Gabriela comes on stage
Gabriela Mistral has been present not only in the name of the institution, but in artistic programming over the years in all disciplines of performing and visual arts. This multifaceted poet, always alive and in constant construction and deconstruction, has been taken up by various artists throughout the first decade of GAM's existence.
Theater
Battle of simplicity
2013: Assembly of the La Ronca company, built from poetic and narrative texts by Mistral. The piece directed by Carina Dávila seeks to highlight elements of the author's creation and intellectual relevance.
© Lorenzo Mella
The things I never had
2015: Theatrical concert that presents a selection of fragments of his poems and letters. The work directed by Elvira López Alfonso seeks to rescue the complexity of the author.
© Jorge Sánchez
Infinite Gabriela (or the country of absence)
2015: An international approach to Mistral came with this Argentine work by María Marta Guitart, a selection of poems and prose by the poet that covers recurring topics in her work.
Mistral, Gabriela (1945)
2019: GAM production that imagines that the writer is kidnapped when she finds out that she won the Nobel Prize. This fantasy written by Andrés Kalawski and directed by Aliocha de la Sotta attempts to present the conflicts that crossed her and their intellectual and political importance.
© Patricio Melo
Lucila, Gabriela lights
2019: A family theater co-production between GAM and Teatro de Ocasión that brings the life, art and thoughts of Mistral to boys and girls. Directed by Tita Iacobelli.
© Patricio Melo
Are you there, Yin?
2024: Marcelo Alonso narrates the obsession of a teacher from the city of Vicuña with the figure of Gabriela Mistral's adopted son, Yin Yin. Directed by Cristián Plana.
Dance
The dancer
2015: Choreographer Paulina Mellado was inspired by The Dancer and other poems by Mistral, to create this contemporary dance piece that presents through its performers eight incarnations of the Nobel Prize winner.
The foreigner
2015: A flamenco tribute to Mistral. Natalia García-Huidobro together with the La Típica Company were inspired by the poems Country of Absence and The Foreigner for this work on migration and uprooting.
The bodies are celestial
2019: Director María Betania González investigated the Mistralian nocturnal imaginary through contemporary dance based on the poem Andean Night.
© Patricio Melo
Music
divine Gabriela
2015: Conjunto Los Perales performed poems with spiritual and religious themes by the author, recorded on their album of the same name.
Gabriela Mistral in story and music
2016: The GAM Voces Choir together with the Teatro de Ocasión company presented a musicalization of stories and poems.
Passionate Gabriela
2017: A concert by Isabel Aldunate in tribute to the author, with a selection of her love poems.
Gabriela, poetry and fado
2019: Concert by the Chilean band Fado in the South of the World with poems by Mistral set to music in the style of this Portuguese genre. A musical connection with the years he was consul in Lisbon.
Exhibitions
Knitting Lucilla
2015: An exhibition with six wool models that recreate significant scenes from the life of Mistral, woven by Macarena Ahumada.
spring of youth
2017: For this exhibition, Caiozzama made a stencil triptych that, in the figure of Mistral, depicted the history of the building that today houses GAM. The work evoked in the image of the poet the present of the construction as a cultural center and its role in the government of Salvador Allende and in the military dictatorship.
Mistral BiblioGAM Collection
Check out the collection of Gabriela Mistral books available for consultation at BiblioGAM.
Activities
Mistralian Encounters / 2015: Cycle of talks and conversations where specialists from different disciplines analyzed the work, thought and influence of Mistral from different approaches.
Mistral Forums /2015: An approach to Mistral from literary, artistic, social and heritage perspectives.
Reading workshops /Since 2015: At BiblioGAM, the work of the Nobel Prize winner has been reviewed in different workshops, aimed at children, general and older audiences.
Gabriela, I think of you /2017: Workshop by visual artist Carla McKay, where attendees created an altarpiece with different versions of the poet's face.
Launch Passion to teach /2017: Presentation of the book by Editorial Universidad de Valparaíso that rescues Mistral's pedagogical thought.
Deconstructing Gabriela Mistral /2019: Workshop where Mistral was approached from pedagogical, political, literary and gender perspectives.
II GAM Education Seminar: Gabriela Mistral, education for all /2019: Meeting dedicated to Mistral's pedagogical thought, with exponents specialized in this aspect of her work.
Theater and music for Mistral /2024: Three actresses (Anita Reeves, Luz Jiménez and Mónica Carrasco) read their poems and letters, while a version in dramatized reading format brings back the GAM production "Mistral, Gabriela (1945)".