El Centro Nacional de las Artes es la infraestructura cultural más importante construida por el Ministerio de Cultura en los últimos años. Está situado a dos cuadras de la Plaza de Bolívar, en el corazón de Bogotá, cuyo Centro Histórico es Patrimonio Cultural de la Nación. En marzo de 2023, abre sus puertas al público y a los artistas con una programación artística y de mediación que lo fundará no solo como uno de los principales escenarios culturales de Latinoamérica, sino como un punto de encuentro abierto, de creación y de diálogo con los territorios y el mundo.
New York Film Academy
New York Film Academy
Benja Thompson
A practicing queer archivist, Benja Thompson interweaves historical truths with radical imagination. With a background in filmmaking and audiovisual production, they bring a creative pragmatism to each project. Their filmwork has screened in San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, and New York, and they’ve trained in analog film preservation at Canyon Cinema and Other Cinema. With the Mill Valley Public Library, they established Marin County’s first queer archive, consisting of ephemera, photographs, digitized video, and oral histories. Initially introduced to LEIMAY as the 2024 Dance/USA Archive Fellow, they will be supporting the technical production of A Meal and continue growing the LEIMAY … Continued
Shira Kagan-Shafman
Shira Kagan-Shafman is a New York based dancer, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist. She has performed in works throughout theaters and museums in New York including, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Poster House museum, Arts on Site, Spring for Spring Dance Festival, Triskelion Arts and Green Space. She was a recipient of the 2023 B. Wilson Foundation grant for which she produced, choreographed and performed in a production at Baryshnikov Arts Center in the John Cage and Merce Cunningham studio and was a 2023 artist-in-residence at Mother’s Milk. Kagan-Shafman has had the pleasure of performing in works by Joanna Kotze, Mariana Valencia, Peggy … Continued