For their last day in Paris, the representatives of the Amerindian community Kali’na exchanged this Tuesday with the Polynesian deputies and those of the NUPES, about their fight against the location of the power plant of West Guyana (CEOG ). The company behind the project denounces for its part false information. A deputy and a … Read more
vs Berekia Yergeau © Cie OTEP With her extraordinary woman-orchestra energy, Berekia Yergeau writes, directs, organizes the production and distribution of her shows, while administering his company OTEP. Her overflowing activity very quickly led her to make her work known, which means, for this young artist living in Kourou, the objective of a regional, hexagonal … Read more
On French territory, in Guyana to be precise, in the first half of the 20th century, indigenous children were taken from their families and brought up by missionaries in Catholic boarding schools, the “homes”. “The specificity of Guyanese homes is that they were intended for well-identified populations: the Amerindians. The maroon populations were also targeted … Read more
Video artist graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, Laure Subreville followed the Wayãpi and Teko communities in French Guyana for a month. She returns with a first documentary in which she draws a sensitive and moving portrait of groups of women and men, “elders” and young people, through their sounds and their music, … Read more