Changing the village through protagonist participation

The right of children and adolescents to PARTICIPATE in the CONSTRUCTION of their TOWN or CITY as part of an ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP, in such a way that they are participants and executors of the changes in their surroundings.

For this protagonist to exist, CHILDREN and ADOLESCENTS must reflect on their surroundings (the space in which they develop their lives), their context and propose solutions for change become aware of what it means to be a legal entitlement and the importance that their participation can have as a driving force for change in the rest of society.

Letter to the playwright Francisco Pillado.

Colored pencils neighborhood:

   Dear flashlight to see well at night:

   Do you know who will win the election by absolute majority?

A girl I was playing with on Saturday afternoon is going to win. He is five or six years old. I gave her a painting by Fidel Vidal, and she was very happy. She showed me a drawing of a butterfly, made by herself. I told her, “I like butterflies a lot,” and she laughed. The girl is amused by adult things, because she has small, direct eyes. The subversive look of the clouds. The photographs of the dead when they go to vote. The girl plays with a broom, as if she were a witch, as if she were a very human politician and very close to the people. I have decided my vote. I’m going to vote for that girl, because her gestures really convince me and make me feel excited. I imagine that little girl sitting on the stairs of the photographer Xurxo Lobato and answering the predictable questions of the journalists. The girl plays, and is not fooled by the rhetoric and empty talk of the world. The girl laughs because she is a spy of the hidden feelings of the people, of the citizens. The “politician girl” reads that beautiful book by the Laiovento publishing house, in which the writer Julio López Válcarcel talks about Miguel González Garcés, the miner of light and brilliant forests. Cell phone companies decide when we have to talk. If the promotion is for us to speak – for free – on weekends, we will have to speak on Sundays even if we are not talkative, even if we have nothing to say. The girl plays. The little girl works. The captive does not speak. I am re-reading many books worn by the passage of time, and I feel renewed. I love political theater that runs away when there’s a party in the clouds.

Lupe Gómez.