When physical borders are put aside and collaboration becomes essential in creating autonomous art, we begin living the collective mind of the border. The only purpose is to serve the community.
Borde Manifiesta, reflects the collaboration that has been happening between cultural promoters, writers, social workers, musicians, cultural institutions and muralists for the past eight years. Life on the border is reflected in our individual and collective work and thought; influenced by the political, cultural and social interactions between Ciudad Juarez – El Paso, one city counterbalancing the happenings of the other.
Borde Manifiesta is a bi-national celebration of border-arts, consistently bringing together different forms of expressions, different genres that celebrate the diversity that makes us “fronterizos.”
Events throughout the week include the painting of murals that will be displayed in both El Paso and Cd. Juarez simultaneously. Borde Manifiesta seeks creative ways to overcome physical boundaries, connecting artists, building common platforms and unifying different expressions and ideas with one main objective: to celebrate the vast cultural richness of our border region that is bridged by its residents.
This year’s event will be dedicated to the farm workers. The serious drought in the El Paso and Southern New Mexico area, together with the increased mechanization of local agriculture has aggravated the farm worker’s critical and often exploitative economic situation.
Borde Manifiesta, will be donating all the proceeds from the El Paso event to the Border Farmworker Center, which provides much needed relief to border farm workers. The Border Farmworkers Center is the result of many years of struggle by the Sin Fronteras Organizing Project, an organization that has supported and empowered border farm workers to improve their living and working conditions. Sin Fronteras Organizing Project has also provided a vital leadership development space where many generations of youth, artists and community organizers have begun their social justice journeys as well as community work.
Our goal has always been to promote the arts and share our experiences through the visual records that that we are allowed to make. This extensive work has already opened many collaborative opportunities between local talents. Now, Borde Manifiesta goes international with invitations to present their work and border standpoints in Caracas Venezuela, Mexico City, and Sao Pablo, Brazil.
La frontera nos une y nos define.
BORDE MANIFIESTA 5
JULY 30TH 2011
2406 TEXAS AVENUE (corner with poplar)
7:30pm to 1:00am
$5 entrance fee
all procedes going to the farm workers center.
ALL AGE SHOW!!
LIVE PAINTING – LOW RIDERS – VJ’S – DJ’S – DANCERS – LIVE MUSIC – ART SHOW – FOOD AND MUCH MORE!!
INFO: 915-226-9539 (ARON VENEGAS)
