Peronia Adolescente is an association legally constituted in 2004, working for a fairer reality for Guatemala. It facilitates spaces of integral formation, using games, art and alternative sports, promoting leadership and volunteering of adolescents and young people of scarce resources who are vulnerable in Ciudad Peronia.
DiverArte Guatemala is a private, non-profit, apolitical, social-type Civil Association that promotes processes of artistic awareness, from the opening of spaces for the defense and promotion of human rights, with the purpose of contributing to the eradication of contexts of stigma and discrimination that are derived from behaviors of violence directed towards Guatemalan children, adolescents and youth.
We are a mixed, interdisciplinary team committed to transforming the unequal reality of Guatemala; a team committed to artivism and digital media as tools to achieve it. Artivism as a recovery of artistic action for immediate social intervention; and digital media as a resource that has caused profound changes in the production of content and democratization of information and communication channels; giving rise to digital activism, community journalism and linking digital media with social collectives generating powerful and comprehensive alliances throughout Latin America.
We create artistic works that generate reflection based on the need to address social issues that are little discussed, in alternative spaces, bringing them to audiences with little access to a theatrical experience.
Since its creation, Artistas Trabajando has been clear in working under the following strategic objectives: