Soy Voz is an intercultural educational project that since 2012 has been visiting educational institutions in different countries, holding workshops to learn about school experiences in diverse socio-cultural contexts and generating creative ways of transformation.
Today we are making the documentary film Soy Voz (International).
This documentary takes up over 4 years of an international investigation done in very varied urban and rural context. Worldwide, nearly 20 institutions (Schools, NGO’s, International Institutions) participated and/or supported the project.
From the experiences in Latin America, Lilah: transforming education creatively, arises, the documentary film and the book that you can find here.
A documentary film where we listen to Education in various ways and through different voices.
A creative pedagogical manual based on 15 years of research teaching in schools around the world.
Trainings that offer concrete and effective tools to transform Education from within.
Lilah is a documentary film starring students and directed by teachers. Latin American children tell their educational experiences and what are the current problems they face at school.
Through different artistic disciplines we propose creative ways of transformation, helping them to find possible solutions.
Click on play to access the documentary
Our book
INTERNATIONAL
Book PDF
Our book contains the bases and foundations of our methodology, the result of the work we have done since 2004 in different schools in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay and India.
More than 30 creative exercises to apply in any educational context, simple and effective. To optimize the time in the classroom, promote enthusiasm, generate healthy environments for learning, address and resolve conflicts and raise the academic level according to the needs of the student and the teacher.
Presentations and Workshops
Presentations
Do you want to take Lilah to your school, cultural space, foundation?
We offer you to screen the documentary together with a practical workshop in which we delve into our methodology, so that you can apply it in your school, enhancing creativity and favoring the good academic performance of your group.
We have intensive training programs and annual programs.
March 2018: Buenos Aires
June 2018: Villa la Angostura,
September 2018: Buenos Aires
February 2019: San Martín de los Andes
March 2019: Barcelona
October 2019: Chile y Barcelona
2018 - present
Presentations in educational and cultural institutions in Argentina, Chile and Barcelona
MUSIC
Did you know that Lilah's music was created, especially by Sintonía Duo? Combining instruments of the world, and the free use of the voice, Delfina Varela and Marcelo Schnock were inspired by the images and experiences of the students and composed the soundtrack of the film.
Today you can listen to his first album in one click
Join Us!
There are many ways to join and collaborate with SOY VOZ
* Buying our book you help us expand our methodology and also help us reach more and more schools by sowing the seeds of transformation.
* Organizing the Lilah Presentations and Soy Voz´s workshops in your institution / province. Put together your group and contact us to make the presentation + talk / training of Lilah with your team.
* With your donation by bank account / credit card / cash we make it possible to reach the schools with the most difficult access and we manage to expand our borders, generating networks between communities and listening to all voices. And you support the new documentary that integrates children from different countries!
OUR TEAM
Gabriel Martinez
Delfina Varela
Soy Voz América
Creator of Lilah
She has been working with children for 15 years integrating artistic disciplines within learning processes. She worked in schools in Argentina, India and Peru and coordinated the Duam meeting of Ashoka Fellow Verónica Ohlsson in Uruguay. She was part of the Connected Travel team (Educar, National Education Ministry) coordinating Art and Technology workshops and integration activities.
She trained in Dance Movement Therapy, Body Expression and studied Theater and Rhythm, in addition to his training in Iyengar Yoga and his musical studies. During 2012 - 2016, together with Samia Lyamouri they created Soy Voz coordinating Encounters of values in schools, teacher training in Argentina, Chile and India and in 2016 he directed the documentary film and wrote the book Lilah: Transforming Education Creatively.
Since 2016 he has participated in The EDIPO School (School of Initiation, Psychoanalysis and Occultism)
Samia Lyamouri
Soy Voz Europa
Creator of INANA
Samia Lyamouri , worked in humanitarian and social development settings in 8 cuntries for more than 11 years. She presently works in France as an intercultural psychologist and art-movement therapist, international consultant and trainer in the field of social transformation, education and mental health.
Her work focuses on developping creative means to enhance learning and resilience processes at stake in the human psyche, with a particular sensitivity to intercultural learning. With the quest to understand and bring about new perspectives on education, she creates the Soy Voz Investigation Project together with Delfina Varela. In 2017, Samia Lyamouri creates the association INANA-Inclusion & Art Network, generating spaces and opportunities of dialogue and collaboration between refugee individuals and individuals from Europe through artistic language.
Gabriel Martinez
Lilah trainer
& Lúdika contents
Advanced student at PNP (Primary level teachers) and student of psychoanalysis at E.D.I.P.O.
Together with a team of teachers he created the “Normal 1 Resource Center Roque Saenza Peña”, in Buenos Aires, in Argentina - a toy library model based on didactic materials of the founders and precursors of world education (Montesori, Pesatozzi, Decroly, Froëbel, etc.). The World Organization for Pre-school Education awarded the Resource Center project and distinguished his project “los 11 Dones” (the 11 Dones). He developed didactic material for the historical archives which were exhibited in different editions of “The Night of the Museums” in Argentina.
Valeria Bortolussi
In charge of communication & managment in Lilah
She graduated in Hotel and Gastronomic Administration and Social Psychology. She participated in the creation and development of the holistic center and sustainable Neighborhood "Umepay" and the Umepay Foundation where she worked as a secretary for 3 years, producing events and programs for the awakening of consciousness and the development of the being.
She initiates her path through reiki, energy cleansing, aura reading, and tarot, which led her to develop her own methodology: Transformative tarot sessions and sources that she currently runs.
She coordinates activities, events and educational programs. She studies and participates to the activities of the E.D.I.P.O School (School of Initiation in Psycho-analysis and Occultism)
Juan Francisco Soulas
Lilah trainer
& musician
Music therapist graduated from the Maimónides University, Buenos Aires in 2015. He practices the profession since 2016 in the fields of mental health and holistic education, in daycare centers and through individual sessions.
As an independent musician, he coordinates group percussion workshops and provides music classes to children and adolescents in schools.
His interest in knowing the origins of music brought him closer to the myths and legends of the different regions, integrating the spoken word to his classes, combining it with indigenous instruments.
With SOY VOZ we create teams in the different regions that we visit and more and more people are getting involved and participating in making educational transformation possible. If you want to be part contact us.
There is always a place for those of us who want to create a better world!
CONTACT
Email: soyvozamerica@gmail.com
Tel: (+5411) 6982 - 8530
