Natalia Castrillón and Viv Magia: Performance for harp, voice &live painting

Natalia Castrillón (CO) Lever harp.

Vivi Magia (FI) Live painting.

This performance is organized in collaboration with Interkult, Galleria Kasvishuone and supported by the Kone foundation.

Natalia’s Castrillón-Photo credit: Eduardo Mejía
Viv’s Magia-Photo credit: Jouni Väänänen

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Natalia is a versatile harp performer, singer, improviser, music teacher born in Colombia and based in Finland since 2015. She is interested in bringing her music into any multi-inter-transcultural context.

Her influences and background come from folk, classical and experimental improvised music creating a concert format where the traditional coexists with the experimental .

She graduated from the Nordic Master in Global Music from the Sibelius Academy. Currently she is working on her artistic performative project: A transcultural journey for harp, voice, electronics and visuals: Traditional meets experimental funded by Kone Foundation as well as a guest teacher, workshop leader at Interkult Ry.

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Viv Magia is an internationally working visual artist and street artist currently living in Helsinki. From traditional painting techniques she has moved through graffiti writing to work in colorful big scale murals.

During the past five years she has been doing a lot of artistic experimentation and research in between Latin America and Nordic countries. The influence of Latin America you can see on her colorful symbolistic artworks.

She often works in a multicultural environment, and also implements interdisciplinary collaborative projects with other artists.