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Africa. Following the workshop, seven of the children remained as protagonists : Patrick, 12 years old, the son of a vice-president of R&D at Philip Morris, received his first credit card when he was ten. Clyde, aged 14, from Kerala in India, was made available for adoption by his Swiss parents due to his 'hole in the heart' health problem, Kristina,! 0 years old, writes SMS in Russian (transcribed into the Latin alphabet) to her father but only speaks American-English with her friends at the International School. Sarah, aged 11, is Angolan but all she knows of Africa is from photographs. Oussama, from Morocco, aged 9, would like to be a businessman and dreams of skiiing in Dubai airport. Aline, aged 9, of Brazilian origin, says that if war broke out, she would organize her own personal army. Julien, 8 years old, want to create a Chinese colony on Mars, a sort of Martian China. Garima, an Indian girl aged 8, follows her father, a Tetra Рак staff member, around the world. And finally, Juliette, aged 7, dreams of living in the sky with all her toys. What will the world be like for these children once they have grown up? How many of them will become executives in international companies, leaders of a new world, refugees, homeless or ambassadors ? What sort of future will they invent?

Lola Arias and Stefan Kaegi

LOLA ARIAS Lola Arias (Buenos Aires, 1976) is a writer (poetry, theater and novel) and director. Many of her writings play with the boundaries of biography and fiction, combining fictional and real facts in a type of language that does not intend to be documentary, but poetic. In her spectacles, she works with actors, ballet dancers, children, babies and animals. In 2000, she published her first book of poetry, "Las impudicas en el paraiso". One year later, she debuted with the spectacle "La escuaiida familia", created and directed by her, which was once again performed in 2005 in Marseille, France. She also wrote and directed the plays "Estudios sobre la memoria amorosa" and "Poses para dormir", and directed "Temporariamente agotado" (by Hubert Colas) and "Una fiebre de très dias" (by Daniel Mursa). In 2005, she wrote “Manifiesto de ninos", in collaboration with other authors for El Periferico de Objetos group. In the same year, she acted in the film "La prisionera", by Alejo Moguillansky. In 2006, she took part in BAIT Project (Buenos Aires in Translation) in New York, in which works of four Argentinean playwrights were translated into English and organized by American directors. Later on, she was invited to be part of the worldwide dramaturgic Stucke Festival, in Germany, and she was also awarded a scholarship to be part of the Mobile Academy, a gathering of artists in Varsovia. In November of 2006, she debuted in Buenos Aires in "El amor es un francotirador" with Cia Postnuclear. Arias studied literature at the Buenos Aires University, Theater and Dramaturgy at EAD in Buenos Aires. After that, she took an internship as a playwright in London, sponsored by the Royal Court Theatre. She also participated in a course for playwrights and directors, which took place at the Casa de America de Madrid.

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