“De Beethoven a Moravia (Cultura y Sentido)” | Ana María Restrepo | TEDxMedellinMujeres

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I have to start making them a

confession

and that is when they invited me to do

part tx melli women panic

but to me because they invited me to tex

I am not an important person nor

I have an innovative super idea and I have

too much experience so soon after

I said I is not invited by something must

be something that I’m not seeing very clearly

and then I had as a kind of

Chilean validation really what I

I do is supremely valuable and it’s not

bad that I questioned take me out

generate those questions

then I understood a little that life does not

It is made of formulas if it is not made

of sense of meaning that we put to

what we do

then the first thing was to believe in believing in

I believe me I had a childhood of

super happy and I do not know if so

intentionally or not by my parents

but let’s say it is and is part of a

lots of extracurricular activities

then he played piano three times

week

I learned the poems that my dad told me

teach and we will share them

I shared with my family I also danced

he sang to them at civic acts well

Finally but not be an artist because I

I spent my life among the little tailor

brave that I knew it by heart and

beethoven

but do not end up being an artist or not

the way my parents would have

imagined

or those who believed in me but I think of

there that or something very important in me as

a seed and it was like I started to give

meaning to what had happened in

me when I was little I was

resuming today as a bridge and this

bridge was the culture

talking about culture is a super thing

more or less complex as well as estimate

then culture is like everything

we do what we learn through the

socialization through the

traditions customs

idiosyncrasy and so on

others more daring talk about culture

universal is like there is no where

grab it because it’s like the idea of

all

if then we talk about the totality of

the ways of man’s existence and

the whole story

I prefer to think culture as its

essence as the simple and it is the culture

comes from culture culture and culture and

cultivation makes me think more like a

information process in development and

why not a lifestyle for me

that ‘s the culture and knows the place that

it allowed me to understand that

the cultural development center of

Moravia located in the north of

medellin

specifically in commune 4 of the

city demonstrated is that it is culture

let’s do an exercise they are going to

mentally think that it comes to them

head when I say a word

communes

I do not know maybe this

or maybe it’s your good then I tell you that

both are communes

the first image that we live is a

image of the commune 4 aranjuez

if the second one is the commune 14 the

populated but there is an imaginary around

of that very closed that makes us think

in the in the communes as those portions

of land on which people live the most

poor and it’s not like that

let’s say our city is divided

by communes because let’s say your

political division let’s do

again the exercise with this other

word lead to think that they are

happens what image comes to them

head with this one

maybe the image is this one gains nothing

I do not know anything today is a dumpster or

it’s even worse a burning dumpster

I tell you that Moravia is much more

that this

now it ‘s an invasion neighborhood that

he received a lot of people who came

moves to looking for alternative routes

by forced displacement

if there was also a neighborhood that

they mostly raised women in

an incredible woman force nobody

is very strong in the territory by

there was also ethnic wealth and

impressive cultural

and an additional thing that I also moore

there was one of the first neighborhoods

who discovered let’s say in recycling

an economic activity and it was also the

municipal garbage dump for almost a decade

then another question love the

questions who is of you raise

the hand is 30 years old up

well I tell you all of you

they have a bit of their life in default

well indicated mann that it did not work

and they threw it in the trash or pants

broken or a doll that they did not like anymore

maybe it’s there so imagine that I

six years ago

marquitos I went to discover my little piece

and I think I made one of the decisions

most important of my life and that is that I

I could as a social communicator have

gone for a company to work in

corporate relationships or could I have

dedicated to making movies or could I be

journalist but I did not decide to go to

work with community

I decided to leave for the territory and

discover that other side that other

imaginary that they provide us with

territories maybe at the beginning yes as

with some certain thoughts or not

around what it was to work in

territory but I realized that life

have the possibility as he shows us or

barriers and prejudices or

opportunities

then let’s say it’s those prejudices

which often do not leave us as

create create our own criteria if and

define for ourselves what

we believe and we think around something and

we women and that we live it

but it turns out that there are two

If there are two sides of the coin

it depends how the look and like the names

and well that was a bit like something that

I said one to think that that

community could be thought of in a way

different and could be moderated and could

create your own criteria through the

culture and that outsiders are also

they believed it and they believed in that other side

and that’s what you’re looking for is what I ‘m looking for

every day and is that more people from

here and outside fall in love with blackberry

I would like to give you some small

stories and tell them in small

stories that make me think about those

two faces on that other side sorry

the first story in the history of

Alejo alleged is a super foolish boy who

since I came to Moravia less how

is going to make life impossible and if the

real very foolish and did a lot of damage

He hit other children and sabotaged

classes etc. and so on

two years ago he graduated from college and

we enter into the dilemma if

they forbade entry or not because the

passed on to his life among the friends of the

corner and the cultural center today moved away

studied engineering at the University of

antioquia in his free time he works

with us in the cultural center in

communications and I would dare say

who is our best ambassador in the

city

the other story is the story of Caesar

of roman roman a rapper boy the

neighborhood that he liked very much the

audiovisual

let’s say you found like in that too

a different alternative

one day we were planning an event

national and we invite you to

did the audiovisual record of

event is he was there we are doing

a tour and one of the guests will

he asked the one who at that time was the

center director lyfc as benny

which the indicator that the center

cultural works x or y if it works and he

he said as ask him he closed hand with

her little camera like but yes and she repeats

I asked him the question because you think

the cultural center is important and he

he says because I’m alive because I found

in art a way to save myself

many of my friends and family today do not

They are here and I am here with you

so I think yes, yes, and there is

many opportunities and us from

small things that we do from our

everydayness

we can transform life and the world

of people and places for me

Moravia smells like children who are

running around all afternoon and doing

a lot of noise and they end up after

tired in the reading corridor

learning I do not know ‘monsters’ of magicians

the center also smells like graffiti smells

spray because there are a lot of young people

that every day start good

where can we fail that we can do

yes and find there is not a way to

express a way of claiming

also his mission and his work as

young the center knows mountains and that

I’m sorry every time I see the lady

of the seamstress telling the stories of

their children

leave and I feel it also every time

I see women cantaoras from

peaceful they also found a

place

his other house in Moravia and is covered to

through their streams and their lawyers not

lose their culture and show it there in

that territory

The center also plays and played

when I listen to that percussion group

that puts us all to dance and move

shoulders his four the house is full

and everyone is there happy

I feel touch and also touch

with the break dance guys when

they get their appetite shelton their cocker and

they start doing what they are

learning

that’s Moravia, everyone’s house like

we called her and I discovered that

really live my life made sense

when I was infected that when

was permeated by culture when

was permeated by art there are many

people in the world who decide to leave

another place to meet and in that

another place they discover their social vocation

and they come here they start doing things for

they and others

I did not have to go myself in this place with

these people my own city

I discovered that the direction of the road was

here and that I was very happy

that does not mean that he does not love me and

also some

it’s true but today

today my life is here and well that’s

thanks one remove the barriers to

to leave me as é belo of what is already

established two to believe in people and 3

love what you do what