{"id":328310,"date":"2016-06-01T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T01:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/gen-rosso-in-uruguay\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:04:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:04:16","slug":"gen-rosso-in-uruguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/gen-rosso-in-uruguay\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Rosso in Uruguay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gen-rosso-Montevideo\"<\/a>\u201cThe most important thing I experienced during these two days with Gen Rosso<\/a> was to see my dream come true: to feel strong and alive without the need to use violence.\u201d This was the impression shared by Veronica<\/strong>, one of 200 teenagers that took part in a three-day workshop organized by the international band during its tour through Montevideo, Uruguay<\/a>. The tour also took in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. Fazenda da Esperan\u00e7a<\/em><\/a> was the promoter of this initiative. The Gen Rosso Band<\/a> members explained: \u201cStrong Without Violence<\/em><\/a> is a project geared towards teenagers and young people, offering formation in a culture of peace, legality, preventing all forms of school violence, revenge, bullying, teenage suicide, teenage issues and dropping out of school. <\/em>With positive success in several other nations, this time the project gathered 200 young people from at-risk areas in the capital of Uruguay. One of these associations is the Nueva Vida <\/em>Centre<\/a>: \u201cI remember when we arrived in this area on the outskirts,\u201d recounts the director, Luis Mayobre<\/strong>. \u201cWe were welcomed by stones that were being launched at us by teenagers. Seeing our young people today in full action onstage, together with their peers and launching a message of non-violence has really moved me.\u201d The novelty of the Strong Without Violence Project<\/strong> lies in the fact that the teenagers are actively Involved in a stage performance, with a workshop on dance, music, set design and set-up. They go onstage with the professional artists as main actors in the show. \"gen-rosso-Montevideo_b\"<\/a>\u201cAwesome! It was amazing,\u201d says In\u00e9s overcome with emotion.<\/strong> \u201cWe did two concerts, May 21 and May 22 with the Clara Jackson Theatre (capacity1,200) completely filled, quite an uncommon thing in our parts; and you couldn\u2019t tell the kids apart from the artists: they were completely integrated.\u201d Laura had watched those children grow up and knew well the great work that is done at the Focolare\u2019s Nueva Vida <\/em>Centre and at other institutions in the area, to provide a positive future to the young people that is far removed from drugs and other dangers. The setting of this \u201cStreelight\u201d Show is Chicago in the 1960s. It tells the true story of Charles Moatz, a young Black American from the Focolare who was murdered by a gang because of his efforts to build a world that was more united. With his choice of non-violence Charles had sealed his fate. But his radical lifestyle would lead his friends to discover new and unimagined horizons for their own lives. \u201cPhrases like: \u2018If you want it, you can do it,\u2019 \u2018Love conquers all,\u2019 \u2018Love can do all things\u2019 and \u2018If you want to win over a city to love, get together with friends who think like you do\u2019 . . .\u201d continued Laura. \u201cIt all seemed to fall like drops of due upon the hearts of the people here. And it all came out with such a force that I was trembling. There was such great sympathy between the audience and the people on stage. I had invited a friend who, after a short while was so moved that she was sobbing. I think God has hit hard at our very doorsteps.\u201d Uruguay press<\/strong>, which is strongly secular, mentioned the unusual event in a news article boastfully titled:<\/strong> \u201c200 young Uruguayans prepare at an intensive workshop to go onstage with a musical performed with the international Gen Rosso Music Group\u201d \u201cSo happy to see my son on stage!\u201d wrote the mother of one of the boys who had become an instant artist. \u201cI thank the Nueva Vida <\/em>Centre that has always aimed to give the opportunity to him, to grow as a person.\u201d And Patty:<\/strong> \u201cThat \u2018If you want it, you can do it\u2019 will remain forever burned into the hearts of each of these teenagers and of all those who were here. Thank you! You\u2019ve charged our batteries and transmitted a very contagious energy.\u201d https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s5eR25VL53M&feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two shows in Montevideo with overflowing crowds, 200 youths from high-risk areas involved as actors. The exciting tour of the international band from Uruguay to other countries of the Southern Cone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}