We launch this year’s LA FERIA festival with a powerful event focusing on Identity. With strong and influential voices from South America, we present two artists that speak about and celebrate their heritage and ask deep and difficult questions.
ARTISTS:
MILLARAY (Chile)
MC Millaray, 16, a rising rap star in Chile, uses her fierce lyrics to convey centuries of struggles by the country’s largest Indigenous group against European colonisers. Her songs decry environmental injustices and call for the return of ancestral lands”. New York Times Jan 2023
VICTOR RIOS (Bolivia) with How British Are You?
A tv-show-like test to see how British we are. Explored through the life journey of a migrant who came from the high altitude of the Andes as a young person, embracing the cultural contrast of the UK, and is now conflicted by how to identify himself.
Is he Bolivian? Is he Latino? Is he British? What is he? What are we?
In this piece, Victor explores his journey of migration through cultural adaptation and looking for answers to his identity, linking his memories of childhood.
Q & A with artists chaired by PABLO NAVARRETE from Alborada – Latin America Uncovered.
7.30 pm, Wednesday 20th September at UNITY THEATRE