Antecedents

One example I used to generate these encounters comes from Colombia. In the southwest of the country, in the department of Cauca, seven indigenous communities (all of them wit

h their autonomous government, protected and protected under the constitution in the exercise of the right to the ethnic, cultural and natural diversity of the nation) meet in circles to discuss orality, ancestral art, traditional food, weaving, traditional dance and visual arts. Because the community holds the truth and the circles are exercised as spaces of collective communication because the word is the axis instrument for the formation of peoples, cultural identity and social cohesion.

In this way, learning to review the fruitful processes that the communities of a country as diverse as Colombia contribute, and reviewing the models of participatory action research, I wanted to bring together technologies such as word circles and spirals of action so that in the multiplicity of stories, experiences, experiences and knowledge that the indigenous communities contribute and will continue to contribute, or the ancestral ones that migrated from other lands to here or even the generations of the diasporas that grow and will continue to be born and grow in this context can produce other ways of living existence, one that we build with our words and our hands, no longer the history and the rights of a few, who are also included and yet, we are the ones who continue to make the effort to live. Both in art and culture, as well as in life.

I propose through these dialogues to return to the origin, to the center, to the navel, also because the action is expansive and contagious, to do here in order to contribute there. Far away, where others are still waiting for us or where the possibilities are even more complex.

How to lead an honest, fruitful and active conversation in mutual understanding on intersectional concerns?