The Postal Museum will host a small display exploring the role of the post as a lifeline for the victims of the Chilean coup of 1973. Created in collaboration with former political prisoner Gloria Miqueles, the display will feature letters, postcards and packages sent by detainees, exiles, their families, and Read more…
Situated in two display cabinets by the gift shop, these items tell the story of resistance and solidarity past and present by people in Sheffield for Chile. Loaned by locals, the collection includes projectile fragments picked up outside La Moneda on 11 Sept 1973 and craft/artwork made by political prisoners Read more…
An exhibition - Opening 8th September 2023, 6:00 -9:00 pm - at the London School of Economics (LSE) Library of archival materials, posters, photographs and audio visual links exploring the response to the Chilean coup in Britain, the growth of solidarity and human rights activism across the country and the Read more…
An exhibition by performance artist Janet Toro’s radical work responding to Chilean dictatorship at Peltz Gallery43 Gordon SquareBirkbeck CollegeLondonWC1H 0PD Exhibition opens on October 12 at 6pm and runs until December 2023 Janet Toro's performance series El cuerpo de la memoria (The body of memory), rekindles both individual and collective Read more…
Series of film screenings that invite to reflect upon the challenges of memory and memorialization and the relation between aesthetics and the political in the context of the Chilean dictatorship. Questions about archival practices, fiction and testimony, intimacy and state violence will guide the conversation with the respective directors who Read more…
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. Co-organised with the Department of Drama, the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, and the SPLAS Cineclub. In 2023, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coup that led to the overthrow of the democratically Read more…
On 11th September 1973 a violent coup in Chile overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. What followed was nearly 17 years of repression in which the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet transformed the country. More than 2000 Chilean exiles came to the UK, aided by a network that included Read more…
This film screening is part of the film screenings series Chile50: Politics & Aesthetics, curated and organised by the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS), in collaboration with Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) and Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia (FIC Valdivia). The selected films Read more…