“The Incident”: a meeting by the memory, the diversity and truth in Santa Fe de Antioquia

Santa Fe de Antioquia is preparing to receive a new edition of the Festival of Sexual Diversity, which this year reaches its ninth version.

From 16 to 18 may, this city's heritage will once again be a meeting place, memory, and claim for the sectors LGBTIQ+ and all the public who wish to join a agenda cultural, political, and artistic built from the respect, the love and the resistance.

The festival, with free entry to all its activities, is part of the celebration of the International day against Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia. Under the motto “The Incident”, the programming offers a journey reflective and diverse by the multiple ways of inhabiting the bodies, identities and desires in a society that still faces deep inequalities.

The opening will be Friday, may 16 at 7:30 p. m. in the Museo Juan del Corral, with the driving of Any Magdalene and the presentation of the forum, “My body is the truth”, by Wilson Castañeda Castro, chairman of the Monitoring Committee of the Commission of Truth and director of Caribbean Yes.

During the Saturday, may 17, the activities will begin at 9:00 a.m. with the workshop “En cuerpo ajeno”, delivered by Daissy Pérez, followed by exhibitions organized by the office of the Ombudsman, the National Network of Trans and Colombia Diversa, among others. It will also address topics such as sex work, HIV, the literature cuir, the legal limits of prostitution and the models webcam, with the participation of experts such as Charlotte Schneider, Cristina Uribe and Pamela Roldán.

At the end of the day, the artistic programming will include stand-up comedy with Zulima Ochoa, presentations of groups scenic as The Girls Cheerful and Antioquia Latin, and the premiere of the series “V of Shame”, produced by Teleantioquia.

Sunday, 18 may, the festival will close with a day of workshops and conversations around the memories LGBTIQ+, motion, drag, and the impersonation in Antioquia. As an act of closure, we will be screening the film “All the flowers”, directed by Carmen Oquendo-Villar.

The 9th Festival of Sexual Diversity of Santa Fe de Antioquia reaffirms its commitment to human rights, peace-building from the territories, and the defense of the multiple ways of loving and being. A bet for the word, the body, the justice and culture as paths of transformation.