"We understand the creation of any cultural meeting place for men and culture is, for us, all symbols of identity and collective memory: the testimony of who we are, the prophecies of the imagination, reports of what keeps us from being. Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano identifies three aspects of the meeting of the men who ultimately is culture.
"testimony of what we are"
all cultural work is a mirror to see us, meet and meet again, know where we came from and why as we are. Is the rescue of our essence and see us with our disabilities and shortcomings.
But what we are, is a lake is fed by many rivers and have different perspectives:
First Look: We are individuals, have an individuality with its history, family relations, with a wealth of customs, knowledge, values with many learning to reconfirm, others win and learning to be unlearned. Since individuality is assumed commitments are commitments to social, collective. Since I assume my position individuality to the world.
Second look: We are family, family relationships, intimacy, affection and disaffected, and although it seems less and less influenced by the media, educational and social, mold to the family and the family shapes us. In the family there are dialectical relations of transformation and alienation, to maintain the prevailing social status or revolution. From there, as well as from the individuality begs the question of whether we are part of the problem or the solution.
Third look: We are community. Where we are and we Desencontro. Where our collective individual commitments are made or where we are isolated and do not see how our community problems. The community has a history not only have to save face value but many stories that have been imposed. In the community there are debts to settle and not rely solely on state and community organizations only they can afford. Community organization is culture. Also common are those that the project "Production Schedules" calls "living books", people who have the knowledge community and transmitted by the oral route.
look Fourth: We belong to a municipality, a State, a Region. From this view we are to learn and support each other with other communities. We deal with institutions, groups, both municipal and State Authority. From there we have history, ways of seeing the world, unique customs, their own cultural paradigms. Neoliberalism with homogenization of thought makes us zealous in defending the cultural heritage that has shaped and created.
Fifth Look: We belong to one country, Venezuela. A story that has been postponed one by one and hope that today we are immersed in an intense debate and constant practice of building optimism. The restructuring of the country, as stated in the Constitution of the Republic Bolivariana de Venezuela, is the primary objective to which we focus.
We Venezuelans, with an identity, with obstacles that prevent us from being and aspirations for which we fight.
Sixth glance: Venezuela is inserted into a continent. Pun intended: to Venezuela contains a Continent. Bolivar is the slogan: "Our country is America." What happens to America happens to us, what happens to us happens to America. Our story is not isolated from what he called Eduardo Galeano dramatically as the Open Veins of Latin America "
look Seventh: We belong to the world. And for the planet to survive must turn our gaze towards him in each of the individual or collective actions we perform. When Chavez poses socialism or barbarism, it is because if we follow the capitalist paradigm dominated by destruction of the human species is inevitable. Living in a world solidarity is not only possible but essential. All work from culture has a global dimension, ecological, political and ethical. To this we must and this bet.
What are we? We are the dialectical relationship between the seven eyes that have been described, with which we recognize and reconstruct.
"The prophecies of the imagination"
The prophecies are projected into the future, dreaming. Cultural work from what we are projecting the future, dreams. In another text, Eduardo Galeano says: "We are what we do, and above all, what we do to change what we are." Cultural work is not intended as a conservative. Or is it revolutionary or prevent us from being.
we change what we are in each of the eyes and perspectives. He said the Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton "every patriot to hate his country was in a creative way." Nationalism does not serve us "Light." It helps us project ourselves with imagination and audacity. What is Robinsoniana Bolivarian. "Be original: Either we invent or we err" said Simon Rodriguez in his time. Change to refound the country. Changing ways of seeing, ways of relating to nature, to change production lasformas. We used a culture that is not political, not a politics than ethics or ethics that is not organic, or an ecology that does not take into account the cultural relations between men. It is the holistic view of culture. It's from the past, what we are, to meet possible future from the daily work with people and the people. Is to take the flags of the imagination and honesty.
"Allegations of what keeps us from being"
lived for centuries domination is expressed in every look that we make reality. Consumerism driven from large transnational neoliberalism, for example, can become part of our personality vertebral, apathy and superficiality invades our communities, our cultural codes move in our region, undermining the country in their consciousness and identity and contributes to the destruction of the planet .
The globalism, capitalism, and from there down are numerous economic interests that conspire to destroy, distort and disappear our cultural codes to create a way of thinking that instead of questioning the system strengthens secondary and makes it invented and reinvented in all areas of society. It is from there that the cultural work has much to say and do. The cultural activities are called to be lights to the front counter in the single thought dominating globalization.
a cultural asset in this sense, as Galeano says, "we witness, the community gathers from his voice, and with the community becomes voice of the community. It is a "prophet of the imagination", his flag is the invention, creativity and voice of what we are able to be a spokesperson for a new language and ours, announced along with possible changes to make the paths and goals where we should go. Is mirror complaint, is fighting a war in which multiple and varied enemies will not allow us to be.
a cultural asset is close to what Gramsci called an organic intellectual. In the sense that it is biased in any way of seeing reality and if the joints between them. Look at the forest and look at the tree. It is so important global vision of reality as the community's vision of it. It organizes and links theory with practice. This means that knowledge of reality is achieved only through research from books or theoretical concepts, but the theory is from the investigation of reality and from people, and the evaluation of the practice is reformulated theory or vision of reality. Cultural activism organic link different approaches to reality itself. Visions ecological, social, political, ethical, organizational, cultural, for when diagnosed in community planning and those elements are taken into account and integrated into full view.
urquiamaru workshop Felipe Garcia 
