Yurupari Screening

Tuesday November 22, 7 – 11pm

Starr Bar

Please join us for the 2nd launching event of Los Herederos Inc – a new NYC based non-profit organization dedicated to folk art media and digital content, or to put it simply, “inheriting culture in the digital age.” Los Herederos, together with Proimágenes Colombia and Starr Bar are pleased to present the first ever U.S. – based public screening of the restorative documentary series, Yurupari.

Our unique program, “Artist and Archive,” will pair this documentary screening with live music by Colombian Roots and remarks by band leader Camilo Rodriguez and Los Herederos Executive Director Naomi Sturm, on the role of archives and digital media in local music production and the maintenance of cultural traditions. The screening will include two Yurupari episodes, “ Flutes and Drums of San Jacinto” and “ Marimba of the Spirits.” In addition to raising awareness about the importance of digital archive re-masterization we want to promote and make accessible this extensive and richly diverse Colombian ethnographic collection amongst the local community.

This program is free and open to general public.

We look forward to seeing you at your favorite neighborhood hangout for an evening of great music, film, and conversation.

About Proimagines the Yurupari Series: Yurupari is one of the most extensive and complete audio-visual inventories ever compiled with respect to the ethnographic and cultural diversity of Colombia. The archival collection has been designated as World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO. Several of the archives have been digitally remastered by Patrimonio Filmico and Proimagenes Colombia via a project of the lauded visual anthropologist and winner of the Premio Nacional de Vida y Obra 2015 of the Colombian Ministry of Culture, Ms. Claudia Triana.

More information about Proimágenes