About CAMINOS 2021
Founded in 2015, the festival has become an important platform for diversity and inclusion. With its unique TransAmerican vision CAMINOS invites racialized and Canadian artists to engage in artistic explorations that affirm the cultures, ethnicities and peoples that make up this diverse and complex continent, from North to South. “Todos los caminos son distintos” – every path is unique. At the festival we celebrate artists as individuals who are not defined by geographical borders, but rather by how they experience themselves in their entirety.
At CAMINOS we understand the power of community: of coming together to present and to engage in conversation with others. As TransAmerican artists, community is everything to us. It is our anchor, our support and our teacher.
The artists this year challenge our perceptions of what, how, for whom, and with whom we create through theatre, dance, performance, photography, installations, and digital explorations. From stories that begin here in our neighborhoods all the way to the south of the continent artists explore the many languages of love, gender and identities, the large and small cracks that form with fragmentation, the power of trauma, embodying our past, present and futures, reclaiming the science fiction genre, creating mermaids, sitting with the two Fridas, experiencing a visual album, having a party in a park, walking through and inside a graphic novel, witnessing portraits of protest, immersing ourselves in the smell of gasoline and what we do to the land, following conversations of decolonized artistic processes, asking what this Latinx thing is, laughing with tik tok novelas and stand-up extraordinaires, listening to lullabies, oh, the Canadian flag, or asking what if instead of becoming matadors, we became bulls? These footprints converge at CAMINOS, as a call for change, hope and empathy.
We honour and acknowledge the ancestral caretakers of the land we gather on for CAMINOS: the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Wendat and most recently the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation who have a Treaty relationship with Canada.
Accessibility
If you are planning to attend CAMINOS and have any questions or requests to support your access requirements, please contact Associate Producer Daniela Arango Cano. We’ll be happy to make any necessary arrangements to ensure you enjoy experiencing the festival.
FESTIVAL TEAM
Artistic Director: Beatriz Pizano
Artistic Producer: Trevor Schwellnus
Festival Producer: Sue Balint
Festival Production Manager: Charissa Wilcox
Technical Team: Rebecca Vandevelde,
Sebastian Marziali, Alejandra Higuera,
Ana Maria Higuera, Fernanda Sandoval
Radio Aluna Theatre Hosts:
Camila Diaz-Varela & Monica Garrido
Festival Hosts: Nik Murillo & Monica Garrido
Associate Producer: Daniela Arango Cano
Social Media Strategist: Renato Baldin
Audience Development Coordinator: Nik Murillo
Aluna Theatre is an artistically-driven theatre company based in Toronto creating exciting new work that introduces audiences to diverse and rich performance practices from across the Americas. Aluna’s bold productions in English and Spanish are marked by a distinct theatrical language drawing from our heritages, cultures, and languages, including dance, physical theatre, and a multimedia design. Over sixteen years of production, Aluna has received 26 Dora Awards’ nominations for acting, writing, directing, and design – and has won eleven awards.
Native Earth Performing Arts is Canada’s oldest professional Indigenous performing arts company. Currently in its 39th year, the company is dedicated to developing, producing and presenting professional artistic expressions of the Indigenous experience in Canada. Through stage productions (theatre, dance and multi-disciplinary art), new script development, apprenticeships and internships, Native Earth seeks to fulfill a community of artistic visions. It is a vision that is inclusive and reflective of the artistic directions of members of the Indigenous community who actively participate in the arts.
Factory Theatre’s mission is to enthral audiences with the imagination of Canadian playwrights and develop the next generation of diverse theatre artists. Since its founding in 1970, Factory has committed to exclusively produce Canadian plays. Factory has made it an artistic priority to invest in, and showcase Canadian artists who bring their stories to our theatre in Toronto. This has made Factory the home of the Canadian playwright and for over four decades, developing and producing some of the finest theatrical works in our national canon and giving space to some of the most gifted and prolific playwrights in Canada.