Teddy Ramírez Sánchez... por Mar

El artista. El amor por el elquilibrio estético del mundo lo hace explorar formas de expresión en todas las áreas del arte. Ahora recuerdo que fue él quien me introdujo en el mundo de la música protesta... por allá en 1984 me mostró el primer cassette con música de Silvio Rodríguez, y eso a mi, me cambió la vida.
Su presencia es luminosa y tiene un fantástico sentido del humor. Tiene el corazón lleno de amor y se ven en él todas las ganas de ser feliz...
Esa nuestra búsqueda nos ha llevado a compartir momentos maravillosos que nos han hecho mas conscientes, amorosos y dulces. Estamos construyendo espacios que nos afirman nuestra autosostenibilidad... y estamos prontos a recoger nuestra primera cosecha. Sinceramente esperamos el día que la mesa esté servida con los frutos del traSubir amoroso que los Altares no ha permitido accionar.
Teddy siginifica Osito... fue bautizado en honor a un Teodoro.. en diminutivo, que es para mi la razón de su ternura que lo hacía el churro del curso :)Es guapo, guapísimo, inteligente, sarcástico y divertido. Estar en el mismo tiempo y espacio con él es uno de los hermosos regalos que habitar este planeta me ha dado. Gracias... por ser, por ayudarme a ser mejor y seguir en mi camino. Te amo.

Ianku Xue... por Mar

komo registro de nuestro enkuentro eskrivo com la orto.grafia del korasom ke el me enseñó, este ser iieno de luz ke trans.forma kom su pre.sem.sia... lo deskrivo em su star ke siemvra kosmunidad.

Enkomtró em la danza ke lo despertó la fuersa entera para kambiar, para asercarse a la mama, tierra pasha ke mantiene nuestras vidas.

El komfia en la evolusi.om. ...em ke stamos konstuiiendo um nuevo amane.ser -por eso trasube kominika.si.om. ¿sabes kuantas pelíkulas puede kompartir komtigo? ¿saves kuanta in.forma.si.om puede mover en um día ...de esos de 26 oras ke apremdió a vivir?

Se mueve em espasios invisivles com flui.des, es kasi komo un Zalmom ke va kontra la korriente... ... su korriemte es amorosa... lo tiene klaro... lo vive... somos uno i todos somos todo ...OOO... es um sirkulo de luz, kom.migo, kom.tigo... siempre...

i es umano, a ratos la seriedad de su mi.si.om apaga su risa... aiii em los altares... donde emos komvivido... lo e sorprendido son.ri.éndole. a la vida em el latir del tambor.. em la danza i com el espiritu del iiagé... es dulse... su sonrisa me alegra asta el extasis... ...sería lindo verla mas... ke se trans.forme en risa i lo iiene todo...

i tenemos tiempo... el ke vivamos juntos... seguro ser.á meiior ...meiiores palavras. aksiones i risas... nos darám la kompleta livertad... te.a.om...

Yagé, medicina ancestral.

La experiencia de tomar Yagè ha cambiado mi vida. Es uno de esos claros eventos en donde el cambio y la razòn de ser humanos cobra un sentido que te hace cuestionar todo lo que estàs haciendo y el cómo lo haces.
Las verdades que el Yagé te muestra te transforman en un ser más lleno de luz y fuerza para actuar con amor en cada momento de la existencia.
Agradecida estoy... una puerta de sanación para todos que la vida me ha sbierto quisiera compartirla con toda la humanidad.

Mr.Bucanero

Aromas, integrantes del colectivo que disfruta de la compañía de los otros. Generar amor por nosotros, la tierra, el espacio que nos lleva a la luna... trayectorias que efectivamente puede medir la matemática del caos...

Reflexiones del Sagrado Corazón

Vengo encontrandome una y otravez con los símbolos que aún reinterpreto más. El corazón que volví sagrado, el que decidí asumir como colombiana y humana fué el de entender los opuestos. Mi corazón es sagrado porque me ha permitido amar y se refleja en su aura y apostarle al amor que se pronuncia en el sexo le dió la posibilidad de tener una cola. Ese símbolo me ha acompañado por los últimos tres años y ha evolucionado conmigo.
Hoy el nuevo album de Doctor Krápula lleva ese nombre, la correlación más religiosa entre pueblo colombiano y estado nación se refleja en sus canciones que hablan de lo más puro y de los más corrupto, qué reflejan las motivaciones e inquietudes de estos siete hombres bogotanos reproducida en canciones llenas de poderosos sonidos de nuestra tierra.
Es sorprendente que las coincidencias del uso del lenguaje tambien se vean en los espacios que habitamos, la vida me ha llevado más cerca de ellos y simplemente nos encontramos más. Y he aprendido de verlos, comprendiendo que es solo en el aceptar de nuestras diferencias en donde la armonía da paso a una nueva creación.
Estoy feliz. Yuluka para todos.

Back in Bogotá I have discovered that there is nothing better than being in your city. I came back to Colombia expecting something totally different of what have happened to me, but as I always say “everything that happens has a good reason”. So I am here living in La Candelaria, that is the most traditional neighborhood in Bogotá, working for the Santa Fe district in a tourism project and also involving Kankurua.net in all of this.
Is amazing that I am living in a real sacred house, in a Kankurua, enjoying the experience of the community life. Sharing my life with travelers an the owners of the place that have become great friends. I am developing new ideas and activities that support what I have been writing about the last years.
So Kankurua is home and going to help Bogotá to become the most desirable destiny for travelers in América.

We want football everywhere!

Red Kankurua

Kankurua is evolving, we are growing and we know is time to be responsible for ourselves and what we are trying to teach to the world. We as a group have had a lot of trouble this last month. Living in Medellin has change our lives and now is time to move on.

The more I think about it, I know I have to go back to Medellin soon. I am in Bogotá D.C. dealing with the fact that I still direct thesis for students at the University del Rosario, so I have to be present in the presentation of a project at the end of the week, and in the graduate ceremony in Uniciencia the 29th.

The question that is in my head now is… what should I do? How can I do my best in that city? I want to teach Spanish, to help my friends in their business, to invest time in social work, to get involved in the Artistic movement of MED2007, to promote the work of Corporación Otraparte and to have time and money to party… All of that at the same time the projects of the new Corporación Red Kankurua are going on, specially “Our Walking Journey” and the “Guamacho’s ville” in Santa Marta.

God! I want the power of multiply myself….

What I am thinking about.

I just saw a tv note about the children of a school in Bogota that are proposing a law to make people realize that we can live in a country were garbage doesn’t exists. Is funny. Every single thing that is used can be used again or recycled and as we know it we can put the things that we call garbage or trash in the right place, the place were their cycle can continue in the best way.

Is like everything else in our lives. We have to realize that our power of being in the right place at the right time is what can make things flow in the best way. I am in Medellin, with Karla and Mango two more people of the team Kankurua moving ourselves and our ideas around Colombia. The first big project is about going in a route that Fernando Gonzalez our fantastic philosopher did when he wrote “Viaje a Pie”. From Medellin to the Pacific Coast close to Buenaventura the walking journey takes us troug the route of the Antioquenian Colonization, and in eighteen small and medium size towns we are going to make a documentary while we teach to young people how to do video integrating them in a nice video network. This beautiful journey is taking us into a deep trip inside ourselves and we love the idea of making it real, to help this part of Colombia find their connection, and make that the most interesting cultural-tourist destination.

Kankurua... again

Today after thinking a lot of the value of the word Kankurua, we (this limited group of people in Bogotá, Colombia) decided to buy the domains of Kankurua.com, and Kankurua.org in the net… and can you imagine our surprise when we found out that those domains were taken??? I am shocked… I want to know who are the people that have that, I want to know if they know the meaning of that powerful word, I want to know if that idea of “fundamental political works” want to use that word to make consciousness of how us as human beings get involved in the political affairs. Are they working for the empowerment of the people of the world, do they know that we have to find our own strength inside? Do they understand the occidental word holistic?
I ask now, to the Universe flow, to the memory of the Kogui people, to the infinity wisdom if somebody can answer my questions soon… I just want to know.

MaR

Registro el Logo de Kankurua

This is the Kankurua.net logo.( www.kankurua.net )Based in an holistic view of our own América, we pretend to activate all the verbs that asociated to an specific color are related to the cience of the actions we can make.
The multicolored and sprial idea almost present a rainbow of evolution in the concep interconexión para el conocimiento. Acción, ciencia, color, momento en el evento, todos en conciencia de construcción colectiva.
Aqui estamos, esto es Kankurua.net

am I a supergirl??

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the new pic..

Mar in the NYC style... running, smoking and freezing in winter :)

YULUKA

The meaning of that magical word I am always talking about... in spanish as I found it in a blog named yuluka too, I'll translate it soon.. I promise! :)
YULUKA

Estar de acuerdo en todos los planos.
Estar en equilibrio y armonía con la madre naturaleza.
Permanecer con el espíritu sano.
Respirar sabor a tierra, a agua, a aire.
Abrazar el fuego y el humo.

Yuluka es hacerle la ofrenda a la madre tierra
y al universo en general.

Es cantarle a los ancestros que descansan en las piedras
y es dialogar con el alma de las plantas.

Es interpretar al amigo rayo, al viejo temblor,
la anciana brisa y al poderoso huracán.

Es tener ordenado el pensamiento
y el territorio sagrado de nuestras energías

Yuluka simplemente es vivir como hermanos
con todos los seres del planeta.

Es tan sólo ser una gran kankurua con la puerta abierta
donde quepan en paz todos los seres de la tierra.

Kaso Kaku Busintana


YULUKA

About Kankurua, and what we are doing.

The question I always receive of people that are not close to latinamerican culture and our way of being is: Why do you decide to manage a native word as Kankurua to describe your work? And as I am trying to explain it I give them my own words, the words I use in my song Amarnos mas, “through art we make freedom”… As soon as natives and our traditional values get involved in the processes of making peace we have a real chance of transform everything and make this world a better place to live. And now is the moment of being conscious of being in peace in our inner selves, of the rhythm of our hearts and the possibility of stop the fire. This idea of brotherhood, of consider ourselves as humans first of all, has motivated a lot of people of joining the same cause. A lot of artists in Latin America are saying the same thing in different ways. Here is the song of Dr. Krapula a very clever group of Colombian musicians that have been working in a project called Sekiwia that put together the things that worries us and how could we together can change it. This is a translation I made for it. I love this song.

Uy que vaina,/ Oh what the hell

están matando el planeta/ they are killing the planet

tomando países/ taking the countries

desangran la tierra/ bleeding the earth

es un maleante desalmado / is a heartless bandit

destruir es su obsesión/ to destroy is his obsession

pues su alma consumida esta/ but his soul is consumed

por el dinero y el poder que este le da/ ‘cause the Money and the power they receive

con el apoyo de sus aliados/ with the support of their allies

rompen la tierra sin compasión/ they break the earth without compassion

para sacarle de sus venas sangre negra/ to take out black blood

y con ella tanquear maquinas de guerra/ and with that full war machines

la esperanza cojeando esta/ the hope is limping

de ti depende que se pare una vez más/ it depends on you to stand up once again

en este mundo donde el hombre olvido/ in this World where men forgot

que somos hijos de la tierra y del sol/ that we are sons of the Earth and the Sun

uniendo fuerzas es la única salida/ putting together our force, is the only way l

atinoamérica contra la destrucción/ Latin America against destruction

la voz en alto fuera de nuestras vidas/ Voice ahead upon our lives

si esto no para vamo’ hacer un reventón/ if this doesn’t stop we’re going to do a rebellion

la voz en alto de américa latina/ the loudest voice of America Latina

este pueblo unido es parado y decidido/ Our people stand and are decided

con la mano arriba y gritando con fuerza/ with the hand up and shouting strong

puede lograr que el mundo no desaparezca/ can make the World doesn’t disappear

y no olvidemos latinoamericanos/ and we Latin-Americans don’t forget

que no existen banderas, todos somos hermanos/ it doesn’t exist flags, we are all brothers

pa’ delante sudaca/ looking forward sudakas

hagamos la lucha/ fight together

hagámosla en masa/ let’s fight massive

hagamos la lucha/ let’s do the fight

adelante mi raza/ go ahead my race

repitiendo la historia de su pueblo/ repeating the history of their people

a las buenas y a las malas invadiendo/ in every way invading

deseando esclavizar la humanidad/ wishing a humanity of slaves

para sumirla en su sistema de maldad/ to fall it in it’s evil system

si no paramos juntos esta vaina/ if we don’t stop this together

con desangrar la tierra no le bastara/ bleeding the Earth is not going to be enough

comerciara con el alma de nuestra mamá/ they’ll deal with the soul of our mother

agua bendita yo no quiero estar acá/ bless water, I don’t want to be here

www.drkrapula.net

How are we going??

Good.!! Still in London and a new project become real. But first things first. The documentary has been a wonderful work to do. I have been writing a lot about things that move the first idea in a such a different way. We are now working in the edition script. All the images are done and we are moving in the next step.

Hard thing has been the fact that my favorite editors are in Colombia and send tapes is really a “video” jaja… (in the Colombian way to say that), so I think maybe here I can get a little help from my friends… We’ll check that out.

So, the new idea is kind of different thing, because is like: seeing this city in a new way, trough the images I have made of the city, that shows the London I have lived in for the last three months. It is a wonderful blue skies’ city with a great weather! Sounds strange but is real. And I am going to show it.

About friends and more friends...

This is it... London is the perfect place to make friends. The people are so interesting that you have always something more to ask or to answer. This weekend was absolutely great because I had the opportunity of being in some deep and smart conversations.

David is brilliant, like Scottish people are, as I can see and by the way is a great dancer. Anna told me that, but is more of what I have thought. I am so happy of being his friend and a friend of his girlfriend Grace too. Amazing couple, the kind you can easily find in this city. We were singing and playing the guitar.. that was fun!

On Saturday I met Mauricio. At least, after 2 months of being in the same city we found the time and the place to meet. Was a great time, I really missed him. And he introduces me another great, wonderful guy: Claudio, from Chile. We had the best dialogues I have ever had with a new friend, more than that… is like holistic connection, sure now, he is in my heart.

And this weekend to just close the Sunday I met Alan, my Japanese teacher that is trying to make me understand the Japanese culture while I am teaching him Spanish and explaining our way of seeing the world.

So I am really grateful for the persons I have found around. Things like this are the kind of stuff that makes me think sometimes that I can live here for a while… maybe I’ll come back.

The idea of writing

Writing this blog is like having clear what ideas are around the Kankurua's project. These days we are working a lot because there are more than one big ideas coming true.

First the web site, after we opened it things have been changing a lot, so it is clear that if you want to exist you have to have one internet site, and it should be new every day if it is possible. The connection with others and the possibility of share information using RSS, and get all the other personal works, blogs and whatever in it, is great.

The second thing is that documentaries are in the menu of the day all day. We are working, here in Europe but at the same time in Colombia in the production of at least one short film and one big documentary.

The third is about the connections we want to have all around the world and the idea of promote our American Culture and Traditions all over the world.

I know, I have to write more in this blog and from know on I have decided that is my task to write twice a week to make this Kankurua’s news blog a thing that matters. Thanks to all.

Bloggers Day!!!

Hey!!! Nice day for everybody... Is amazing that exist a blogday, but I am happy to be part of it.

Ok, here are my 5 recomendations for the day:


1. The first is a blog in the colombian most important newspaper website. The writer is funny and uses spanish in a lovely way. If you can read in spanish go. http://www.eltiempo.com/participacion/blogs/ and search fot El BLOGOTAZO.

2. My second recommendation is ahttp://r3ve.free.fr just great to find all that information in that place... chack it.

3. http://memetherapy.net for those who like all about sci-fi and weird things. They are amazing. Good blog.

4. http://www.3dm3.com/competition/cggirls/ don't know if you can say it is a blogg, but in this page you can find one of the most interesting contest for women... unreal ones jijiji.

and the last one is http://www.ecofriend.org/... you know for all of us the ambientalists!!

Ok that's what I can say today... of course if you know me you have been in www.myspace.com/marykankurua and in http://360.yahoo.com/marsuliss is me posting about I like the most, life, arts, Colombia, thoughts and environment. Be cool....

If you want to add to the bloggers day, just choose 5 interesting blogs and share it. Also includes the links for Technorati: technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2006 and www.blogday.org

HAPPY DAY FOR ALL OF US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How is going the project...

This time I have to say that I have been interacting with a lot of different people just to find the right persons that would like to answer to my questions in front of the camera, but most of all, that kind of people that you can not easily find in a city like my lovely Bogota D.C.

So, at this point I have interviewed a nice guy form Malaysia who’s name is Jay (it is really Wijaya but nobody here can say it ) and has been here for 4 years studying first and then working like a chef. He’s life is very interesting and is great in front of the camera. The second person is also a guy, from Iran, he’s really nice and has been here only for a year. He is from Teheran and has a lot of clever things to say. Soil (I don’t know how to write his real name in Iranian) is living here with his brother, fact that makes everything easier for him. And the third guy (again a guy … I have to find some women) is Patrice from France; 10 years working in five stars Hotels as a Concierge… very interesting…

Unlucky me, Ryu a half Japanese half German guy that works as a journalist photographer and has moved a lot couldn’t make it. Still have my agenda full of appointments for this week and the next. I think I’m collecting great material… you’ll see.