PAN-GEA

The organizers aim to deepen their understanding of the enormous significance of collective struggles and collaborative work as essential forms of resistance. They explore how communities organize themselves in the face of aggressive trends of predatory capitalism, racism, exclusion, and anti-democratic tendencies, and how they find their voice through art to confront the violation of their right to exist and to resist.

Yet they come together. They view communities as infrastructures of knowledge. And they recognize that the urgency to organize ourselves also means the urgency to create spaces where people can speak for themselves, share their own stories, and develop their own tools to rethink the realities in which they live.

The festival brings together a diverse range of voices—students, activists, artists, thinkers, educators, healers, community organizers, and many more—and creates a space for South-South dialogues. Not as a reaction to dominant narratives, but as an affirmation of those forms of knowledge, experiences, and practices that emerge from the lived realities of the planetary majority. In doing so, it highlights ways of thinking and organizing that not only challenge existing structures but also make other futures imaginable.

• Not from the perspective of the North, but from the self-assertion of the South.
• Not based on academic knowledge, but on local experiences.
• Not through macroeconomic solutions, but through micropolitical practices.
• Not through environmental activism, but through intercultural approaches.
• Not along political borders, but through personal identities.

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