#Performance: International Day of Glaciers and Poetry

Join us for an immersive evening of poetry and live electronic music and experience the voices and sounds of glaciers.

#Performance: International Day of Glaciers and Poetry

Join us for an immersive evening of poetry and live electronic music inspired by the sounds, voices, and fragile futures of the world’s glaciers.

In anticipation of both the World Poetry Day and the International Day of Glaciers, celebrated globally on March 21, the Instituto Cervantes presents a special performative event that brings together poetry, community memory, and experimental sound.

This year, in direct dialogue with the exhibition Guardians of the Glaciers by Peruvian photojournalist Ángela Ponce, the Instituto Cervantes has commissioned two original works created expressly for this occasion:

• A new poem by Irma Alvarez Ccoscco, Quechua poet and cultural advocate, responding to themes of climate change, ancestral knowledge, the melting of Andean glaciers, and the collective memory of highland communities.
• An original electronic music composition by Tyler Postiglione, crafted from sound explorations that evoke glacier ecosystems, the loss of habitat, and the sonic fragility of disappearing ice.

These premieres will accompany readings in Spanish and Quechua by Odi Gonzales and Irma Alvarez Ccoscco, as well as Postiglione’s live performance, offering an artistic meditation on environmental transformation, resilience, and the living cultural traditions of the Andes.

Free admission with prior registration.

This program forms part of the public activities surrounding the exhibition Guardians of the Glaciers, which documents the environmental and sociocultural transformations linked to glacier retreat in the Andes.