Buenaventura is located in Colombia's southern Pacific Coast. One of the most important and active harbours of the country is located in this city that produces a very important income for the country. Because of the legacy of slave-trading during the colonial times, it’s population it’s mostly Afro-Colombian. Despite the wealthiness this city produces trough its harbour, Buenaventura's population suffers from poverty, most of its inhabitants lack basic services like water, health and education. Levels of corruption and violence are high. They live in the middle of a confrontation between different armed groups who are competing for controlling drug trafficking routes.
Despite all these problems, this town shines for its rich cultural and artistic expressions. They sing to everything and they dance to any sound they hear. For Buenaventura's communities, artistic expressions are very powerful tools for transforming social and economical problems, into songs, grooves, flows and beautiful moves.
The Reporter
Marimbea is an organization that generates opportunities and source of income for the cultural actors of the Southern Pacific Coast of Colombia trough the design and development of cultural experiences, and creating significative connections to spread their work and artistic expressions worldwide.
About Reports from Other Continents
Le Guess Who? has launched its new video production ‘Reports from Other Continents’, in which people from all over the world share video reports on topics such as art, music, culture, and social life from within their local community. It’s a platform for people to tell their own story. Normally, Le Guess Who? shares these kinds of special stories about worldwide musical traditions and cultural developments through concerts and performing artists; now the festival has found a way to do so online.
All reports are made specifically for Le Guess Who? and are commissioned by the festival.
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Theme music by Ben Shemie
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