With the theme Inclusion and Mediation in the Performing Arts, the gathering centers feminism, activism, and transformation. This meeting lays the groundwork for presenting the artist’s forthcoming mediation project, We Are Childhood, where dramaturgy and stagecraft blend with four-handed workshops. The program invites boys and girls to engage in writing and theater for shared fun and learning.
During this session, the creators and mediators explore their processes through the link between women’s genealogy, visual dramaturgy, and social inclusion. Feminism has driven Jana Pacheco’s work, placing life at the center, forging connections, championing accessibility, and collaborating with children to investigate intimate and personal experiences in the pursuit of social transformation and communal well-being.
writer and director
She is a playwright, stage director, and art historian who has premiered works such as J ust Before the Surge, a Fourth Wall production; The Tomb of María Zambrano — the Poetic Fragment in a Dream; and Rosario de Acuña. Other notable pieces include Hurricane Winds staged at Valle Inclán Theater within the National Drama Center, and Camille performed at Theatre Narrow Door.
Since 2017, she has expanded into mediation projects that connect historical memory with the regional landscape. Her direction of Voice to Voice: Urban Memories of Vicálvaro (Imagina Madrid, Intermediae-Matadero Madrid) presents a walking game linking neighborhood memory with its sounds. She has contributed to festivals such as the XIII Havana Biennial with If You Were on an Island… (National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana), located near the Paz Ponce police station.
From that point forward, mediation became a powerful form of expression, enabling inclusive workshops and performances like I Wish Therefore I Am at the Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga and in Madrid’s Program 21 districts; Women in Parliament at the Mérida National Museum of Roman Art; and Flashes at Madrid’s Reina Sofía Museum.
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