Gaza Sangra

Para protestar el ataque militar contra la gente palestina y para conmemorar el 29 aniversario del nacimiento del movimiento zapatista, el Centro Hemisférico regresó a la Plaza de la Resistencia en San Cristóbal de las Casas el 17 de noviembre y montó una acción pública. Los participantes colocaron un cartel donde se leyó, «Gaza sangra, ¡Zapata vive!» en la pared de la catedral principal de la ciudad y dejaron flores y velas debajo de ello durante un festival artístico organizado por el Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).

To protest the military attacks mounted against the Palestinean population and to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Zapatista movement, Centro Hemisférico returned to the Plaza de la Resistencia in San Cristóbal de las Casas on November 17 to mount a public action. The participants placed a poster that read, “Gaza bleeds, Zapata lives!” on the main wall of the city’s central cathedral and placed flowers and candles below it during an arts festival sponsored by Mexico’s conservative Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

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Acerca de Arte Acción

Arte Acción is an interdisciplinary platform located in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas that focuses on developing public performance programming and linking different social groups together in order to promote diverse forms of human development through diverse, continual activities geared towards increasing public awareness, personal reflection and the creation of artistic and political projects. It is a platform first developed with the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in collaboration with Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (FOMMA), a theatre troupe of indigenous women. Arte Acción, encompasses public lectures, roundtables, performances, public actions and projections seeking to promote, present and archive performative practices as a social, cultural and political in it's collaboration and research with local, national, and international communities.