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A Journey Through Music and Healing
Music Journeys is a Fulbright-funded research project at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts that examines how music fosters communication, dialogue, and peacebuilding in divided societies. Using observations, interviews, and surveys of select 2024-2025 performances, the study explores how producing and listening to music can promote empathy.
By engaging with music, both listeners and musicians may reinterpret trauma, challenge stereotypes, and create new meanings—supporting healing for individuals and communities.
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Colombian Art: Witness, Blade, and Reflection of History
Colombian art has been both a witness to and a narrator of the country’s past. From independence to the violence of the 20th century, artists have portrayed not only heroic moments but also the contradictions of war. In “Mirarse al espejo. Colombia, un retrato a través de la historia del arte,” Adriana Jaramillo Aguilera argues that, rather than merely illustrating history, art makes it possible to question it—and to offer answers to a society that has often been reluctant to confront its past. That resistance is reflected in a tendency to ignore or minimize the wounds left by conflict, a kind of collective amnesia. Looking back through artistic representations is not only an act of remembrance, but also a way to confront those…
Arte Colombiano: testigo, daga y reflejo de la historia
El arte colombiano ha sido tanto testigo como narrador del pasado del país. Desde la Independencia hasta la violencia del siglo XX, los artistas han retratado no solo los momentos heroicos, sino también las contradicciones de la guerra.
En “Mirarse al espejo. Colombia, un retrato a través de la historia del arte”, Adriana Jaramillo Aguilera sostiene que, más que ilustrar la historia, el arte permite cuestionarla y ofrecer respuestas a una sociedad que, con frecuencia, se ha mostrado renuente a enfrentar su pasado. Esa resistencia se traduce en una tendencia a ignorar o minimizar las heridas del conflicto: una suerte de amnesia colectiva. Volver la mirada a través de las representaciones artísticas no es solo un acto de memoria, sino también una manera de confrontar esas…
Por Paula Andrea Baracaldo Barón 06 de agosto de 2025 – 07:29 p. m