Festival of Contemporary Thought: Rosario and How to Tell a City

How to say a city? How to count Rosario? Based on this question, sixteen young Latin American journalists threw themselves into the streets of the port city of Santa Fe, on the banks of the Paraná River, to generate reports.

As part of the festival of contemporary thought, the chronicle workshop "Tell the city" is held from May 14 to 18 at the Cultural Center Parque España, coordinated by the Spanish journalist and writer born in Zaragoza. Cristina Fallarás, who was the editor of Newspaper 16 digital and catalan edition The world, among other paper and digital media. She is also a TV columnist and activist for women's and labor rights. On April 26, 2018, he launched the hashtag # Cuéntalo and the response was overwhelming: hundreds of thousands of women continued to tell him about the badual badault they had suffered. Publisher of books in digital format, published, among other titles, Lost girls and Honor your father and your mother.

A total of 160 journalists were nominated, of whom a jury selected 16 journalists from Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay, Peru and Argentina (Rosario , Venado Tuerto, Neuquén, Buenos Aires, Tucumán).
The workshop was moderated by journalists Osvaldo Aguirre and Sonia Tessa and historians Pablo Montini and Agustina Prieto, responsible for giving the historical context of a relatively new city, which has grown exponentially in the last century. Everything, as part of the Amphibian Festival "Contemporary thought".

"The workshop was great," he told Fallarás. Infobae Saturday 18, while participants posed for the final photo on the stage of the auditorium of the Parque España Cultural Center of the Prince of Asturias. And he corrected himself: "It's wonderful, because I'm not going to lose touch. sixteen journalists, fourteen of whom did not know the city and produced a portrait in three days, each choosing a fragment. Which means that they depicted themselves. And they are also children who have been paid for the trip, the hotel room and the daily allowance. That is to say, it is not the people who were paid ten years ago their course at the school of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who were the ones who had money ".

Fallarás emphasized the quality of the work. And, as an example of a button, he had some writing tips with which he worked. "I particularly criticized them," he said, explaining: "I removed the adjectives, the adverse sentences, that is to say the" but "and the" no embargoes " I taught them not to use the verbs to be, neither to be, nor to have, and I gave them the tools to tell themselves. "

What stories told then of the city?

The question for all was the same: "What is yours?" One person said, for example, "Mine is loneliness." "OK, so how can you do it?" "I will ask permission on a football field and spend a night sitting alone in the middle of the field." He did it, then went to the hospital to sit next to the waiting, then went to the cafeteria at night Another said: "I'm a bit of a mythomaniac." The slogan was to stay at the door of Fito Páez's house, Che Guevara's and Messi's, one afternoon at each door, for hours. "Whatever happens, you say it." One girl says that she wanted to tell the story of fishermen: "So go get a fisherwoman." She did it and discovered an incredible story.

Fail insists on writing not to know"When you do not know a city, you can show a chronicle about the city or you can do the opposite, and I have no other choice, that is to say that you will represent yourself ".

At the opening of the festival, Cristian Alarcón, magazine director Amphibious, (promoter of the festival with the cultural manager Lila Siegrist), saved "the advanced lucidity of the teacher and writer who, at the beginning of his workshop, defined the chronicle as an endangered genre, it was a provocation". He added the topics chosen by a Mexican columnist regarding the move from anarchism to socialism in the city and another columnist regarding the fate of three emblematic brothels in the Pichincha district, one of which became geriatric.

The texts produced by the members of the workshop will be published in a book by Editorial Mansalva.