Gloria Mendiola

🎭 Artist, Producer, and Cultural Project Manager

Specialized in heritage promotion, cultural communication, and marketing. Develops and coordinates socio-cultural projects for public and private institutions between Colombia and Europe.

🥁 Percussionist and dancer, teacher of traditional Colombian dance and music, with extensive experience in pedagogy and in leading drum circles inspired by ancestral rhythms.

💃 Founder and Artistic Director of the traditional dance and music companies “Tairona” and “Candela Viva”.

🌍 International and Intercultural Engagement

• Member of the International Dance Council – UNESCO (CID)

• Member of the Committee of the Intercultural Center of Rome

• Founder of the International Cultural Network Colombia es Cultura

• President of the Social Promotion Association Migras

🎨 Curator and Cultural Promoter

Creator and coordinator of festivals, showcases, intercultural events, and artistic projects — among the most significant:

• Macondo Fest (International Itinerant Festival for Peace) – Paris, Montpellier (France); Rome, Ferrara, Milan (Italy); Geneva (Switzerland); Stockholm (Sweden); La Plata (Argentina); Valledupar and Barranquilla (Colombia). Series of performances, conferences, and workshops
• MemorArte Fest (First Digital Festival of Memory and Art)
• Ethnomusic (Musical Migrations across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America) – Series of conferences, workshops, and encounters.
• Afroamérica Fest (The Legacy of the African Diaspora in the Americas – Series of conferences and concerts)
• More Culture – Fewer Borders (Series of intercultural events)
• Colombia: Peace, Memory and Justice (Film forum and photographic exhibition)
• Bikondo Kandarobibai (Bari Art Exhibition – Experimental Indigenous Art)
• Nuestra Visión Ancestral del Territorio (Photographic exhibition and film forum)
• Muestra de cine social, juvenil, y universitario -Youth and Community Social Film Showcase
• Festival de Cine Colombia Migrante (Rome)
• Su Majestad la Cumbia (Her Majesty the Cumbia, Series of performances, conferences, and workshops)
• Ruta Colombia en Roma (Colombia Route in Rome)
• Colombia Indígena (Indigenous Colombia - Series of encounters, debates, and activities)
• Colombia Caribe (Caribbean Colombia - Series of performances,concerts, conferences, and workshops)
• DMI -Network of traditional arts and cultures for intercultural dialogue
• MigrArte(Live radio broadcast)
• La Peña de María Rosa(series of concerts)
• Piccoli Concerti Clandestini (Small Clandestine Concerts - Itinerant Concert Series)
• Tambores de Primavera (Drums of Spring - workshops)
• ¿Conoces la Cumbia? (Do You Know the Cumbia? - Cycles of performances, talks, and workshops
• Minga Culturale (Cultural Minga - Cycles of performances, talks, and workshops)
• Ethnos Aperitiù(Cycles of concerts ethnic music)
• Il Club delle 4H (The 4H Club)
• Juntanzas (Cycles of talks, and workshops)
• Tejidos Resilientes (Resilient Weavings)
• …and many others.