 My name is Annalisa Ricciardi and I am a cataloger for the America's and Oceania Office at the British Library. Today I want to introduce you to one of the most fascinating cultural phenomenon of Latin America of the latest 20 years, cartonera. So, Eloisa Cartonera was the first cartonera's publisher who in the early 2000s started producing books using cardboard, both from the street, from the cardboard pickers, the cartoneros. The cardboard pickers were people who were going around the streets and collecting cardboard and they were selling for multiple porters. They were often marginalized and banned from white middle-class neighborhoods but their social reputation changed when the uprising of people from all classes and background came together in the street to fight for one common struggle. A Cerebro Musical was published by Eloisa Cartonera in 2005. It is a selection of short stories by Cesar Aira. This is a clear example of how a very established Argentinian author has donated one of his texts for the cause of making books together. It's a brilliant and fascinating story into the way imagination operates in human brains. So the cartonera phenomenon is a very colorful phenomenon but behind all these colors there is much more. So this is a sort of phoenix phenomenon coming out of the ashes of a country who was facing a financial disaster. And I think cartonera is a clear example of how people have invented in a moment of severe recession, how to go ahead with culture but also to find an alternative way to live. These books are important because they were created to give access to culture to everyone in a period, in a moment, in a country where culture was very difficult to assess. Famous authors, emerging authors, they were all working together. They are a clear example of how a group of people, multiple group of people all around the countries reacted to a moment of huge crisis, social, cultural, economic. So perhaps the lesson we can learn from the Argentinian people of the early 2000s is we all need to do our parts in moment of crisis. It's important to understand that there is always a way out if we all come together with new idea, alternative idea, to create and to react.