Mapalé Artes y Letras is a collection of six magazines in Spanish (some issues have articles in English) that promotes art, literature and culture.
Mapalé Artes y Letras offers a broad vision of the artistic and cultural world by featuring artists from Latin-America, Canada and around the world. It is published in Canada, with the help of collaborators from Canada, Latin-America, Europe, and beyond.
Main events organized by Mapalé Artes y Letras:
To see the photographs from each event click on the date.
May 8, 2007: Latin American Bazaar. David Alvarado, Maríamanda Espinoza, Child Play International, Mondo d'Art, Anita Junge-Hammersley, Marcos Honorato, Ana María Rutemberg, Virginia Montenegro, Makuruma, María Victoria Giraldo, Sidney Santillan, La Tierra Coop., Mapalé Artes y Letras, Casa de los Abuelos, Alicia Borisonik, Imaginación, Violeta Borisonik, Rocío López and Pilar González.
April 25, 2007: Literature and Music. Event organized with the Ottawa Public Library.
April 10, 2007: Noche Bohemia. Music, poetry, Latin American food and a presentation of Imaginación and Mapalé Artes y Letras.
October 2006: Book launch Tres lotos en un mar de fuego by Camila Reimers
March 2006: Two days of cultural events
December 2005: First Anniversay celebration
October 2005: Book launch, Hijos de lava by Camila Reimers
December 2004: Magazine launch, Mapalé Artes y Letras
Mapalé is a traditional dance brought to Cartagena, Colombia more than 400 years ago by slaves from Guinea. A couples’ dance, it is characterized by frenetic and erotic movements comprised of a succession of jumps, falls, pursuits and mock confrontations between the dancers.
Mapalé is also the name of a fish. Legend has it that fishermen used to dance after a good fishing day, and that the dance’s movements represent the movements of a fish out of water.
Why Mapalé?
It is a simple, strong, suggestive and intriguing word. The dance is extremely energetic and exuberant and somehow represent an inner pulsion towards the exterior, towards change, an irrepressible urge to express, to feel, to experience and more.
Mapalé is the image of all of those who express their inner strength through artistic creation.
As a dance, Mapalé is part of the ancestral heritage of a Latin-American country, though it is mostly ignored by most. The history of Mapalé itself shows that culture and tradition never die, keep living, growing, gaining from their new life elsewhere.
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