After a few days of summer vacation, La Hora del Cafecito resumed activities; last Wednesday, our community welcomed Renée Gerardo and Erica Salinas, who, like Denisse Durón, promote the event called Cine con Orgullo.
The screening of short films and a discussion about pride stories, on the occasion of Non-Binary Visibility Week, will take place in Hermosillo this Saturday, July 13, and in Phoenix, Arizona, next Saturday, July 19.
Regarding this activity, the guests of La Hora del Cafecito shared who they are and their experience in the artistic and activist fields.
Renée Gerardo defines herself as a non-binary trans person. She was born in Benjamín Hill, a municipality located in the north of Sonora. She described herself as a performer, writer, theater-goer at heart, as well as a lover of cinema and artistic expressions. She also shared that she loves plants and animals.
For her part, Erica Salinas, originally from Baja California Sur and a resident of Sonora for a couple of decades, is a cultural manager, activist, founder of Sociedad Activa, and president of the Helga Krebs Foundation.
She is also a promoter of education for day laborers in agricultural fields, where she brings artistic and cultural events as part of a comprehensive training; it is there that she met Renée, when visiting the field to put on a performance.
The event that will be presented at the Cineteca Sonora and at the Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center, ALAC, in Phoenix, aims to present a sample of what it means to democratize culture, said Erica Salinas.
One of the four short films that will be shown was created by people who work in the fields, on the coast of Hermosillo, with this it is demonstrated, said Salinas, that it is possible to leave the city, go to the outskirts and remote places, and address all kinds of people and diversities.
She added that “attending cultural events of diversity helps remind us that heteronorm and binarism are not the only things that exist in this world. We still have a lot to do.”
The activist pointed out that it is likely that Cine con Orgullo will be extended to Tucson and Nogales; in addition, they are waiting for a call from the Semillas Fund, “where we added the cities of origin of the agricultural workers, since since its premiere they asked us to reach their communities. The response of the agricultural workers was very nice, but above all for the public. Most of them had not even thought about this community and, those who do have prejudices, when they meet them they realize that they are people full of talents and dreams like everyone else.”
Renée Gerardo highlighted that July 14 is the Day of Non-Binary Visibility, and with this activity on both sides of the border they will show their work “as non-binary artists. The creation of characters that are not women and men”, which will also be considered a day “with a political meaning, to demand respect and dignity”.
Denisse Durón is in charge of the curatorship of this program that is being held for the second time, she is a producer, filmmaker with more than twenty years of experience; and who, like Erica Salinas, is the recipient of a stimulus for the training of audiovisual artists.
With this, the creation of two productions that fall into the category of incentives for day laborers, minorities such as indigenous peoples, people in a situation of human mobility and LGBT people was supported.
On that occasion, El campo de los sueños; Jornaleras y Jornaleros; Umbilical, and Niñe de rojo en una foto rota escucha la mar, which is the premiere of Renée Gerardo, will be screened.
Regarding the discussion after the presentation of the short films, Erica Salinas revealed: “Unfortunately, Mexico continues to be the second country with the most murders due to ‘LGBT phobia’, so it is important to listen to each other, generate dialogues outside of the heteronorm and embrace diversity.”
The invitation is for the general public, as well as for children and adolescents, since attending events such as Cine con Orgullo, says the founder of Sociedad Activa, is to build a world free of violence.
For more information about upcoming and future community screenings of this series of short films, or others, you can follow Cine con Orgullo on social media.
Source: conectaarizona
