– PROGRAM AND ARTISTS IN PROCESS OF CONFIRMATION –

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS OPEN! In our 2021 edition, we have to comply with Covid control regulations. In order to attend, please register HERE: www.bimbache.info/registracion

¡REGISTRATE YA!: Para atender a los eventos, las vigentes reglas de contról de Covid-19 requieren la registración previa aquí: www.bimbache.info/registracion

PROTOCOLOS (ESPACIOS, AFOROS E HIGIENE)
· Las actividades se realizarán en espacios abiertos.
· El formato del circuito será de carácter reducido (aforo limitado, pre-registración).
· A través de la pre-registración se obtendrá información de contacto de asistentes.
· El festival dispondrá de gel hidroalcohólico en todas las actividades.
· Será obligatorio el uso de mascarilla durante las actividades del circuito.
· Distribución de espacios para cumplir normativas de distanciamiento (según contexto del momento).

*El festival se reserva el derecho de posibles adaptaciones de formato, localizaciones, inclusive cancelación del mismo, con el fin de adaptarse a las restricciones del momento de su realización. Para cualquier duda o sugerencia, por favor ponerse en contacto a través de la pestaña ‘Contact’ de esta web.

In 2020, our interdisciplinary activities have had limited public access due to restrictions related to the Corona virus pandemic. As in so many previous years, we have accepted this as a creative challenge and decided to move our activities into the breathtaking nature of El Hierro World Biosphere Reserve, something we’ve long hoped to someday be able to do.

In order to share as much of the joy and the special moments we have had the privilege to experience together this year, we have video taped many of them and asked the artists to edit them. All through the end of the year, we will be sharing these clips on our facebook page (click on the facebook icon in the sidebar to the right) and our new youtube channel – if you like, please subscribe. The BIMBACHE openART 2020 online Video Festival is open, join us, share in the experience, and ENJOY!

PREMIERE
CAMINO VERDE @ EL BREZAL – EL HIERRO
feat. Kike Perdomo, Beljana Metje & Bim

The 16th annual BIMBACHE openART Festival 2020 will consist of an ongoing series of laboratories and events throughout the coming months. On August 1, the series starts with two weeks of CONVIVENCIA ARTÍSTICA EN CLAUSURA featuring some of our core participants in past editions of our annual lab festivals such as

Torsten de Winkel
Kike Perdomo
Luisa Machado
Alberto “Naranja” Méndez
Ismailah Thiam
and, at now 95 years of age, our dear María Mérida,

in virtual and, wherever possible, live interdisciplinary encounters with our present casArte resident artists, among them

Belja Namoari & Giovannina Sequeira (contemporary dance)
Andrea Sunder-Plassmann (digital and analog art)
Mireia Tramunt (painting)
Alexis W (photography)

and others.

We will share with all of you as much as may be possible of the processes, labors and performances developing here during that time as well as our round table talks on various subjects, including
– What post-Corona world do we wish to help create?
– 15 years of Bimbache opeART labs on art and sustainability: a tight rope walk between mutually exclusive goals?
– Peaceful and inclusive resolution of conflicts – judging vs. accepting modes
– Traditions & avantgarde: from Buddhism to Neurobiology
– El Hierro as individual and collective therapy: developing new frames of reference
Please check our Bimbache openART fb page and the fb page of Jaleo Press for details and updates.

On Wednesday, August 5 at 18:00 h local time, Tomás Luis Pérez of Jaleo Press will broadcast 2 hours of live interviews from Plaza Tigaday in Frontera, guests will include María Mérida.

During the week from August 6 to 13, we will collectively shoot several music & dance videos at emblematic spots of the island of El Hierro, among them the Roque de Bonanza, Mirador de La Peña, Garoé, Guinea, and others. Clips will be excerpted and published weekly from November 1 on.

During October and into November, we will enjoy concurrent visits by Tommy Height (Canada), David Ballesteros (Spain), Ohara Hale (USA), Samuel Lööf (Sweden), Nick Catton (GB) and other artists from a broad spectrum of disciplines.

NOTE: If you are a neighbor or in the neighborhood, we will frequently post schedules of little performances in our casArte open-air front areas facing the street so that all of you may enjoy some of what’s going on artistically this year from the safety of your house or car. If you’re not, you will continually find new clips on our pages as specified above. Enjoy!

NEWS: We have accepted an invitation to participate in transculturalexchange.org, an international network and project which links artists throughout the world and invites them to submit art works to share with all of us. Enjoy with us this gesture of goodwill and solidarity from our colleagues around the globe. 

On June 20, 11 am – 12 pm New York / 17 – 18 h Central Europe, we will participate in the online launch party on transculturalexchange.org’s facebook page.

Due to the ongoing CoViD-19 crisis, our preparations for the 2020 Bimbache openART Festival are on hold until further notice.

Meanwhile, we invite you to enjoy ‘LA SIEMBRA’, a joint video production and meditation on the present extraordinary condition with more than 60 artists living across the Canarian archipelago, a crossroads between continents and cultures for centuries. “We don’t want back what has now collapsed. It’s springtime – time to sow the seeds of a new era”: