"I teach because I search, because I question, and
because I submit myself to questioning."
~ Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom
As Freire also wrote once, I love teaching because I love learning, and there is no teaching without learning.
Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados 2013Workshops for children and adults refugees in Panama during 2013.
The main idea was to create a space in which the participants felt free to talk about their own lifes, difficulties, struggles and share their experience in order to start a process of healing. Cemento Panamá (Colón, Panamá) 2012People of Las Tablitas had been working with the employees of the company Cemento Panama on the improvement of their community, particularly on the topic of garbage disposal.
Centro Sociale Street Up ( ITALIA 2012)Italian and Foreigner Adolescents come to this center to socialize and study, painting this murals with them was a very interesting experience in which cultural particularities were easily recognized in the final outcome.
6to Encontro Intl. de Ilustracao (PORTUGAL 2013)
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Residencia Conexión Drácula 2012This workshop was done with the collaborators of Finca Drácula , a creative exercise with the topic of hybridization. This activity was part of my participation in the Artistic Residence Conexión Drácula 2012
I did another mural workshop in the local school. This creative exercise was about creating imaginary animals. After the painting workshop, poet, Lil María Herrera (also part of Conexión Drácula) interviewed each one of the participants about the animal they had created. The result of this interviews, was a collection of 10 beautiful poems that were copied on the walls next to the drawings, I designed a hand made book inspired in one of the children´s drawings with the poems. This was the first handmade book of a publishing house I created after the Residence, Ediciones Pelo Malo (Cartonera).
World Event of Young Artist (ENGLAND, 2012)This workshop was done as part of the activities with the community during the World Event of Young Artist. This time I did a workshop about self portraits with a group of adolescent mother. I spoke a little about Frida Kahlo and how she used the self-portraits to heal the difficulties she had gone through. Participants did not have necessarily to portray their face, they could use other elements that they felt identified with.
Fundación AmaneceresDrawing and Painting Workshops with Adolescents (supervised by the pscicologist of the center) since 2007.
Casa Cultural HuellasWorkshops for children, adolescents and adults on sculpture, literature, drawing, painting and art history since 2004.
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