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The workshop was held at the Liceo Expermental Artistico which is a school that focuses especially on the creative behavior of its students. Creativity and imagination are highly and permanently encouraged in them, so these children have special skills for developing art works. The workshop lasted 6 days, from November 25 untill November 30 of the summer of the year 1999. 38 children participated in the main sketches, but actually all the children in the school (around 60) made at least one brushstroke on the canbas, so they felt is was a great project that involved the whole school spirit. The workshop was coordinated by the Extension Schoolof the children in the Catholic University in the capital of Chile; the city of Santiago. The leader teacher was Ms. Rosa Alburquenque accompanied by Ms. Laura Huichaman, Ms. Gabriela Mora and Mr. Benito Pena. The first step was to generate the children's motivation on the issue. They commented on life, humanity and about living in hormoniy and peace. Then they made sletches with images suggesting peace and violence according to thier own understanding of the world. These images were constructed through the protagonism of the Larin American identity. The main figure of the mural was a kind of dragon or long snake resembling the geography our long and narrow country. The head of the dragon was at the north of Chile (which is a desert) accompanied by figures that characterize the culture of that area (cactus, dancing rituals with special masks, churches) and warm colors were located to the scenery. The central part of the mural corresponded to images related to the indigenous inhabitants of our country, our origins. They are called Mapuches, and are represented by human figures, the earth, the sun, the moon, birds, etc. Towards the end of the mural, the southern part of Chile which is more like a jungle full of vegetation, colors in the mural become blue and green, generating an atmosphere of peace. The main fugures are mermaids, gods of the sea and others. (Written by Daniela Rosenfeld)
ORGANIZER
Benito Pena (Director of the School)
Prof. Rosa Alburquenque
ADVISER
Rosa Alburquenque
COLLABORATORS
Laura Huichaman
Gabriela Mora
Jose Luis Durban
Wolfgang Schroder
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Children:
Sebastian Amagada, 9
Paula Bravo, 9
Sofia Gonzalez, 9
Yersey Hidalgo, 9
Gary Pavez, 9
Ismael Perez, 9
Gabriela Pizzaro, 9
Viviana Seares, 9
Amerinca Benson, 10
Byron Inarejo, 10
Nicolas Jimenez, 10
Catalina Melo, 10
Yasmin Quilidran, 10
Camilo Teran, 10
Naomi Zambrano, 10
Sebastian Acevedo, 11
Zagueny Carmona, 11
Javiera Cortez, 11
Geraldine Cuevas, 11
Francisca Galvez, 11
Viviana Gonzalez, 11
Carlos Martinez, 11
Karen Maujer, 11
Paula Ramirez, 11
Josue Tapia, 11
Gonzalo Teran, 11
Aura Valdes, 11
Erik Romero, 11
Juan Gabriel, 12
Barrenechea, 12
Alan Colonelli, 12
Elsa Frottier, 12
Romina Fuentes, 12
Yumbel Gongora, 12
Nicolas Gueny, 12
Javier Larach, 12
Catalina Naranjo, 12
Ayllalin Pardo, 12
Renala Riquelme, 12 |
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