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maine new york times and called crazy and the
gala me I’ve taken nothing you see that
you have not understood lage and you would like
know what I’m saying then what
I just said is what we all do
the days
translate translate our culture
Senegalese African Spanish culture
and Western European would be easier
for me to speak in one of my and I more
family but today I will talk to you in
Spanish because for me it is one of the
adoption languages
next to French thierry in English what
that I said earlier in Wolof that my
presentation
hello my name is chila coli I come from
senegal and I feel a citizen of the world
I want to share with us because
I’m here and a little bit of my culture
always when they ask me how much
you have been here for 16 years
I’m living in Spain
the first thing they tell me without giving it time
to answer because I’m here because what
that you ask me is not directly says
lucky you have to be here what bad
happens is in africa
I usually get me a little thoughtful is
say but that Africa tell me of
that Africa speaks to me Chavez but never
I ‘m left without giving an answer to Africa
is a country is a continent with more than
50 countries and a Senegalese where I come from
is one of those countries with its
wonders
yes it is true there is a part like saying
negative but it is not what defines the
continent
hence my work is because I am here
it shows that he is very bad despite
be the oldest of ten brothers not with what
It involved in culture and it legalizes
decision making to be an example of your
brothers
sometimes a nightmare but good what
took o’connor what he was going
I noticed with these repeated questions
Sometimes I realized that we had to do
something had to be presented from another
shape and I and what was needed
it was necessary that people their piece
I knew where I came from and he did not look at me
do with pity because it hurts not
I wanted to give and decided to organize a
event and this started an afternoon in the
office where he worked because before
I worked in a French bank in Madrid
I decided to send an event or say a
detailed project to the town hall of the
Escorial Town Hall from here to see
if you authorize me dinner use the square
public and organize that event and I had
an answer a nice surprise already
who agreed and gave me the
authorization and they also put my
disposition asking me everything that
I needed for those to do
reality and so organize first event
for me it had a connotation ao
a burden of interculturality
important and I could gather in that act
musical african music live
Storyteller with a man from Cameroon
that came and literary chat with
different poets from different countries
an exhibition of photos
I was doing with a Spanish photographer but
the photos were taken in africa and a
fashion show that part I liked
very much because we could introduce uu
as you decide from there even if they were
on a small scale they are given there but
with a design or cut from here
so that people would realize that
African fabrics is not only for
pierre negra thing that I usually go to
I used to because today is changing
also today these fabrics are going to
you black skin we do not
thank goodness that is changing and it was a
success but I’ll finish I’m exhausted
that day because I was running to go
I realized that I needed more training
and then I signed up for a course of
organization direction of events that
phenomenal wine for the next
editions of this event the truth come out
from there and I realized that something has
changed as a result of what I wanted
the people already started began to tell
with me with us that it was not
the typical questions were not going and
We started to organize events so that
to have a follow-up with the
project created a blog related to
what we do has gone my husband and of
there we also continue with the networks
socially so far not but all
changed in 2015 one afternoon when
I went to the office suddenly I found
realize that since the time has come
but it is not because there is as to say
caused are not circumstances of the
life or destiny itself as my
mother but I went to the bank after
eight years
and I decided that it was time to open a
store not a store any like
we know I do not want a store or a
space because I liked to call it
space where I could continue
transmitting what I like most
is the sculpture and where also can
collaborate and change the idea that people
has the continent to the ground
say that african rimac or disasters
as those who usually sell for me rhyme
with good joy does not rhyme with the law
but they should or not but I am now
we are achieving it little by little with the
help from many collaborators who
now count on us to such as
foundations associations or companies
private and there in Africa also not
that we have more people to our
around
not only the family but also
friends and people among economies that
they are related to the sector from which
we are moving that is the culture and
the artisan does not always relate to
the continent
now I’m left blank low
for me this project goes beyond
what is it that one goes ahead at a level
economic has to do with my delta and
affirm what I am and what I can
bring my people who are to me
around not if it is possible to go beyond
if it allows me to walk when one
enter the space colors the world is
realize that the textile is very has a
privileged site for me is very
important what we are doing and why
that traveled from time to time to senegal
for this topic not and on my last traveled
two months ago
I saw something that caught my
attention and I became reinforced that is the
situation of the change that is hitting
to
the life of Senegalese African women
he is his in his in this case I did not see that
women say no longer is waiting
tell him where he can go or what
what can be done to the contrary is
making important decisions elbow to
with him the man and he has
accepted why be working
together for me this is very important
because it was not like that very recently 12
I returned the truth and they include that
can do very well we can already
negotiate face to face not me I liked
the textile issue that is important
as I said in my work because
I want to transmit through the fabrics
African as industrial or
craft the cultural connotation
important that it carries because through
the fabrics can be known a whole one
culture if one pays much attention
then when talking about fabrics
African often tend to draw
directly think of the stool or
copies and because there are some prints
awesome to think about the fabrics
typically fax that are dinners
known with its most used prints
In the continent
Wherever you go, you’ll find them in the
markets in the houses and they have the truth
an identity
today culturally rooted not but the
names can also change by
here bats sometimes call it charge or the
capul ana in Mozambique then but it is
the same goes and the glass
we also have the yago serum according to
yago is a fabric for me today that I
I say because I like it at my wedding
they put is also a fabric that has
a very traditional representation and
symbolic in our society is a
fabric originally from guinea bissau
although nowadays it can be found in
senegal on burkina ivory coast but
it is a visa fabric
naval line and it’s called blue and yago and
the ethnicity that weaves are the spot
– What I invite you to look for is a
little internet to know about this
very interesting people and now we jump
towards Mali with the flyers
the bold and the holy the photo does not make you
justice but it is an impressive weave
wonderful balls means weave
mud because the dyeing process is
made with mud leaves and roots the
Mali bambara call it as if it were
his second skin so I ‘m not going to
intervene the cyclops days so that
so you have to know what petit told us
committee
but it is a person is a fabric that
It connotes one
representation of a whole culture all
the epia will send them that is steering wheel
also the one that he is not very
known because it ‘s from ghana and it’s used
rather for royalty to win jensen
is not well known but in those of the
events is typically from this country
from southern Ghana you see now but it’s
related to royalty wins and in it
It’s worth because all this I talk to you about the
tissues to tell you that we in
our day-to-day work
we use these fabrics and more also that
he has not given me time to teach us that
we use in our our creations
of decoration garments but without
take away the cultural importance that
they have behind no but trying to do
a kind of cultural miscegenation bringing
the culture there and put it or
incorporating into the culture here
doing a miscegenation so that people
know the story behind
each garment or item that they touch or that
let’s teach, not that, it’s stuck with me again
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and already in senegal in senegal we have a
I said we have a saying in all
centers in all ethnic groups
that we have five ethnic groups
but in all ethnic groups
we have the same translation of this
said that it would seem like step by step
one can and achieve what is proposed or
what you are looking for and giving tradition
and gives you that day with stealthily
can hunting a monkey in the jungle came down on
a value would be dan they walk very slowly
you had it and I’m applying it in
my job
little by little I’m trying to reach what
I want this idea to be
interculturality
this presentation that I want the
people know about me that I do not look at how
here is recorded saved not serious
Thank you
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