The fog
that was present in this village since it was funded,
slowly faded upon the marvelous arrival of Exúe Celesvana,
a young inhabitant of the kingdom of wonders.
Villamanga was always a sad country
until Exúe appeared.
Nobody knows how she arrived
redeeming it little by little from the fog.
Villamanga is now a free nation
which escaped the constricting orbit of Kannibalia
a giant and voracious organization.
What a magnificent revolution.
Dear Listeners,
as we continue with our special, cultural program,
with us today is a very special person..
an idealist, a fighter for life and people.
This is the composer León Octavio
who wants to express aspects of his artistic life..
and mainly his music group, ‘Campo y Sabor‘.
León Octavio..
tell us about Campo y Sabor and why you write songs about food.
Well, the idea of Campo y Sabor (Country and Flavor)
is to sing about foods that are part of the food security.
Campo y Sabor consists of organic farmers…
and the songs are meant to be educational with the lyrics focusing on botany.
For example, you can hear the scientific name of a plant or its product,
its origin, its uses..
because food is the foundation of life.
I feel that farmers and the average folk also have the right to know this..
because this knowledge is kept within the domain of botanist, agronomist..
or academic people.
If I had to choose,
I’d hear ‘The Garden Has The Beat' because..
we don’t only want to sing Colombian rhythms, but Latin American ones as well.
So let’s listen to ‘The Garden Has The Beat' by León Octavio
I have a vegetable garden, there in my home where I grow my food.
It brings me cabbage, beans, lettuce and very tasty beets.
I never use chemicals that poison the soil..
the rivers and brooks and also the streams.
The leafy greens from my little garden are grown without aggression.
They are healthy and natural. My garden is full of flavor..
like the Son-beat
The garden has the Son-beat
The Son-beat has flavor
The garden has the Son-beat
Professor Lires, how are you?
They’ve confirmed our concert at the Riosucio Carnival.
It´s one of the most important carnivals in Colombia.
The Carnival of the Devil.
But they don’t know that we are devils as well.
The devils of Campo y Sabor.
Our first record was dedicated to vegetables,
Here, we started to work with the slogan:
All flavors come from the countryside.
Then we recorded this one about fruits..
with the support of the foundation CIPAV and El Bando Creativo.
Then, for the ‘Referendum for Water', Ecofondo organized an event..
and we contributed with the song ‘Water is for everybody'
that was launched in this compilation.
Very famous Colombian bands appeared here as well.
And the latest one is ‘My Rural Cali'.
A song I composed for the ‘Community council'
and this is the result, ‘My Rural Cali'.
I got the idea for Campo y Sabor..
when I discovered some farmers that were musicians.
So I found it very meaningful..
that there were farmers producing food,
and at the same time, they were musicians.
So here we have both flavors,
the flavor of music and the flavor of food.
I’m making the covers for the CD ‘My Rural Cali'.
A song about rural Cali has never been done before.
There are many songs about Cali, but they never talk about the countryside.
This is the first time.
Since farmers are the roots of their countries..
they work, but they are not seen.
That´s the idea..
to make the farmers’ work visible.
Handmade CDs.
The project of Campo y Sabor is broader than just music,
It’s education about the environment as well,
it’s about the seeds and the water..
these are fundamental topics of Campo y Sabor.
This is why we participate in all of these events with farmers..
to be part of the resistance,
to defend our seeds, our food.
We are working on the fundamental issues of life,
and that is politics.
Since rehearsal I’ve been telling him, write it down!
But he said, no, I have it..
I have it but I have forgotten it!
I have it.
We have to have a talk because this is getting nuts.
without practicing, without rehearsals..
But it works. -No, it won´t work.
We’re going to mess it up.
No..!
Today is a holiday and we’re happily celebrating..
this great struggle and sacrifice we made..
for the protection and conservation of our river bed,
of our environmental heritage, the river ‘Melendez'.
We need to protect our woods, our water sources,..
the ‘Guacharaca' bird that enhances our mornings,..
in our valleys, in our rural areas.
We also want to tell the administration, the council of ‘Santiago Cali',
that the lowlands and wetlands are also protected areas.
We must protect the basin of the Melendez River
Because water which is life is going to disappear
To protect this river is the mission of all citizens,
Everybody has to be aware of the countryside and the city
We have to protect it.
It’s Urgent!
The river bed.
Because the river Melendez could be dead.
We have to protectit.
It’s Urgent!
The river bed.
Because the river Melendez could be dead.
We have to protect it.
it’s Urgent!
The river bed.
Because the river Melendez could be dead.
We are working towards food safety,
with products that are not genetically modified.
We are transforming food products that have been forgotten.
Traditionally they were used but they were forgotten,
we are bringing them back from tradition,
following the footsteps of our grandparents.
And we call out to the universe..
to renew this culture, because it can´t end.
Let’s not be swept away by things that are destroying us.
Let’s build projects for life that are at hand.
We are generating our own health, our own life..
and we reach out to bring people together..
to reach a reality of life, a secure life and food safety.
The acorn of the banana…
we make meat of these things down here.
This is the meat.
This is where all nutrients of the soil end up.
The banana is also full of vitamins but here is all the strength,
this has more protein than meat.
There’s no money for meat,
so we must go back to tradition.
There are many nutrients in this acorn,
we eat it with great results.
Since I began eating this, my belly got bigger.
We are preparing ‘acorn meat' or ‘acorn meatballs',
which is a vegetarian meat.
So we are eating meat without killing the cow.
We are also cooking pumpkin pudding,
and ‘Borre Buñuelos',
which is a very big plant, an Araceae.
We grow them here on the farm..
to demonstrate the bounty we have on the countryside.
It is sad to see the decline of many families..
who do have land, but don´t farm.
We want to encourage them,
to give more flavor,
to give more flavor to the product and also to the music.
I now sing to the watermelon, a sweet song like her.
An exaggerated and beautiful fruit that knows how to quench thirst.
For good reason it grows in warm lands. Wise men call it 'Citrulus Edulis'
It´s red and fresh like the tender lips of a young girl
The watermelon is a luscious fruit
The oasis of my country
Who eats it enjoys the purest water
Because she is born from the earth.
The watermelon is a luscious fruit
The oasis of my land
Who eats it enjoys the purest water
Because she is born from the earth.
Hello, the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla
have stationed bases to clear the war zone from its mines.
This is the main agreement of round 33 of the peace talks in Havana.
After so many years of armed confrontation,
Colombia wants to turn the page on this conflict,
which has left over 220.000 dead and 5.500.000 displaced people.
This will be the first time the government and rebels work together.
So, I’ll put the presentation letter for the journalists..
and the text for the songs,
in these boxes.
There are some cultural radio stations that do play the CDs.
For example, the ‘Valle University'.
And we will continue..
to explore the field of commercial radio stations.
These are the ones for today.
When Cali is mentioned, one only thinks of the city.
With its mounds of concrete built on the flat side.
Which is the capital of Salsa, of yucca-bread and sports.
Intersected by avenues that run from South to North.
But Cali goes beyond its party reputation
It is work, science, research, this I can assure you.
We are in the morning show in 'Radio Calima',
Our guest is León Octavio,
who is a thinker, a poet, a philosopher and a composer.
who has shown us what can be done musically in rural Cali.
'Mi Cali Rural' -'Mi Cali Rural', premiere!
There is another Cali that few people know and it’s gigantic
It is the rural Cali with a cleaner and fresher environment.
There are fifteen municipalities that form this great Cali..
It´s a tour through the rural Cali,
and it’s indeed a tribute.
There is not only the urban Cali,
we can’t ignore the beautiful rural Cali.
Yes, that’s where our water comes from..
And where comes the wind from?
The famous 'Breeze of Cali' also comes from the countryside.
From the countryside, exactly!
The idea is for people to get to know the amount of natural wonders..
that exist in the rural areas. So they travel through them.
And this song was born from the 'Natural Reserve of Villamaga'..
where you have your epicenter? -Certainly, yes.
Let´s keep listening.
This is my Cali, this is my Cali,
My rural Cali
Let´s go to Villamaga!
My Rural Cali, a song by León Octavio,
a man who with his ecological refuge, the ‘Natural Reserve Villamaga’,
makes us think about the important things of our beloved Cali.
Here we are in 'Villamaga'..
a project where we started the idea of a 'water-farm',
and where we are defending the water of the city of Cali.
We are defending and protecting the water of the river Melendez.
The finca is placed in the 'Natural Park Farallones'.
Initially, it was a coffe farm, it has around 29 hectares.
The finca has 5 cascades,..
And it´s pure water,...
which is clean.
We have developed an ecotouristic project here,
tourists come to enjoy nature.
Also, students come to work on their thesis..
and to do research on the flora and fauna.
But we also do creativity workshops here.
We give a workshop that is called 'Lecturaleza',
this is a free reading about nature.
It is a comparison between the vegetable society and human society.
Because we have not understood…
the lessons Mother Nature has given us,
of the harmony she has, harmony that is based on differences.
Human beings have not understood that differences are important for a peaceful coexistence.
Here in Villamaga we have developed the 'Diversethics',
which means the acceptance of diversity and differences.
The two people that live here, take care of the house.
I still don’t live here, because..
I have a commitment with my parents who are very old,..
I am taking care of them.
But my dream is to live here.
Fortunately, I live in an area in Cali which is like a village.
That’s why the city does not disturb me so much,
because 'San Antonio' is like a village.
And I am a rural man.
My mum is 92 years old and my dad is 90..
so I have the moral duty of being by their side.
In the world I am living in, having a family, wife and kids…
wouldn´t allow me this freedom of moving around.
To have children in Colombia nowadays is a heavy load..
and it demands a lot of money, and I’ve never been close to money.
So I decided not to have children and dedicate myself to this..
but sure, I´ve been falling in love.
It has been women who gave me the spiritual energy to write what I write,
The book, 'Bando de Villamaga', is the product of a love..
What can I call it.. well, a crazy love!
Round 35 of the peace talks..
between the government and the FARC
centers itself on the reparation of the victims.
A subcommittee of the military and rebels..
will design the steps to reach the end of the 50 year conflict.
The situation in Colombia is very complex.
The rights of over 7.000.000 affected people will be analized,
above all, how to avoid the repetition of these violations.
There must be truth and justice!
At 12:00 somebody is coming, whom I met yesterday.
It was a great surpise that he knew 'Balita'.
And he also knew texts of Balita from memory.
I couldn’t do this.
This little bullet, Balita, I´ve got it here.
This is the bullet I found in the street,
and it is still virgin, look!
It has chosen me, to tell the story of a bullet..
that never wanted to kill.
This meeting showed me that Balita really did raise awareness,
and after many years Balita is still present in the mind of many people.
Balita dreams about a harmonious society.
Where human beings can live together.
It talks about peace and about creating consciousness.
I think, this is the highest goal a society can achieve..
that conflicts get solved by other means than weapons.
That´s the kind of society that Balita is dreaming of, and therefore it works.
Leon Octavio! How are you?
I´m fine, and you?
It´s a pleasure to see you. - Oh, great!
So, how are you, man?
Is this the one? -Yes, that´s the one I had.
And this one? -Yes, this one as well.
Did you know this book? -Yes, I also had this one, I forgot.
This one was the first book. -Yes, oh yes..
Yes, it´s the one.. -This was the first book.
This book, was edited by 'Cinep' from Bogotá.
Here I took a collection of vignettes that were published in 'El Pais'.
Violence is a powerful multinational.
Let´s support the microbusiness of national concord
Balita said: "I am a successful bullet..
because my aim was to not kill and I managed to do it."
So, how did you know the book?
It was a present.
My brother gave it to me the day I got out of the army.
He was killed two years later, the violence in Colombia.
And then I found the 'Book of Villamaga'.
Surprise, what a beautiful thing.
I thought it´s impossible, that someone thinks like me,..
someone writes down in words, graphics and photos,..
what I´m feeling and thinking.
This is the second 'Book of Villamaga', I don’t think you know it.
It was published in 1994, 10 years after the first edition.
So, I will give you a present,..
and I hope you´ll appreciate it.
I will appreciate any present.
You don´t have the first book?
Well, it must be somewhere.
I want to give him the first book as a present..
Where is the first book, the black one?
Do you have one? -Ahh, yes, I´ve got one.
I don’t have it.
Ahh, here is the first book.
I want to show you…
This one, this one…look, look!! -We´ve got it now…
Do you know this photo?
What´s that? -It’s a crucified dove.
This is really beautiful.
I had this photo on my wall for many years.
I photocopied it and put it up.
Because it showed me what pain is.
Because of this photo I started searching for the book,
because I only borrowed it.
The triumphal arrival of Exúe Celesvana en Villamaga.
How did he make the cross to hang the bird?
With a broomstick he made the cross,
he took the canary that died at my daughter in law’s..
And he told me: don´t throw it away, and he put in the freezer.
To keep it till he had time, because he was working then..
One Saturday, he got the bird and fixed it with pins.
And there you have the legend, what does it say?
- "From Kanibbalia". Ah, yes!
-I wanted to protest against the imprisoned birds.
Listen.. He didn´t like it..
I told her: set these birds free and she said "No!", until it died..
Bring me the book, I will explain it to you.
No mama, relax.
There is the American girl,…
I am also there, with my grandchild,.. Sandra.
Look here, look here…
In all my projects, my Mom has been my biggest accomplice,
she has a special charm,
many of my friends visit my home just to visit her.
She always helped me, even if she doesn´t understand a whole lot,..
but she has to support her crazy son,
what else can she do?
She is also crazy,..
that´s why I am also crazy, I am a chip of the old block.
Your photos,…where are you? -Watch here! -That´s you?
Sure.. now I am over 80 and here 50,..
This is her..
And this is my grand-daughter, his niece.
This is another montage,…
he made photos in Brasil, Chile, Nicaragua,…
he was travelling everywhere…
and everything is hand made.
He has being very crazy, since he was a child,..
And he was a very bad student, he got the worst grades.
I had to be very resistant, I suffered a lot with him.
Oh yes, yes.
You were born here? - No, I was born up in the village.
My brother was born here.
- Ah, yes..
- This is where the house was and here mangos grew.
And a coco-palm as well,…
but the house was over there.
Here was.. there were three areas.
The house where we used to sleep was there, in the back.
Here there was a kind of diner and the kitchen was here.
There was no road, we didn´t know cars..
all this has changed, the landscape changed a lot.
Here in this finca I have the deepest memories of my childhood,
there was the path to the River Cauca where we went night fishing.
I remember with nostalgia the night fishing in the River Cauca,
especially with a full moon.
We threw the net into the river and hauled it back full of fish,..
big enough to be eaten by the family.
So this way, we had a very good and healthy diet..
because at that time there were no chemicals.
Everything was natural.
I imagine, today there are no fish anymore.
On Sundays we used to go to the village,
my mother used to stay at home,
we went out over there, where the palm is,
this was the path to go to the village,
to spent Sundays there.
Sunday was always a special day in the village.
We are in San Francisco de Anzá,
I lived here until I was 10 years old, when they brought me to Medellin..
to continue school, because here they only taught until the second-grade.
I came back in 1995 to work on a communal job,
I stayed 4 years until 1999..
and I found a village run by politics.
we founded the corporation 'New Province',
a corporation for the rural development.
We realized many things,
without the support of the municipality,
because they saw us as a threat.
this generated many doubts in our work,
plus the violence that was present in the village these days.
How is it going 'Papeo'? - Good,.. good..
Whats new? - All good..
Still solid? - Yes
And the liquor? - Ave Maria.
You are not short of it. - Well, yesterday I drank it…
He was one of my accomplices, when I used to live here.
We will be around today, let´s meet. - You don´t work today, right?
And let’shave a drink! - Oh,.. yes..
See you later. - Yes, sure.
How everything has changed..
I didn´t know this, here.
Look..
Oh, my house, completely destroyed.. - Well, you will see it now.
I learned to crawl here, and now?
Oh man, no, no, no..
When I came to live here in 1995,
we created a corporation for rural development..
And it was based in this house, and I lived here.
We gave workshops, we made silk screen prints.
Miguel came to give literature workshops for kids,
This was the epicenter for everything, we had computers here.
Here, we had the rural editorial center.
Look at this…
How are you?
One project was to start the cultivation of peanuts,
we brought seeds and it worked really well.
But they let it die, and they just ate the seeds.
But it worked, right Papeo? We tried them and..
we saw that the soil and the climate was good for growing peanuts.
Look! - Oh no, man…
How can you let it fall apart like this, uncle?
Nooo, man...
No...
Man…And what do you feel in here, uncle?
What do you feel, after knowing this house as it was?
Well, you have to…
My father grew up in here, as well.
Let´s go Carlito, because we miss…,
No, no,.. this was really the worst, man.
The situation here became complicated, because of the violence,
there was an awful climate of violence.
There was a massacre..
how many bodies did they bring that day?
Around 11 dead bodies, were brought here.
Then Anza became famous, all the media came: the tv channels, papers,..
they also killed the mayor, right here, in his house.
This conditions were unsustainable, and as Balita used to say:
to run away is also a human right, so I ran away, as well.
The tension of the agro-movement in Colombia went through crucial hours.
The farmers and the government have started dialogue again.
In 1980´s the agro sector was over 15% of the Colombian economy.
Today it is under 9%.
The illusion of an economy based on natural resources, coal and petroleum,…
all the mining has left an unprotected agro sector.
The problem is I feel that we have not had a state run agro policy.
Hello..
Adolfo, listen..
we are organizing a Minga in Villamaga, on January 20.
We want to plant trees in memory of the friends that are gone.
Oscar Vargas is gone, Diego Estrada, Alvaro Burgos, well, the list is long.
So, we need your advice brother.
Ah, great,.. Yes sure..
Oh, Jesus.
And where do you have the trees?
I could come now, right?
I am in San Antonio, yes sure, I´ll come by car..
Maybe I better come another day, once you are there.
So, I will visit you on Monday, great my friend, ciao.
Interesting details..
Here comes the flavor Of the countryside celebration
Typical of our folklore and of Latin America.
Because we are farmers, Food producers,
How beautiful is our destiny, Protectors of life,
Brother, we are from the countryside, A reason for pride and honor,
With its music and its songs, Here is Campo y Sabor
Brother, we are from the countryside, A reason for pride and honor.
With its music and its songs, Here is Campo y Sabor,
Here is Campo y Sabor.
Ohh, what joy!
You sing to the vegetables and we do agricultural Hip Hop.
This is the Botero Square,
And we are in the program 'Live the Square', which we organize once a month.
This program intends to activate through art,
the social cohesion within the city.
Campo y Sabor arrived today..
through a bond with the musician 'Aka' and his band 'Seeds of the future',
and their tie between Hip Hop and agro-ecology.
They present Campo y Sabor as their fundamental national reference,
to participate in a group event.
The band Campo y Sabor comes from Cali to be with us today,
to sing about food..
and to remind us that our daily life depends on the earth.
Welcome, an applause for Campo y Sabor.
Long live Colombia!
Well, we are going to sing to a very special dish,
the basis of our Antioquian diet:
"The Beans"
Tell me, who does not like the beans?
Because all the flavors come… from the countryside.
There isn´t a more complete dish than a plate of beans,
With pork belly, green plantain and the well-known cabbage,
They are rich in proteins and other nutrients,
They completely replace the desired meat,
They are Phabaceus Vulgari like the Doctors say,
Because they produce gases, smelly and thunderous.
I want a plate of beans, how great, how excellent.
I eat them very happily even if they give me a string of farts.
I want a plate of beans, how great, how excellent.
I eat them very happy even if they give me a string of farts.
Native from Central America, they took the whole planet
Beans are part of a healthy diet.
Green bean, Common Bean, Chickpea, Redbeans,
Liborino, Sangre de Toro, they have plenty of names.
The beans are food, they support democracy,
For the poor, for the rich, they are good for all.
I want a plate of beans, how great, how excellent.
I eat them very happily even if they give me a string of farts.
I want a plate of beans, how great, how excellent.
I eat them very happily even if they give me a string of farts.
The group Campo y Sabor, that sings to life and to food..
Campo y Sabor is a way of life,
I would say, a resistance.
a pacific resistance in order to become..
sustainable in nature,..
so, I share the politics of Campo y Sabor,
spreading the word…
that the greatest wealth, we do have is food and water.
This is my father’s old farm,
there’s coffee, plantains, sweet bananas
and fruit trees like avocado or soursop..
in the lower part.
And in the higher part, a field we bought 6 months ago,..
we plowed this one to plant..
yucca and also beans.
This is a very bare land..
we want to farm it..
we want to plant fruit trees..
to have it like it was before.
Almost like a forest.
All the trees were cut for mining.
Here we are..
Felipe!!
It is easier and faster to farm with chemicals,..
But it´s harmful, so we decided to farm organically.
This yucca takes one year.
When you sow yucca you also sow beans or corn.
As they have shorter cycles..
you can harvest something while waiting for the yucca.
Here we better work in the mornings, because with this sun now..
The majority of the people were farmers and miners, they worked in a traditional way..
they spent 3 days in the field and two days mining,..
or viceversa.
It is not like this anymore.
The majority are miners now, so they don’t farm.
Everything we cultivate is already sold, mostly to the community.
You can see,
mining is wiping everything out.
It’s all becoming more deforested.
The water sources are drying out..
but the people’s income comes from that.
On Mondays and Tuesdays we go to the SENA workshops.
it’s about the preparation of organic fertilizer, with local youths..
This idea just came up because the youths don’t want to touch the soil,..
don’t want to be in the countryside.
There are things we can farm that we have to buy in the city..
Very contradictory, so...
we started this experience with the SENA, to empower ourselves.
I am already a qualified worker for agricultural diversity.
You are late…you are late,…
They are SENA students.
Whom we were working on the program with.
They are late.
In this small lot we want to do an integrate farm.
We are exchanging our knowledge,..
we are trying to come back to the traditional way of farming.
These are the basics where we learn to make the fertilizer.
And here is the seedbed for the worm-compost.
Yes these ones, they are red, they are called Californian red worms.
This is the seedbed, from here..
everyone takes a portion of worms to multiply in their fields,..
because we each have our own productive unit.
The most important thing is to invite youths to work in the field..
to be part of this wonderful process that is agriculture.
because in this zone everything is mining.
Let´s talk about the coffee boom, very important to our country.
Colombia and Brazil, have been the biggest coffee exporters..
and now we are importing coffee from Vietnam!
They always spoke about the agricultural reform in Colombia,
it´s always been a promise during elections.
There is no strategy for food safety for the country.
The current model, the worldwide agricultural industry..
depends on 6 or 7 big transnational corporations, which not only determine the price,..
they took one more step and monopolized the seeds.
For example, Philip Morris controls the corn seed
The farmer doesn’t get the seeds as a result of its own natural process,..
by selecting the best seeds for the next year.
Now they impose on him to buy these seeds.
The farmers want Colombia to say “No” to the Free Trade Agreement?
This is a strategic subject, which won´t permit Colombia to overcome it´s problems.
It´s a requirement of the USA to sign the Free Trade Agreement TLC,
It´s not a law yet, it is a government decree..
the decree 9.70,..
The farmers can’t continue sowing their traditional seeds,..
they have to buy them from the companies that certified them.
This is one of the government’s absurdities..
To demand that the farmers buy the seeds,..
instead of sowing what they have always sowed.
They are protecting a heritage belonging to mandkind..
because nobody in particular owns the seeds.
So the they are criminals,..
the transnational companies that are stealing a resource from humanity.
I am a farmer, A food producer, Sowing the seeds that my father left me.
Now they tell me, If I continue sowing, in jail I will end
My seeds are not certified, Therefore I can’t sow them
Because a decree prohibits it, An absurd thing that I can’t accept.
I have to buy seeds from Monsanto, Syngenta or Dupont,
These companies with patents, that steal resources without restrictions.
I tell the story of the TLC
The governments that sign with temerity
Without realizing that these agreements rob the country´s dignity.
They tell us the tale of globalization but we are not prepared for that competition.
I will continue sowing my seeds without fear And If I go to jail it´s because I have honor.
Well, that´s it, I don´t have a title yet.
Go, down and help me to lift the trunk..
Yes, go on, go on,…
When the rope comes here, then I do the same..
Attention back there..
Nothing.
Here we make a curve..
then we try to take it away..
Let´s see..
I think here,..
Since I was very young,..
León invited me to take part in his creativity workshops.
So I was like an assistant for him.
I learned how to do the workshops and started to have my own.
And it gave me the opportunity to learn more about Villamaga.
And I applied it to my pedagogic experience in reading and writing.
My foundation is called “Write Don´t Bite”..
and all this is part of the Villamaga process.
When Columbus went on board,..
he was looking for a new world.
In Villamaga we also search a new world which is inside each of us..
so we create an allegory of Columbus’ voyage.
The symbol of Villamaga is a ship..
and with this ship we start to discover the new world.
For Europe, it really was a new world.
Here, they found pineapples, tomatoes,..
beans, avocadoes, many things..
They weren’t known in Europe, and here they found them.
Everyday we should find new things inside of us.
That´s what Villamaga tries to do..
Everyone should make this internal trip..
and everyone should take the rudder of his own life.
1,2,3..
Climb up Antonio,..
It is on the top.. -Climb up,..
You have the longer rope,..
One moment.
Miguel, change to the other side..
The last one.. 1,2,3,
That´s it, I can´t anymore.
I can´t papi,
Here we go.
A little bit more Miguel.
Colombia has been holding its breath since the president announced a few days ago,..
that in less than 6 months he will sign a peace agreement with the FARC geurilla.
Bei der ‘Minga’ kommenden Sonntag,
We will install the mast of the Villamaga ship..
that is called “The Curious One”.
This is the sketch of the ship..
Look, here you can see it better.
A minga is a collective work,
a group of people that meet to work together.
It´s an indigenous word,
the Indians do almost everything with the minga system.
We will also sow some trees in memory of the accomplices who are gone.
It’s very important that these friends who are gone..
have vegetable presence on the farm..
in this project, which they were part of for such a long time.
Since the 'Book of Villamaga' came out,
people always wanted to transform it into physical space.
Utopia means a place which does not exist.
Villamaga is already leaving this plane and becoming a real place..
And this place is here, but also in many other places,..
because it´s like the seeds that birds disperse all over the world.
There are many Villamagas in Colombia..
and in the hearts of many people who think it´s possible to create a different society.
Who arrived?
Ah, the Master Anibal Patiño, look!
Like nobody..
Hello. How’s it going?
Look, just park here.
The Master Aanibal Patiño, the pioneer of ecology in Colombia.
93 years old.
Maestro, how are you?
Welcome to Villamaga! - Thank you, after 20,000 invitations.
It is a short but difficult way.
Yes, but we are in a beautiful place.
I have an affinity with León Octavio that has many roots.
The crazy-ones find themselves easily.
We have the same kind of craziness, the love and passion for nature,
and also for human beings..
within a conservationist context..
in this American paradise which doesn’t rival anywhere else in the world.
Look, what a surprise. - No, how are you.
Everything’s fine..
Hello, how are you?
What a pleasure to see you. - Thanks, you are also part of this gang here?
Yes, we all participate in this collective craziness that is wonderful.
You have been here before? - Sure, many times.
My dear friend.. - Welcome..
This is a heart that I need right here,
What a beauty.
People..
Let´s begin this ritual of “The Curious One”
This is a ritual of the trip we are starting.
The 'Pirate of Villamaga' is ready to start the ceremony.
Hello, welcome everybody! -Welcome..
I want to welcome you to this beautiful place of the 'Villamaga Foundation',..
The symbol of Villamaga is the ship, 'The Curious One', which represents the heart..
which navigates through the sea of emotions, looking to make her dream come true.
So, lets celebrate this metaphor that León Octavio created,..
a crazy love drama, he lived through is the cause of all we are experiencing here.
Very well spoken, man. - Thank you.
Now we need volunteers to lift up this mast here.
Ready? Charge!
Up, up, lift it up… Come closer, come closer..
That´s it.
A perfect ship. - Perfect..??
A 'Magic Carbonero'..
It closes its leaves, so the light of the moon can reach to the trunk.
- And this tree will represent whom? It represents Lucienne,..
a wonderful friend we had, a great teacher.
So let´s keep this one here, and this goes up there..
I have so many brothers
That I’m unable to count,
In the valley, the mountain,
In the pampas and in the sea.
Each one did their work,
With their dreams, each one
With hope ahead,
And the memories behind.
I have so many brothers
That I’m unable to count
Let’s gather for Oscar..
Armando, come on...
Everybody this way...
Oscar, my friend of fried meat plates..
That´s why he died early, because of the excess of fried meat plates.
Oscar was like a carnival, wherever he was, there was joy…
Ok, let´s go on.. - Ciao, Oscar.
About Alvaro, there is much to tell and very little to tell.
His column in ‘El Pais’ was called ‘The Bell’,
because he always rang the bell,
on regional problems he had seen…
We are very thankful to Villamaga, for the sowing of this tree,..
which is dedicated to the memory of my daughter Beatrice Amalia.
To live only in art and for art Is your longing every day
Carrying the puppets in your soul, Embracing your beautiful fantasies.
Continue your work sowing hope, Turning sorrow into joy
Following dreams from childhood.
And so we keep walking
Pickled with loneliness.
We lose each other around the world,
And we find each other again.
And so we recognize each other
Through a distant gaze,
Through the song we sing
A seed of greatness.
And so we keep walking on
Pickled in loneliness
Our departed are with us
No one will be left behind.
I have so many brothers,
That I’m unable to count.
And such a beautiful sister,
Who is called..
Liberty!
Oh León, very good..
How beautiful..
So many memories with this song. - It is so beautiful.