Patricia Ariza
Patricia Ariza | |
|---|---|
 Ariza in 2016 | |
| Minister of Culture | |
| In office 7 August 2022 – 27 February 2023 | |
| President | Gustavo Petro |
| Preceded by | Angelica Mayolo Obregón |
| Succeeded by | Jorge Zorro(acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Patricia Elia Ariza Flórez 27 January 1946 Vélez, Santander, Colombia |
| Political party | Patriotic Union |
| Spouse | Santiago García Pinzón |
| Alma mater | National University (BA) University of Arts of Cuba (BVA) |
| Profession |
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Patricia Elia Ariza Flórez (Spanish pronunciation: [paˈtɾisja ˈelja aˈɾisa ˈfloɾes]; born 27 January 1946) is a Colombian poet, playwright, actor and former Minister of Culture of the Government of Petro.
Life and career[edit]
Patricia Elia Ariza Flórez was born on 27 January 1946[1] in Vélez, Santander, Colombia. On the run from violence, her family arrived in the Colombian capital of Bogotá in 1948. During her youth she was grasped by Nadaism in Medellín, together with, among others, Gonzalo Arango. Around the same time, at the end of the 1960s, she joined the Military Communist Youth (Juco), being influenced by her future husband Santiago García. In 1992 she left Juco, meanwhile, she had left García at this time.[2][3][4]
In 1966, she and García founded the culture house Casa de la Cultura, which was renamed Teatro La Candelaria later. This was the first alternative theater in Colombia. From 1967 to 1969 she studied art history at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the National University of Colombia in Bogota.[5][6]
Ariza distinguishes herself in the theatrical world for her special approach which focuses on promoting social interaction and reducing conflicts. For instance, she shows women who left their homes because of violence, elderly, or market salesmen, by letting them tell their life stories and giving them an active role in the development of the narrative. In her scripts, their problems play an important role.[5]
In 1991 she invited the feminist María Evelia Marmolejo to reconstruct her performance 11 de Marzo in commemoration of the International Women's Day along with the dance group Flores de Otoño, with who she later founded La Escuela de Mujeres En Escena por la Paz in 2018. The performance ended with a group of dancers covering Simón Bolívar's statue in the Plaza de Bolivar with a cloth that had traces of menstrual blood. It resulted in strong reactions from people who were walking by and yelled at her to take it down. This event was invented by dancers in present time.
In 2009 the culture scene was shattered by the accusation in a secret police dossier, that claimed she had done her work only as a cover to spread mass propaganda for the communist rebel movement FARC.[3][7]
In 2007 she was honored with a Culture and conflict Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands for "her outstanding work over decades to empower the disadvantaged, enabling them to transform their lives through cultural activities, for her efforts to counteract injustice and restore social memory, and for her energetic commitment to the reduction of conflict."[5]
In 2014 Ariza was honored by the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW) in New York City with the Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award.[8] The award was presented to Ariza in New York City in October 2014 at a ceremony at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, of the Graduate Center, CUNY, and was accompanied by a week of events and workshops with her or celebrating her work.[9]
Bibliography[edit]
Ariza was the coauthor of many works. She published a number alone as well, of which the following is a selection:[6]
- 1986: El viento y la ceniza
- 1981: La alegría de leer
- 1984: Tres mujeres y prevert.
- 1989: Mujeres en trance de viaje
- 1991: La Kukhualina
- 1991: Onic; Mi Parce
- 1992: 400 Assa
- 1994: La calle y el parche
- 1992-1993: Seran Diablos o Qué Seran
- 1993: Maria Magdalena,
- 1993: Luna menguante
- 1995: Opera Rap
- 1996: Del cielo a la tierra
- 1996: Proyecto Emily
- 1997: A fuego lento
- 1998: Danza mayor
- 1999: La madre
- 1992: Medea Hungara
- 2000-2001: Antégona
- 2001: Los nadaístas
- 2000: Mujeres desplazándos
- 2001: Camilo vive
- 2012: Soma Mnemosine[10]
Filmography[edit]
The following is a selection of her roles as an actress:[11]
- 2006: Antígona
- 2003: Gran Hermano Colombia
- Amar y vivir
- Guadalupe años sin cuenta
The following is a selection of her roles as a director:[11]
- 2006: Antígona
- El viento y la ceniza
References[edit]
- ^ "Ministerio de Cultura, Patricia Ariza". PARES (in Spanish). 18 August 2022.
- ^ Parra, Nohra (July 2006) biography[permanent dead link], Revista Diners no. 43 (in Spanish)
- ^ a b Rivas G., Enrique (3 January 2009) No me van a quitar mi derecho a opinar (in Spanish)
- ^ Tarazona Higuera, María Lucía (17 October 2005) biography[permanent dead link], Revista Semana, no. 1224 (in Spanish)
- ^ a b c Prince Claus Fund (2007) biography[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b Teatro La Candelaria, curriculum[permanent dead link] (in Spanish)
- ^ El Tiempo (7 January 2009) Indignación entre artistas por señalamientos contra la dramaturga Patricia Ariza (in Spanish)
- ^ "LPTW International Theatre Award to Patricia Ariza From Colombia". TheaterPizzazz.com. Theater Pizzazz. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ Greene, Alexis (10 December 2014). "Theatre Against Violence Against Women". American Theatre. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^ Teatro La Candelaria (2012)
- ^ a b Colarte, personal data[permanent dead link] (in Spanish)
- Colombian film actresses
- Colombian film directors
- Colombian women film directors
- Living people
- 1946 births
- People from Santander Department
- National University of Colombia alumni
- People from Bogotá
- Cabinet of Gustavo Petro
- 20th-century Colombian actresses
- 21st-century Colombian actresses
- Colombian women poets
- Colombian dramatists and playwrights
- Petro administration cabinet members
- Colombian women dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Colombian writers
- 20th-century Colombian women writers
- 21st-century Colombian women writers
- 21st-century Colombian writers
- 21st-century Colombian politicians
- 21st-century Colombian women politicians