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chile
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Chile (they/elle) is a queer K’iche’ multidisciplinary artist, curator, and organizer who has spent the last 12 years building a reputation as a thoughtful creative. As an artist working under the pseudonym Chile Dulce, they have exhibited visual and multimedia projects at Qulture Collective, SOMArts, the Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics; performed with Topsy Turvy Queer Circus in San Francisco; and curated film programs for the Seattle Queer Film Festival, Festival of (In)Appropriation, Black Cinema Collective, and Sundance Institute.
Chile also enjoys producing events and bringing people together. They have organized small to large-scale in-person, virtual, and hybrid experiences for nonprofits, arthouses, colleges & universities, and festivals including the Time is Now! LGBTQ+ Youth of Color Summit, Sundance Institute’s Sundance Film Festival & Summer Film Series, and the traveling biennial &Now Festival of Innovative Writing. In 2019, Chile was awarded the Bonderman Travel Fellowship granting them funds to solo travel for 8 consecutive months and engage in collaborative projects with FLINTA artists around the world until the fellowship was put on pause due to the pandemic. Chile has since shifted gears and now spends their time writing, quad skating, cycling, finding excuses to go to a live show, and caring for their senior rat terrier, Papito.