Cost: FREE w/ RSVP
Day 3: The public is invited to a presentation and performance of the previous days’ workshops. Students will demonstrate the skills gained during their time in both weekly classes and the weekend’s offerings. They will present their newly acquired skills to the drumming music of the Colombian Pacific Coast.
This 3-day festival is the culmination of a 16-week long class series collaboration between Maestro Sonny Batata and Pieter Performance Space.
About: Esgrima de Machete is an Afro-Colombian martial and cultural art that dates back to the Colombian struggle for Independence from Spain and later the landowners that oppressed enslaved peoples. Esgrima is an elegant but crafty art that creates body control, refined skill and rhythm, showing how martial arts and music evolve across the diaspora, and centering a history, which enslavement, colonization and white supremacist violence has attempted to destroy, erase and hide. This 3-day festival is the culmination of a 16-week long class series collaboration between Maestro Sonny Batata and Pieter Performance Space.
Bio: Arthur "Sonny" Batata is one of two practitioners and instructors of Esgrima de Machete, he has been teaching in the Los Angeles area since 2018. The idea of cultural exchange has been his focus since the inception of the offering in collaboration with Miguel Lourido.
Access Info:
There will be limited chair seating and ample floor seating with blankets, cushions and mats provided.
The space is located on the 2nd floor with one flight of stairs directly up from the entrance. Elevator access is available; please email pieterpasd@gmail.com prior to event if you will be using it. The elevator is spacious enough for any mobility device and the 2nd floor space is free of any steps or mobility barriers. There are no automated doors in the building.
There are two all-gender restrooms with three private stalls and a urinal. Each restroom has one stall accessible for mobility device users.
Free parking is available directly behind our building at 2412 Workman Street. There are two additional free city lots south of Broadway on Workman Street. There is also ample metered parking in the neighborhood, free after 6pm or 8pm, depending on the street.
Have questions or need additional accommodations? Email pieterpasd@gmail.com and we will do our best to assist you.
This programming is made possible in part by a grant from the California Arts Council and the dca los angeles