A título personal = In a personal capacity

Colombia's Teatro La Candelaria presented 'In a Personal Capacity' ('A título personal') as a part of the 7th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, held in August of 2009 in Bogotá, Colombia, under the title 'Staging Citizenship: Cultural Rights in the Americas.' This 10-day event brought together activism, scholarship, and art around the themes of legacies, memories, struggles, and frontiers of citizenship. 'In a Personal Capacity' was an experimental work that explored, through the collective efforts of its members, the field of information and communications in our contemporary world. At the same time, the members of the group look inside their own work, in a fragmentary self-reflection process that releases questions about their role as artists, as a collective, and as Colombians. Directed by Santiago García, Teatro La Candelaria was founded in 1966 by a group of independent artists and intellectuals. Engaged in an ongoing exploration of national folklore, events, and characters, much of their repertoire was created using the 'collective creation' method. La Candelaria also fostered the creation of the Corporación Colombiana de Teatro and has developed a number of theoretical works that reflect upon dramatic creation, its methods and languages. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics