Pacific Coast (20 municipalities).
(2007)
.A European circuit (5 countries and 20 functions) May, June, and November
2007.
- An Artistic journey through Central America, August 2008.
- The Theater Multipliers Formation Project (2003-2007), a proposal for the afro
descendents youth of the department of Chocó, Colombia.
- Cheer up project to promote children rights of both genders, in Sincelejo,
Colombia. This activity war carried out by the group from 2004 to 2008.
- Workshop: “Leadership and gender” (for women) in the city of Poptum Peten in
Guatemala. August to September 2008.
- Project Body – Memory, carried out with women victims of forced disappearance
And other crimes against humanity, in Medellín city, Colombia, 2008.

PROJECT HERMANARTE (BROTHERHOOD)

GENERAL OBJECTIVE:
In order to render more sensitive, some sectors of the European Community, especially those from Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, and Germany, by using the artistic and cultural language, around the difficult human rights situation in Colombia, trying to bring an objective vision at the same time of hope, in order to strengthen the human nexus among the peoples.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
To represent in a theatrical work, with a language which emphasizes the gesticulation and its main subject is taken from the Colombian reality.

To publicize this work in Austria, Sweden, Switzerland and Germany, countries in which there are organizations that know our work or have the desire to know it and to transmit it.

To communicate, by means of the artistic work, and by making use of the legitimist right to the free expression and creation, the fears that the Colombians have, that so many crimes against humanity will en up in impunity, even if they don’ t cease to be committed.

To make visible an alternative artistic work, that from a critic option, defends the free expression and the right to dissent.

ACTIVITIES

1. We will make a fraternal tour, with the artistic, cultural and political proposal, that we have called “HERMANARTE”, which means brotherhood, between the 23th of April and the 30th of May, in order to visit some cities of Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Sweden.

2. The theater work of “From the dying and the being born, from the living and the doing” is set in stage, with the help of a group of voluntary cooperative persons from the countries and cities that we visit.

3. We will make forums and conversations after each presentation about the scene presented.

4. The light proposal of “Puppet Theater” and the workshop which it creates is intended to supply us with some tools for the educational process.

 

“From the dying and the being born,
From the living and the doing”

Author and director: Oscar Mañuel Zuluaga Uribe

Actors: Adriana María Diosa Colorado
Oscar Manuel Zuluaga Uribe

Special collaboration: Elkin Giraldo y Esteban Diosa

Presentation

The theatrical work “From the dying and the being born, from the living and the doing” is a spectacle which explores the non verbal languages, using the gesticulation as a universal mean of communication and a fundamental resource of representation

Is a work which recovers the voices of thousands of men and women of our country, silenced by the terrifying and barbaric facts of many years of social and armed conflict. It is a lively testimony of the way that coexist, persist and resist, in our tropical country, the hope and the impotence, the active resistance, forceful and organized of the communities en front of the repression and the stigmatization; the happiness, colorfulness and riches of this territory, with the power owners’ voracious appetite.

This work is a homage, a testimony, a support and acknowledgement to the Colombian and the Latin-American courageous people.

Synopsis
In scenery, with symbols and elements that suggest the Colombian traditional power, with its parallel structures, its machineries and corruption, a representative personage starts to recoup the history and the memory.

Then the show begins, with the help of other personage who “makes that the ball starts rolling over”.

A group of minstrels (comprised by a puppeteer, a couple of trouvere, a mimic, and a popular singer…) irrupts into de scene… Its acts develop around five fundamental axis: The social inequalities, the displacement, the human rights violations and the communities’ resistance and the optimistic process.

Characters.

The cameraman, the time, the poet, the trouvere, the decimal verse teller, the puppeteer, the female singer, the police, the dove. The young Juan, the children, the peasants male and female, the displaced, the disappeared, the victims, the paramilitaries, the soldiers, the toad, the puppets, the people..

An actor and an actress interpret the different characters.

Some invited friends, in each country, help to structure the setting of the scene, playing as persons-links which articulate the show.

Time of performance: Sixty (60) minutes.
Some places where the work has been presented:

Colonia, Berlin, Hamburg, Lörrach, Laipzig, Frankfurt… (Alemania); Oslo, Stavanger, Bergen (Noruega); Donostia, Irún, Zarasutz, Bilbao… (País Vasco); Logroño, A Coruña, Madrid, Valencia…(España)

Technical conditions:

A closed room.
A stage 4 x 4 meters.
Enough light.
A C.D. reproducer.

Time for the scene setting: 90 minutes.