New York City will once again host Mexican culture at the México Now Festival

Claudia Norman, in a talk with SinEmbargo, explained that the curator of the twentieth edition of the México Now Festival looks to the future, where he questions who the audience will be in the future, who what the projects will look like and, above all, what the projects will be like. the responsibility of people as cultural workers.

Mexico City, October 20 (Ach). New York will again be the headquarters of México Now Festivalan event that has been responsible for increasing the Mexican culture for 20 consecutive years through music, photography, film and multimedia art.

In an interview for However, Claudia Normanfounder and director of the México Now Festival, was sincere when she expressed that the biggest challenge behind this festival is maintaining the stage in a city like New York, which she say as “the heart of the culture.

“We have found that it has allowed us to have continuity, it has allowed us to continue this communication effort about the importance of presenting projects by artists with important themes of Mexican culture in general. […] We have focused on presenting and bringing Mexican artists, but also in this 20-year project we have seen the Mexican community in New York, an intellectual community and artists as well , so the idea is to open this place and keep it. is open to “That these projects have a platform and will be a meeting place for all audiences interested in the work of contemporary artists and Mexican culture here in New York.”

In this sense, Claudia Norman explained that the curation of the twentieth edition of the Mexico Now Festival looks very much to the future, where it questions who the audience will be in the future future, what the projects will look like and, above all, how much responsibility they will have. of the people who will be cultural workers.

During the event, which will take place from November 20 to 24 at the Chelsea Factory, the photographer Santiago Arau will present “Patrimonio,” a new publication of photographs, captured between 2015 and 2023, detailing landscape and beauty of Anáhuac, Easter Valley. Mexico; There will also be a night inspired by fandango jarocho, a living cultural tradition more than 400 years old from the southern coastal region of Mexico, but full of special New York influences; In addition, Juan Pablo Villa will pay tribute to cardenche, a traditional a cappella song for trios from Durango, with the Coro Acardenchado.

The twentieth edition of the México Now Festival will take place in November. Photo: Special

Without losing the habit, for its 20th edition, the México Now Festival reunited with its regular partner, the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), to present award-winning short films that have been shown as part of MXNOW to showcase the latter. 20 years.

On the other hand, the author Valeria Luiselli, the composer Leonardo Heilblum and the multimedia artist Ricardo Giraldo will make a powerful one-hour segment from Echoes from the Borders“sound essay” that records the stories of violence and struggle against land and bodies on the US-Mexico border.

When asked about the responsibility of connecting the artistic and cultural communities between Mexico and the United States at a critical time for immigrants in the northern part of the country, Claudia Norman told this medium that this lies in developing a “place where you can feel that. you belong, this sense of belonging is very important and that is why it must be multidisciplinary and eclectic to leave your entry points to the whole community which, through culture, is the most safe to belong to a new place.” .

“It’s an opportunity to change stereotypes and to celebrate, in terms of Mexican culture, which is so rich, so diverse, that you can find connections with all the other cultures that are in New York, in the public schools here they talk more. of 130 languages, so the challenge was to find those meeting points, the similarities, the cultural connection, that culture has traveled through time, through space, there is no specific geography for cultural projects , it’s in constant motion, constantly evolving, and that’s what we’re getting close to in New York,” he concluded.

Erendira Quintero

Music is my strength. I have a good time at concerts and festivals. I write about entertainment and describe myself as a serious series buff. I love the MCU and the romantic comedies.