rampage carnivalesque (The education that we need) 
My mother looks dreamy fishing distance and a memory:
The spring festival ... It was so beautiful. People played the challa squares and threw them all to everyone. Especially if you liked someone, to prove you came and you were throwing a bit of Challa.
Suddenly his eyes clouded:
Then people started throwing water bombs and not just water. No longer was the confetti and put heavy jokes. Thus began the rampage and destruction of places. One day the Spring Festival was suspended for good, apparently the last one was out there in the 60's. Volume
El Mercurio of Valparaiso on Sunday and my view is also clouded by the news of the riots after the Carnival of the Thousand Drums. Will these parties are bound to follow the same fate? It takes me quite
trying to understand why people do not care for their parties, do not take care of the space won with much effort, does not value these events and instead to participate, just think about getting drunk and destroying. Curious
this behavior. Sample gives an intellectual vacuum, emotional and even spiritual, and I stop to think what we will have led to this state of stupidity that ends up destroying the good intentions of cultural managers who strive to raise their initiatives, so that the ended up being involved in acts completely reprehensible??
Various factors have to converge in the disaster lived in the latest Carnival of the Thousand Drums. But I have one thing quite clear. The organization of this party has done everything possible to get away from the chaos that has become a constant in the recent activities of this type made in the city.
The factor "mass audience" no doubt that when planning these public activities should be aware that there will be a large turnout and that, given the nature of the party, his enthusiasm may overflow . The mass public has become and act and do what makes mass. If the mass dance, dance. If the dough drink, drink, and if the mass destroy, destroy. What do one and validate what has been done for others.
No more psychology to analyze the mass. You can be anyone that in the middle and part of this large group, lose their identity, they feel liberated, empowered and validated. Very similar to what would be a stampede of wild animals. So hard and simple.
Therefore, we must take great care in how it handles this massive effect. Think before in what are the stimuli that could trigger his reaction that, in general, could be irrational.
Read the following comment left on YouTube in a video of the abuses that occurred after the last carnival in the city:
"... Wn, You should record when the cops came to cumming by hitting everyone just to be Carretie there, why the riots started. It is assumed that the wea was a carnival, it is understood that the people put to suck on the street, that is no reason to curb the brutality of which he showed police, and only got to leave the cream in the center. Prosedimietno Pesimo police, but for police, there would be riots ... " (sic) One of the ways to combat this effect is mass education. If individuals are promoted to a high rate of particular identity and self-awareness, with a great sense of freedom and self-respect based on the maxim "my freedom ends where yours begins," these individuals themselves act as catalysts for what should and should not be done. Construed as freedom is not permission to do what they please, but as a place where the exercise responsibly.
factor "alcohol" Apparently, one effect that causes a mass release of inhibitions, as being in the middle one is covered, the anonymity is part and cover it.
If this simple fact adds another disinhibiting like alcohol, it will highlight this fact, and a group who shows signs of not knowing how to manage in areas of freedom may be just devastating.
For this reason, it is known that there will be a large number of people to a place, it is absolutely necessary to operate measures to prevent undesirable outcomes.
Press and not reacting is the golden rule. If activated, it searches for ways to continue providing incentives not to make the dough becomes uncontrollable.
Ban the sale of alcohol before and during activity. Close outlets, this monitor is carried out effectively. Monitor the sale of illegal alcohol and neutralize it.
All who have been in the midst of these massive public celebrations in Valparaiso, we know that beer is sold clandestinely in the crowd. The liquor store and are still open full of people buying alcohol. There is no control if they buy are more or less of age and for that matter, it does not matter because the mass has no age.
The factor "police" This is tricky because the actions of police moves between the points, off by an appearance, reaction, if you break the law and repression if performed acts conflict with public order.
If the dough begins to spin out, the police have to intervene. It's your job. Well usually. If you see people drinking in public, what is prohibited, it shall, if the group is large, will speak with all his strength so repressive.
The problem is that it enhances the effect. Rather than deter by force, will cause a mass explosion to be seen in numerical superiority and, with the anonymity it provides mass against attack and unable to hit its target, massive vented his frustration with what you have in its path.
operating and is best not to react. One need not be an expert in intelligence and logistics FBI to know that in these street activities, the mass meeting in two points of the city and White Bellavista Plaza Aníbal Pinto, in Cumming with Almirante Montt. It would be good before actually strengthen the police presence at these points.
Cultural and Valparaiso Valparaiso need activities that provide a "do" in the city. Not only from October onwards, but all year round. Every city that is becoming tourist uses this fact to promote activities, for mean age to come to the city, which will stay in the city, eat in the city, which will spend it. It's a simple fact of business purpose. Valparaiso needs money, among other things to take care of their heritage. If you do not know, it's good to find out, Valparaiso has a municipality in a constant state of financial collapse. That is why it so difficult care tasks such as face lifts. No matter the political color of the mayor. Whoever assumes the presidency will face the simple fact that can not afford to perform the many tasks that will come ahead. More
. These activities are needed to enhance the concept of "Cultural City"
If you look closely, you realize that in the city have imposed two powerful concepts:
"Heritage City" and "City Cultural Capital ". To me, this is practically a gift. Any city in the world would dream to have two appointments.
Both are strong concepts
level of city marketing. But do not subsist on their own. We must empower them, show them, work them constantly and use them as a platform to create more and more events throughout the year and surpass the seasonal high and projected to the low season. This is not a beach tourism. Do not need the sun to come to Valparaiso.
Then, having cultural managers who create massive activity in the city and that have been conducted successfully for a long time, is practically another gift.
There is no jazz festival in the city. The man who had had great production problems, bad publicity, poor grill and simply disappeared.
The film festival is almost cryptic. Being a "Cinema Heritage" is not only understood massive attendance.
when performing these activities, I see no banners adorning the avenues of the city, I see a flight aggressive and risky advertising creative. When I tell people about
Viña del Mar "Valparaiso Cerro Abajo" or
"Carnaval Mil Tambores" definitely have no idea what they speak, and express their intention that they would love to come. Viña del Mar If you have little idea of \u200b\u200bwhat happens in the neighboring city, in places like Santiago, San Pedro de Atacama, Patagonia, just do not know anything and those are precisely the places where our market is coming.
For this reason it is so important to have cultural managers. We must care for and work with them to prove their events. We must go beyond a feasibility study must be involved.
A cultural manager creates an event. What made and makes sure that everything turns out well as it develops. If abuses occur much later, you can not blame them. That something else is failing.
In my view, the latest version of Carnaval Mil Tambores was completely successful. The organizers decided to move the center of the city to the hills just to get away from the possibility that abuses occur during implementation. Moreover, they created a slogan stating this intention.
"I live a thousand drums, I care Valparaiso . The event took off on time and ended at about eleven o'clock at night, without having any problem during implementation. The city center was not affected in its normal flow. The people of the hills felt that the carnival was approaching them.
A smash hit!! The incidents occurred over four hours after the event. Can we really blame them or hold them accountable for these acts??
Moreover, the organization decided to cut part of its activities to support the intention that the excesses do not continue. What I see there is consciousness, intention and action.
For that reason, my eyes clouding does not end when I read the news of a local newspaper that says
the locals call for an end to mass events. The city authorities say they are very strict when giving a new authorization and that there is a risk that next year is not authorized this activity. propose an end to these activities does not seem to solve the problem of substance. It's just a simple dodge. Is not engaging and not be proactive and it made the job easy. There is much to do in the city and we must go trying to solve problems and not just flee the situation.
For Mil Carnival Drums, this version was the eleventh. It is not the first time you do and do not understand that having previous experience plus the Cultural Carnival have also been incidents where these seem to surprise to the authorities, as if for the first time that happened.
not be scared, you have to invent alternatives, such as black and white print on cheap paper and information alluding to protect these activities and inviting public not to consume alcohol on the streets remembering that law is prohibited and what the penalties are set out to do and what others are exposed to make public disorder and vandalism. This information should be delivered by instructors who invite and take care not to drink the city.
We, all of us, a big job ahead to care for and protect these few activities. Valparaiso and care for and protect the fate of
remove "dangerous city" . We must be proactive and purpose and above all try to understand the phenomena and how they are enabled to discern effective solutions. We must also take care of our cultural managers. Not be blamed for vandalism that occurred hours after the event ended, not threaten closed spaces, appreciate your good will, while doing everything possible to promote a culture of participation and non-destructive.
Care for the few activities that we have not removed the Carnival. Instead, learn from the experiences, we believe even more events, more concerts, more festivals and publicitémoslos and let us use them to promote the city. Educate and culturicemos
people through campaigns during the year so that when they are processed mass is a benign and participatory and not drunk and destructive as it is now. Leo Silva
