Travelling, travelling, travelling (across time and space)
I thank my parents, my Prime Sacred Masters, from whom I learn to be and not to be, to expand and to contract. My elder sister, for having given me the name I have and that contains me, and for having been my side always, no matter the distances. My brother, for having taught me... Continue Reading →
“The diminutive serves no other purpose than that of limiting, girdling, bringing to our room and putting in our hands objects and ideas of a collosal perspective. We encircle time, space, the ocean, the moon, distances, and even the greatest of prodigies: action. We don't want the world to be so huge, nor the ocean... Continue Reading →
The poem by American author Naomi Shihab Nye, read by me in Spanish (English version below) La bondad No vas a saber qué es la bondadSi nunca perdiste algo, Si nunca viste tu futuro disolverse en un instante Como la sal en... Continue Reading →
Children of Men Premiere: Year 2006 Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón Starring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Clare-Hope Ashitey and Michael Caine Adapted from the Book: The Children of Men, by Phyllis Dorothy James (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CdJYhtjEns&ab_channel=TrailersPlaygroundHD Linger a while, fleeting moment, thou art so fair! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sometimes, the place where we belong, which contributes... Continue Reading →
“At the bottom of each and every living being’s heart dwells a call wrapped up in silence that needs a voice and words. There are beings who move speechless through life for, unuttered, this call gets hold of the truest, the more decisive words, the words that could change these beings’ fate. To be imprisoned... Continue Reading →
A language contains universes, accessible from the space emerging when two or more people meet. Our mother tongue's inhabited us since we were born, and we are also able to make someone else's words our own, nonnative sounds, a foreign language. There is a myriad of ways, landscapes, stories, myths and legends waiting to be discovered, within our... Continue Reading →
(This post follows the articles "Know Thyself?" and "Emotional Factors that Impact of Linguistic Interactions". If you haven't read them, we suggest you do so before checking this one out!). The same way emotions and certain cultural features influence our communicative encounters, so can the latter be mostly driven by our mind states, processes and... Continue Reading →
Two magnificent one-of -a-kind actresses in the wrap up of the English for Acting workshop! This is what the backstage was like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng0sCqSrGCk Below, Agostina rehearses an excerpt from Julian Rosefeldt's Manifesto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcK7OF1q-zM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43wJXWXGnNw Paula is a very promising young actress and musician who has learned English on her own, never attending any formal training!... Continue Reading →
I was 8. It happens to me that childhood memories overwhelm my present when I least expect them, as if the wind brought them, apparently untimely, to remind me of something that ends up being important, too important, to overlook. I remember we were walking down Além Street, headed towards the Flag Memorial in Rosario,... Continue Reading →
There are realities we can only access through someone else's eyes https://youtu.be/kmeA61z17ck?si=JYV57TnSQVUowPRX The TV show HBO premiered in 2021 XIXth century England. The plot revolves around a "self-isolated/ghettoed" community of touched people, most of them women, with gifts or features they begin to manifest when, due to a mysterious large-scale luminous event, tiny light sponges... Continue Reading →
The Ways of Infinity 