The -Laboratorio de Creación- of the Escuela Municipal de Artes de Bucaramanga, and CORDILLERA Raum für Körper und Utopien from Berlin, Germany, invited students and teachers from different areas to participate in the meeting and artistic intervention Promenade 959, a performance installation in the urban space led by the dancer and choreographer Silvia Ospina. Promenade 959.

With this project, we wanted to intervene  the first commercial street established in the city, known as the “Paseo del Comercio”, a street that extends from the west to the east of the city, where many social activities and human exchange take place through formal and informal commerce.

Promenade 959 was  proposed as a tribute to the work of informal commerce, which takes place in the “Paseo del Comercio” of Bucaramanga, on which many local families depend. The trauma caused by the Pandemic to numerous inhabitants of the city who depended directly on this informal activity, is a historical episode to which we try to give visibility, because the social and economic imbalance caused by the interruption of the work and the economic sustenance of many families, has been an event of which we still perceive its consequences, in the increase of the precariousness in the life of these families, and in the rise of the common delinquency as a quick and easy way for the economic sustenance.

Thanks to Isabel Serrano