We are brutish, we are ferocious, we are cruel.
We areindomitable, we are impulsive, we are reckless.
We are visceral, we are unpredictable, we are violent.
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We condemn violence. We criticize the abuse of power and denounce the indiscriminate use of force. We rise up against intolerance and we censure cruelty. We are concerned about the scenes of anger around us. Our society is used to be driven by excesses. Every day, we are witnesses of situations in which vehemence prevails.

We rebel so we don’t get used to this. We want to avoid any situation that causes anger, tension, discomfort. We are radically against violence but we are all violent. This dichotomy haunts us.

Why is our world so full of aggressiveness? Why are hostility and cruelty so common between human beings? Why do nations threaten each other with nuclear extermination? Why does crime increase almost everywhere? What could be the answer? The most convenient one is, of course, to claim that human beings are imperfect beings, sinful and violent by nature. This explanation pleases almost everyone, because, predetermined by this nature, nobody can be blamed for the way he or she behaves.

Festival 10 Sentidos, in its 8th edition, aims to reflect on the concept of violence —as violence both overwhelms and fascinates us, surrounds and haunts us— and to open a discussion to overturn the violent and unfair system we live in.

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