FROM CALI, COLOMBIA, IN THE BLACK HISTORY MONTH, SATELITE SURSYSTEM MAGAZINE DEDICATE TO THE AFRO COLOMBIAN HERITAGE

In this Black History Month, I am so proud to show the new issue of the Satelite Sursystem Magazine that is dedicated to Afro Colombian history. Colombia has a very ugly history, like every country that was colonized by the Spanish empire 500 years ago, and the people who most suffered from the Spanish conquerer were the Native people and the black people who arrived in Colombia when the native people was almost extinguished by the conquerors. Cali, my city, has a high black population, but, like in the USA, this population hasn't had the same opportunities that the “white” population got since the colony. For all these reasons and many many more, the appearance of this Magazine highlighting the Afro Colombia culture and their figures are a sign that we are starting to accept that we are a Mestizo city and that our culture is Mestizo too as well. We can’t be Colombians or Caleños if we refuse to recognize that the Afro Colombian culture is part of our heritage and also the future of our country.

 

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Marcelo Arroyave

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Workshop: Memory Re-Used How to Build a Magazine with Reused Paper Using your Memories

The Brooklyn Public Library (New York City) is hosting the University Open Air Winter Semester from February 24 to March 7th, they invited me to participate for the second time since they started to do the University Open Air (UOA) in 2019. 

On this semester I will do a workshop that I developed since I was living in Colombia, it workshop was named for me Sursystem 3R (Reused, Recycle and Rethink), but for this event, I changed its name, now is called: Memory Re-Used, and the goal is that the participants in the workshop bring their old memories from their life in the neighborhood where they are or were living (old pictures, postcard, letters, posters... etc) and create a new page for the content of the magazine with that memories and, on the same time, they learn how to build a magazine with reused paper and reused shoebox, also, they will make the decoration of the cover and the back cover of the magazine using different techniques.

The workshop will be split into two parts, I will leave below the links to the UOA webpage and the links to my workshop.

Also, there will be more classes and lectures through those two weeks, feel free to explore it and I hope you can participate in this fantastic idea from the Brooklyn Public Library.

  UOA Webpage with all the curses and info

>Click on the image to go to the UOA webpage<

See you around and enjoy it!

Marcelo Arroyave