Mateca Arts Festival is a festival of World Music and Multi-Disciplinary Art with a strong Latin American identity. The festival invites everyone to learn, participate and support World Music and Multi-Disciplinary Art. This grassroots event integrates advocacy, arts and music into a two-day educational festival that is the first of its kind in the area.
The festival shows the importance of educating others on different cultures while connecting the arts and environment into one. It includes eclectic musicians, dancers and visual artists, with both local and international presentations. Mateca Arts Festival will take place Saturday and Sunday, June 7-8, at University of Toronto, Victoria College, Burwash Quad.
Over the course of two days, audiences can partake in outdoor Yoga classes, artists’ talks and guided tours, as well as, dance workshops and live music. In attendance will be Mapuche artist, Beatriz Pichi Malen from Argentina. Together with two musicians, Lucho Cruz and Chacho Ruiz Guiñaz (percussion & wind instruments), Malen combines sacred Mapuche instruments to create a new musical dimension of the ancestral songs, originally performed a Capella. Malen and accompanying musicians will perform at the festival’s Official Launch.
Also in attendance is Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra, who has been conducting activities in the merging fields of arts, sciences and new technologies as a composer and multimedia artist, researcher, educator, performer and curator focusing mainly on electroacoustic music and new media arts for more than 25 years. Farra will be part of a Conference talk on Art, Science & Technology.
Toronto-based artists will also particpate in this two-day festival. The likes of Quique Escamilla, Laura Fernández, Payadora Tango Ensemble, Luanda Jones, and many others will be on-hand to get you dancing.
Mateca Arts Festival promises to be family-friendly, educational, and exciting. The combination of eclectic musicians, dancers and visual artists, with both local and international presentations will certainly introduce us to some new talent, and cultures. For further information on the festival line up and ticketing, please visit mateca.com.
