How do I open up a space for my community? We show it through our Fiesta en el Barrio at Ebertplatz in Cologne: from the first step (Who is the party for? Why this place? What is our stance?) through permits, technology, money and team to the invitation and the aftermath.
With a Reclaim-the-Streets attitude: taking spaces back, with music, dance and food.
We work with the body and in conversation: arriving and ritual, talk in parts, encounter, dance, exchange.
Everyone leaves with a handout to fill in for their own party.
The theoretical and spiritual part: he opens the space with a ritual and puts things in context.
Experience, knowledge and wisdom, plus energy and presence in the room.
The sound: he carries the workshop with music, knowledge and years of experience.
Short workshop for everyone interested: festivals, neighbourhoods, cultural centres.
Longer format for cultural workers, organisers and musicians.
Conferences and seminars on music education and community music, up to university teaching.
We adapt duration, group size and depth. Fees on request.
Talks and panels are given by Gabriel Riquelme together with Catalina and/or Hermes. He delivers the essay “Islands in the Belly of the Beast” alone. For panels, conferences, cultural institutions and universities. Gladly followed by a set.
A keynote on dancing as counter-narrative, with Hall, Glissant, hooks and Gilroy in the luggage.
Music education as community practice.
Essay by Gabriel Riquelme on diaspora, archipelagos and dance floors as counter-spaces. As a speech and as a starting point for conversations and panels.
Looking for a DJ set? To the DJ sets →
DJ set, workshop or talk: tell us what you have in mind. We send our fees on request.
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