This program included an immersive listening experience into soundscapes from the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest followed by an open conversation with Shipibo artist Sara Flores. Moderated by representatives from The Shipibo Conibo Center.

Sara Flores is one of the foremost contemporary painters emerging from the Amazonian basin. Informed by the interconnectivity of the rainforest ecosystem, her complex and intricately geometric works render an overall image with a complex, vibrational power, and can be seen as a visual manifesto for reciprocal values and spiritual ethics of the Shipibo People.

The Shipibo Conibo Center is a broad experiment in art, culture, politics and the afterlife—an art project in the form of a nonprofit cultural organization headquartered in West Harlem, NYC on ancestral Lenape land, with a focus on Indigenous self-determination and territorial sovereignty as well as visual arts, music, and ethnobotanical research.

Image credit: Sara Flores by Helena De Bragança © 2023

The Shipibo Conibo Center and CTHQ hosted an accompanying program—a walk followed by a celebration—on Friday, April 19th at 5:30 pm: a walk, followed by a celebration. Learn more about that program: Parallel Walk: Advancing by turning and turning.