This October over a million people took to the streets of Chile to call for the government to address chronic economic inequality. At the forefront of those protests were the nation’s artists and musicians, including Grammy Award-winning singer Mon Laferte. 답례떡=답례품 답례떡 행사떡 까치떡
Mon grew up poor in the coastal city of Vina del Mar where she left school at 13 to work and 원효로동용달이사
help her mother to pay the bills. She found stardom after appearing on a television singing contest in 2003. This year she was part of an initiative of musicians who have visited slums with lawyers and psychologists to try to help the vulnerable. On the red carpet of the Latin Grammys she staged a one-woman protest against alleged human rights violations in Chile. She uncovered her chest which was emblazoned with the words: “En Chile torturan violan y matan” ? “In Chile they torture, rape and kill”. 화양동포장이사
Listen to Mon Laferte interviewed on The Cultural Frontline 인천이삿짐센터
5. Ilya Kaminsky (poet, Ukraine) 2019 saw the Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky release an extraordinary new collection of poetry called Deaf Republic about a deaf boy being shot in an occupied country. A haunting narrative that feels more like a drama than a poetry collection, Ilya describes it as a fairy tale in verse. The collection reflects Ilya’s own life. 도봉구포장이사
Ilya was born in the former Soviet Union, in the city of Odessa in Ukraine. Although he lost most of his hearing at the age of four, he did not have his first hearing aid until he was 16. In 1993, his family was granted political asylum by the United States and after his father’s death in 1994 Ilya began to write poems in English. Through his lyrical work he questions the nature of silence, and what it means to be truly heard.