Conversation
Patricia and Vilma in dialogue with an artist, researcher or practitioner. An encounter shaped by the guest's real work and questions.
Puentes y Diálogos · Season Six
The dialogue returns — live.
Five seasons and twenty-eight conversations began in 2020. Now the series returns as a live monthly encounter: one hour of conversation, music and open dialogue with people building bridges across cultures. Free, online and archived for everyone.
Next Session · September 9
What we learned at sea
Music and dialogue aboard Peace Boat: how concerts, workshops and informal encounters accumulated into relationship inside a temporary international community.
With Patricia Vlieg and Vilma Esquivel · Online · 7:00 pm Panama · 9:00 am Japan (+1)
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One hour, three movements.
Conversation and music form one continuous encounter.
Music
A live musical moment created for that session — the practice at the heart of Bridges.
Open dialogue
The room opens to questions, reflections and voices from participants in Latin America, Japan and beyond.
Season Six
Upcoming live sessions.
Each encounter will remain available afterward with its recording, central ideas and related resources.
Session 01 · September 9
What we learned at sea
The methodology behind the Peace Boat residency, opened up: music as a condition for trust in a temporary international community.
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Session 02 · October 7
Seeds of Peace · A conversation with Matías Daviron
How a monument placed in Nagasaki Peace Park in 1996 continued generating relationship across countries, art forms and generations — and what its next chapter in Japan might become.
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Session 03 · December 9
Planning the next chapter for Imabari
A conversation with Ambassador Hideo Fukushima on cultural diplomacy, the Panama–Japan relationship and what shared artistic practice can make possible between cities.
Register freeLooking for the original series? Five seasons and twenty-eight conversations — from Paquito D'Rivera to Berta Rojas — are archived in full.
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The public sessions share the practice openly. For embassies, cultural institutes, universities, schools and organizations, Bridges also designs closed conversations, workshops and residencies around the relationships that matter in a specific context.