Thursday, June 24, 2021
7:00pm CT
Streaming on Twitch
FREE, $5+ suggested donation (100% goes to the artists)
EN
Vivências compiles music, visual, and dance work by Saul Ojeda, Laura Itandehui, Francisco Nava, Valeria Avalos, Cristian Ospina, Chongotronik, Mayara Ferrão, and Filipe Mimoso. The performances look at how tradition permeates into contemporary life in Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil, observing how everyday customs influence art. “Vivências” is the Portuguese word for when we vividly and intensely savor moments in our present. The stream will include drawn visual elements by Paulina Leyva.
ES
Vivências junta trabajo musical, visual y dancístico por Saul Ojeda, Laura Itandehui, Francisco Nava, Valeria Avalos, Cristian Ospina, Chongotronik, Mayara Ferrão, y Filipe Mimoso. Los performances muestran cómo la tradición se permea a la vida contemporánea en México, Colombia y Brasil; apuntando cómo las costumbres del día a día influencian el arte. “Vivências” es la palabra en portugués que describe cuando saboreamos vívida e intensamente nuestro presente. El streaming incluirá elementos visuales dibujados por Paulina Leyva.
PT (BR)
Vivências reúne trabalhos musicais, visuais e de dança por Saul Ojeda, Laura Itandehui, Francisco Nava, Valeria Avalos, Cristian Ospina, Chongotronik, Mayara Ferrão, e Filipe Mimoso. As performances mostram como a tradição permeia a vida contemporânea no México, Colômbia e Brasil; realçando como os costumes do dia-a-dia influenciam o arte. O streaming incluirá elementos visuais desenhados por Paulina Leyva.
ARTIST LINE-UP & SET TIMES
7:00 pm CT Saul Ojeda / Laura Itandehui / Francisco Nava / Valeria Avalos
7:30 pm CT Cristian Ospina / Chongotronik
8:00 pm CT Mayara Ferrão / Filipe Mimoso
Visual Elements by Paulina Leyva
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
En español, haga clic aquí; em português, clique aqui
Saul Ojeda and Laura Itandehui will perform songs which explore double-bass and voice as non-melodic instruments, thinking of how Boleros in Mexico are constructed.
Saul Ojeda is a double-bass player, guitarist, and composer from Mexico City. He studied Jazz at the Escuela Superior de Música and LaFaro Jazz Institute México for some years, before starting the Bachelor in Music at Berklee College of Music. There, he is studying double-bass under the mentorship of Linda May Han Oh with the Gifted Tuition Scholarship from the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation. Saul has played with musicians like Kris David, Chuchito Valdés, Ben Solomon, and Roni Kaspi. He has performed in clubs including Jazzatlán Capital, Dizzy’s Club, Zinco Jazz Club, and Wally’s Jazz Café. He is currently completing his first discographic production, which will be released this year.
Laura Itandehui is a vocalist and composer living and working in Mexico City. She studied the Bachelor in Singing and Scat at the Academia de Jazz in the Escuela Superior de Música. Through her career, she has performed on national and international stages as a chorus singer and soloist in several projects, like Ensamble Vocal K’ay Ha’ and Orquesta Nacional de Jazz de México. She currently teaches at the LaFaro Jazz Institute México and is working on a discographic production as a singer-songwriter.
fb: Saul Ojeda Music
ig: @saulinko_
Youtube: Saul Ojeda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srsCBOyB3Gk
fb: Laura Itandehui Music
ig: @laura.itandehui
Youtube: Laura Itandehui
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nibCeFLOcDE
During this set, Valeria Avalos and Francisco Nava will be improvising with dance.
Valeria Avalos (Swale Ubetta) is a dancer, model, and voguera. She is part of the international chapter of Kiki House of Ubetta. Valeria has participated in events like HHI/Queeny’s and Fearless Showparty, and advertisements with brands such as Bonafont, Barcel, and Telcel. She has won multiple times under the Face category in Mexican Balls and once under Hands Performance at the Costa Rican Kiki Rainbow Ball in 2019. Valeria is currently involved in projects like CHINGONXS.MEX, where she has worked with musicians Jaime Kohen, Playa Limbo, and Priscila Félix. She is also completing an Urban Dance program through Grassroots Collective, where she is developing freestyle dance within Popping and other Hip-Hop techniques.
Francisco Nava is a multidisciplinary artist focused on contemporary dance, who researches points of connection between multicultural references. His research comes together as staged performances, or pedagogical and training-based happenings. He holds a degree from the Escuela de Danza Contemporánea at Centro Cultural Ollin Yoliztli. Francisco also was a Resident Artist at the Escuela Profesional de Danza de Mazatlán from 2016 to 2018. He has danced in festivals, such as Carnaval Internacional de Mazatlán, Viso Out Festival, and La Carpa Encuentro de Artes Escénicas. Francisco is currently perfecting the knowledge systematization called Pakología through several collaborations, and sharing through virtual and in-person classes, workshops, and performance creations.
ig: @swal6.av
ig: @pakologia
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Chongotronik and Cristian Ospina will play a percussive set inspired in traditional Colombian music.
Juan Carlos Puello, or Chongotronik, is a percussionist and tamboreo cartagenero musician with great experience within Colombian folklore. He grew among artists like Totó La Momposina, Petrona Martínez, Etelvina Maldonado, Martina Camargo, Eloisa Garcés, and Martina Balseiro. He has lived in Bogotá since 2004, where he has expanded on his musical knowledge. There, he has collaborated in projects with well-known musicians from the Bogotá scene like María Mulata, Frente Cumbiero, Sidestepper, Mucho Indio, Atlantic Soul Machine, Azul Trabuco, Quantic, Alé Kúma, and Ondatrópica.
Cristian Opsina is a musician, musicologist, and percussionist. He holds a degree from the University and Conservatory of Lille, France. There, he was part of several jazz and traditional Colombian music ensembles, with leaders such as La Wey Segura and Fabián Suárez. Cristian has also participated in organizing cultural events to visibilize traditional music from Colombia. He returned to his Latin America and his home country in 2019. Since then, he has participated in classes with José Luis Quintana “Changuito” in La Habana and with Juan Carlos Puello “Chongo de Colombia” in Bogotá.
ig: @chongotronik
ig: @o.s.p.i.n.a_
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Siga Gana is a creative studio and record label from Bahia, Brazil by Mayara Ferrão and Filipe Mimoso.
Mayara Ferrão (1993, Salvador, Bahia) is an artist with a Bachelor in Visual Arts from the UFBA. She co-founded GANA during 2018 in Salvador. Her processes of artistic experimentation happen mostly in illustration (@verdadetropical) and photography. She also works as an art director and audiovisual producer, where she appropriates video technology to imagine and build Black narratives through video art, music videos, and documentaries. Her source of inspiration and research is rooted in her experience as a Black woman, her ancestrality, and the symbols and elements from Afrobrazilian culture.
Filipe Mimoso (Salvador, Bahia) is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, music producer/director, and researcher. His artwork sprouts from diverse elements and several sound sources: sample manipulation, music collages, organic and digital instruments, and analog synths which act in the construction of soundscapes. His main reference and place of research is native Brazilian-African/Afro-diasporic music. It searches, through textures, timbres and samples, to develop an individual identity. Creating and recreating, it appropriates unconventional sonorities, from contemporary experimental music to popular electronic music. He has experience in theater, music direction, music production, and free music experimentation. He has collaborated, worked in, and produced in the Ilê Aiyê, the oldest Afro carnival block in Salvador. He has also produced with several musicians and composers from Bahia. In 2018 he co-created GANA, where he works as a music director/producer and creative. There, he also does all the audio recording, engineering, and post production work.
youtube: GANA
ig: @siga.gana
ig: @mayaraferrao
ig: @filipemimoso
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paulina leyva will be drawing visual elements for the concert on paper and digital formats
05.19.97 Morelia, Michoacán
designer and multidisciplinary artist with interest in abstraction and the representation of her experiences, feelings, and everyday thoughts, which interweave through the links she establishes with herself, her environment, and the living and non-living beings that join her path, which become ideas, shapes, textures, images, and sounds.