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in 2010 a tropical storm wiped out
many communities of the Huasteca this
zone in mexico where a great
poor poor people I mean houses
mud with dirt floors group
friends and I, we went there for
see what we could help to help them
bringing them food clothes food toys
and why not also some students of
psychology that are going to help them
recover from that moment of pain
what was our surprise that we
we arrived with all the enthusiasm with
trailers carrying sacks crossing the
saw mother alice and moss and that we
they saw with their faces who in this
strange they spent at least three days and not
we manage to connect stays with people
it is true many did not speak Spanish
Specifically, older people
children and they spoke a little Spanish
however we could not get into
contact we could not get close to them
I was sad
my companions were some on the edge
of despair
others and was completely disinterested
I was undoing that good
intention that we bring in the fourth
night left perfectly I sat down
of a campfire with my good friend and I
I played a little to de-stress
a little bit to good to hang out and
Suddenly I was approached by a boy Julian
I was about eight years old I think that if
I would have been there they would have seen their
little face of surprise wanted
I did not say good I keep playing
listened like all the other children
older people made their walls and approached
had heard how the people who were
cooking at dinner were approaching
We did not start filling up his
little bit of terror and good who cooks
from here you will not think what happened
It struck them so much that a
outside of the city of mexico was
with a drum shot in which at the end the
the uproar caused the whole town to
gathered thanks to that we were able to connect
with the people
thanks to that the little julian does not
served as a translator for the elderly and
thank you the almost who lent your house to
that was like a collection center in
where we were putting the things that
we had brought for them I realized
of a thing that somehow already
I had thought how we just listened
I’m a little nerdy
I like to read I like to investigate
like the art he gave me he had thought
but I had not really felt like
such
art has the power to transform
Realities
art has the power to tear down walls
or to build bridges and we ‘re all going to
think clarified there are great artists in the
Tobe humanity in mud but we
we have a daily opportunity
to feel power of art
we have the opportunity every day
listen to a good song on radio
come home to college what
did the work daily we have the
opportunity to observe a building that
we like architecture when it has
past that when you want a lot
person you invent a word a nickname
of love or a compliment a compliment to
try to please that person
we are doing then and realizing
or without realizing
We have all been part of this great
power to transform that art has
in this day of reflection that we have
had today I want to put you is a
challenge
let’s make art a diary
commitment we are going to make art a
everyday reality
why because that ability to
transform what art has
I think that we can come very well to the
society is not going to solve all the
problems but it can be for example the
input channel to be able to go help
to a community like what I just did
tell
It can also be the way in how
inmates of the eastern prison of the
Mexico City Find a Way
to deal with their daily pressures
arturo moreno the director of this
project tells us in some interview
that we did research
commented miran is very simple
not only is that the prisoners good
they understand a bit of classical culture that
It was Shakespeare who was Calderón de la
boat but the theater allows them
connect with each other deal with
problems that have images are
locked in a prison
today in the morning we know the
testimony of an association that helps
women who live in prison to
through weaving work and some
didactic courses those people who are
in
you can think you have no possibility of
dreaming has no chance to think a
different reality and yet the
theater makes those realities arise the
theater allows breaking the barriers of
the bars that I have in front for
marginalize possible worlds and these works
in that photo for example they are
representing the man of the spot the
music allows them not only to know
You will meet other inmates but also
dream beyond them they produce
act I do not know if they agree with me
but I want to propose the
next analysis because art we
it moves the way it moves us
because everyone has that artist
Favourite
that favorite song that is not that
pretense of when you go in a car and
it’s raining and
coming out the window puts music
sad to feel texas in a video clip
of the nineties not that kind of thing
we have everything we have in the DNA that
makes art move us in the way
that moves us that elements have for
what for example and I want to invite you to
take art seriously, not only
as a moment of entertainment or of
rest or the music of the elevator
friend, I think that is to show us very
well but let’s take the time to
enjoy it or create why not in
place of it takes them talking about
let’s promote science the
engineering technology and
mathematics
the famous system why not better
We will also promote with the same
Emphasize the art, well , art
like and I think many can
understand it
has two elements that we share
everyone and that move us take us out of the
ordinary which the first the art
it involves creating go one can feel
even as god am I doing something
ordinary a marble stone something
extraordinary
the david de miguel angel I’m doing
of something common sounds the words of my
something extraordinary language a song
a poem in mind that ability to
create is what differentiates us from the
other living beings that are in this
planet
many students of intelligence
artificial they say that ability to
create can never be limited or
overcome by machines
maybe they will be able to solve problems
better than us surely I am
terrible and mathematical study what
study
we will never be able to reach your level of
algorithms and connect your information
but the capacity that we have
to make something ordinary something
extraordinary that go that is unique
let’s think about this image a
common experience a couple walking
in the rain in an afternoon
a common color register all
we can see that there is blue beech and red
yellow black coffee a human sensation
common the warmth of the accompaniment of
someone
all this has been expressed in a work
extraordinary a painting and work mit is
a hundred painter
this person unfortunately because of his
attacks of epilepsy lost sight and
it became painting as part of its
therapy
his oil paintings have code
braille so you can identify
red green yellow which which which
them is manifesting no goiter
feel that warmth of when you’re
sharing a moment with someone and
it is being shown to us by a person who does not
you can see this act that the creator is
unique because it’s artistic but
besides that it is a creative act that you
you think about me I would like to do
Something similar
I would like to paint to me I would like
be able to draw well go at least have
good letter
Besides this, you do not just think about yourself
when we talk about art we talk about
sharing art generates empathy art
it implies generating empathy why because
it is an act of communicating
I feel very happy I compose a song
they hear but you are a 16th century juggler
very good but if today we hear something
will tell me
maybe he will not tell me exactly what
I thought about playing that however
is communicating something a poem is music
written and it may be that you wrote
this poem for your daughter’s birthday
for your girlfriend’s birthday can be
someone will find him after a lot
time between your papers and even if you do not
have known something will feel and when
I read it shares with colleague will
to be able to communicate in the same motto
empathy is feeling together with there
feel together with art allows us
feel together with others
the fact that we are artistic beings we
allows you to recognize that there is something valuable and
back that van gogh painting
although I have never gone to the countries
low although I never saw nor in his time
it makes me see things different today
way
even that helps me communicate
with you today, today you do not
I know that feeling together with someone what
we can have at the moment more
ordinary as today a quiet evening
in a university
talking about ideas that can
transform the world but they also have
we can have this experience of
empathy at a difficult time in a
sad moment of sadness
think for example in the blues as
emerged emerged from the communities
African American enslaved
art is present in all
moments of civilization in each
of cultures is true if we put a
piece of beethoven in the heart of
amazonas the people living there can
be that they do not understand much that I know that
we listen like we do not
we reach to distinguish the records of
its music
however we all have the ability
to create the and enjoy it empathize and
in those moments of emotion and in those
moments of pain
there is art as in one of the
more difficult moments you can live
a person is in the war of 1914
home what was known as the great
war until the second war came
world and that’s why it was called according to this
War trench warfare the
trenches are those pits that
where we hid it
they kept the soldiers and they just left
a flurry of bullets covered his head was
a slow war
it was a war
it is quite imagined to be there in the middle
in a trench in the winter
you could see perfectly that they are
all the fences protecting the
enemy trench you can listen in
pull your partner’s teeth
freezing to death
the smell of rot to the mud is
Christmas
what would you do you remember from your family
I wrote something that is strange to me
house in my bar a German soldier put on
stood up and came out of satcher and started to
sing Chilean
night everyone wanted peace
stop do not go out how do you think they are going to
fly excess porto
it was Christmas and he wanted to sing
imagine an impressive voice
what was your surprise that on the other side
on the enemy side
the English soldiers took their bagpipes
and they began to accompany a place
desolate snow and cold bullets make wood
Peace night is heard in German with
Scottish bagpipes accompany
little by little the soldiers were leaving
confident in what that song was
transmitting a night of peace
that was the famous Christmas truce of
1914
the generals to see all their
soldiers already communicating with each other
they said good they know we’re going to
enjoy there record that even
they played football they shared chocolate
I do not know what the English have given of
food according to the Germans gave them a
good beer does not imagine is to be there
this opportunity was the occasion of
Christmas but that communication did not come out
did not understand that bridge until it
a song was heard
you believe that society needs
people
creative I just heard examples of
many people who have ideas and are
transforming are we creative people
we are empathetic people the vast majority
of our problems come from that
we can not communicate that we do not
we agree
art is a tool art is
a great tool that puts there that
puts that first partition that first
stone to build the big
bridges that can make us a
society better
let’s ask ourselves now let’s win a lot
or little
if for example we make art a
daily practice that you will win if
instead of the music that listens
be alone in the car or with your
a practical hearing aids 15 minutes
newspapers sitting with your player
music
listening to music that you like something
I would change what you would win for the
nights or by day early write
the memories a diary a letter to some
family
how long ago you do not write in a letter
by hand and sending it by mail
postcard that would change if you are
teacher promoted with equal
importance the subjects of dance and
literature as well as
we promote biology and mathematics that
would change in our society if you that
you are an entrepreneur who is an entrepreneur
you generate a creative and artistic atmosphere
of deployment in your collaborators that
would change our society if you want
ruler because you want to dedicate yourself to the
public function promoted policies
that will guarantee the protection of
migration that we would do as a society if
we take art seriously I can
give an answer
the dialogues would not be idealistic ettu
well they would tell us what they said to
main character of the novel of
Dostoevsky
the idiot the town idiot
the idiot who believes that thanks to art
you can solve problems the idiot
that trusts people the idiot that
look for beauty and that’s why at the end of
the novel explodes and says only beauty
will save the world
Today I want to invite you to do
art a daily commitment is not the
solution to all our problems not
but for something we can start doing
from this world a more beautiful place
only art will save many
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