Newsletter of Cultural Events July 2024 | |
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In celebration of the
9th of July, Argentine Independence Day,
The Consulate General of Argentina in New York
presents
"MARIQUITA, mujer revolución"
a Documentary by Sabrina Farji.
Spanish with English subtitles.
Q&A with the director.
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"Mariquita: revolution woman" is a documentary directed and produced by Sabrina Farji that covers the history of Mariquita Sánchez de Thompson, a foundational woman in Argentine history.
Farji immerses herself in the life of this woman to corroborate that she was much more than “the one who lent her house to sing the Argentine National Anthem for the first time.” Mariquita (1786 - 1868) had 7 children, 2 husbands and lived almost a century. She, who for some people is just a society lady who offered her house for social gatherings, has been a great public and political woman. It's time to know her story. Mariquita is played by Zoe Gotusso and Mayra Bonard. Added to several testimonies from important figures such as María Saenz Quesada, Florencia Canale, Andrea Bonelli, Graciela Batticuore among others, we can learn the story of this extraordinary woman.
Sabrina Farji is a film and television producer, screenwriter, and multidisciplinary artist. Founder and CEO of Zoelle Producciones, based in Argentina, where she directs, develops and produces audiovisual content with a gender perspective.
She is Vice President of the Argentine Film Academy, the association in charge of selecting the Argentine film that will compete for the Oscars Awards. As a multidisciplinary artist she has made and exhibited her work in video art and video installations, her pieces have been acquired by the MOMA (New York). She is a Member Board of “Woman and Cinema Association” ("La mujer y el cine") that holds the Women and Cinema Festival annually and a frequent speaker on women in the audiovisual field and in the development of policies of gender perspective. She is the author of 9 feature films. Her first film "Blue Sky, Black Sky" ("Cielo Azul, Cielo Negro") premiered at MALBA and has been invited to the festivals of Locarno, Trieste, São Paulo and Brussels. In 2007 she presented her second feature film "When She Jumped" ("Cuando ella saltó") which also toured festivals. Her third feature film, “Eva & Lola”, premiered in New York at Lincoln Center. Her latest film, after the one we are watching tonight, is “Ofrenda” (2023).
Thursday July 11th, 6:00pm
Spanish with English subtitles.
Q&A with the director after the screening!!
RSVP
12 West 56th St, New York, NY 10019
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The Consulate General of Argentina in New York
presents
"Deep Origins" / "Orígenes Profundos"
from Gaby Grobocopatel
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Gaby Grobocopatel was born in 1966 in Carlos Casares, a small town in the Pampas, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Her profound love for her hometown has inspired her to create a personal iconography based on the collection of images that she saw daily while living and exploring the environs of her town. Her deep appreciation for her homeland is evident in her work, which reflects not only nature but also the stories of her cultural ancestors.
In this new series of works, the infinite horizon of the Pampas is presented as metaphysical and disturbing, as a vertiginous axis that confuses the spectator’s vision. It is a horizon that suggests more than what appears. The artist uses condensed shapes and colors in her search for the internal feeling and external appearance of the vastness, the silence and the poetry of these unique large spaces. In some paintings, the line that divides heaven and earth and the concrete and the magical appears to be undulated as nature and humanity become embedded in the mystery of creation. She looks for the inner feeling beyond the external appearance of these wide open vistas, where nature symbolizes specific gestures and silent spaces and the simplest thing acquires prominence. The horizon is a symbol of the future, for goals unattained, yet waiting to be accomplished.
Tuesday July 23rd, 6:00pm
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12 West 56th St, New York, NY 10019
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Summer Concerts at the Consulate | |
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The Consulate General of Argentina in New York
presents
The Argentinian Choir of Minnesota
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The Argentinean Choir (Coro Argentino) of Minnesota was founded in April of 2022 to promote Argentinean music outside of Argentina and give its members a space of belonging, in reconnection with their culture and roots, and a home away from home. Currently, the choir has 17 members of different nationalities and 3 accompanying musicians. The choir has sung at different community events in Minnesota, receiving a very enthusiastic welcome and feedback.
Its conductor and founder, Maria Claudia Benaros, is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has sung in choirs since age 6. She started her musical journey at the renowned Collegium Musicum in Buenos Aires, and continued at the Buenos Aires Conservatory of Music Manuel de Falla. Afterwards, she went to the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, Israel, and graduated with honors in violin performance from Augsburg University in Minnesota. In addition, she is a Kindermusik instructor and Suzuki pedagogy instructor. Maria is currently pursuing her Masters’ degree in choral and orchestra conducting at the University of La Rioja, Spain.
Friday August 2nd, 6:00pm
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12 West 56th St, New York, NY 10019
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The Consulate General of Argentina in New York
presents
Dúo Plana - Marti in Concert
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The Dúo Plana/Marti is integrated by Beti Plana (flute) and Polo Martí (guitar), the Duo was formed in 1987. They have performed in halls, theaters and festivals in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica, South Africa, France, Spain, Sweden, Germany, among others, offering Argentine and Latin American music.
The proposal for this evening combines his own arrangements on folk music, exploring the technical-musical possibilities of there instruments through works by Dino Saluzzi, Egberto Gismonti, Astor Piazzolla, Aníbal Cuadros, Tito Francia, Félix Palorma, Carlos Aguirre and Polo Martí himself, among others, under the concept of “imaginary folklore”.
The Duo's music is based on the training that both musicians have had in contemporary music, Latin American music, folk music, chamber and symphonic music, dedicating many years to research and teaching in our country and in Latin American countries, Europe and South Africa.
Friday August 9th, 6:00pm
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12 West 56th St, New York, NY 10019
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The Consulate General of Argentina in New York
presents
Sebastián Del Hoyo in Concert
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Composer, guitarist and teacher from the city of Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Declared Cultural Ambassador by the Municipal Tourism Entity. Distinguished with the awards: “Estrella de Mar” 2005, “Estrella de Mar” 2012, “Lobo de Mar 2007”, among others. Winner of the national competition “Jazz Ensamble Festival 2012”. He participated in the “Guitarras del Mundo” Festival in the 2012 and 2014 editions.
Sebastián Del Hoyo has released 5 CDs independently. He toured Europe in 2009 (Italy), 2011 (Spain), 2013 (Italy), 2014 (Germany, Switzerland) and 2019 (Italy).
He has had his group DEL HOYO TRIO for 22 years, with which he has participated in countless concerts and festivals throughout the country. He has played with the famous Argentine musician Lito Vitale.
Friday August 16th, 6:00pm
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12 West 56th St, New York, NY 10019
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"Re memoirs - Portraits of life"
30 years after the attack on the AMIA headquarters
Watercolor portraits of Marcos Acosta
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The presentation, watercolor pictures by the prestigious Argentine artist Marcos Acosta, portrays the victims of July 18th, 1994, when a car bomb hit the building of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA), leaving 85 dead.
Marcos Acosta’ career has mostly developed in Argentina and Latin America after completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at University of Córdoba between 1998 and 2003 and studying under Argentinian master Carlos Peiteado. It was with him that Marcos perfected his drawing, painting and composition.
In 2020, AMIA commissioned him to develop an art project in commemoration of the terrorist attack that took place at the AMIA in 1994. Marcos painted a portrait of each of the victims using their last photo as reference. In many cases, these watercolors became a way to rebuild each person’s memory which may have been blurred over time. The complete project, 85 portraits in all, were donated by the artist as a sign of reconciliation and remembrance.
Closing Friday July 19th.
Monday to Friday
9am to 1pm & 2pm to 5pm
12 West 56th St New York, NY 10019
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With the Support of the
Consulate General of Argentina in New York
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Theater: "Odd Man Out":
An Immersive Experience in the Dark in New York!
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Odd Man Out is an immersive sensory experience that transports you to a new world beyond the limits of sight. You’ll go on a one-of-a-kind adventure in complete darkness, as you take a ‘flight’ with Pitchblack Airlines and journey through the turbulent life of Alberto, a blind jazz musician traveling home to New York after years of self-exile.
You’ll experience every high and low in a way you never have before: through sound, smell, taste, and touch. Ready to challenge your reality?
Every day from July 2nd to July 14th, two sessions on
Wednesdays and Saturdays
And also Spanish sessions:
- July 6th at 2 PM
- July 13th at 2 PM.
Tickets
The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture
18 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012, United States, 10012-2404
| FILM "Chronicles of a Wandering Saint" from the Argentine director Tomás Gómez Bustillo | |
In a tiny Argentinian town, a pious yet competitive woman decides that staging a miracle could be her ticket to sainthood. Yet before the unveiling, a jarring event illuminates the hidden magic of her world, forcing her to reevaluate everything she once took for granted.
Born in Buenos Aires, Tomás Gómez Bustillo was brought up across Argentina, El Salvador, Costa Rica and the US. After studying Political Science in Buenos Aires, he relocated to LA where he earned his MFA in Directing at the American Film Institute Conservatory. After graduating, he co-founded indie production company Plenty Good.
Every day until July 11th
Tickets
Spanish with English Subtitles
IFC Center: 323 6th avenue, Manhattan
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"Rebirth of a Body" Performance Exhibition
Curated by Natacha Voliakovsky
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Argentina Performance Art (APA), in collaboration with the New York Latin American Art Triennial (NYLAAT), presents Rebirth of a body, an exhibition that explores the performative narratives of Latin American and Caribbean women whose lives unfold at the intersection of migration. Curated by Natacha Voliakovsky, founder & director of APA, this exhibition seeks to portray the body of the migrant woman as a border in transit that carries its own cultural memory and resists erasure.
The show offers a complex vision of migration as a continuous process of loss, adaptation, and rebirth. A body in constant performative response but that is deeply connected to the factors of its original lands. Here, the body is both a marker of absence and a presence that resists erasure, continually redefining itself across borders and generations.
The show brings together 6 artists from various regions of Latin America, and will feature a total of 6 live performances, installations and video performances. The artists are Yali Romagoza (Cuba / New York), Sujetka Val Terkes (Perú / New York), Patricia Encarnación (Dominican Republic / New York), Domenica Garcia (Ecuador / New York), Elisa Lutteral (Argentina / New York) and Damariz Damken (US-Mexico Border / New York).
July 6th to July 28th, 2024.
Opening hours are 2 pm-5 pm.
Entrance is free, you can secure your tickets here
NYLAAT House #18, Nolan Park, Governors Island, New York
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Leonardo Suárez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100: New Tango Ballet
Cuartetango string quartet with bandoneon and dance
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Studio showcase of new works in progress by Nuevo Tango Ballet
A tango-dance-theater production with live music by PIAZZOLLA 100 soloists Leonardo Suárez-Paz (violin & voice), Rodolfo Zanetti (bandoneon) and Alejandro De Los Reyes (guitar) alongside 4 dancers - Olga Suárez Paz (choreography/dance/voice), Laura Izquierdo Jurado, Héloïse Ponsonnet & Mathilde Guerrero.
This program is bilingual (English/Spanish). This program is not suitable for children under 13. Audience Q&A following the showcase
Thrusday July 25th, 2024 7:30 pm
TICKETS
Chapel of the Good Shepherd, 543 Main Street, New York, NY 10044.
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ROSA ANTONELLI at CARNEGIE HALL
ROMANZA: Sounds of Passion from Latin America
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Argentinian pianist Rosa Antonelli, a Steinway Artist since 1998, is one of today’s leading performers and a champion of classical Latin-American and Spanish music. She has toured extensively, with more than 1,000 concerts in Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America, and she is dedicated to performing and recording the works of composers that include Argentinian masters Piazzolla, Ugarte, Gianneo and Guastavino, among others, to audiences all over the world.
Ms. Antonelli has presented lectures and seminars on piano technique and interpretation in various European and Latin American countries. Additionally, she was chairwoman of the Piano Department at the Conservatory of Music “Alberto Ginastera” in Buenos Aires for ten years, held the position of Professor of the Piano Department at the National University of La Plata and was invited to join the faculty of the Piano Department of Adelphi University when she came to the U.S. in 1999. In 2006, the Unites States honored Ms. Antonelli by granting her American citizenship because of her government status as “An Artist of Extraordinary Ability.” Her book “Piano: The spirit of technique and interpretation for teachers and students” was published in the United States in 2013.
Saturday, October 26th, 8 pm
TICKETS
Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall
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Alejandra Seeber: "Interior with Landscapes"
Curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin
Director and Chief Curator of Art at Americas Society
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Americas Society will present the first solo exhibition and career survey of the Argentine artist, Alejandra Seeber, in New York. Alejandra Seeber (b. 1969, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a painter who centers representations of various spaces to explore the tension between representation and abstraction in painting. Seeber utilizes bold color and gesture to examine liminal spaces within built and domestic environments. Later work veers further into abstraction, implementing visual devices like Rorschach drawings or knit grids to structure the composition.
The exhibition will pair these paintings with Seeber’s contemporary explorations of the built landscape with an installation.This survey of her work is organized around a playable golf course installed inside the gallery space, in which visitors will be invited to play as they walk through the show.
On view through July 27, 2024
LINK
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
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“Vertices of Time” of Matías Duville | |
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“Vertices of Time” by Matías Duville marks his first solo show at the gallery since it was established in New York City. Through his works, Duville invites viewers on a journey through desolate landscapes, imbued with rarefied and eternal atmospheres that seem to herald natural cataclysms or scenes of vital abandonment that suggest the dreamlike exploration of an absent observer. His focus on drawing is enriched by experimentation in various media and materials.
His technique, marked by expressive strokes and an almost brutal treatment of surfaces, leaves visual traces that blend the texture of the material with the essence of the landscape. In the context of contemporary art, where each work becomes a battleground
of ideological dispute, Duville’s collection stands out as a sharp and lyrical commentary on our collective future.
Matías Duville (Buenos Aires, 1974) works with objects, videos and installations, although his production has mainly grown out of drawing. His works evoke scenes of desolation with rarified, timeless atmospheres like those that precede a natural disaster: hurricanes, tsunamis or scenes of abandonment in a forest that represent a dreamlike vision of a wandering explorer, like a mental landscape. As a reference figure in local drawing, Duville’s work is characterized by experimentation with different mediums and materials.
Closing July 13rd, 8pm
LINK
Barro NY
25 Peck Slip, New York, NY 10038
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TANGO CLASSES DURING THE SUMMER | |
Tango at Central Park with SERGIO SEGURA | |
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Come to dance tango every Saturday from June to the end of September. Dancing from 6pm to 9 pm with Guest DJs. Hosts: Rick Castro, Sergio Segura, Carlos Andres Dueñas, Martin Hernandez. If you have never dance, come to the introductory class at 7:15 PM with guest instructors
Every Saturday
Donations welcome
More INFO
Central Park at Shakespeare Statue
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ESCUELAS ARGENTINAS EN LA JURISDICCIÓN DE ESTE CONSULADO GENERAL
Ambas escuelas argentinas son independientes y sus programas educativos son complementarios a los programas educativos seguidos por las escuelas del Estado en donde se encuentran.
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