Fonk Norris-Courtesy of the festival
San Juanillo de Naranjo offers an artistic and cultural festival to launch an environmental message for water protection, but also to rescue the heritage and memory of this rural community. The sixth edition of the Cuidemos el Agua Festival began on Sunday.
This town is one of the only two districts in the country that maintains an independent aqueduct, managed by the community since its construction in 1974, through the Pro Piñería Specific Association. Different associations unite the protection of the water resource, with the communal past.
From March 4th to 11th, there will be activities in the multipurpose room and the sports arena, from short film screenings and a discussion on initiatives of environmental protection in the area, to campaigns for collection and separation of waste and demonstrations of robotics and the internet of things.
Similarly, there will be workshops on drawing, writing, photography, climate change, and handicrafts from recycled materials.
The three audiovisual productions will be related to the struggle for water in Latin America:
• Abuela Grillo , a Bolivian and Danish co-production directed by Denis Chapón
• Antolina , by Paraguayan director Manuel Ángel Agüero
• Castillo y el armado , a Brazilian production by Pedro Harres
The program was conceived with the collaboration of the International Festival of Human Rights and the Multimedia Institute DerHumALC (IMD) based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The organizers of the Cuidemos el Agua Festival emphasized that they will have presentations of contemporary dance and music. The closing concert, called “For Water, Health and Sport”, will be with the bands Fonk Norris and Sonámbulo Psicotropical .
The funds raised will be used to rebuild the building of the San Juanillo sports plaza.
The aqueduct is a symbol in the community, which began with the neighbor Manuel Ángel Steller.
I started to pull the material with an oxen, a yoke for me and another for dad,”
recalled the man, who is one of the five plumbers honored in this edition of the Festival.