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Manifestación textil “50 años, 50 Arpilleras, historias textiles de los Andes al Mar del Norte”

Posted on by Mónica Barraza Madariaga

 

 

Descripción del Encuentro:

El 11 de septiembre de este año se cumplen 50 años del golpe de estado cívico militar en Chile, en que fue derrocado el presidente democrático Salvador Allende Gossens, marcando el inicio de una violenta dictadura de 17 años, que transformó la vida política, social y económica de las y los chilenos hasta hoy. Desde 1973, cientos de miles de chilena/os tuvieron que salir del país para preservar sus vidas o fueron forzados a salir por el gobierno de facto. De ellos, más de dos mil mujeres, hombres y niños llegaron a Países Bajos, donde los holandeses y demás residentes les acogieron solidariamente. Con el correr de los años, otras miles de personas han migrado a Países Bajos, por diversas razones, sus historias también se han ido entretejiendo con la cultura y las experiencias de vida de las personas que nos reciben en estas tierras lejanas.

“50 años, 50 Arpilleras, historias textiles de los Andes al Mar del Norte” es una manifestación textil que busca conmemorar estas historias de amor y solidaridad que entrelazan la vida de quienes migramos y de quienes nos reciben.

Sobre el 1er encuentro:

En este espacio queremos promover el ejercicio de la memoria colectiva, de nuestros lazos comunes con Chile y Latinoamérica, así como nuestras experiencias migratorias hacia Países Bajos, por intermedio de las Arpilleras chilenas. Conoceremos su origen e historia, reflexionaremos sobre la importancia y atemporalidad de su mensaje, para la defensa de la paz y los Derechos Humanos. También se guiará a los participantes para desarrollar esta técnica y crear su propio relato textil, el que luego (Agosto 2023) será unido al relato de los demás, construyendo así un Mosaico Textil que narrará, entre telas e hilos, nuestras historias, anhelos, dolores y sueños, individuales y colectivos.

Este Mosaico será expuesto en diferentes encuentros,

galerías y espacios culturales, a partir de septiembre de 2023 en adelante.

¿A quién está dirigida esta convocatoria?

Esta convocatoria está dirigida a todas las personas que respeten los derechos humanos, a la comunidad chilena, de todas las generaciones, así como a la comunidad holandesa y de otros lugares del mundo, que se sientan interesados por ser parte de este emotivo espacio de memoria a la solidaridad internacional, el amor y la paz.

El espacio también contará con actividades especiales para la niñez, incluido un cuenta cuento de Los Andes (en español) y un actividad de pinta caritas, a cargo de nuestra amiga y colaboradora @adri_montessori.

El taller ha sido creado y será guiado por la colectiva Fundación Diáspora Solidaria, en colaboración con la artista textil @lajavitextil y la especialista en educación Montessori @adri_Montessori. 

Costo: 

  • Admisión  5€ adulto, incluye todos los materiales para la Arpillera y patrones. Té, café, frutas y galletas. 
  • Niñas/os  Gratis. 
  • La cena tiene un costo adicional de 8€.

Inscripciones en el siguiente link https://forms.gle/QEYZznUH396XbmDB9 o a través del siguiente código QR

 

Sigue esta convocatoria a través de nuestras redes sociales  Instagram o Facebook @fundaciondiasporasolidaria.

Consultas al correo electrónico info@diasporasolidaria.org, monica.barrazamadariaga@gmail.com.

 

 

Textile workshop “Latin American Arpilleras, textile stories for peace and Human Rights”.

Posted on by Mónica Barraza Madariaga
Come and join us on Saturday 25th March!. 

Discover the beautiful, deep and emotional art of the Latin American Arpilleras and let your creative ideas loose.
During the Latin Arpilleras workshop, you will learn the technique to create a unique work of art. You don’t have to be an artist, just be inspired by your dreams, feelings and desires. Above all, we want you to express your imagination and creativity, through needles, fabrics and threads.
Together, we will create a collective work of art in which common stories and experiences are shared with harmony and respect. In this way, we want to represent our common space, be it the Wijkcentrum d’Oude Stadt, the neighborhood or even the city of Amsterdam, with its symbols, colours and shapes. To participate in this workshop, it is not necessary to have prior knowledge of sewing or embroidery. 

The name Arpillera (or burlap) refers to a type of cloth, usually used for wrapping foodstuffs, such as flour or wheat. It was first used as a canva by the great Chilean artist Violeta Parra around 1960. She named the textile work that resulted from her creative, profound and self-taught way of embroidering her dreams, desires and sorrows on them, arpillera. Soon, the technique was enriched by the hands of the “Bordadoras de Isla Negra”, a collective of women embroiderers from this coastal town in Chile.

In the 70s and 80s, it became an important popular textile tradition cultivated by hundreds of women in Chile as an act of resistance and denunciation during the Pinochet dictatorship. These “embroidered pictures” became a living testimony of the human rights violations during the dictatorship, but also a form of emotional restraint in the face of the tireless struggle for truth and social justice. Nowadays, this technique is used by women and artists across Latin America. 

Materials needed: 
1. Pieces of coloured fabric (ideally, they should not be elastic or too rigid). The idea is to reuse fabrics and textiles that you already have at home. 
2. Sewing and/or embroidery thread and needles 
3. Wool. 
4. (If you have) Nylon panties and synthetic cotton. 
We invite you to bring a biscuit to share during the workshop.

Free entrance , limited places. Registration in: https://forms.gle/M3vSyu5ECnqSYL8f9

Workshop guided mainly in Dutch.

Textile art exhibition “Women working for peace”

Posted on by Mónica Barraza Madariaga

The cultural center Het Wijkcentrum d’Oude Stadt has invited us to be part of their textile exhibition “Women working for peace”, with the textile work “Justice, Dignity and Peace”(1), that a group of Chilean women and men weaved collectively, in December 2019, in Casa Migrante Amsterdam, demonstrating for the restitution of the rule of law, after knowing of the serious human rights violations committed by agents of the Chilean State against the population during the Social Outbreak of October of that year and the months that followed, which left dozens of people dead, hundreds of victims of state and sexual violence, more than 500 people with irreversible eye injuries, and hundreds of imprisonments of protesters.

This art exhibition will also include some of the textile works that we have continued to make in the Arpilleras Workshops organised by our Foundation, with which we promote the associativity, integration and creativity of Latin American and Spanish-speaking women and dissidents in the Netherlands. 

Where to see it? At Het Wijkcentrum d’Oude Stadt, Kerkstraat 123, 1017 GE Amsterdam.

When will it take place?  From March 6 to May 27, 2023. Free admission.

The exhibition is organised by the cultural centre Het Wijkcentrum d’Oude Stadt, in collaboration with Casa Migrante Amsterdam.

(1) “Justice, Peace and Dignity”, were the words chosen spontaneously by a group of people who gathered on December 7th, 2019, in Casa Migrante, Amsterdam, to make this emotional collective textile story, with which we joined from the Netherlands to the international call for textile activism “A thousand needles for dignity” of the Chilean visual artist, Karen Rosentreter.

With it, we express our big concern for the serious and systematic violations of Human Rights (HR) being committed by agents of the Chilean state against the population, after the social outbreak of October 18, 2019 (accredited and documented by major international human rights organisations), we give our support and call for international solidarity to demand the restoration of the rule of law, an end to political violence against demonstrators and respect for human rights in Chile.

This meeting was organised in the Netherlands, at Casa Migrante Amsterdam, by visual artist Mak Alvarez (artmak.cl), the Collective @Chile Despertó Holanda, and by us, in what was the beginning of our collective @Fundación Diáspora Solidaria. 

Since 2020, we have continued the work of activism and textile collectivism, offering workshops, encounters and meetings as a Foundation, to promote associativity, creativity, integration and empowerment of Latin American and Spanish-speaking women and dissidents in the Netherlands, inspired by the Arpillera, for the power of its narrative, as well as the historical relationship that this technique has with the defence of Human Rights.

¿What is an Arpillera?

The Arpillera (or jute) refers to a type of cloth, usually used to wrap flour or wheat. It was first taken as a canva by Violeta Parra, one of the greatest Chilean artists in history, around 1960.  She named the textile work that resulted from her creative, expressive and self-taught embroidery arpillera. Soon, the technique was enriched by the hands of the “Bordadoras de Isla Negra”, a collective of women embroiderers from this coastal town in Chile.

 In the mid 70’s the Arpilleras became true “Textil newspapers” that told the truth  which the official media did not want to tell, about the search for truth, justice and the defence of life, by the Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared of the civil-military dictatorship of Pinochet (1973-1980).

Currently, this technique has been disseminated and enriched throughout Latin America, by the hand of women’s collectives and artists who continue to weave stories, narrating their experiences, dreams and desires for dignity, equality, social justice and respect for nature, promoting peace with needles, fabrics and threads.

More information about our Arpilleras Workshops, here.

Encuentro textil, Arpilleras Latinoamericanas: Relatos textiles contra la violencia patriarcal.

Posted on by Mónica Barraza Madariaga

En el Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer, nos reunimos en De Fabriek Volkskamer para crear juntas un espacio de sororidad entre mujeres de la comunidad latinoamericana, caribeña e hispanohablante, que nos permitió compartir nuestras experiencias y reflexionar juntas sobre cómo vivimos, nos protegemos y nos organizamos para eliminar la violencia contra las niñas, las jóvenes, las mujeres y las disidentes migrantes en Países Bajos.

Reconociendo la relación histórico-política de las mujeres organizadas con lo textil, queremos utilizar las telas, agujas e hilos, como medios de expresión, protección y creación, e inspirarnos especialmente en la Arpillera chilena y Latinoamericana, por la fuerza, emotividad y valentía de su relato, que narra en tela, tanto los amores y dolores de las mujeres que las confeccionan, como las luchas y resistencias ante las injusticias, discriminaciones y desigualdad que nos violentan, día a día. 

Quisimos promover un espacio de reflexión, de asociatividad y creatividad, seguro y respetuoso de la diversidad de experiencias, visiones e ideas, en el que nos una la convicción de que en la organización social y comunitaria de mujeres, se encuentra la clave para avanzar en el desarrollo de una sociedad respetuosa de la diversidad, equitativa, con igualdad sustantiva para todas las personas y sostenible para las generaciones presentes y futuras.

ENGLISH VERSION:

Textile Encounter, Chilean and Latin American Arpilleras: Textile stories against patriarchal violence.

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we gathered at De Fabriek Volkskamer at the Volkskamer to create collectively a save space of sisterhood among women from the Spanish-speaking community. This allowed us to share our experiences and reflections about the society we live in, so that we can protect ourselves and organize future actions to eliminate the increasing violence against girls, women and the lgbtqia+ community in the Netherlands.

We consider that there is a strong historical-political relationship of women with textiles. Therefore we use fabrics, needles and threads as a means of expression, protection and creation. We are especially inspired by the Chilean and Latin American “Arpillera”, the term with which the outstanding Chilean folklorist Violeta Parra baptised her embroideries on rustic fabrics who were used to make sacks for agricultural products. 

“Arpilleras are like songs that are painted”, said Violeta Parra. It would later become a long popular textile tradition cultivated by hundreds of women in Chile as an act of resistance and denunciation against the Pinochet dictatorship. 

That’s why we have embraced the Arpillera, because it it’s a beautiful way to express emotions and to tell a story.  It is difficult to talk about the emotional struggles and violence we face on a daily basis. That’s why we promote a space were women can reflect, create and express their emotions without the need to talk if they don’t want to. The Arpillera is the way of expression.