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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SsTQ04BOeCo<\/a>The kingdom of God is like a garbage dump \u2026 trash and refuse as far as the eye can see; where poverty and pollution rule and reign. Until a few men of great imagination started picking through the garbage, and where everyone else saw useless trash, they saw musical instruments. People of great ingenuity beat the garbage into violins, cellos, trumpets and clarinets and taught some of the poorest kids on the planet how to play music. Now, everywhere they play hearts begin to sing, people begin to hope, beauty breaks into the dark and ugly chaos we have made of God\u2019s good creation. Every time they play there is a kind of resurrection.<\/p>\n

This piece by 60 Minutes<\/em> is one of the more stunning redemptive stories I\u2019ve seen of late. It\u2019s about an unlikely music program found in Cateura, Paraguay, a small city built up entirely around a garbage dump. Here the poorest of the poor built a city around a garbage dump where they pick through the trash for recyclable materials. That\u2019s how they make their living \u2026 trash pickers. It\u2019s a grim and grimy place.<\/p>\n

Then some guy living there decides to take discarded wood and metal and make musical instruments out of them. Another guy starts teaching kids how to play them. All of it stemming from recycled oil cans, bottle caps, drainpipes, and bottle caps. Pretty soon they\u2019ve got an orchestra. They\u2019ve got no electricity, no clean water, no clean air, but they\u2019ve got music.<\/p>\n

Somebody had the imagination to take the discarded poor \u2013 invisible to most of us \u2013 make them into an orchestra and place them front and center for all the world to see. That\u2019s ingenuity.<\/p>\n

A documentary called Landfillharmonic<\/a> is being made about this recycled music program.\u00a0The project is the brain child of Alejandra Amarilla, the film\u2019s executive producer. It\u2019s slated for release in 2014. Phoenix-based producer Juliana Pe\u00f1aranda-Loftus, and executive producing partner Rodolfo Madero are also involved in the film. From their website:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world generates about a billion tons of garbage a year. Those who live with it and from it are the poor \u2013 like the people of Cateura, Paraguay. And here they are transforming it into beauty. Landfill Harmonic follows the orchestra as it takes its inspiring spectacle of trash-into-music around the world. Follow the lives of a garbage picker, a music teacher and a group of children from a Paraguayan slum that out of necessity started creating instruments entirely out of garbage. Landfill Harmonic is a beautiful story about the transformative power of music, which also highlights\u00a0two vital issues of our times: poverty and waste pollution.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can\u2019t wait to see it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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