Cultural Festival AMO AMAZONÍA coming to Tarapoto this October

August 18, Tarapoto

AMO AMAZONÍA is a festival coming soon to the San Martín region of the Peruvian Amazon whose main aim is raising the public’s awareness regarding the significance of this region, environmentally a well as culturally. AMO AMAZONÍA is an initiative started last year in Lima bringing through debates, cultural and arts activities, to the foreground of the capital’s consciousness the natural and cultural diversity of the region, thus generating an unprecedented concern for the Amazon’s situation and the problems it faces. The undertaking was realized thanks to the support of the NGO Shinai and more than 75 other allies from the public and private sectors.
This year, thanks to previous experience, the intention is more ambitious still: to become a cultural platform bringing the Amazon in all of its aspects closer to the rest of Peru and the world, using the festival and the media as its main tools. Thus, Amo Amazonía wishes to contribute to the examination of the Amazon’s values, and to the acknowledgement of its identity both by outsiders and also by the Amazon’s population itself. The activities organized in order to achieve Amo Amazonia’s aims include folk dance shows, music concerts, theatre, film showings, painting and photography exhibitions, a gastronomical and artisanal fair, talks & discussions, and interactive street art. All of the above will have the Amazon as their theme, and will all be free and held in the street and in places such as parks, galleries, theatres, auditoria and cultural centres to make them as accessible as possible to all.
In San Martín, the festival will take place from the 15th to the 23rd of October in the city of Tarapoto. And then in subsequent years, the host city will rotate between the main cities of the region. The objective is to use the festival as a window onto our natural and cultural wealth, to reflect on the issues we face, to make the public aware of what initiatives are taking place today in protecting the environment and the cultural and artistic diversity of the region. The jungle is home to all of us. We must know it better to love it more.
The festival asks Tarapotians and the international cmmunity: “I am from the jungle? And you?”

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