African-Colombian moonshine gets official seal of approval as heritage drink
Viche – traditionally produced by women on the Pacific coast – is poised to be for Colombia what mezcal is for Mexico, experts say
Joe Parkin Daniels in Bogotá
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Sun 19 Sep 2021 09.02 EDT
Lucía Solís, an African-Colombian artisan distiller from Buenaventura on Colombia’s Pacific coast, has spent much of her life making and selling viche, a pungent liquor believed to cure snakebites. Now, with a new law on the horizon, she’ll be able to sell the ancestral home-brew across the country –and perhaps beyond.
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African-Colombians have populated the regions along the country’s Pacific coasts since the 16th century, when their ancestors were brought from Africa as slaves to work on sugar cane plantations, goldmines and the large estates of landowning Spanish colonizers.
Viche, which usually has an ABV of about 35%, has traditionally been prepared by women, while the men worked the fields. Along with its favored use as a ceremonial intoxicant, traditional communities have long used viche to purge stomach bugs and parasites, and as an aphrodisiac.
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In Cali, a large city 72 miles inland from Buenaventura, the drink has found popularity with revelers who mix it with the juices of local fruits such as borojó and chontaduro at the annual Petronio Álvarez festival of Pacific music.
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Chontaduro´s Dance , Amazon , Colombia.
WHAT WE HAVE NOW...
Post-production of the documentary about the "Chontaduros Dance" in colombian Amazon for the indigenous community's archives.
The idea of creating a documentary about the integration dance "Chontaduro's Dance" began in January 2015 in Amazonas, Colombia. A member of the indigenous community in Leticia, KM11 asked us to film and produce a short documentary about the dance he was going to organise in february 2015. His purpose is to get a register of this traditional dance of his ethnic group: Yukuna Tanimuka.
This documentary is going to be made for the community itself and won't be sold anywhere...
We filmed the preparation of the event (food, chicha, mambe, organization of the maloca...) and the 3 day dance itself.
We have a few hours of rushes and we need now to organise and edit them. This cost time and money if we want to make it well... Help us to make it real !
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