Dear Kate,
How are you m'lovely?
Here's the 'Psychoanalytical A-Newspaper' that is dedicated in its entirety to "Loves" that I was emailing you about. Seeing this title I was intrigued and happy, particularly after the conversation with Günter where we chatted about how in our cultures it seems hard to talk about love or to say that that is what we are looking for. I'm reminded again and again of Kids Company and our beloved Camilla Batmangelidh's fearless talking of 'love as the cure'. So to see an entire newspaper dedicated to Love in all its manifestations was a refreshing surprise.
At first I thought this was a particularly unusual and impressive find, but over the course of the last few days I've noticed more and more fascinating titles on the heavily piled news-stands around the city on the 'subtes' (metros), in the bus terminal, on street corners. As well as the daily news and cheeky bum-flashing papers, glossy celeb mags and kids comics there always seem to be plenty of socially-focused, and psychoanalytical publications too. Yesterday on just one stand I noticed 5 different psychology papers....interesting!
The kids are photographed outside a free arts workshop that we passed in la Boca, the colourful port area of the city. We've passed a number of free workshops, and that in combination with this focus on psychology and social well-being reflected in the newspapers gives me the impression that Argentinians, like the Chileans, are very turned on and conscious when it comes to social responsibility and still value the quality of community life before individual success.
I know this is one of my struggles with London, how the aggressively capitalist society places individual success before and at the expense of the community. Perhaps indirectly our work at KidsCo is attempting to redress the balance...? KidsCo was certainly an important community for me.
And after all these deep and serious thoughts I'm now brought back to the image of us playing during that Sunday afternoon of the course and the wonderful and liberating moment of weaving our creatures in and out of the dragon-garden holes..... and I'm reminded of the joy of play and how the importance of creating safe, holding and supporting communities is so that within them we can relax within our relationships to one another, be ourselves, explore, create and enjoy!
With all the live music, bars, restaurants, Tango shows, milongas (tango gatherings), galleries, murals, theatres and cinemas here in Buenos Aires it certainly seems the Argentinians know how to create, play and enjoy.
So thank you Kate for being a catalyst for many thoughts and adventures, thank you for being the first UK creature to respond to the postcard project, and thanks for being a brilliant mate to play with!
Happy Playing m'lovely :-)
Big love,
Kim
:-)
x
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