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Life Arts    H4'ed 12/22/15

Normalizing The Extraordinary in Medell-n, Part One

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Think about the U.S. cities in which people fear to walk at night. Can we transform a culture of violence too? In Part Two of this series, I will share more stories from Ana Restrepo, and from Medelln's neighborhoods--fire jugglers at stoplights!--including the remarkable Casa de la Cultura Los Alcazares in Comuna 12, deeply involved in a network of community gardens Medelln has embraced.

Here's a spirited performance by La Red's tango orchestra of a piece that appears on the network's second CD, Melancolico Medelln.

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