Hola a todos!!
This Wednesday we are heading back for our second movie screening. Weare watching Venezuelan Film - El Sistema. We will start the filmaround 5:20 in Arts 206.
‘El Sistema’ is a network of children’s and youth orchestras, musiccentres and workshops in Venezuela, in which more than 250,000children and young people are currently learning to play aninstrument.It was set up over thirty years ago by José Antonio Abreu, who wasdriven by the utopian vision of a better future. In the dangerous andpoverty-stricken shanty towns of Caracas, Abreu lifts children out ofpoverty through music, changing both people and structures. The story,which has all the makings of a fairytale, is the extraordinary accountof a vision that has become reality. Several of the system’s younggraduates now rank amongst the most coveted young talent in Europe -the most prominent being the 26-year-old conductor Gustavo Dudamel andthe double bass player Edicson Ruiz, who at the age of 17 became theyoungest musician ever to join the Berlin Philharmonic.
The film ‘El Sistema’ shows how Abreu’s astonishing ideas have led theway out of the vicious circle of poverty - and how the power of musichas been able to change the lives of hundreds of thousands of youngpeople.Check it out on http://www.el-sistema-film.com/
See you thereLAIFS
This Wednesday we are heading back for our second movie screening. Weare watching Venezuelan Film - El Sistema. We will start the filmaround 5:20 in Arts 206.
‘El Sistema’ is a network of children’s and youth orchestras, musiccentres and workshops in Venezuela, in which more than 250,000children and young people are currently learning to play aninstrument.It was set up over thirty years ago by José Antonio Abreu, who wasdriven by the utopian vision of a better future. In the dangerous andpoverty-stricken shanty towns of Caracas, Abreu lifts children out ofpoverty through music, changing both people and structures. The story,which has all the makings of a fairytale, is the extraordinary accountof a vision that has become reality. Several of the system’s younggraduates now rank amongst the most coveted young talent in Europe -the most prominent being the 26-year-old conductor Gustavo Dudamel andthe double bass player Edicson Ruiz, who at the age of 17 became theyoungest musician ever to join the Berlin Philharmonic.
The film ‘El Sistema’ shows how Abreu’s astonishing ideas have led theway out of the vicious circle of poverty - and how the power of musichas been able to change the lives of hundreds of thousands of youngpeople.Check it out on http://www.el-sistema-film.com/
See you thereLAIFS
