Two Years!Two Years!

september 2011

Libertas is now turning two years old, and we’d like to share with you some of the achievements of our contributors. And, of course, talk a little about what happened to us.Besides, aging brings some other characteristics to Libertas, and we’re very glad to present to you some fresh names working behind the scenes in Libertas: Kristijan Nikodinovski, from Macedonia, who has been working with us for some time already, and the new-new members of the Libertas staff are Marija Gavrilov and Marina Danic Rjasnoj, from Serbia, and Evgenia Kostyanaya, from Russia, and our now-official cover artist, Alexandre Fonseca, from Brazil. From this week on, one of the things they’re going to do is to update the website with much more different content, if you have any suggestions, drop us a line at hello@magazinelibertas.com!Also, from next month on, Libertas will bring some informative articles about the main theme, as a way to introduce readers to it. That won’t take the place from the opinions our contributors send every month, it is mostly a complementary and factual view on the themes discussed, but the idea of starting discussions about them continues!These are just some of the ideas that expect you in the year to come, but we mostly plan to keep evolving with Libertas and making it a more comprehensive and global project.Last but not least, I’d like to say thank you to all our contributors, readers and the staff, for yet this year in our history. As you can guess, it’s still just the beginning!

Daniel Nunes

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aegee

two years

Fulfilled dream

pirate latitudes by michael crichton

one young world

how libertas canged my life

vanilla sky

summer festivals

unity express

dente de ouro by blues etílicos

pigs in maputo

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Libertas 24 achievements published

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heroes, failures and legendsAEGEE

The European students’ forum AEGEE has become one of the continent’s most influential youth NGOs. It all started in 1985 - with ambitious

plans and huge debts.

240 local branches, 13.000 members, 240 confer-ences, trainings and Summer Universities every year: the European students’ forum AEGEE has become a giant benevolent machine, which brings together many students on a weekly basis, opens and broad-ens their minds – and turns them into European citizens. But how did it all start? Like all good stories, this one has heroes, failure, victory and a good por-tion of mythology. It began with a failure, 26 years ago. At that time, the student representatives of the elite universities in Paris wanted to make one event together. It was sup-posed to be a giant party, but somehow they couldn’t put the plans together and the event never took place. In that moment, the hero entered the stage: Franck Biancheri, a 24-year old student at the elite university Sciences Po. Since the original party plan did not work out, he developed a more ambitious plan: a students’ conference about the future of Eu-rope, with participants of all ten members’ countries of the European Community.1985 was the perfect time for that. The European Community was in a big identity crisis, most power was held on national level and there was no sign that that would ever change. Therefore many politicians, who wanted a more integrated Europe, were happy to support this planned European students’ event. The link of the Paris elite universities to business and poli-

tics also helped a lot – it was surely not normal that the organisers could get whole-page adverts in Le Monde for free.And so it began: from 16th to 22nd of April 1985 al-together 400 students discussed the future of Europe during daytime and partied during the nights at the event. The impact was so great that the participants decided to turn this event into an organisation, a net-work with local groups, but with no national level. Starting from Paris, London, Leiden, Milan, Madrid and Munich, the network was spreading with enor-mous speed. It didn’t really matter to them that the event in Paris had made a loss of several ten thou-sand Euro. After all, the French government helped out, the debts were erased.EGEE as the organisation was called until 1988 - the A in front was added when a company with the same name threatened to take EGEE to court for the cop-yright of the name - was the darling of European politicians. Mitterand, Thatcher, Andreotti, Lubbers, they all supported these students with their fresh view on Europe - also financially. At that time much less students’ NGOs competed for money from Brussels, there was for example no Erasmus Students Network (ESN). Many legends were born in these early years – for example about a conference by AEGEE-Berlin, where the organisers could afford to rent ten limou-sines with which they could pick up the guests and

Gunnar Erth

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speakers. AEGEE received enormous funds and spent them with both hands.The biggest myth or legend is however the one that AEGEE saved the Erasmus programme. In 1986, the European Community was thinking about introducing this mobility scheme for students. However, France was still a bit reluctant to commit itself. So when some representatives of AEGEE were invited to a meeting with Mitterand in the Élysée Palace, they brought up that topic and told the president that Erasmus was a great idea. And so he changed his mind, the legend goes. Until today, AEGEE oldies tell fresh members that it was AEGEE that made Erasmus possible. AEGEE tried to stay on the frontline of European de-velopments. So the day after the Berlin Wall fell on 9th of November 1989, AEGEE decided to expand beyond the Iron Curtain. With this decision AEGEE fi-

nally became truly European. The students in Central and Eastern Europe were very eager to join the as-sociation, because it offered them the great chance to leave the mental cage of socialism behind.Creating such a big organisation came at a cost though - personal costs. Twenty five years back, the phone companies had monopolies and charged huge amounts for calls abroad, there were no cheap air-lines and no internet. For many active members it was cheaper to meet in person than to call each other. The European board did not live in a house in Brussels yet, but was spread all over Europe, communicating by faxes. In 1992, seven years after AEGEE was found-ed, less than 30 members had an e-mail address, al-though AEGEE members were always early-adopters of new media.

Today, communicating and travelling might be easy and cheap. However, since everyone has the chance to express himself at the fingertips and we became a globalised virtual society, it would also be much harder to create such a big organisation whose members do not only talk, but also meet physically in conferences and other events every week. And that’s the charm of AEGEE even today – seeing Europe with your own eyes.

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The author is honorary member of AEGEE-Europe and coordinator of AEGEE’s alumni association Les Anciens.

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Two Years

Dragan Atanasovphoto: Alexandre Fonseca

It is now more than two years since I decided to invest few weeks of my summer to contribute for the creation of this youth magazine. Thinking about that makes me wonder about the significant impact that can be done by seemingly meaningless efforts. We started Libertas free of expectations and doubtful about the outcomes of our work; now, two years later, we can conclude that our initiative resulted in a successful youth magazine that was widely accepted from young people around the world. It is a great feeling to realize this, but for me it is also a lesson I learned for life. Libertas helped me understand that big things can be achieved with small efforts by somebody who is enthusiastic enough to invest a bit of time, energy and creativity without asking for anything in return. Somebody just needs to light the sparkle, and sometimes it’s our turn to do it. Unfortunately, many times in life we fail to realize that our sparkle can set fire in the hearts of thousands other people, and we

simply don’t bother starting it. The fact that I never asked for anything from Libertas doesn’t mean that I never got anything. I tend to think that as I contributed for creating a global youth magazine, in the same way that magazine contributed for constructing me as a global citizen. As Libertas was getting new contributors from different countries, I was making new friends around the world. And as we were publishing articles on various topics, I was having a very unique chance to challenge my beliefs and points of view – over and over again. It was Libertas that made me more aware of the differences and similarities that exist among the people in the world; and even more – it made me understand that our world is a small place and we are much more connected to each other than what I used to think before. I hope that Libertas has also influenced you in some way during the last two years, and I hope it will keep doing so in the future as well!

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Fulfilled dreamfor the best master’s

programme

I always envy those people who speak several languages and switch from one to another without a problem. My dear Greek friend Haris Mexas is one of those lucky people. He is a linguist, so one can expect him to be able to speak fluent Greek, English, Spanish, German and French and add some respectable knowledge of Italian, Turkish, Latin and even an-cient Greek. That’s not all – this September Haris is starting to fulfill his dream to be a master student in the Netherlands and catching up with his Dutch language skills!

Anita Kalmanephotos: Haris Mexas

Haris, please, tell us something about you!I was born in Athens 22 years ago, spent the first 17.5 years of my life in this city and then moved to Patra for my studies. I stayed there for four years studying Philology (which basically includes Classi-cal Studies, Byzantine and Modern Greek studies, plus linguistics, which is my specialization), then came back to Athens for one year writing my thesis. Dur-ing my studies I was a member of AEGEE (European Students’ Forum) and this is an experience that has marked my student life to a big extent. Now I am preparing to move to Leiden for my master’s pro-gramme and am extremely happy about it!”

Why did you choose to study in the Netherlands and exactly in Leiden?Between the University of Leiden and me there is, let’s say, a long friendship. When I was about 14 years old, I found out about the field of Indo-

European Studies, which immediately attracted my attention, and Leiden was one of the most notorious places in the world for this specific discipline. I con-sidered going there directly from my Bachelor’s, but decided that I want my first degree to be a more general one, so I stayed in Greece to study Philol-ogy. In the meantime, however, I attended three sum-mer schools in Leiden and it was the only University where I applied for a Master’s. I got accepted for the two year long Research Master’s programme “Structure and Variation in the Languages of the World”.

What attracts you to linguistics? Why do you like lan-guages so much?I think it might even be something innate. In my early childhood I was very much attracted by the idea of learning about other people and their cultures. As language is one of the most significant parts

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8of any culture, I developed a passion for learning languages. After a certain point just learning them was a narrow approach for me. I felt I needed to go deeper and deeper into them, which is exactly what linguistics does. A linguist does not learn how to speak a language correctly (although most of the times it is essential that (s)he knows very well the grammatical rules etc.), but tries to study it in a scientific way on every possible level.

Is there any language you love more than others?I do love them all. Any true scientist has to be as objective as possible. :)

You have won a Dutch scholarship “Huygens” for fi-nancing your studies. Can you tell more about it?The scholarship was given by Nuffic, but it has been discontinued due to the cuts for education in the Netherlands in the next couple of years. According to the website, about 10% of the students who make it to the last stage of the application are granted the scholarship. This year it was given to 170-180 students in total.Getting the scholarship was not the easiest thing to go through, as there is a huge competition from very good students from all over the world applying for it and the positions are limited. There is quite some bureaucracy, in the sense that I first needed to get accepted by the University for the specific Master’s programme, then to be given (again by the Univer-sity) a specific nomination letter stating that they granted me the permission to actually apply for the scholarship, and finally apply. This whole proce-dure was a bit stressful because the deadlines were sharp and I needed to collect many documents for the final application, but the nomination letter was not given to me till shortly before the final deadline,

which did not give me as much time as normally re-quired for contacting professors in Patra for recom-mendation letters and writing my motivation letter without too much hurry.

Would you have applied for the studies in Leiden if you would not have known about the scholarship?This question was also asked in the survey made to the students who received the scholarship. Yes, I would have applied for Leiden anyway, but the existence of the scholarship was a huge plus. It is always better to have some financial support, so if there was no scholarship available I would have considered more seriously applying for another funded position in the USA, for instance. But luckily this was not necessary.

What about your future plans after obtaining your master degree?As I cannot imagine my life without linguistics, I am going to try to find a PhD that will be interesting for me at that time. I think I would like to stay in Leiden, but if there is a good opportunity for going any-where else, such as Germany or the USA, I wouldn’t say no. I would like to continue doing linguistic research within a university or a research institu-tion. I somehow have the feeling that I will never get bored of it.

What is your professional goal if you have one?It depends on the path that I am going to follow, time will show. But the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, to give an example, is a research institution where everybody would dream of working!

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“Pirate Latitudes” by Michael CrichtonJúlia Tessler

To write or do anything related to pirates while the whole “Pirates of the Caribbean” fever is going on is almost a certain death: nothing can beat Cap-tain Jack Sparrow.Anyway, this story also takes place in Port Royal. It is about Captain Charles Hunter, a wise and eccentric privateer hired by the governor of Jamaica, Sir James Almont (a very corrupted man), to lead an expedition to Mantaceros to rob (not officially) a galleon. The whole thing goes with a lot of difficulties that are over passed with a funny crew and the Captain. They go through all kind of stuff, even the Kraken.I believe Michael Crichton watched some of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” mov-ies and didn’t feel as much excited as the rest of the world. Then he decided to write his own pirates tale, in a much better way. We’ll never know the truth because this book was published after found as a manuscript the minute the author died… But I believe this is (even though it hurts to say so, with all my love to the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies) one hell of pirates story. It’s well written and is a page-turner, in general.If you are a fan of pirates, go for it. If you just like science fiction, enjoy Crichton’s “last work” that is pretty different from the other, but done with just as much excellence.

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ONE Young World

I am a Fine Arts and Cultural Projects student at the Los Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia. Co-founder and Director of Global Warning Agency, an organization committed to protecting the environment and the promotion of creative industries in Colombia that works in creativity, education, research and com-munication divisions, as well as with partnerships with other organizations to promote a sustainable and creative development in the country .

Back in 2008 I was chosen as a Global Change-maker by the British Council and became part of this vibrant community of young activists, volunteers and social entrepreneurs aged between 16 and 25 years old from over 100 countries. Since then, I’ve had the chance of sharing my experiences, strength-ening my skills and participating in high level events like the World Economic Forum, the CIVICUS Youth and World Assemblies and the Latin American and Caribbean Youth Summit to advocate for sustainabil-ity, the impelling of the creative industries and youth empowerment in different regions.

I am passionate about the positive change that the creative industries (advertisement, performing arts, fine arts, publishing, radio, music, film, design, fine arts, etc.) can generate and promote in different communities, as well as the social and economic de-velopment they drive at local, national and even re-gional levels. I’ve worked in this area for some years now and believe that by promoting this sort of devel-opment while working towards a sustainable one, we can move the climate change agenda from an intel-lectual understanding to emotional engagement, and by doing that to sustainable habits.

text and photosLaura Zarta

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11People often say that youth are the future of the world, I don’t completely agree. In fact, I love to meet inspiring people (especially youngsters) that with their work and passions take a stand in the pre-sent and do not let years go by in order for them to develop their dreams and projects. That is why I am very excited to take part in One Young World (an amazing event that will take place in Zurich filled with world leading and world changing talks for young leaders featuring the world’s most established personalities that represent change for good) as del-egate from Colombia. I can’t wait to get to know all the other delegates that will definitely challenge my ideas, expand my knowledge and teach me about their cultures and initiatives, plus bring to the table my contributions to the divisions of Environment and Communications.

+ Info:Laura ZartaTwitter: @LZarta

Global Warning AgencyTwitter: @GWA_ongFacebook: /GlobalWarningAgencyinfo.globalwarninga-gency@gmail.com

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Shanghai Art Festival

Shanghai, China14th to 18th os

SeptemberShanghai Art Fair

Shanghai Art Fair aims to

connect foreign and local

artists under one roof.

Over 1000 art galleries,

organisations and agencies

from 30 countries come

together showing original

artworks by world-class

masters, from Rembrandt to

Picasso, at Shanghai Mart.

Shanghai Art Festival

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CiclotónMexico City, Mexico 25th of SeptemberMexico

City Institute of Sport

A whopping number of Mexico City’s residents ditch the car on the last Sunday of every month and peddle through the streets on bikes. The monthly Ciclotón promotes exercise, family fun and a healthier atmosphere in a polluted capital.

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How Libertas changed my life

Libertas is now two years old.Or maybe a bit more: two years ago, in this very day, the first issue of Libertas was published, but history goes some two or three months back. In those months, not only the idea appeared, we also brought together the courage to start this - quite crazy - project. After all, we can resume to tale to two people from different sides of the world who woke up one day and had this feeling that the world needed a place where young people could discuss and be heard, but creating a global magazine is not an easy feat.Anyway, how did it change me? Well, Libertas is a living project. It’s hard to think that two years ago it was pretty much an image of myself, how I envisioned it, and now it has evolved to be something much bigger. Libertas’ evolution has brought quite a personal revolution in my life. I had a lot of contact with people all over the world, but being able to collect ideas and thoughts from them and then stitch them together to make a final product with the aim to make readers more comprehensible and attentive of the world made me realize those small differences are harder to conceive, but still what makes us unique (in a good way). When we started, I had this somewhat naive view that, even though we’re different, we mostly think alike. It was not so easy to deconstruct it, and today I try to think from different perspectives to come up with a genuine idea. It was this constant contact with people from very different backgrounds, who make me challenge myself on a daily basis, that created this big puzzle I call my “own” ideas.In the end, we swapped places: at first I played a big role in Libertas, and now it plays a big role in my life.

Daniel Nunes

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Vanilla Sky

This movie starts like any other: a young wealthy man lives a happy and easy life, enjoying as much as he can: expensive lifestyle somehow is always equal to happiness in these movies. He gets to own his father’s firm after his death and women have never been a problem until he met a wonderful girl introduced by his best friend at a party. They sort of fall in love with each other and the guy’s former girlfriend hears about it and tries to kill him and herself in a car accident. She dies and he survives with his face destroyed by the accident. The whole plot is going in the future, while the guy is talking to a psychiatrist with a silicon mask on his face.Even though the whole thing sounds incredibly boring,

the movie amuses people with existential questions and is frequently rated as a “psychological thriller”. I can’t tell you why, because it will ruin the story, but if the words psychological and thriller combined weren’t enough to convince you to give this movie a chance, do it for its amazing soundtrack that includes Sigur Rós, REM, Radiohead and many others brilliantly combined.This movie is probably one of the most amazing ones I have ever seen (it is actually a remake of a Spanish movie called “Abre Los Ojos” and they both include Penelope Cruz doing the same part) and it touches me deeply every time I watch it or hear about it or discuss its ideas with anyone. Strong stuff, but it can’t go unnoticed.

Júlia Tessler

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Summer Festivals

around Europe

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Events!

dokufest

The Dokufest is an international documentary and short films festival, happening at the end of August, in Prizren, Kosovo.The festival was this year celebrating his 10th year anniversary, and many movies were running for the competition. First, about the location : I have never been to Kosovo. And I came back alive. In the collective imagination in France, and many other country, Kosovo is still in war. Because the only connection

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it makes in the collective memory is those pictures of refugee and tanks, that the media gave us during the war. Since we don’t hear anything else from this country in the international medias, we assume the situation is the same. Well, ok, even during my stay here there were some gunfights on the north border, between Kosovo police and Serbian forces. But for example, as other places in the country, Prizren is a nice and quite city, and I didn’t feel threaten at any moment.This festival has now gained an international recognition, and some famous film directors were here to present their films or for some debates (like the Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalba or the american James Longley). Even Pj Harvey was present with the photographer Seamus Murphy to present short movies they created together. It’s really impressive, considering how difficult it is to organize an event of this size, in a country with a difficult financial and political situation. But on the other hand, because of this situation, it cost a lot less money to organize it than it would cost in a rich country, which make it possible.The movies were played simultaneously in 3 different cinemas, (even and outdoor one) so it’s (unfortunately) impossible to see everything ; many events were also organized around the festival, like concerts and exhibitions, and the public comes from many countries. I strongly recommend this festival, because of the quality of the movies, the good organization, and the nice surrounding.

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I went to many different music festivals in my life, and I also travelled a bit around the Balkans this year. But nothing could have prepared me for that.Guca is, during most of the year, a quite little village in the south of Serbia, with 2000 habitants. But every summer for 51 year, during one week, this charming little place turn into something else : a worldly known trumpet and brass band festival.The first word which comes to me to describe it is “too much”. Too much music, too much alcohol, to much grilled meat, too much people, too much flags ! Let’s agree that the bands which come there are really good quality music, and the folklore is also here. You can here plenty of musicians playing the top classics song of the Balkans (Bregovic, Markovic…) The street and terraces are crowded of people and musicians playing as loud as they can. After 3 days camping there, as most of the people I was with, I could not take it anymore. It’s literally impossible to escape from the music, day or night ! There is few things I didn’t know because no one told me, and you cannot guess : this is also a meeting point for ultra nationalist Serbs. I have never seen so many people waving flags, and with tattoos or their own country flag on the back. It was really a shock, because I am not used to this kind of behavior, especially in a music festival. This crowd is also mixed with youth people from western europe, “young hippies” on Balkan trip. It makes an interesting mix, with people coming for extremely different reasons. At least one common is the music.

GucaCharlie Delhumeau

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In the stadium you can also see for free the concert of the biggest artists like Goran Bregovic or Markovic, who came often here. The ambiance in the campings is also crazy, and the really hot weather and the continuous music, the drunk everywhere proposing you home made rakia (the official balkan alcohol !) In few words in my opinion, Guca is worth being seen (once) with good friends. I can give you some practical advices : bring your ears plug, get rest before you go, put your tent away on the hill, stay not more than 3 days, be prepared for everything (like seeing dozens of dead pigs on the fire), never refuse rakia when offered from suspicious plastic bottle (it will help) and bring a hat or your brain will cook !

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From 19th until 26th of August Malmo was a host to one of the biggest festivals in Sweden. During 8 days the city of Malmo was providing free entertainment to its citizens, but also to thousands other people who came for the festival from all around Europe.

The festival was the place-to-be for music lovers, as music concerts of various genres were taking place simultaneously on 6 stages during the whole day. Highlights included Iron & Wine and CocoRosie from the USA, Amadou & Mariam from Mali, Swedish legendary band Hoola Bandoola and contemporary Swedish attractions such as Veronica Maggio, Billie the Vision and the Dancers, Miss Li and many others. And if you were really picky and didn’t like any of the artists, you could always enjoy live music in a Jazz, Blues, Sixties or Swing Tent, or in one of the many bars around.

Still, Malmo Festival was not only about music. Distributed around the city center one could find hundreds of places offering artistic workshops, exhibitions, movie projections, skate demonstrations, meetings with famous writers and facilities for playing various games and sports. And once one would get hungry, there were many stands to choose from, serving meals from different European, Asian, African and American cuisines.

If all of this sounds attractive, then you should definitely visit the next Malmo Festival, from 17th to 24th of August 2012. Ryanair and Wizzair both fly to the Malmo airport, so cheap flights are available from many places in Europe. Just don’t forget to book flights and hotel well in advance, before the big crowd arrives.

malmo festivalDragan Atanasov

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In an earlier issue of liberteas, the Unity Express story has been told as a plea for a united, tolerant Europe. This time I want everyone to think along and define what Unity means. I realised that it’s hard to get people mobilised for something that seems as far from their beds show. And even though I can find ways to convince you that it’s not , it would be more effective if you came to that conclusion yourself. Personally the various topics in the last few months havebeen chocking me.. the cruelty in Oslo and London,even the deathof Amy Winehouse. Was it all in some way expected? Could we have prevented it?I’d say that there where clear signs that something bad was on the way. We’ve all seen pictures and storyies of Amy ‘walking on the wrong road’.The last elections in Oslo (and the rest of Europe) showed the gaining influence of extreme parties. In London, generations Living in poverty have been socially neglected. Gangs have been approached with instant low quality solutions to deal with the violence, instead of long term prevention. How I link these facts is that there was no communication, no feeling of connectedness with the ‘other side’ or the World for that matter. It seems more like there’s this alienation of the World, the multicultiral society, the authorised rich people… that made them the enemy whitin an unreachable standard.You may be thinking, what the heck does this all have to do with a project like the Unity express?Well it happens to be so that the project will involve a mini-society consisting of the biggest possible diversity. And maybe there will be a confrontation with conservative people, deprived youngsters or someone who lost the feeling of belonging to this world. It is our aim to open their minds and contaminate them with a vision of respect for diversity and our unifying mission.Thus, for me the unity express roles as an eyes-opener, but is that possible?Someone told me that the people you meet behold a reflection of your inner self, that connecting to an other being is actually a search trough your own personality. And so I asked myself is uniting with someone nothing more than coming to terms with that reflection you came up yourself?Can you only like the diversity in others if it was already imprinted in your own values? Can the Unity express reach those who flee from reality to be captured away by addictions, those who look up to Anders Behring Breivik and share his conservative values? Can the Unity express reach the Youngsters that derive from the same path as those who started the riots in Great Britan, who feel neglected by there own society, with a message that we should not drive ourselves to absurdity? I ask you, dear readers, how can we ? How can “Unity” conquer them?What would Unity mean? Would it just mean that everyone can share the same space,that differend cultures, different types of people can simply tolerate the diversity and life next to each other? Would it mean that we listen to one another and learn from the differentstories and perceptions? Is this getting rid of the individulistic creativity and changes them all into ‘think-a-likes’?

 The Unity Express Staff

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Júlia Tessler

Blues Etílicos are, probably, the most popular Brazilian blues band. They have 26 years on the road, with 10 studio albums. My favorite is “Dente de Ouro”. Even though they have a north-American vocalist (which enables them to compose in Portuguese and in English, as you can notice in “Misty Mountain”), their sound has something that reminds me of Brazilian music all the time.In “Dente de Ouro” all this is perfectly clear. The album has 17 tracks that are amazingly beautiful: the album has its own energy with instrumental songs, where one can notice a lot of ability from the musicians, coexisting with powerful and funny songs (as “Can-ceriano Sem Lar”, a song by another great Brazilian musician: Raul Seixas).To find a great Brazilian blues band is not easy. Blues Etílicos showed me there is a lot more in blues than I could ever see (or listen to), including Brazilian sounds. Their arrangements remind me of those cool concerts in bars, where everyone is having a good time drinking beer with the band and just… jamming. Their simplicity combined with their music knowledge results in mind-blowing sound.Funny, danceable, well composed… What more could you ask for a great time? This goes great with friends. If you can under-stand Portuguese, the lyrics in this album will make you laugh. If not, it is simply amazing anyway because it sounds awesome!

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“Dente de Ouro” by Blues Etílicos

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Pigs in Maputoby Iris Yan

Pig cartoons of life in Mozambique

for more, every day:pigsinmaputo.blogspot.com/

Dang. I have a headache.

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Festival do RioRio de Janeiro, Brazil 6th to 18th of SeptemberFestival do Rio

One of the most important audiovisual events in Latin America, the Festival do Rio attracts professionals and film buffs from all over the world. Catch screenings, showcases and seminars at venues across Rio.

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Kings Park FestivalPerth, Australia1st to 30th of September

Perth City Council

The Kings Park Festival in Perth celebrates the start of spring with a packed month-long programme of family events. Visitors can enjoy gardening workshops, guided walks and entertainment, all against a backdrop of blossoming trees and native wildflower displays.

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International Early

Music Festival

St. Petersburg,

Russia

2nd to 25th of

September

International Early

Music Festival

St Petersburg’s

International Early

Music Festival brings gut

strings, harpsichords,

Gregorian Chant and

polyphony to venues

across the city. With

the blossoming of period

practice and authentic

instrument ensembles,

there is never a shortage

of wonderful music to

hear.

International Early Music

Festival

designed by Carolina Santana

Contributors for this issue:Alexandre Fonseca

Anita kalmanedaniel nunes

dragan atanasovGunner Erth

júlia tesslerLaura zarta

The Unity Express Staff

Libertas Team:Daniel NunesVladimíra BrávkováDragan AtanasovKristijan NikodinovskiScott PinksterChristine MooreIvana GalapcevaCarolina Santana

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