“Women, arts and love“

with Guadalupe Urbina

Thursday,  May 30, 2024 at 3pm Eastern Time  

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BLUE AUGUST: To my country and her people

August, the thirty first,

in the train, going home

the window turns into night

the clouds appear as mountains

in this land of plains and water.

I yearn for you,

blue tropics of rain,

fireflies,  frogs,

little ripe guava,

cascading Reventazón,*

chorequita** from the ground,

moonlight savanna

I yearn  for you. . .

 

*River  **local fruit

Join us in this Salon as Lupe shares her music and paintings, and engages us in conversation on the love for the earth, women, and traditional wisdom.

Guadalupe Urbina  is internationally known for her work as a singer and songwriter, and as a researcher of the oral tradition of her Guanacaste region of Costa Rica. To tell her story of identity and culture,  she has ventured into painting, children’s stories and poetry as another extension of her musicality. She is an activist for the rights of women and girls, for Earth Rights. She is the founder of Casa Madremonte, an independent center dedicated to art, agroecology and spirituality inspired by the rainforest. She has published four books and recorded ten albums.

Guadalupe has performed in diverse venues in the three Americas, Europe and Central Africa, such as the Círculo de Bellas Artes or the Centro Cultural de la Villa in Madrid, the Hot Brass and the Maison de l’Amerique Latine in Paris, the Demba Diop Stadium in Senegal, Biarritz Film Festival, a One Woman Show in New York, and the Vancouver Folk Music Festival in Canada. And of course at many theaters, squares, streets, community halls, cafes and World Music festivals.  She has received awards from the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid, the América Prize from Radio France International, and the Association of Authors and Composers of Music  ACAM has awarded some of her works; the album Trópico Azul de Lluvia in 2001, special recognition for her work compiling oral tradition in the album “Sones Afromestizos de Amor y de Humor” in 2018. She received the Reca Mora Award for a life dedicated to music in 2021 and the Song of the Year award for her song “La Cumbia de la Niña” in 2023.

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With gratitude to our presenters and volunteers, we are taking a break in offering Scholar Salons until later this year. Watch our Newsletter for announcements about the next series. 

This Salon recording will also be available to members when processed after the event.