What’s Going On
October 2025 - Live music and folk dance in Punta Tahuisco
Music and dance, a bridge between people: Witnessing the healing and bonding effect that music and dance have on human being regardless of their language, origin, age or political ideas in bal folks in Europe, Imaymana proposed to create such event for the first time in the Peruvian Amazon, city of Moyobamba, to bring joy and cohesion among people in a public place. This initiative was the first of many to come, and maybe the beginning of a movement that will give purpose for many inhabitants to get together and enjoy the simple act of dancing, and for local musicians to join and learn folk tunes to make people dance.
How did it happened? When Loïc Cecilio, who was teaching a folk music repertoire by hear to Laura Van Essen’s students, met Roy Villacorta, the president of Mayoruna an asociation of andean folkloric dance, he realised that his students may be keen to dance the folk dances of Europe. He shared the idea with all the actors named below and all started working voluntarily to allow the event to take place.
Thanks to who?: Julio Cesar Mejia, Laura Van Essen, Mira Karthik, and Loïc Cecilio as musicians, the music students of Loïc Cecilio and Laura Van Essen with the associacion San Lucas, dancers of the associacion Mayoruna, and tecnical support from Dirección Desconcentrada de Cultura.
August 2025 - Photo exibition in Centro Cultural Moyobamba
A Journey Around the World: The exhibition brings together a selection of photographs taken between 2004 and 2013 in Europe, Africa, South Asia, Oceania, and the Indian Ocean. They are fragments of scientific missions and expeditions that shaped the author’s ecological and humanistic vocation. Each image is a testimony to the profound bond between human beings and nature, and at the same time a reminder that every present will, inevitably, become a “before.”
The Author’s Perspective: “We belong to all the experiences that make up who we are in the present moment… and we can only distance ourselves from them by creating the present, which gradually becomes our past.” — Tao Loïc Cecilio Rebola
A Commitment to Life: Presented at the Centro Cultural Moyobamba - CUMO, this exhibition not only celebrates photography as both art and document, but also commits to the conservation of biodiversity and the promotion of social well-being. All proceeds from the sale of framed works will be donated to the Imaymana Association, which drives conservation projects, sustainable agriculture, and cultural promotion in the region.
“Antes” reminds us that looking to the past is not an act of nostalgia, but an exercise in responsibility: to protect what remains and recover what is still possible.
