CATHERINE DUNGA - World Hope Forum Colombia

Catherine Dunga is a Belgian Congolese Cultural activist who has lived in Colombia since 2004. She trained as a physiotherapist with a maxillofacial specialization in the first part of her professional life. In 2018 she changed course and became the co-founder of Kitambo, an organization whose mission is to strengthen collaborations between Colombia and countries on the African continent through artistic, cultural and socio-educational projects with a South/South focus, among which The Atlas exhibition stands out (2021—2023). Touring Mali and Colombia, it provided a crossing of views, and dialogue between the Malian photographer Fatoumata Diabaté and four photographers from the Colombian Pacific, Julieth Morales, Lyann Quartas, El Murcy and Yeison Riasco. The project was carried out at the Cali Cultural Center during the XXV Petronio Álvarez Festival, and within the framework of the HAY Festival in Cartagena. Catherine has also worked on an adaptation of Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute," with Colombian tumbao and African heritage, and the unprecedented participation of the Belgian-Congolese countertenor Serge Kakudji and Colombian talents staged at the Teatro Colón in Bogotá. "At Work: Who is the stranger in me?” was produced in collaboration with the Moleskine Foundation, a critical thinking workshop directed by the Swiss Cameroonian curator Simon Njami. More recently, she participated as guest co-editor for the cultural magazine "El Malpensante" in its special edition on Africa.

@kitambo.co