Thank you to everyone who came this weekend, it was fantastic!… such a beautiful community of supporters and people from all over the world celebrating Latinamerican artists and culture.

This year, we collaborated with the Southbank Centre as part of the You Belong Here festival.
We programmed local artists and initiatives to show the diversity of our culture. They have cultivated their practice in this city, making it theirs.

We belong here!

We’re thrilled by the audience from different cultures, backgrounds, and ages that enjoyed a bit of our culture and the amazing work of these artists.

Video edited by Marian Naranjo @mnaranjo27
Video captured by Ana Aguirre @_anamariaag
Music in the video: Luzmira Zerpa (live show at SBC)
Voices in video: Gloria Exilio, Luzmira Zerpa, and Teresa Guanique.

Artists by category:

Music performances:
Imperio Bamba @imperiobamba
Luzmira Zerpa @luzmirazerpa
Las Witchas Collective @laswitchas.collective

Fashion show:
Anciela London @anciela_london

Dance Workshop:
Luanda Pau @luanda_pau
Somos Chibchas @somoschibchaslondon

Dj Sessions:
@lajeva__
@exiliolatinx
@kiraziborova
@popola_uk family (special mention to their dancers @lyvonnethedon and @reinaldolose )

You can see a beautiful resume of all the weekend here

A celebration of the arts and culture from Abya Yala! 🌎✨ various collectives and community groups got together to celebrate our culture and community.

Bring the whole family for an unforgettable day filled with music, art, interactive workshops, fun activities, delicious food, and a mini market showcasing beautiful artisan products from across the continent. Stay tuned for the full lineup announcement soon!

SAVE THE DATE!!

SUNDAY 11TH OF AUGUST
11 AM – 9 PM
CHESTNUTS COMMUNITY CENTRE

We’re excited to be part of ‘You Belong Here’, at the Southbank Centre’s summer season of events exploring identity, inclusivity and belonging Three days full of activities on 2nd, 3rd and 4th of August.

This event is part of a weekend showcasing the diversity of the Latin American artistic community through music, performances and new proposals, inviting audiences to engage with this versatile culture.

Tradition gives origin to new trends; new generations embrace their roots and combine them with the perspectives gained from growing up in a multicultural hectic city like London. 

Friday 2nd of August: Latinas Presentes

This event, featuring DJ La Jeva, dancer Luanda Pau and musicians Imperio Bamba, gives a platform to the often unseen and underrepresented creativity that belongs to the streets of this busy city.

Saturday 3rd August – LatinXtravaganzza:
This weekend showcases music, performances, and launch of new collection of Anciela London, inviting audiences to engage with artwork by new generations of LatinX artists. Music from Gloria Exilio, pioneering event series established in 1996, DJ G has been instrumental in providing a safe, festive space for the LGBTQ+ Latinx community and lovers of tropical crossover music. Venezuelan musician Luzmira Zerpa and closing the night with amazing Popola, spotlights the rich diversity of London’s Queer LatinX & Afro-Caribbean diasporic communities.

Sunday 4th August – ¡Aquí Estamos! We Are Here!

What does it mean to be a Latin American woman in London? What issues arise from being labelled as Latinas? Drawing inspiration from oral traditions, performance art, storytelling, and live music, this performance aims to challenge and transform the conventional narratives about women from the Abya Yala, and redefine how we relate to and identify within the city of London.

Featuring: Somos Chibchas, DJ Kira and Las Witchas Collective.

Add this amazing event in your calendar!!!

We are thrilled to partner with our friends from Movimientos and DJ Amancai to create this new night to celebrate the Picotero culture from Colombia.

Zaperoco aspires to be a night of sound system from music from around the world focusing on Afro-Colombian genres like champed, soukuous but other latin-american and world music are also present in this costeña party style. 

The picotero culture born around the picós in the Caribbean coast, with sound systems that played music on street parties or verbenas fostering community and a unique soundscape.

Follow us on IG through @zaporocolondon and keep connected with what promise to be a non-stop dancing night out.

Last summer we had the opportunity to meet artist Tere Chadwick in one of her solo exhibitions here in London. ‘In My Dreams,’ her solo exhibition at Zari Gallery in which she showcased a serie of surreal figures ambiguously positioned somewhere between physical space and dream.

Chilean artist María Teresa Chadwick Irarrazaval is co-founder of the ‘Latinos Creative Society’ at the University of the Arts London and founder of ‘Alter Us’, a multidisciplinary collective focused on challenges created by Anthropocene; Sustainability, Connection, Individualism, Capitalism, Nature vs Tech.

Tere promotes Latin-American art and culture abroad, she came to London looking for a change in her live and found a cosmopolita society where art had a place to be created and seen. She has recently been shortlisted for the Sustainability First Art Prize.

She wanted to share with us an interview she had with Adam Feinstein, biographiest of Pablo Neruda and specialised in Latin American literature.