Pachamama Festival
Image: Photo: Alicia Fox

The Pachamama Festival is a fusion of art, films, healing, talks, children’s workshops, music and more celebrating Latin American stories of cultural connections to the land.

Included as part of the community-run Open Marrickville Festival, the Pachamama Exhibition (a focal point of the Pachamama Festival) weaves together the photographic works of five photographers from three countries, sharing visual narratives of traditional and indigenous communities from remote corners of Latin America. The Pachamama Exhibition explores themes from the subtle massaging of culture through even the most harmless of eco­tourism to more devastating impacts of globalisation.

From Mexico, photographer Armando, follows a Mayan community gripping onto cultural traditions of weaving and transforming the tradition into sustainable income and a tool for storytelling with the outside world.

Reflecting the Peruvian Amazon, photographer Alicia Fox documents a long history of traditional costumes of a community at risk of disappearing – like many who have already gone.

The works ask visitors to consider the sacredness and vulnerability of traditional communities and reflect upon a duty to act in their defense. Our actions can take many forms with varying degrees of impact and these works act collectively as a calling card toward privileged people in positions of power.

Pachamama Festival, Jun 26-28, Addison Rd Community Centre, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville, free-$8 (donations welcome), sydneylatinofilmfestival.org

 

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