We live on just one of the possible worlds;
we've got a lot to do.
And where do we start? What can you do?
Most of my life I've been asking these questions to myself. And I think I will never stop asking. By the beginning of our new millennium, these questions began to be no just personal. Now I have the fortune to share this vision of reality with many people who also think we can still do much. Therefore, this is a personal website that includes content that many people make possible.
They give us a time that is called `life' as a gift. And some privileged humans like us, at least, have the possibility of asking what to do with it. The majority are not so lucky. Statistics about the world's state are full of frightening figures.
The minimal gesture of responsibility and consistency with the conviction that something can be done is to try to propose alternatives, suggest other ways of feeling and thinking life, including senses, perceptions and meanings of other visions, trying to build the base of a better world where humans can live in peace with ourselves, with others and with other beings and things.
The site is made with some of these proposals that have been forged over ten years of questions, thousands of miles, thousands of hours of listening, a lot of searches and perhaps some certainties. It is a serious and convinced attempt to improve the improvable, an attempt based on study, work and experience. A stop on the way from which one can better see what it was walked, and above all, better see the horizon that is still to be walked.
Define and categorize the content of this website is not a task neither easy nor it would make much sense. It looks like life itself. Here you can find many things, including some that I would not know what they are. What I know is that everything has been thought and felt deeply.
Social Innovation, poetry, stories, workshops, anthropology, art, courses, trips, projects, ecology, human rights, photography, multiculturalism, news, technology, creativity, development and citizenship. Everything what fits in a life dedicated to answer those questions.
The goal is clear. There is no need for it to be simple. It will take as long as necessary. The important thing is not to miss the direction and enthusiasm.
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Friday, December 8
Angel Arenas will be the coordinator of a group of young people from Castile- La Mancha who participate in an International Meeting. The gathering will take place in Georgia, Caucasus. Spain has been selected as part of the organization. This role is developed by the Spanish Social Innovation Association. The initiative´s context is the Youth in Action programme of the European Union. The main organizers entities are Europa Direkt Fybodal from Åmål Kommun and the Center for Peace and integration of Georgia.
The event is called "Connecting generations via volunteering" and it will be worked in the coastal city of Kabuleti, in the Black Sea, from 10th till 17th December.
The multinational teams (Sweden, Georgia, Moldavia, Latvia, Ukraine, Turkey, Netherlands and Spain) will discuss about the relation between young people and mature ages. They will talk about the possitive integration, solidarity and volunteering as instruments for the good living together.
Friday, September 1
Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia are some of the countries where we are going to be working and enjoying people and surprise of meeting other worlds
Saturday, August 19
The Vietnamese Federation of UNESCO Centres and the current president of WFUCA, George Christophides, have included the project The World, a Giant Poem to the Congress program. It will be a symbol of the new strenght of word as instrument for the understanding among countries.
For more information you can check
www.wfuca.org
Sunday, July 16
The project is led by two Bulgarian Associations of Gorna Oryahovitsa: Youth Tolerance and The Association of Youth Theatre. In the project there are participants from Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and Sweden
Through art, creative activity, games and inclusive participation, etc. we have proved again that important achievements can be reached. Achievements for the human development and problems and conflicts solutions.
A group of seven companions of the art and music field have acted in diverse stages, like in the famous city of Varna, by the Black Sea.
Tuesday, July 4
From 130 meters we passed to 150 and finally 170 meters,
just because of public demand.
23 nacionalities have participated
and 18 different languages have been used.
Three of those idioms are new for the Project so
we have now 37 in total.
Monday, July 3
The Alhambra, a Giant Poem will be the longest of those which were developed in Spain. It will have also, as a new feature, the simultaneous translation between Spanish and other languages. 20 different languages are expected to be used. Arabic will be one the protagonists.
La Alhambra, a Giant Poem will complete a cicle in the trajectory of the project. A selection from all the verses that have been written until now will be published. With this publication the reader will be able to feel the rythm and poetical approach of every different city. In total, more than 4000 meters of poetry and 50000 participants are some of the figures of the project.
The instittutions that support this event are the Alhambra and Generalife Patronate, the Andalucia Government, University of Granade, UNESCO Andalucía Centre, the Spanish Association for Social Innovation and the Euroarabic Foundation, among others.
Monday, July 3
The most important media of Spain will cover the event. Spanish National Television, Andalusia Tv, SER Radio Channel, El País, etc. will share the first images of the project
The event will count with the participation of more than 500, according to our expectations. Some of them will be poets invited by the Euroarab Foundation who will recite their verses as symbol of the influence of the Arabic culture in La Alhambra.
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