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Cantos Cautivos: music, education and technology for human rights.

Panel on the roles of music as an educational resource to address memory and human rights topics, and on the use of internet technology as a tool for dissemination, exchange and research. To take place on 25 August 2018 at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago, Chile.

Practices of dealing with difficult pasts: creative memory works

Katia Chornik, director and editor of Cantos Cautivos, participated in a panel with Linda Norris (International Coalition of Sites of Conscience) and Amina Krvavac (War Childhood Museum, Sarajevo). The event took place at the Hrant Dink Foundation in Istanbul, Turkey, in May 2018.

Meeting with team members of the Historical Memory Project

Hernán Theiler, software consultant of Cantos Cautivos, participated in a meeting with the members of the team led by Professor Marcia Esparza of the John Jay Criminal Justice College (City University of New York), in New York, USA, May 2018.

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Sinner, come to sweet Jesus (Pecador, ven al dulce Jesús)

Author:
Unknown
Testimony by:
anonymous
Place & date:
Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, September 1973
« One time a group of male and female evangelicals came to Teja Island to preach. They were taken to the visitors’ yard. Because we prisoners had nothing else to do, we went to see them. »
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Published on: 13 January 2018

Fifth Symphony

Author:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Testimony by:
anonymous
Place & date:
Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, September 1973
« I like all of classical music, particularly Beethoven and Mozart. I listen to it all day on Radio Esperanza, on the bus I drive. The passengers like it. But listening to classical music reminds of what happened in prison and it has the effect of a short circuit on me. »
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Published on: 13 January 2018

National Anthem of Chile

Author:
Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer
Testimony by:
anonymous
Place & date:
Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, September 1973
« I was detained in Panguipulli on 24 September 1973, along with 17 other young people. I was a high school student. I was also working at the forestry and logging company of Huilo Huilo, which had been taken over by the working class. We were tortured for two or three days at the police station of Panguipulli. »
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Published on: 13 January 2018

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