Construyendo juntos La Colmena Cultural

Isabel Benitez

Las abejas siempre se han considerado un ejemplo de cohesión, solidaridad y eficiencia. Como las hormigas, el otro gran ejemplo del reino animal, trabajan duro por su comunidad, cooperando por el bienestar de sus miembros y consiguiendo con su unidad lo que no podrían lograr por separado.

Cooperar es también connatural al ser humano (aunque, a veces, la vorágine individualista en que vivimos nos nuble la vista), y ésta es precisamente la razón de ser del primer proyecto del extremeño Ramón Muñoz.

“La idea es que La Colmena se haga sola”

La Colmena Cultural es una iniciativa colaborativa y sin ánimo de lucro que pretende conectar a todos aquellos interesados en el patrimonio cultural y medioambiental de la provincia de Badajoz, sean de dentro o de fuera de nuestra comunidad. La Colmena proporciona una herramienta útil y sencilla para planificar sus viajes y conocer de una forma amena y divertida las ciudades y municipios que componen cada provincia.}

La Colmena Cultural crea un mapa-panal de cada comarca y lo divide en celdas. Cada celda representa un rincón emblemático o un punto de interés y contiene información detallada a modo de guía. El objetivo es conseguir el mayor número de piezas del panal posible y completar su propio mapa.

De esta manera, cuando un usuario de la plataforma visita un lugar de los que aparecen en ella, sólo tiene que enviar a través de la lacolmenacultural.com una foto que demuestre que ha estado allí -selfies incluídos- y, automáticamente, recibe en su casa la correspondiente celda-imán del panal. Así, hasta completar su mapa de la comarca y el de toda la provincia.

“Lo que pretendemos es que la gente conozca y dé a conocer el patrimonio de cada pueblo”

Además de obtener información sobre los pueblos y ciudades que van a visitar (o que están visitando) y completar su propio panal, los usuarios disponen de otras opciones para participar en la plataforma. Por un lado, pueden subir las imágenes de sus viajes a la web y ampliar la galería de cada municipio. Por otro, pueden crear nuevas celdas para que otras personas descubran desde un detalle en la fachada de la iglesia hasta personajes ilustres de la localidad.

“Por ejemplo, alguien a quien le gusta mucho su pueblo o que ha encontrado un sitio que no estaba en nuestra web, tiene aquí una herramienta para darlo a conocer”, explica Ramón Muñoz.

Así, La Colmena Cultural se construye solidariamente, con cada abeja realizando su aportación a la plataforma, compartiendo imágenes, información y experiencias.

En este sentido, La Colmena Cultural es ambiciosa. El proyecto se ha iniciado con la provincia de Badajoz pero pretende ampliar su ámbito de influencia más allá. Su equipo ya está trabajando en el mapa-panal de la provincia de Cáceres, y pretende exportar la iniciativa al resto del país. De hecho, cualquier persona, sea de donde sea, ya puede comenzar a crear celdas de cualquier localidad española.

“Ya hay gente que está compartiendo imágenes de Granada y Ávila, y de eso es de lo que se trata. Yo no quiero que sea mi proyecto, sino que sea un proyecto que construyamos entre todos”, concluye Ramón.

Además, como plataforma, La Colmena Cultural tiene otras funcionalidades. Es también un escaparate para los negocios locales que pueden anunciarse de manera gratuita en la plataforma y las celdas y, si lo desean, donar alguno de sus productos para que sea sorteado una vez al año entre quienes hayan visitado el municipio en ese período. De este modo, cuantos más viajes realice el usuario, más oportunidades tendrá de ganar.

La Colmena Cultural

Por el momento, La Colmena Cultural es sólo un prototipo, un ensayo que, sin embargo, ya ha conseguido reunir más de 3.500 euros a través de una campaña de crowdfunding para la creación y lanzamiento de su página web  y ha recibido el apoyo económico de la Diputación de Badajoz. Pero aún queda lo más importante. Es el turno de las abejas. ¿Dispuestas a construir este panal?

Más en www.lacolmenacultural.com

Fuente del articulo: https://isabelrbenitez.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/la-colmena-cultural/

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África: Five protest poets all demonstrators should read

África/Febrero 2017/Noticias/https://theconversation.com/

Back in the liberal-compared-to-now days of the Ronald Reagan administration, a rapper named Brother D released a single that asked the question: “How we gonna make the black nation rise?” His answer – “agitate, educate, and organise” – if prescient then, seems overwhelmingly important now.

But Brother D could have added another word to his to-do list: “Versify”. Verse has a long history of resisting oppression and rallying opposition in the face of overwhelming odds. Here are five poets every protester should re

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1. Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni’s My Poem from 1968 is one of the key works of a group of young writers who came of age alongside the American civil rights movement. As demands for greater human rights and fewer governmental wrongs grew, the bloody violence that was meted out by the army and police saw an increasingly strident, anguished, and collective response in verse.

Giovanni (1943-) sums up the fear and the lack of privacy that any artist could encounter if they raised a voice in dissent. She states: “My phone is tapped, my mail is opened”, and laments that she’s “afraid to tell my roommate where I’m going / and scared to tell people if I’m coming”. The poem’s power lies in the defiant refrain that ends each of its five verses. Whatever the government or the poet herself may or may not do, Giovanni repeats the fact that “it won’t stop the revolution”.

2. Denise Levertov

Levertov (1923-1997) famously fell out with poet Robert Duncan over the best way to write political poetry. The issues that their argument raised were concerned with whether one should comment directly upon particular political issues or should write verse that engaged in a more abstract, less polemical manner. Of the two paths, Levertov took the former. Making Peace (1987) opens with a statement that affirms her desire to think through these problems:

The poets must give us / imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar / imagination of disaster. Peace not only / the absence of war.

As the poem continues, Levertov explores how poetry can make the world anew. She concludes with the hope that:

A cadence of peace might balance its weight / on that different fulcrum; peace, a presence, / an energy field more intense than war, / might pulse then, / stanza by stanza into the world, / each act of living / one of its words, each word / a vibration of light—facets / of the forming crystal.

Denise Levertov. By Elsa Dorfman (Own work) GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC BY-SA

3. Diane Di Prima

Di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters (1971) is one of the most powerful and thorough explorations ever written into the ways in which a poet can act to change the culture. Confident without being bombastic, confrontational and also compassionate, ecstatic as well as desperate, Di Prima brings the revolution home by initiating the change from home.

Kids, lovers, friends and opponents are all part of the struggle. One problem that political poets face is the question of how simple sloganeering can also be good poetry. Revolutionary Letters does this through giving the reader a domestic and particular world, written with a Beat poetics, within which is played out a very open and public politics. Revolutionary Letter #50 runs, in full:

As soon as we submit

to a system based on causality, linear time

we submit, again, to the old values, plunge again

into slavery. Be strong. We have the right to make

the universe we dream. No need to fear “science” grovelling

apology for things as they are, ALL POWER

TO JOY. which will remake the world.

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4. Martin Carter

Carter’s poems locate their struggle in British-occupied Guyana in the 1950s. Poems of Resistance (1954) charts Carter’s growing political consciousness and his belief in the emancipation and empowerment of all oppressed people.

Carter (1927-1997) spent time in prison and time in government – a path that is far from unusual in 20th-century politics – and continued to write poems of rare humanity and power throughout his life. He is best known, however, for Poems of Resistance. I come from the Nigger Yard (1954) explores the circumstances of his life and traces his journey towards emancipation. It concludes:

I come to the world with scars on my soul

wounds on my body, fury in my hands

I turn to the histories of men and the lives of the peoples

I examine the shower of sparks, the wealth of dreams

I am pleased with the glories and sad with the sorrows

rich with the riches, poor with loss.

From the nigger yard of yesterday I come with my burden.

To the world of tomorrow I turn with my strength.

5. Nazim Hikmet

Hikmet (1902-1963), is a Turkish national hero, yet much of his life was spent in jail or in exile. A poet in the expansive, democratic mode of Walt Whitman and Vladimir Mayakovsky, Hikmet wrote tirelessly of the need to be free from any form of authority and about lives of the everyday people of Turkey. His poem about a child killed by the A-Bomb in Hiroshima is well-known in English as the song I Come and Stand at Every Door.

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Hikmet was a courageous opponent of the mid-century Turkish government, and, in 1950, went on hunger strike to protest their record upon human rights. His constant question is: what should one do in the face of oppression? And his answer is: be ready to fight. In Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison he tells the world: “It’s not that you cannot pass / ten or fifteen years inside / and more— / you can, / as long as the jewel / on the left side of your chest doesn’t lose its luster!”

In fact, that’s the message of all five of these poets. Agitate, educate, and organise! Well, that and William Carlos Williams’ demand to fellow poets: “Write good poems!”

Fuente :

https://theconversation.com/five-protest-poets-all-demonstrators-should-read-72254

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