Last Saturday, we participated in the Pachamama Festival along with other organizations and neighbors from Parque San Lorenzo. We want to thank San Agustín Club and the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center for making us part of this event full of visibility, awareness, and joy.

On the previous days before the event, we asked the neighbors that boosted the activity: why do you think it’s important to vindicate and celebrate dates like this?

Mono said to us: “The idea is to bring culture to the neighborhood so the kids can have another reality and for the people that can’t pay for things like this can see the show outside their houses. And the concept of the Pachamama for me it’s is a cultural thing, the native culture of our people and not the Western culture. The Latin American culture that resists, prevails and it’s part of us, not the culture that’s sold on the media. We have to be aware of our roots, of what’s ours. When I talk about culture, I mean that every territory has its way of living and existing. I think we have to promote that”.

And Jorge said: “This is an idea I had for a long time in mind. I always felt I needed to do it because I know our native people have too many fair claims. This past few days we were at Catamarca and La Rioja. People there told us what's happening with mining and how the profits always go ‘somewhere else'. So we always wanted to spread this issue. I was part of the fight to change the Roca monument for the Native Woman monument. I enjoyed it and always felt I wanted to do something like that in the neighborhood to vindicate our native people.”

Mono and Jorge are two neighbors that look around and decide to build community in the neighborhood. Thank you so much for your daily work and your commitment to others.

Soon we will be sharing with you stuff from the festival!

For now a picture from the day we met to organize the event ☝️