I met her on a Friday night. She was helping at a youth project in inner London, to which she had been invited by a mutual friend who was a youth worker. Steve Latham She ran some ice-breaker games with games to loosen the kids up, for the […]
In Focus
In Focus
The illustrators of life
“There is too much blood; too much violence”, Albert Camus. I had thought that I would start the year with good memories and nostalgia. However, the Charlie Hebdo massacre has brought back memories of when, in the late 80s, Castaño’s paramilitaries shot down ‘JUCO’ militants – a Communist Youth group […]
Words to remember Clarice Lispector
Writing, says Lispector, is not knowing what’s coming next. To find out, we throw another word out, as bait: which words will take the bait, if indeed any? Or will nothing follow but a void? Carlos Skliar* If it’s true that the world started with a yes, wrote […]
Experience and prejudices
A colleague of mine was telling me how she felt awkward speaking to her university tutor, who is a famous academic in the world of sociology. She left me to ponder whether a person’s place within social “hierarchy’”is the only factor in forming relationships with others. Mabel Encinas […]
San Victorino, that vast territory
According to Lucas Fernández Piedrahita, “Bogotá was awarded city status on July 27th, 1540. And, in his article “My people”, Alberto Lleras writes “Who knows why everything that is ours was on the side of San Victorino…” Armando Orozco Tovar He adds: “On the corner where San Victorino […]
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