"Música Mestiza. Documentary films. Latin Culture"

Thursday 2nd October

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Upstairs

Ecuador / Amazon / Yasuní Green Gold special with documentary films and speakers
Focus on Ecuador in association with MERU (Movimientos Ecuador en el Reino Unido)
+ Special presentation by the Yasuní Green Gold campaign with Q&A and discussion
+ Film screening / excerpts from documentaries giving a taste of the forthcoming Native Spirit Festival

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Music Downstairs

Música Latina Clandestina with Movimientos DJs Cal Jader, Pablo N, Clem George + live percussion & special guests

7pm-2am
Entry: Donations before 9pm / £3 after
Salmon and Compass
58 Penton Street (Corner of Chapel Market), N1 9PZ (Angel tube/Northern Line)

*MORE INFO ON FILMS AND SPEAKERS*

From 7pm:

Justicia Now by Martin O’Brien and Robbie Proctor
(United states- Ecuador 2007) 31 min
A documentary about Chevron Texaco’s toxic legacy in the Northern Ecuadorian region of the Amazon rainforest - and a courageous group of people called Los Afectados (The Affected Ones) who are seeking justice for the ensuing sickness and death in the largest environmental class action lawsuit in history.

Texaco: Catastrofe en la Selva (Texaco: disaster in the Jungle) by Poncho Alvarez. W
(Ecuador, 2008) 10 min
The film highlights the destruction of the jungles fauna, flora and peoples by Texaco now owned by Chevron, documenting undeniable evidence of Texaco’s oil deposits and it’s affects on the communities and environment in this biodiverse region of the world.

Amazanga Kausai (prod. Nicola Peel and James Ficklin) (30 mins)
This informative documentary gives an insight into the traditional life of the indigenous people in the Ecuadorean Amazon and their use of medicinal and edible plants, also the threats they face and this vital conservation project.

+ Speakers & presentation from the Yasuní Green Gold campaign
Which aims to raise awareness of the region and create a network of support for the conservation of the park and protection of the local people of the Yasuní.
Find out more about this inspiring campaign http://www.yasunigreengold.org/

+ Speakers and talk from MERU (Movimiento Ecuador en el Reino Unido)
http://www.movimientoecuador.co.uk/

+ Film screening / excerpts from documentaries giving a taste of the forthcoming Native Spirit Festival
The 2nd Native Spirit Festival, a season of films and workshops promoting the cultures of indigenous people of the three Americas, a project of the Native Spirit Foundation, and takes place in London from the Sun19th until Tues 28th October http://www.nativespiritfestival.com