This homage and celebration of women’s creativity in music and poetry is a special event marking and celebrating International Women’s Day 2024 and is the first event of the VOCES FESTIVAL 2024. The set list will include works from legendary female figures, among others the work of Chabuca Granda (Peru), Gabriela Mistral (Chile), Maria Elena Walsh (Argentina), Violeta Parra (Chile), Carole King (USA), Amparo Ochoa (Mexico), Alfonsina Storni (Argentina), Cecilia Todd (Venezuela). Quimantu’s unique perspective will be enhanced by the work of contemporary Latinas writing in the UK today, including our special guests Las Juanas - a literary group of women of Latin American and Spanish heritage, who for the last twelve years have been sharing each other’s writing, running numerous workshops, and performing their work. All while addressing issues of migration, displacement, exile, women’s rights, climate change, and human rights, more broadly.

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