In it Urban Art Day, Today is celebrated on Saturday, August 31, and ‘Bogotá, my City, my Home’ exalts the value of these artistic manifestations for the identity of the city.
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More than 80 urban artists, along with workshop leaders and creators for the complementary agenda, participate in an activity in commemoration of the memory of Diego Felipe Becerra, a young graffiti artist murdered in 2011.
Through the development of expressions of urban art, this event highlights the value of respect for life, in addition to recognizing the importance of public space for the well-being of citizens. and its relationship with the sense of belonging to a territory.
He Urban Art Day seeks to exalt the positive actions that take place in Bogotá, understanding Urban art as a movement that transcends aesthetic disciplines and aims at understanding and interacting with the city through collective mobilization.
After a long history of institutional and community synergy, the “Diego Felipe Becerra Lizarazo Urban Art Day Celebration Scholarship”, whose objective is to promote the creation of artistic interventions in public spaces and to give space to manifestations such as urban art, graffiti, dance, performance, mapping, installation and breakdancing, among others.
Below we share with you a post from the Ministry of Culture (SDRCD) on red X related to the celebration of Urban Art Day:
🎨 Today we celebrate Urban Art Day. Discover how graffiti in #BogotáMyCityMyHome It has gone from being an underground expression to a social and artistic movement, enriching the cultural identity of the city.
Learn more 👉 https://t.co/L8wnWCSpecpic.twitter.com/SCbsTzRvT4
— Bogotá Department of Culture (@CulturaenBta) August 31, 2024
Among the contributions of these artistic fields are the improvement of the city’s surroundings, the promotion of meetings with other actors in the public space, inviting artists and citizens to reflect on the specific dynamics that occur in the territory.
The winning projects of this grant are being implemented andin the towns of Suba, Ciudad Bolivar, Fontibon, Martires, Rafael Uribe Uribe and Santa Fe.
About the event
This August 31st, artists from the nineteen graffiti tables will meet (19 local tables and a Women’s Graffiti table), together with the community of the territory, to commemorate the memory of Diego Felipe Becerra.
The event, which will take place in the town of Ciudad Bolívar – El Rincón de la Estancia will feature an artistic program with music, breakdance, tag battles and live urban art creation, among other activities.
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Event Activities:
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Responsible Urban Art Intervention with the participation of 80 artists from the 20 graffiti tables in Bogotá.
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Stencil workshop, with an intergenerational approach, which fosters creativity and the artistic abilities of citizens.
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Tag Battle
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Breakdance presentation
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Musical accompaniment with DJs
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Local artists’ entrepreneurship zone (ten ventures)
