Indómitas: Live Podcast with guest María Eugenia Ilabaca Parry
Wednesday, Jan 25, 2023
6pm Virtually on Facebook
Indómitas is a live monthly podcast series hosted by Chelis López of KPOO and Radio Bilingüe, featuring untamable voices of fierce women artists and activists. For the January 2023 podcast, Indómitas will interview dressmaker and feminist activist María Eugenia Ilabaca Parry.
Indómitas will be available for viewing on Facebook Live. To watch live, simply tune into Brava Facebook Live or Indómitas Facebook Live on Wednesday, Jan 25th at 6pm (PST).
Please note that the live podcast will be conducted in Spanish.
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ABOUT María Eugenia Ilabaca Parry
María Eugenia Ilabaca Parry, es originaria de Chile. Siempre ha tenido una fuerte inclinación por las actividades artísticas. Es modista en Alta Costura.
Estudió folclor chileno en la Casa de la Cultura de Ñuñoa donde tuvo como profesor a Victor Jara, folclorista, compositor, actor y director teatral.
Formó parte del coro de la Corporación de la Vivienda, junto a su padre, madre y tres de sus hermanas con quienes interpretó el “Requiem” de Mozart con la Orquesta Sinfónica de Santiago, en el Teatro Municipal, uno de los teatros más importantes de Chile por esos años.
Uno de sus grandes deseos fue ser madre, tiene tres hijos.
El golpe de estado de 1973, cambió su vida para siempre. Se exilió en Argentina con sus hijos y esposo y en 1976 el golpe militar en Argentina la hizo regresar a Chile con sus hijos.
En plena dictadura formó una compañía de teatro vocacional con el objetivo de llevar el teatro a lugares donde la gente de menos recursos no tiene posibilidades de verlo.
Al final de la dictadura chilena trabajó en el Ministerio de Agricultura, donde realizó un concurso de cuentos campesinos a nivel nacional y produjo un programa de radio.
Actualmente vive a Valparaíso donde participa en un grupo feminista anticarcelario para conectar la cultura con las privadas de libertad.
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María Eugenia Ilabaca Parry is originally from Chile. She has always had a strong inclination for artistic activities. She is a dressmaker in Haute Couture.
She studied Chilean folklore at the Ñuñoa House of Culture where she had Victor Jara, folklorist, composer, actor and theater director, as a teacher.
She was part of the choir of the Housing Corporation, together with her father, mother and three of his sisters with whom she performed Mozart's “Requiem” with the Santiago Symphony Orchestra, at the Municipal Theater, one of the most important theaters in Chile for those years.
One of her great desires was to become a mother, she has two sons and one daughter.
The 1973 coup changed her life forever. She went into exile in Argentina with her children and her husband and in 1976 the military coup in Argentina made her return to Chile with her children.
In the midst of the dictatorship, she formed a vocational theater company with the aim of taking theater to places where people with fewer resources have no chance of seeing it.
At the end of the Chilean dictatorship, she worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, where she held a national peasant story contest and produced a radio program.
She currently lives in Valparaíso where she participates in an anti-prison feminist group to connect the culture with the inmates.
ABOUT INDÓMITAS
Indómitas is a live podcast series hosted by Chelis López of KPOO and Radio Bilingüe, featuring interviews with fierce women artists and activists
Each month in Brava’s Cabaret, Indómitas will interview female singers, writers, poets, activists, artists, journalists, filmmakers, and others – some well-known and some deserving to be – for live broadcast. These 60-minute conversations will cover the women’s stories of achievement, pitfalls, and hopes for their futures.
Be ready for open and honest conversations, where intimacy fosters the sharing of joy, fear, acceptance, and ultimately, the strength of women. It’s our time to be the ones who narrate our stories of who we are, what we do, what matters to us and how we organized and stand up for our rights.
Indómitas Podcast Series will be available through Chelis López’ website, and other platforms.