Projects 2022 - 2023
The Ingenia Cultural Fund of the Ciudad del Saber Foundation promotes social innovation and community participation in the cultural and creative sector in Panama. In the 2022-2023 call, held in October 2022, were selected Tía Sam by Maritza Vernaza, an artistic representation based on the life of women between 1914 and 1932 in Clayton; Dēbāte by Carolina Figueiredo, which generates dialogues through artistic expressions away from the “center”; and Basic Needs by Evalynn de Ycaza (EVADE), which illustrates traditional medicinal plants of Calidonia. The winners received financial, logistical, space and dissemination support to carry out these innovative initiatives in the coming months.
PROJECT
Necesidades Básicas
Basic Needs is a project that seeks to disseminate the use of medicinal plants that can be found in the Calidonia area.
This research and botanical registry project is multidisciplinary, as it includes workshops and spaces for dialogue about the selected plants, their uses and origin, as well as presenting an artistic exhibition.
This initiative presented by Evalynn de Ycaza (EVADE), has the support of the NGO Parque Botánico Panamá, who are dedicated to conservation, scientific dissemination and environmental education of local flora species, in addition to being members of the Ciudad del Saber community.
This exhibition was open to the public from Wednesday, June 14, until Saturday, July 1, in Gallery 216C of Ciudad del Saber.
An exhibition space, the result of research and registration of medicinal plant species that can be found in the Mercadito de Calidonia. During the staging, in addition to an exhibition space, initiatives such as artistic workshops, talks, a guided tour of the Mercadito de Calidonia and musical sessions were developed during specific dates over a period of two weeks. The space received a total of approximately 500 people.
Production: Evalyn de Ycaza (EVADE). With the support of the Panama Botanical Park Choreographic direction: Rafa Leonard
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PROJECT
Dēbāte
Dēbāte aims to encourage spaces for community participation through dialogue and public debate, as a result of the questioning generated by the exhibition of more than 16 artistic works, with the purpose of shifting the thinking from the center to the peripheries.
Research, workshops and results, with the former Ciudad del Saber Jail as venue, facing the challenge of building a necessarily polyphonic narrative on the conflicts of the present moment - in all spaces, not only from and for the center of the country.
The development of a collective artistic exhibition, with the participation of more than 16 artistic works, after passing a selection process through a call for entries. During the staging, in addition, there were guided tours in the space, two *performance* exhibitions, as well as two debates open to public participation.
In addition, during the staging period, 3 photographic workshop sessions were held with students from Fundación Espacio Creativo.
Having the former Ciudad del Saber prison as a meeting point for two weeks, a space was created that received more than 300 people.
General production and concept: Carolina Figueiredo.
Technical production: Dactya Silva.
Curated by: Carolina Figueiredo.
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PROJECT
Tía Sam
The Tía Sam project offers an immersive theatrical experience, where it seeks to transport the audience to the fascinating world of the Canal Zone in the 1940s.
Through a personal hostess, Aunt Sam, the spectator will be taken to the “workers' paradise”, having as its epicenter the historic Ciudad del Saber House Museum, a place with more than a hundred years of history, where everything there is to know about life in the Zone will be told. “Aunt Sam” offers a theatrical experience in which history and mystery are mixed, in a captivating plot that questions our contradictions, our identity and comfort zones.
Production: Maritza Vernaza. Direction and concept: Maritza Vernaza. Guest artist: Yaraví Quintero.
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