How did we start?
“ One day, in the middle of september 2013 I got for the first time to Vista Hermosa, Ciudad Bolívar in Bogotá. I called my colleagues who where already with Esteban close to the Quebrada Limas (a small watercourse), it was another day of the Festival Museo Libre (Free Museum). During the first version of the festival, a few artists from the district and Bogota created murals in one neighborhood that is not used to the presence of graffiti and Street art. The neighborhood has been excluded from the very lively and culturally active downtown Bogotá, it’s also been excluded from the constant economical growth of the country. In this neighborhood, garbage and dirty water are thrown to the river, it is also the place where the homeless of the area set up their cardboard houses. Here I am, painting, lonely, to young guys smoke crack right next to me tripping on the colors I am putting in the wall, meanwhile, my other friends are painting way up, each one in absorbed by his own thoughts, without even imagining that in the next years more tan 130 artists from all over Colombia and even from other countries where going to come and support this project with their beautiful artworks. This is a Project that belong to everyone: to all of the artists that have donated their work, their materials but above all the community that has received them and that believes in the Museo Libre Festival.”
Nicolas Raymond, invited artist to the first version of Museo Libre, 2013.
The collective SUR.VANO has promoted the Festival Museo Libre by believing in this Project and developing it. We have the belief that it is possible to create a consciousness about the problems of the territories through education and Street art. This year Museo Libre reaches its fourth version with the intention on growing Little bit more and that is the reason for us to reach the international community of friends and dreamers to create a festival that gathers education and arts as major tools for a positive transformation of our territories.
What do we dream about?
“Above all, y feel love for this territory, we all need this sensation of belonging, of having a home. A place to always come back. Since 2013 we’ve built a Festival that has a great impact on our community their identity and their levels of empowerment towards the territory. More than 150 walls have been painted and with them the environment has been progressively improving. We’ve learned to love every Street , every mural that tells a story. Time passes and the paintings become a part of the common memory of these communities. The kids discuss about the mural paintings at their houses, and also dream about the murals and changes to come. Dreams of colors that animate the new generations to overcome exclusion and violence that have affected these communities for years.” Esteban Hernández, member of SUR VANO, one of the organizers of the festival.
What will we do?
With your support we dream to create for one year more, a festival for our community, a festival that grows and wants to contribute to the construction of peace for Colombia. Through education the festival wants to promote the creation of an identity in the community and give the neighborhood visibility through arts. With the support of our donors we will be able de sponsor the creation of over 100 mural paintings and to develop workshops during 2 months sharing techniques and practical courses of art. The Festival also wants to create a virtual platform of cultural Exchange that supports and promotes cultural activities on some of the most Vulnerable areas of Bogotá
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