Patricia Vlieg

Artistic practice made available directly.

Patricia Vlieg's work extends beyond the programs Bridges designs. These are the ways her artistic practice — built over twenty years — becomes available to institutions, organizations and causes directly.

Each service begins with the occasion and the people it needs to reach. The form may be a lecture-performance, an institutional concert or music chosen carefully for a social cause.

Talks & LecturesMusic, identity, culture and peace — as live experience.

Patricia's talks are inseparable from her music. She presents through music, letting songs carry the argument, open the story and cross the distance that words alone leave between speaker and audience.

Patricia Vlieg presenting Cabanga at Trama

Trama · Cabanga: Folklore Contemporáneo

Patricia inaugurated the music industry forum at Ciudad del Saber in May 2018. The talk led one year later to the invitation for Encrumiradas.

Patricia Vlieg at Mosaico

Mosaico · Kol Shearith Israel

Invited to the fifth edition as a voice whose practice embodies the question Mosaico asks: how have diversity, dialogue and encounter built Panama?

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Patricia Vlieg at the piano with Vilma Esquivel and Soka University students

Soka University · Young Founders

Patricia and Vilma presented at the monthly Soka University community gathering in Tokyo while completing their MA degrees.

Patricia Vlieg presenting Songs as Maps aboard Peace Boat

Peace Boat · Songs: My Roadmaps and Companions

A 75-minute lecture-performance tracing Patricia's life through songs from Panama, Mexico, Curaçao, Argentina, Brazil and Japan.

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Incluir para Crecer

Incluir para Crecer

A 50-minute conference-concert on disability, inclusion and empathy. Patricia weaves personal stories, songs and reflection through her experience as a person born without sight.

Clients include ANREH, Tigo, Medtronic and UNICEF.

Concerts & PerformancesCommissioned concerts for institutional occasions.

Patricia performs at institutional and diplomatic events where music gives an anniversary, conference or gala the emotional weight that ceremony alone cannot produce.

Acordes Naranja

Acordes Naranja · ONU Mujeres

A concert raising its voice against gender-based violence. Vilma Esquivel served as general producer.

Panamá nos Inspira musicians

Panamá nos Inspira · CAF 25 años

A gala concert at Teatro Anayansi marking CAF's 25 years of action in Panama, with ministers of economy from across the region in the audience. Vilma Esquivel served as general producer.

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Music for Social CausesThe Cabanga catalog in service of causes that share its values.

When a documentary, campaign or institutional occasion needs music that carries Panama's cultural memory, environmental consciousness and human dignity, Patricia's catalog is available for licensing and musical advisory.

As musical advisor as well as licensor, Patricia recommends which songs or essential sounds from the Cabanga catalog best serve each moment — opening, emotional interview, data and climax — and advises on volume, layering and the relationship between music and ambient sound.

Alteridad documentary

Alteridad · Cine ANIMAL

A 2017 documentary comparing indigenous resistance and civic protest in Panama, accompanied by music from the Cabanga catalog.

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Mangroves in Panama

The Oxygen Project Environmental Series

Three documentary videos on Panamanian environmental conservation, including Defendamos los Manglares. Patricia also served as musical advisor for the full series.

Artistic Services


Bring music into an occasion that matters.