 This is higher term of activity and engagement with you that is happening in all these countries, Pakistan, India, and then other places in the world. The recipient of the answer international award will happen in Al-Qaeda Congress in a house in Brazil and will receive at least residency along the way to create a new work in June and financial and financial support to present this new work. And the engagement will also occur along New York. And it's now, but I have the honor to announce the first recipient of the answer international award and the award goes to Lude Samba in the United States and from Al-Qaeda. Lude Samba, we are right now in a small convovo that is in the Pacific floating jungle, and the African house which will be created by the S&O lab. So we are going to try to switch Lude Samba to Samba. When you call them, they are waiting for us. Right now? Yes, please. The power of the S&O or the community after being there. Sometimes deeply wrong. I don't know. Shouldn't be. Now you can connect with them. Now you can connect with them. Can you hear the applause? Can you hear the applause? Yes, I can hear your applause. We are the first winners of the answer international award. And thank you for coming in line. Can you hear? Yes, what happened? Quite difficult situation, technical, but here we are. You cannot do that. You cannot deny it. Our light is more designed in front of the room because we are having problems with the light. S&O lab, S&O lab. And we knew this three days, three years ago when we first began to come here and work with this community that has suffered violence for many years. So we came with our theater. We have the motorcycle light. Are you sure? Yes. That is wonderful. Think about the award. I mean, what is your impression? And what's your project going to be? I think it's wonderful. It's a prolongation of Ellen Stewart's spirit. This is the first thing. This situation we're living here, this difficulty, this fight to make things happen and continue. This, I think, was the spirit that I learned from Ellen Stewart. So it's really alive. Yes. We are working casually with the Afro-Colombian antique tradition. And I think it's a very nice homage, how do you call it? Yes. That we want to give to Ellen, working with this woman, that one of the characteristics of this population is that they don't have opportunities and they have incredible talent. And this is our fight to try to help people that have incredible talent and they cannot show it to the world. So this is why we are here. And I think this is the spirit of Ellen Stewart. Your work has been partly in Colombia, but also partly in Italy, where you have been working with refugees and victims of torture and violence. And the work that you have proposed for the residency actually is more connected to this group of people in Italy. Do you want to mention something about that? Yes. For us, it's like a step forward of the 10 years of work we have done with the victims of torture. Because we have worked for six months, intense work with a group. Then we make a performance and this group goes and we have a new group. But now you are giving us the opportunity and the Spoleto Festival to make a step forward in the sense that we are going to choose the best, not so many because we have not the possibility, but the best talent that we have seen in these 10 years and we will put them together to make a performance. So it's an opportunity you are giving to us. Thank you. Do you want to remind us a little bit about the performance? Yes. I want to, no base here, but for all our work we have done it together and she will explain a little bit about the performance in Spanish or in Italian. Is it possible? Of course, of course. Can you speak Italian and I will translate you? Thank you, thank you. So the idea is that we want to create a show that talks about the journey. The journey of people who in these last months, in the last years, have also risked their lives to find a way to save themselves from very, very difficult situations. Wait a minute, I will translate you. I will translate you. Sorry, I can't hear you. I will translate what you said so far, ok? Yes. The performance they are proposing for the Spoleto Festival is based on the idea of a journey and the journey that many of the immigrants have been living and going through in the last months and last years and based on the tragedies that are happening in the Mediterranean area in the last years. So the idea is to tell the journey, but to tell it through personal stories, personal experiences, so to make it human. This journey that we know so far, especially through statistics, that is the anonymity of the numbers, so to make this humanity alive, so the way is to tell this journey through the personal stories of the people. Right now we only hear the numbers and the statistics of this tragedy and through the performance they want to give a more human presence to the story of the journey. They imagine it like a biblical journey, ok? As a starting point, they will use a text of a Sufi poet which is entitled The Words of the Birds and this will be taking place on a boat which is imagined to be in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Ok, grazie. Yes, so thank you, there are people who are asking who is behind you? So here behind us are the most beautiful women that are the singers of the alabaos that they are in, we can call them, they are the ghosts of the jungle. We want to give homage to Ellen Stewart and I think the best way and the most beautiful way is that they will sing for her and for you all the alabaos songs. It's like a gospel, kind of gospel of the Pacific coast in Colombia. Thank you. We will make them sing. Thank you. Thank you so much, it's amazing, beautiful voices. I think now you can understand why we do what we do. Yes, definitely, definitely. So we really thank you so much and we will be in contact shortly in the next weeks and we wish you all the best for this production for the Bogota Festival. Thank you very much and really we have no words to thank you all. Actually Bernardo and Nube and all the women, you don't have wine with you but we have prepared wine for the people that are here and we want to make a toast for you. Thank you very much. To you, to your performance and your work, a toast and thank you so much. Thank you. Salute. Ciao. Ciao. Wow, that was amazing. A lot of people took a lot of time and effort to put this all together but there's probably one of us who really coordinated all the rest of us and made sure we got everything done on time. I want to give a special thank you to Adriana Garbagnati for all the amazing work she's done with us. She's in the kitchen because she also cooked the meal that you're about to enjoy. Adriana Garbagnati. So now you will get a program for tonight which talks a little bit more about Nube and Bernardo's work. We're very excited to see what they will be bringing to Spoleto this summer. I want to take a couple of minutes to explain a little bit about what's going on for the rest of this week and on into La Mama Umbria 2016. So we have upcoming this week La Mama Umbria play readings. These are plays that were written by playwrights last summer under the facilitation of Brandon Jacobs Jenkins. There's a bunch of playwrights here. Raise your hand, you guys. We have playwrights from last summer in the house and we're so happy that you're here. We're looking forward to hearing all the plays that you guys have written inspired by your time in La Mama Umbria. You have a complete schedule of the plays in the program plus so you can also find that online. They're free to come and attend. They'll be here in this room and we encourage you. They start on Friday and they go all through Friday, Friday evening, Saturday, Saturday evening. So please come and enjoy the plays. Now as for La Mama Umbria 2016, we're going to have some things we've had before and some new programming. So first of all will be the director symposium which will go from July 11th to August 10th and the teaching artists who will be part of that program this year include Lee Brewer and Juan Mitchell of Mabu Mines. The award-winning puppeteer Basil Twist, Sanjoy Ganguly from Yana Sanskriti in India who was also one of the finalists here for this award. Yoshiko Chuma from Japan. Marianne Weems, you're in the house. Marianne, where are you? Marianne Weems is going to join us this summer from Builders. Thank you so much for being here. Ilya K. Schneider, Enrique Vargas and Tian Mancha from China. So we encourage you to look at the website and encourage directors to sign up for those workshops. They're going to be amazing. Starting on August 12th, we have the Playwright Retreat and that will be facilitated this year by Mack Wellman. Yay, Mack. He's an extraordinary teacher and artist. I have a new program after that called Next Generation New Performance Development Incubator. This will happen between August 25th and September 4th. We need your help in getting the word out to all the people that could come to this program. This program is for artists under 35 years old who are going to be able to use the residents of Lamama Umbria as a retreat to create new pieces. New work. It's an incubator. You can work on things. You can develop projects there. And there will be Lamama artists there during the entire time for feedback. It will be more like the Sundance Institute process where people watch each other in rehearsal. They give feedback to each other when they want it. But it's really an incubator for new work by young artists. Something that we're very, very excited about. And you can find out information about that online with an application form. That program, because it's supported by the local Umbrian grant and government, is free. So people who get accepted to the program don't have to pay for anything except for the room and board at Lamama Umbria. And the program itself, though, is without charge. So we're very excited to be able to offer that. In addition, for those of you who are interested in the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, we're offering a Spoleto Festival Tour, July 2nd to July 12th, two nights in Rome, and then a week at the Spoleto Festival with tickets to four or more productions that are happening during the festival. And that tour will be led by the extraordinary Frank Carucci, who's right here. And to finish up, as we have in the past years, we're going to be participating in Lamama Spoleto Open, which are performances in the Festival of Two Worlds, the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds that we produce, both at the Contiere O'Birdon, which is our little theater in Spoleto, at Lamama Umbria, and sometimes at various other spaces around Spoleto. One of those productions will be the production that Nube and Bernardo are working on, and that will become part of this festival. So lots of exciting things to look forward to. I hope you'll all spread the word and join us. And thank you very much. And now I want to reintroduce Mia. I was going to say some concluding comments, and she's preparing food. Well, I could... Okay, Mia would be saying. Please join us now for a meal prepared by our Italian colleagues who have joined us specifically for this occasion. So Adriana, who you met, and her sister Maria, and several other of our Italian colleagues are here. And we're pleased that we want to announce the donations of some of the items you'll be having from Urbani Truffles, Truffle Company, Jerry's Market in New Jersey, Monini Olive Oil, and Mutti Tomato Sauce Company. So thank you to all those sponsors. We appreciate that very much. We also want to thank Culture Hub and for their work in live streaming this event and in bringing us the video you saw earlier from Columbia. We are going to have some music coming up, so we want to extend our thanks to Claudio Scarpottini and Yukio Suji, who will be playing music for you as you enjoy the rest of your evening. So thanks for being here. Take care.