The Firefly Workshops
The La Luciérnaga Workshops were born last April, as an initiative that seeks to activate training spaces, complementary to the academy and more accessible to a wider audience. Many artists, managers or entrepreneurs in the cultural area require a certain guidance and direction to launch their projects or works.
Responding to this need, professionals Natalia Arcos, Catalina Mena and Elisa Cárdenas combined their knowledge and experience and designed a workshop that covers three dimensions: Curatorship, Writing and Communication. From these approaches, they developed a cultural management course that has already had two stimulating stages in Santiago and Puerto Varas.
Between August 10 and the first week of September, a new cycle will begin in which the three dimensions will function in a more integrated manner. With four online theoretical sessions, and four other face-to-face practical classes, the La Luciérnaga Workshops seek to expand knowledge, understanding and the realization of ideas in the cultural area.
The workshop facilitators are visual arts professionals with extensive experience: the curator and researcher Natalia Arcos, the cultural journalist Elisa Cárdenas and the essayist Catalina Mena.
Workshop facilitators
CATALINA MENA: Journalist and essayist, she has also worked as a critic, curator, communications director and advisor for art projects. She currently publishes in the magazine Sábado and the newspaper La Segunda, in addition to being the editor of the platform Barbarie-pensar con otros. She is a member of the curatorial team of the Valparaíso International Photography Festival, the Center for the Humanities of Diego Portales University and the La Luciérnaga collective. She is the author of the book Sergio Larraín, la foto perdida (Ediciones UDP 2021 and EXB, 2024)
NATALIA ARCOS: Art theorist and historian with 20 years of experience in curating and twenty-five exhibitions held both in Chile and abroad. She was Programming Director of the television channel ARTV. She founded GIAP (Research Group in Art and Politics) in Chiapas, Mexico, where she currently directs the CASA GIAP residency center. She has been an academic, lecturer, and collaborates with the Cinema as Assembly project of the European museum network L’Internationale. Her publications include collaborations with Enrique Dussel, Alessandra Pomarico, and TJ Demos.
Elisa Cardenas: Journalist, editor and researcher with experience in the cultural areas of the main Chilean newspapers and specialized magazines. She has complemented her journalism with the generation of content and dissemination for public entities, such as DIRAC; private entities, such as various art galleries; and independent projects. She is the author of the book Alfredo Jaar. Gritos y susurros (Contrapunto, 2009). She was the curator of the exhibition Eduardo Martínez Bonati. El camino a mi mismo (The Road to Myself) at GAM.
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