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Romería 2023 USACH, a 50 años del Golpe Militar

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Ensamble de Percusiones Usach debuta en las Semanas Musicales de Frutillar

Ensamble de Percusiones Usach debuta en las Semanas Musicales de Frutillar El grupo nacido al alero de la Orquesta Clásica Usach se presentará el 1 de febrero en el escenario principal del Teatro del Lago.

El grupo nacido al alero de la Orquesta Clásica Usach se presentará el 1 de febrero en el escenario principal del Teatro del Lago, con un programa dedicado a la música mapuche, que además homenajea a Guillermo Rifo. El evento también contempla dos actuaciones del Cuarteto Vila, que también reúne a integrantes de la Orquesta Clásica Usach. De izquierda a derecha, cuatro integrantes del Ensamble…

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Víctor Jara e Inti-illimani en campaña elecciones parlamentarias (1973)

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'Surviving: Life in the Middle of the Pandemic', by Francisca Alejandra Mosqueira

The pandemic caught us off guard in the most broader sense of the word. Some of us were thriving, living our best lives, engaging in new work-wise horizons, decisively building towards our future. Unexpectedly, the world came to a halt. The certainty of not being the only one noticing how it affected every nook and cranny of people's day by day, assisted our mental health during the first months. Nonetheless, the feeling dissipates when the scenery remains identical or even worse to what it was in the beginning, while news pass and the head of state and its associates display openly their desperation on broadcast networks. Then you realize that there are people dying, losing their monthly income, their loved ones, and some other their soundness. Suddenly, you are not living, you are surviving.

The system has been contributing for years to the survival experience, and now shows its worst side, confronting the government leadership, defying their competence. As a chilean person this is not a new feeling, is a ceasless headache in a political representative crisis, in which a pandemic only enhanced the usual predicaments, and the current social crisis shared with the rest of southamerica.

Chile, as other third world countries, does not have egalitarian policies in matters of health, economy, education, and so on, which added an element of difficulty in the dystopian experience we are trapped in. If it was challenging before, the pandemic manages to complicate things more, especially for those who are less fortunate. The new normal implies wearing masks, lockdown for months, health cordons, and hand sanitizer to minimize the risk of contagion among citizens. However, regardless of the latter mentioned features we have incorporated into our lives, the surviving feeling is triggered by the current trials and tribulations stacking inside our minds.

Surviving means existing in spite of hardships, but it also means continuing to function, enduring, and live through a situation. The pandemic prompted a feeling of weariness and numbness, hijacking the pleasant experience of life, making difficult to even survive. Working from home has become a burn out ordeal, often forcing people to work after hours to achieve the perfomance of a day; regarding schools and universities the situation replicates. According to psychologists, the lack of time to adapt to the situation causes stress, anxiety and distress but nothing seems to stop for the ones in charge, disregarding personal tragedies. Protocols and formalities continuing to apply in what the youth have defined as “the end of the world”. In addition to this, the usual burdens of life like paying bills, housework, and buying groceries represent a new level of diffculty, alongside the fear of becoming a biozahard danger. Weekends, designated to unwind and relax, no longer serves its purpose cornered in your home.

The survivor in ourselves comes to play when our parents’ uneasy attitude warns us that not everything is right, when you are feeling the stress soring your body, when the blue light filter no longer helps your sight, when the walls around you overwhelm the senses and the buzzing of the nonsensical news in the tv are feckless. Subsisting now means trying to not lose control, overcome panicking over what is already been piling up, clutching your stomach with an anxiety knot, and nervous perspiration in your hands, while studying, working, or even just breathing. Salvaging your mental health at the same time as your physical.

Survivor mode, as I have been calling it, does not imply solely negative outcomes, notwithstanding the feeling can be tiredsome. Discovering talents, spending time with your pet, creating a new bussiness, watching the tv show you could not watch before, can create positives experiences that were postponed before the lockdown. Grounding people, make them stop to observe what is really of importance, conducting them to comprehend where they want to be. I personally believe that the instinct of protect and survive along with our loved ones, drive us towards surmounting challenges that might hinder enjoyment. Hence, it is important to gather collective strenght, supporting each other, staying close even in the distance, finding a light within your people.

To finalize, the flaws in the system are now full on display, we have to resist a little longer, and compromising individually to make this world a better place, a place worth living by any means necessary, we owe that to ourselves, and to the future generations. Otherwise, the survival experience, the isolation, and the corpses of our loved ones, will be fruitless. To err is human, to persist on the mistakes leads to cyclical errors that can affect everyone’s life. Be resilient.

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Some photos of my campus, after having finished my first histology exam. I got a grade a little below what I expected, but it's still acceptable enough to continue in the race. So I'm calm, not satisfied, but with enough motivation to continue.

A little history in relation to the sculpture in the second photo:

It’s in honor of Victor Jara, a famous chilean singer-songwriter, who was arrested on September 12, 1973 along with a group of professors and students who were in the former Universidad Técnica del Estado (USACH today). Jara did theater direction classes at that university and had taken refuge on the campus with other teachers and students who wanted to resist the military coup. One day after the bombing of La Moneda, Victor was made prisoner and taken to the Estadio Chile, where he was tortured for several days until he was murdered on September 16, along with another 15 people.

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@trfchile 💪💪 - - - - #instagram #instachile #chilegram #planetario #usach #trf #chile #food #foodporn #pulled #pork #rolling #fries #chiken #pollo #honey #potato #pulledpork #rollingfries #pollohoney (en Planetario Chile)

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foto en la “drag fest” :)