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Favio Chavez
Favio Hernán Chávez Morán (born December 5, 1975), is an Argentinian musician, environmental technician, and director of the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, since 2012. He has served as director of the music school of Carapeguá and departmental coordinator of the programSounds of the Earth, from 2002 to 2011; as well as Academic Coordinator of the project created by the Paraguayan teacher Luis Szarán, from 2008 to October 2011. He worked as an environmental educator of the program "Procicla", of NGOs "Alter Life" and "Geam", in the Cateura landfill of Asunción, since February 2006 and resigned in March 2007. He was later named "Sounds of the Earth" as supervisor of the workshop of lutería in Cateura, that opened in May 2007, in charge of the luthier Carlos Uliambre. He integrated the first set of recycled instruments, created by idea of Luis Szarán, along with five other young people from Carapeguá; which was first presented at Oxford University in March 2008. At the sugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South America's southeastern coast. "Buenos Aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the former was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre", named after the Madonna of Bonaria in Sardinia, Italy. Buenos Aires is classified as an alpha global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2020 ranking. The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's capital; rather, it is an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recycled Orchestra Of Cateura
The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura ( es, Orquesta de Instrumentos Reciclados de Cateura), also known as the Recycled Orchestra, is an orchestra composed of children from Asunción, Paraguay who play musical instruments made from scrap materials collected from Asunción's Cateura landfill. Formed in 2012, the orchestra has performed internationally with Stevie Wonder and the American heavy-metal bands Metallica and Megadeth. History Early years The orchestra originated in the "Sonidos de la Tierra" (Sounds of the Earth) program (created and directed since 2002 by Luis Szarán) and Procicla a recycling project of the Alter Vida NGO. Szarán founded the Sonidos de Cateura (Sounds of Cateura) music school on July 7, 2006, and its first workshop, sponsored by the geAm NGO to build recycled instruments, was held on May 24, 2007 luthier Carlos Uliambre. Sounds of the Earth is sponsored by Tierra Nuestra. The music school began with the recyclers' children after Szarán donated ten gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carapeguá
Carapeguá (, ''Guaraní: Karapegua'') is a city and ''district'' of the Paraguarí Department, Paraguay, located 84 km from Asunción. It was founded in 1725. Settled by the Caañabé river and over the Route 1 "Mariscal Francisco Solano López", the Carapeguá district is located near the legendary Ypoá lake. It is also known as the "Caañabé's Pearl". Area This district has an area of 435 square kilometers, populated by approximately 32,939 inhabitants and with a population density of 75,72 inhabitants per square kilometer. Economy Carapeguá is known as the capital of the ''poyvi'' (the Guaraní word for "thread") because of its fine artisan production in objects made of threads like blankets, ponchos, sheets, hammocks and others. They are made with a technique popularly called "poyvi" in which old looms are used. The inhabitants are dedicated to agricultural and cattle activities, and also to the cultivation of sugar-cane. In cattle production, they stock-breed co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Szarán
Luis Szarán (born 24 September 1953) is a Paraguayan musician, orchestra director, composer and musical researcher; since 2002, founder and director of the social and community integration program "'Sounds of the Earth''", which created the school of music where began the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura. Since 1978, he has been conducting the Symphony Orchestra of the City of Asunción (OSCA, in Spanish means "Orquesta Sinfónica de la Ciudad de Asunción"), which he has held since 1990; and the Phylomusica Orchestra of Asunción. He has also directed plays of his own in numerous international festivals and has obtained the National Award of Music, given by the National Parliament in 1997. Childhood and youth Szarán was born in Encarnación, Itapúa, in Paraguay, on 24 September 1953. He studied music with the teacher José Luis Miranda in Asunción. In 1975 Szarán obtained a scholarship to master his studies in Italy, given by the Italian government. He studied orchestra d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alter Life
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Alter may refer to: * Alter (name), people named Alter * Alter (automobile) * Alter (crater), a lunar crater * Alter Channel, a Greek TV channel * Archbishop Alter High School, a Roman Catholic high school in Kettering, Ohio * ALTER, a command in older implementations of COBOL * Alter ego, or "alter" in popular usage, a "second self" * Alter (SQL) * ''Alter'' (album), 2002 album by Floater * ''Alter'', a 2006 remix album by Swiss band Knut * "Alter", a song from the 1994 album '' Glow'', by Raven See also * Altar (other) An altar is a religious structure for sacrifices or offerings. Altar may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Altar'' (album), a 2006 album by Sunn O))) and Boris * Altar (Brazilian band), a dance music band * Altar (Dutch band), a death m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cateura
Cateura is the name of the landfill of Asunción, created in 1984 by the municipality of the capital of Paraguay, whose name comes from the Cateura lagoon, which is located near the property, private access, which has become landfill. Its name is also associated with the surrounding community, which are the San Miguel, Republicano, San Cayetano, Santa Ana, Villa Colorada, Bañado Sur and Tacumbú neighborhoods, which are flood zones, near the Paraguay River, located mainly to the south of Asuncion. Since September 2005, the Cateura landfill is managed by Empo Ltda. And Associates, a concessionaire of the Municipality of Asunción, for the final disposal of solid waste. In the farm work associations of "hookers", as they are called the recyclers who use a hook to remove the rubbish. The Cateura landfill has become famous by the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, and its documentary ''Landfill Harmonic ''Landfill Harmonic'' (stylized as ''landillharmonic'') is a 2015 documentary fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asunción
Asunción (, , , Guarani: Paraguay) is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay. The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, almost at the confluence of this river with the Pilcomayo River. The Paraguay River and the Bay of Asunción in the northwest separate the city from the Occidental Region of Paraguay and from Argentina in the south part of the city. The rest of the city is surrounded by the Central Department. Asunción is one of the oldest cities in South America and the longest continually inhabited area in the Río de la Plata Basin; for this reason it is known as "the Mother of Cities". From Asunción, Spanish colonial expeditions departed to found other cities, including the second foundation of Buenos Aires, that of other important cities such as Villarrica, Corrientes, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Santa Cruz de la Sierra and 65 more. Administratively, the city forms an autonomous capital district, not a part of any department. The metropolitan area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford University
Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world; it has buildings in every style of English architecture since late Anglo-Saxon. Oxford's industries include motor manufacturing, education, publishing, information technology and science. History The history of Oxford in England dates back to its original settlement in the Saxon period. Originally of strategic significance due to its controlling location on the upper reaches of the River Thames at its junction with the River Cherwell, the town grew in national importance during the early Norman period, and in the late 12th century became home to the fledgling University of Oxford. The city was besieged during The Anarchy in 1142. The university rose to domina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landfill Harmonic
''Landfill Harmonic'' (stylized as ''landillharmonic'') is a 2015 documentary film directed by Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley. It stars and tells the story of Paraguayan music teacher Favio Chavez and his Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a children's orchestra in Paraguay which performs with materials recycled from a trash landfill near Asuncion, Paraguay, Asunción. According to The Huffington Post, ''The Huffington Post'', "[t]he film is both an exposé on the harsh conditions of slum life and a commentary on the global threats of consumption and waste". Overview The film details the founding and development of the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura. When Luis Szaran, Luis Szarán and Favio Chavez came to Cateura, a landfill located in Asunción, Paraguay, to start a music school, they realized that they had more students than instruments. Thanks to the resourcefulness of Cola, a Cateurian garbage picker, an orchestra came together, now featuring violins, cellos, and other instrume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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