- Photography exhibition
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Tuesday May 31 - 19 hs.
Centro Cultural Paco Urondo, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Buenos Aires
25 de mayo 201, C.A.B.A.The human Cost of Agrotoxins, by Pablo Piovano
Bodies, our bodies, as stripped land.
Stripped of shape, water, and life.
Gazing eyes that pierce deep into whomever sees them.
Pablo Piovano has achieved an unusually realistic depiction of the ravaged land that also became of the human beings living in terrains flooded with poisons (some of which are even banned in other countries), which make up the majority of the arable lands in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Southern Brazil.
Transgenic events addicted to agrotoxins invaded our lands and colonized our bodies.
That is what extractivism does: it extracts, extirpates, and expropriates... minerals, water, nutrients, life.
It does this in the mountain range, the seas, the fields, the bodies, transforming human beings into externalities.
Pablo saw it, felt it, and portrayed it.
The Human Cost of Agrotoxins should be a compulsory piece to see for those whose decisions transform humans beings into expendables.
Damián Verzeñassi. Rosario, April 2016.
Opening: Tuesday, May 31, 19 hours
The exhibition will be open until Friday 10 June 2016. Monday through Friday from 09 to 21h, Saturday from 10 to 13hs. - Thursday, June 2
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7 p.m.
Alliance Française - Library
Av. Córdoba 946, City of Buenos AiresPanel discussion with screening “Energía Nuclear: ¿limpia y segura?” (Nuclear Energy: Clean and Safe?)
Screening: Lucens, by Marcelo Belli (7’) + La Suta: nuestro legado nuclear en un triángulo de agua (Down There: Our Nuclear Legacy in a Triangle of Water) by Daniele Gaglianone, Cristina Monti, Paolo Rapalino (68’).
Invited lecturers: Sergio Federovisky (biologist, environmental journalist, member of the Consejo Directivo de Acumar [Acumar’s Executive Council], host of Contaminación Cero [Zero Pollution], author of Argentina, de espaldas a la ecología [Argentina, with its back to ecology]), Luciana Gagliardo (specialized teacher in Human Rights, Gender and Education, President of “Conciencia Solidaria” [Solidary Awareness NGO]).
Facing the current energy demand in the region’s countries, the challenge that the development of alternative and renewable energies still represents is evident. The nuclear option, offered by the Argentine Nuclear Plan, is then consolidated as a source of power generation, considered a clean and safe alternative. However, many nations have started to examine their energy policies and to project the shutting down of nuclear power plants. The debate is still open. - Friday, June 3
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7 p.m.
Alliance Française - Library
Av. Córdoba 946, City of Buenos AiresMeeting “El poder de las Redes de Festivales de Cine” (The power of the Film Festival Networks)
Presentation of the volume How to organize a Socially Engaged Film Festival, a guide for human rights and environmental film event planners.
Invited lecturers: Mário Branquinho (Director of CineEco Seia Festival in Portugal), Natalia Cortesi (Director of Copia Cero, consultant for the Instituto Multimedia DerHumALC [IMD]), Néstor Granda (Director of the International Film Festival of Sexual and Gender Diversity - LiberCine, member of the Argentinian Network of Audiovisual Festivals and Exhibitions (RAFMA), Clara Isasmendi (Co-director and Programmer for the FICIP - International Film Festival of Political Cinema).
Since 1997, the Instituto Multimedia DerhumALC (IMD) has been promoting films which have a critical approach and contribute to social change. We capitalized on many good and bad decisions throughout this time and keeping in mind the needs and challenges faced by socially engaged festival projects and exhibitions, the IMD decided to adapt two guides, previously made by Human Rights Film Network members, for a Latin-American audience.
Today, we are offering this space to launch the Guide and exchange knowledge for the sake of discussion with experienced festivals, with the Argentinian Network of Audiovisual Festivals and Exhibitions (RAFMA), and with all of those who are interested in learning more about the production of a film event. - Saturday, June 4
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12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
El Camarín de las Musas
Mario Bravo 960, City of Buenos Aires.FINCA FAIR in Almagro!
The traditional FINCA FAIR will also take place in the neighborhood of Almagro, with stalls of independent producers, organic food and crafts.12 p.m.
Open workshop Sewing Social Club
Learning, developing and working on creative ideas using textile tools.
Free activity open to the general public, 2 hours long, prior registration required. Limited capacity.
+ Info: clubsocialdecostura@gmail.com or www.facebook.com/clubsocialdecostura2 p.m.
Sewing Social Club
A forum created to consult, learn, develop and work with creative ideas regarding textile craftsmanship. Personalized assistance will be available and teamwork encouraged. It will be addressed to people of all ages, costume designers, Art & Design students, etc. For more information and to sign-up, please contact us at: clubsocialdecostura@gmail.com or www.facebook.com/clubsocialdecostura
4 p.m.
Rector Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center
Av. Corrientes 2038, City of Buenos AiresReception of disused technological materials for recycling by the “Qué Reciclo” Foundation
Did you know that electrical and electronic equipment generate highly polluting and toxic waste that cause irreversible damage to the ecosystem? In Argentina there are projects engaged in recovery and recycling as ways to address the problem. You can help by donating those electrical and electronic equipment you no longer use!
Materials received by the “Qué Reciclo” Foundation: Cell phones, GPS, PC, notebook, game consoles, LCD, LED, plasma, TV, stereos, cables, power sources, portable game consoles, radios, radio transceivers, keyboards, mouses, printers, small electrical appliances, electronic toys.
6 p.m.
Rector Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center - Batato Barea Auditorium
Av. Corrientes 2038, City of Buenos AiresScreening and talk - “¿Qué hacemos con la basura tecnológica?” (What do we do with e-waste?
Screening: El otro lado de la tecnología (The other side of technology) by Leonardo Llamas and José Prieto (30 min).
Invited lecturers: Leonardo Llamas and José Prieto (directors of El otro lado de la tecnología), Juan Martín Ravettini (Qué Reciclo Foundation), a representative from Cooperativa La Toma del Sur.
The technological development, costs reduction and consolidation of a market logic promote planned obsolescence and stimulate the constant replacement of electrical and electronic equipment, generating a large amount of electronic waste. In Argentina there is no specific national law determining the procedures to be adopted to reduce the environmental impact. Given this scenario, the panel will analyze the internationally developed alternatives to overcome this problem.
10 p.m.
Mamerta Cultural Space
Lavalle 4080, City of Buenos Aires.FINCA Cultural Meeting and La Pachanga Urbana!
The International Film Festival FINCA and La Pachanga Urbana (Vol.4) get together to celebrate one more Festival edition with a lot of cinema, art and music! See you there!
+ FINCA photographic exhibition
+ Short Film Screening
+ “La Jalea Tropical” live performance. The purest Colombian cumbia!
+ Amazing musical selection of Beto Burgos, Colectivo Caliche - and Marco Quimeras (Pacific, Salsa, Reggae, Drum and Bass, Dance Hall, Dubstep, Cumbia and Caribbean). - Sunday, June 5
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11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Afrocultural movement
Defensa 535, City of Buenos Aires.FINCA FAIR on the World Environment Day
On this special celebration, the traditional FINCA Fair will take place, packed with stalls of independent producers, organic foods, crafts and objects made from recycled elements and waste items.1 p.m.
Sewing, experimentation and reutilization workshop taught by Mariana C.R. Suárez from Tombola’s Textile Reutilization, and Free Clothing Rack: Clothing Exchange.
Creation of clothing and accessories by reusing and recycling discarded materials, strengthening collective work and recycling so as to transform our way of dealing with secondhand items while clearing the way towards responsible consumption and sustainability practices.
The workshop lasts 4 hours and is open to everyone. We recommend bringing along an assortment of clothing items and materials (Tetra Pak containers, umbrellas, nylon, fabrics, paper, brushes, paint, etc.).2 p.m.
Animation workshop for children “Waste Not, Want Not” organized by Bondiola Producciones
The aim here is to confer new meanings to discarded objects in order to give life to characters who can tell short stories about environmental care. The goal is to use animation as a tool of expression.
The workshop lasts 4 hours and is intended for children above 8. Each participant can bring their own recyclable materials (bottle caps, jars, bottles, small boxes, fabrics, etc.).3 p.m.
Seed Bombs Workshop organized by El Brote Urbano
Seed bombs are used in guerrilla gardening. The aim of this workshop is to create them to spread seeds all over the planet in order to help preserve and replant native flora.
The workshop lasts 90 minutes and is open to everyone. We recommend bringing along an empty egg carton to hold the seed bombs. - Monday, June 6
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FINCA Conferences about Food Sovereignty
1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Medical College, University of Buenos Aires) Aula Magna (Assembly Hall)
Paraguay 2155, City of Buenos Aires2 p.m.
Public Interview with Vandana Shiva by Soledad Barruti
Screening: Semillas (Seeds) by Marcelo Engster (12.30 min).
Invited lecturers: Vandana Shiva (Indian philosopher and writer, ecofeminism activist, founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology), Soledad Barruti (journalist and writer, author of Malcomidos [Misfed]).3.45 p.m.
Panel Discussion “Women, Land and Nature. An Ecofeminist View”
Screening: Antolina by Miguel Ángel Agüero (7.43 min)
Invited lecturers: Vandana Shiva (Indian philosopher and writer), Ana Broccoli (Agronomist, holds a Master’s Degree in Agroecology. Researcher and Associate Professor in the Agricultural Sciences College of the National University of Lomas de Zamora, Professor of the Independent Study Program about Food Sovereignty in the Agricultural Sciences College of the UBA; Professor at the Seminar about the Human Right to Adequate Food, Law School, UBA), a representative from the Native Peoples, Carlos A. Vicente (pharmacist, member of the GRAIN team in Latin America, 2011 Winner of the Right Livelihood Award: Alternative Nobel Prize, member of the Consejo Editorial de Biodiversidad, Sustento y Culturas [Editorial Board of Biodiversity, Sustenance and Cultures], member of the Argentinian group Acción por la Biodiversidad [Action for Biodiversity]). Moderator: Silvia Papuccio de Vidal (Ph.D. in Natural Resources, specialist in gender, environment and alimentation, Fundación ECOSUR [ECOSUR Foundation] and Escuela vocacional de agroecología de la Granja La Verdecita [Agroecology Vocational School of the “La Verdecita” Farm]).
Ecofeminism arises in the 70s, in the 20th century, as a new ethical and political project postulating a link between the oppression of both women and nature by capitalism, understood as a social and economic system rooted in androcentrism. it involves the participation of women in social movements and organizations in favor of food sovereignty, nature and the principle of “well-living”. This meeting aims at making visible and valuable the women’s knowledge and experience related to subsistence, so as to allow the building of sustainable alternatives centered around the reproduction of life, as well as their strategic participation in socio-environmental conflicts and the defense of their territories.6 p.m.
Panel Discussion “Food Sovereignty: health threatened by pesticide use”
Screening: The Human Cost of Agrotoxins by Pablo Piovano (11 min) + Naturaleza Viva by Greenpeace – Comida para la vida campaign by Juan Baldana (4.27 min)
Invited lecturers: Vandana Shiva (Indian philosopher and writer); Marie-Monique Robin (French research journalist, writer and filmmaker); Damián Verzeñassi (physician, university professor, director of the Socio-environmental Health Institute in the Medical Sciences School– Rosario National University, director of Medical School – Southern Chaco National University, member of the South American Association of Social Medicine [ALAMES] and of People’s Health Movement); Miryam Gorban (B.A. in Nutrition, Chief Coordinator of the Independent Study Program on Food Sovereignty in the Medical University and Nutrition School – UBA, Honorary President of Médicos del Mundo’s board of directors – AR); Ana Zabaloy (former director of School N°11 José Manuel Estrada in San Antonio de Areco; she has been harmed by pesticide use).
Moderator: Carlos A. Vicente (pharmacist, member of the GRAIN team in Latin America, 2011 Winner of the Right Livelihood Award: Alternative Nobel Prize, member of the Editorial Board of Biodiversity, Sustenance and Cultures, member of the Argentinian group Action for Biodiversity).
In Argentina, 60 % of the arable land is planted with GM crops and sprayed with liters and liters of glyphosate herbicides. The ‘Ley de Semillas’ (seeds law) is up for debate, threatening the rights of small-scale producers to keep, save, exchange and reproduce their own seeds. Now is the time for awareness and action. The forces and networks of farmers, doctors, environmental meetings, and other social actors have paved the way to ecological agriculture, showing that food sovereignty is possible.
3 p.m.
El Camarín de las Musas
Mario Bravo 960, City of Buenos AiresOpen workshop Sewing Social Club
Learning, developing and working on creative ideas using textile tools.
Free activity open to the general public, 2 hours long, prior registration required. Limited capacity. + Info: clubsocialdecostura@gmail.com or www.facebook.com/clubsocialdecostura - Tuesday, June 7
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FINCA Conferences about Food Sovereignty
3 p.m.
Argentine Senate - Blue Room
Hipólito Yrigoyen 1849 - City of Buenos AiresExposition by Vandana Shiva and Marie-Monique Robin in a meeting with the Environment and Sustainable Development Commission of the Argentine Senate
A commission presided by Senator Fernando Pino Solanas. In this occasion, the discussion will focus on the use of agrotoxins and its environmental impact, genetically modified organisms and the consequences of the Seeds Law in Argentina.
7 p.m.
Xirgu Espacio Untref
Chacabuco 875, City of Buenos AiresPanel Discussion “Food Sovereignty: force and resistance against the industrial agricultural model”
Screening: Alerta que alimenta (Feeding Alert), series of shorts from the La Tribu group (28 min).
Invited lecturers: Vandana Shiva (Indian philosopher and writer), Marie-Monique Robin (French research journalist, writer and filmmaker), Walter Pengue (Agronomist, PhD in Agroecology [UCO, ES], Dir. Prog. Ecological Economics Training Course [GEPAMA – UBA]. Full Prof. Ecology [UNGS], Scientific Member of Panel of Resources [PNUMA] and TEEB Agriculture Advisory Board [PNUMA FAO]), Enrique Viale (lawyer and Environmental Law specialist - UBA University, founder of the Asociación Argentina de Abogados Ambientalistas, member of the Ethics Tribunal for the Rights of Nature and Mother Earth and of Earth Law Alliance), Maristella Svampa (sociologist, writer and researcher, main researcher for National Scientific and Technical Research Council [CONICET] and Full Prof. of the Nat. Uni. of La Plata, member of the collective Plataforma 2012), a representative from the Farmers Movement in Santiago del Estero (MOCASE).
Moderator: Guillaume Boccara (holds an Economics degree from the Paris Dauphine University, Ph.D. in Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, researcher for the CNRS - CERMA/EHESS, Director of the Centro Franco Argentino de Altos Estudios).
The peoples’ right of access to healthy food that respects their culture, and undergoes a sustainable and ecological production, meets the food sovereignty principles. However, many Latin American peoples’ difficulty to decide and agree on their own feeding and production system shows an uneven reality. The meeting will address Food Sovereignty issues, analyzing the struggles and powers that have arisen to resist the prevailing model. - Wednesday, June 8
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Meeting between Vandana Shiva, Marie-Monique Robin and socio-environmental organizations to develop an action platform regarding the seeds law and Food Sovereignty
Participants: FINCA’s collaborating organizations, reporters, and activists.