Why This Delegation
Cultural resistance is strategy.
Healing is strategy.
Joy is strategy.
Too often, Black Trans leaders and organizers are asked to sustain movements while being excluded from spaces of restoration, global exchange, and joy.
This delegation intentionally shifts that pattern. It creates space to deepen political analysis, strengthen relationships across movements, reconnect with embodied practices of care, and experience Black diasporic culture as a living strategy for survival and liberation.
What Participants Will Experience
An experience that goes beyond a festival
Festival Petronio Álvarez Cultural Immersion
Music, dance, cuisine, storytelling, and ancestral traditions of Afro-Colombian communities of the Pacific Coast — one of the most important Afro-diasporic celebrations in the world.
Cultural Exchange & Delegation Collaboration
A cultural exhibition in the International Pavilion, healing-centered artistic and embodied practice spaces, and activist research exchange highlighting Black women's labor, migration, memory, and autonomy across the Americas.
Visits with Communities in Resistance
Exchange experiences with Black-led cultural and organizing spaces living, rooted communities engaged in everyday acts of resistance and cultural preservation.
Healing & Restoration Practices
Dance therapy, singing and poetry circles, embodied healing practices, reflection and political grounding all held within spaces of collective care.
Nature: San Cipriano Reserve
A journey to the Afro-Colombian territory of San Cipriano rivers, biodiversity, and practices of environmental stewardship and restoration as political and spiritual acts.
Political Reflection & Movement Building
Dialogue with Black Trans leaders, organizers, artists, and cultural workers committed to liberation across the African diaspora.
Experience Exchanges with
Dates:
August 11–16, 2026
Cost per delegate:
$3,200.00
Shared accommodations, Single room available at additional rate
Participants may need to depart their home city on August 10 to arrive in Cali by August 11. Return travel should be planned for August 16 or 17, depending on flight availability.
Not Included
Airfare to/from Cali - Travel insurance - Visa fees
(if required) - Meals outside delegation programming - Personal expenses & gratuities