Capital culture commemorates International LGBT+ Pride Day with various activities - CDMX Theater Billboard
Photos: Official poster/ The Ministry of Culture of Mexico City will offer a series of face-to-face and virtual activities in its various spaces, to celebrate the International Day of LGBTI+ Pride, focused on making visible and promoting inclusion, tolerance and respect towards the community through workshops, videos, children's stories, catwalks, conversations and plays.
The cultural offer to celebrate the so-called “Gay Pride” (for its acronym in English), is made up of the Trust for the Promotion and Development of Mexican Cinema in Mexico City (PROCINE), the Festivals and Community Interventions (between Neighborhoods and Towns), the Institute for the Defense of Cultural Rights of Mexico City, the “Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora” Historical Archive, the Arts and Crafts Factory (FARO) Miacatlán and Aragón and El Rule , Community of Knowledge.
On Thursday, June 24 at 8:00 p.m., through its Facebook account, the Festivals and Community Interventions program (entre Barrios y Pueblos) uploads the video “Getting to know Ignacio Martínez Zepeda” to its platform, an illustrator who tells his experience of promoting respect towards the community.
For its part, PROCINE invites the cycle “Cinema in our house”, on June 27 at 4:00 p.m., via Facebook and YouTube, and El Rule Comunidad de Saberes presents on June 26 at 4:00 p.m. space for shared reading of poems by LGBTI+ authors "Let's do other sexes".
The Autocinema in Mexico City will show a sample of national short films from the international festival "Shorts México", which deal with issues of sexual diversity such as "Wheels" and "The dead man tells his story" and "The last memories of April".
The Mexico City Theater System presents the cycle “Entre lenchas, vestidas y musculocas”, made up of 13 productions and seven virtual activities in which artists and companies such as México de Colores, Mariano Ruiz, Roberto Cabral, Alejandra Ley, César Enríquez, Rebeca Trejo, Proyecto 21 and Teatro La eMe, among others, whose objective in each edition is to promote diversity and LGBTI+ pride through the performing arts in its different genres and shows: theater, dance , cabaret, stand up, multidisciplinary and performance.
As part of the theater cycle, this Saturday, June 26, the first Crooked Trajectory Recognition will be awarded to Samantha Flores, transgender activist and founder of Laetus Vitae (Vida Alegre), the first day home for older adults in the LGBTI+ community in Mexico City, whose delivery will be accompanied by the First Lip Sync Esperanza Drag Contest.
On Monday, June 28, “Love is love” will be broadcast, a catwalk to commemorate this date with makeup, costumes and visual effects from the community of the Fábrica de Artes y Oficios (FARO) Aragón, at 7:00 p.m. hours, which is spread on Facebook.
On the same day, the Institute for the Defense of Cultural Rights of Mexico City will broadcast at 5:00 p.m. the conversation, “Trans… Parenting the culture and life of trans people in times of COVID and the new normality”, in which children and adults from this community participate, who will give testimonies of their lives, which can be followed on social networks and also on the Internet radio station Código Ciudad de México.
The Historical Archive of Mexico City "Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora" joins the remote celebration with the discussion "International Day of LGBT Pride", by the historian Luis de Pablo that is shared at 6:00 p.m. hours.
Whereas, the Miacatlán Arts and Crafts Factory (FARO) will broadcast at 7:00 p.m. the short film “Maliblue”, by Edson Contreras Ornelas and at 8:00 p.m. the short, “The last memories of April”, by Nancy Cruz.
The Festivals and Community Interventions program (between Neighborhoods and Towns) makes available to netizens the forum, "The LGBTI+ community in the artistic field", with speakers from the LGBTI+ community to be held virtually on Wednesday 30, at 12:00 p.m.
The online offer of the Ministry of Culture of Mexico City can be seen on its official page (https://cultura.cdmx.gob.mx/), on the digital platform Capital Cultural in Nuestra Casa and on their social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube).
With information from the capital's Ministry of Culture
You may also be interested in:
Do not stop receiving all the information and the premieres of the plays in Mexico City in your email, Facebook or Twitter.
