Board Members
Ana Copete
ALawyer and Master in Public Management, with training in Negotiation. She worked for USAID and ACDI / VOCA.
She was Director of the Social Management area and the Business Development Center of the Buenaventura Port Society Foundation, currently she is the Director of the Petronio Álvarez Pacific Music Festival.
Manuel Correa
Manuel Correa film and video director from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver His work deals with digital and post-conflict memory reconstrucion in contemporary societies, using the video as a tool. His documentary named “La Forma del Presente” that has been presented in BIFF in Bogotá, in the Modern Art Museum in Medellín, in the Tamayo Museum in México, also in international Festivals in Norway, in Italy, in Rotterdam and Leipzig, is about memory, forgiveness and reconciliation and the role of theatre in this process. Co-creator and member of the Bolombolo Atelier
Alejandro González Puche
Coordinador Académico
Maestría en Creación y Dirección Escénica Univalle
Pamela Hernández
Actress and cultural manager, director of the Festival Estudiantil de Teatro de Bogotá since it’s creation in 2012 and Teatro Nacional commercial director since 2018, she worked in four versions of the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá from 2010 through 2016.
Rafael Palacios
Dancer, teaching choreographer and researcher of Traditional, Contemporary and Urban Afro Dance, director and founder of the Sankofa Danzafro dance company. National Dance Award of the Ministry of Culture 2008, National Award of Arts 2017, Mention of the United Nations as Good Practices of Afro-descendant social Inclusion in Latin America 2010.
Evelia Porto
Director of the Foundation Tocando Puertas para abrir futuros which supports musical projects in various vulnerable districts in Cartagena, changing the lives of children through musical education and bringing exceptionally gifted students to the summer camps of the Richmond Symphony in Virginia, USA. The Foundation sponsors a youth brass festival with students of the Virginia Commonwealth University who also contribute through their donations to the purchase of musical instruments and master classes in poor districts of Cartagena. The Foundation also helps with scholarships so that the young people can continue their musical studies at universities.
Nube Sandoval & Bernardo Rey
Nube Sandoval and Bernardo Rey are founders and artistic directors of the Teatro Cenit from Colombia. They have dedicated their work to the study of actors training and the construction and use of masks, theatrical experimentation of using unconventional spaces and the use of multimedia. For more than 25 years they have been focused on the creation of a methodology of work which they have called Theatre as Bridge, using theatre as a tool in psychosocial rehabilitation programs with refugees and victims of torture at the Italian Council for Refugees (CIR) in Rome. They also work with vulnerable populations in zones of conflict in Colombia, helping to rebuild and integrate communities of people suffering isolation and discrimination, contextualized within contemporary performative frameworks. For this work the have received the recognition of international awards, like the Ellen Stewart International Award, New York, 2016, and the Catarsi Teatri delle Diversità Award, given by the National Association of Critics of Italy, Rome 2017, and the first prize in the IV International Biennial Award of Theatre and Psychiatry, Padova, Italy.
Jahir Rivera
Young Composer and Virtuoso on Harp (specializing in the music of the pampas, música llanera. Jahir Is a mecatronic engineer, harp virtuoso, composer and music teacher. He has participated in numerous national and international festivals of la musica llanera.
Carolina Vivas
Carolina is a Colombian actress, director and playwright who graduated from the National School of Dramatic Art and the University of Antioquia. She was an actress at the La Candelaria Theater in the 80s. In 1991, she founded Umbral Teatro, a research group of which she is director and playwright. She has written and directed plays as well texts by Bertold Brecht, Margarite Yourcenar and Samuel Beckett. She is currently a professor of the master of creative writing at the National University of Colombia and director of Punto Cadeneta Punto (Metropolitan Dramaturgy Workshop).