Noticias
Noticias
SOMOSGAY invites and supports the traveling exhibit called "Visible Collection of Contemporary Art" organized by the Centro Cultural Español Juan de Salazar of the Spanish Embassy in Paraguay, that will give beginning to one of the biggest festivals of gay culture in the world. In its 2007 edition, this festival included over seventy cultural calls, over a two month period. This included areas such as plastic arts, theatre, cinema, conferences, presentations and a college course. As of today this exhibit brings over one hundred and sixty pieces from one hundred and thirty countries and it continues to grow thanks to donations. The final objective of this exhibit is to create a Museum or Center with international reference specialized in the LGBT culture in Spain. This exhibit is visiting cities like Sao Paulo, Mexico, Lima, Cordoba, Buenos Aires, Miami and on September 7th will start in Asuncion.
Its master of ceremony, Pablo Peinado, Director to the Visible Festival of LGBT Culture has a B. A. in Fine Arts of the Universidad Complutense. He is one of the pioneers do the promotion and visibilization of the LGBT culture in Spain, he has been doing this since the 90's.
In the first edition of the festival, he was the ambassador to the exhibit Stuff from married couples, a collection on the legalization gay marriage in Spain that has turned into a stable collection of contemporary art.
Since 1997 and until 2004, he was part of the founder team of Zero, the first gay Spanish magazine of lifestyles, being its first editor in chief. Before he had collaborated as editor in a magazine called COGAMEntiendes and in "Until Better Families" the first gay tv show in Spain.
In 1996 he also created the sections of art and scene in the magazine Shangay Express. In 2002 he was the curator in "Gay ways of life" in PHotoEspaña, the first Spanish exhibition that dared to include the word in its title. This exposition was about a collection of photos with some of the main gay and lesbian photographers from Spain in that time.
In December of 2005 he married with his actual husband, with who he had appeared in the cover of Pais Semanal in 2004 (it was the first time that a homosexual couple was the cover of the weekly supplements in the newspaper El Pais) demanding same sex marriage. They were one of the first couples that married after the approval of the same saex marriage law in that year.
The curator Pablo Peinado will be in Asuncion, along with Jorge Artajo, offering activities in parallel.
The schedule for the activities is the following:
Monday September 7th
* Roundtable discussion on the Collection
* Opening of the Exposition "Visible Collection: Love stories"
* Installment "The tree of the desires of Yoko Ono" (authorized by Yoko Ono's manager)
* Display of books and flyers of Spanish gay culture
Tuesday September 8th: Projection of documentaries
* Homo baby boom
* Orgullo
Wednesday September 9th and Thursday September 10th
Workshop/Seminar by a Spanish artist - Guided tours to the exposition: as long as the exhibit maintains open to the public (until October 4th) guided by volunteers from SOMOSGAY.
SOMOSGAY works and supports organizations that promote the inclusion of diversity in our cultures and seeks to contribute to the construction of a society that is more inclusive, democratic and free from homophobia.
SOMOSGAY invites everyone to participate in the activities and visit the display that will be open to the public, from September 7th and until October 4th, at the Centro Cultural Español, located on Herrera and Tacuary Street of our capital city.
