Green Renter: A Un Vagón Hermoso en Nueva York: Art and Environment in Small-Town Argentina. With Emilio Perez Campanelli

April 7, 2008
7:00 pmto8:30 pm

Last summer, LoCurativo, a loose collective of artists and organizers from NYC trekked south to work on the Un Vagón Hermoso project. Un Vagón Hermoso is a project to restore two abandoned traincars in the rural town of Mayor Buratovich, Argentina with the intent to reevaluate ideas of community development, and to reactivate the voices and historical visions first begun by the immigrants who founded the town at the turn of the century.

In Buratovich, LoCurativo met 18-year-old activist Emilio Perez Campanelli, a member of the EcoClub Buratovich that initiated the Un Vagón Hermoso project. Together, the two groups organized free art workshops and environmental and social investigations for the community and helped in the continued restoration of the wagons. Join Emilio on his first ever trip to the U.S. (to participate as a global teen leader in Three Dot Dash Foundation’s 2008 Just Peace Summit) and LoCurativo members to learn more about Un Vagón Hermoso and to hear about varying experiences in addressing social and environmental problems, utilizing art as a mode for communication and education, and public space reclamation in a developing world context.


Posted on Monday, March 24th, 2008 at 1:00 pm | Tagged in Solar One Events | posted by Neidl

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