Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!

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Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!
Punto Crea - Creative Youth Makers in Guatemala!

Project Report | May 31, 2022
Theater is a powerful learning experience

By Felix Alvarado | Sponsor

Youth with our partners from El Teatrito
Youth with our partners from El Teatrito

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Punto Crea is about STEAM education. This means providing learning oportunities in the sciences, technology, engineering, arts and math. But it's easy to lose track of the A in STEAM! However, the arts are every bit as powerful as technology, the sciences or mathematics to develop the mind in young people.

In Punto Crea we have bet on using theater as our point of entry into the arts. But not only is theater an art in itself, but it provides opportunities to develop, apply and integrate competences across the whole curriculum in ways that are fun and make real-world sense.

In the theater Young people can write (scripts), paint (backdrops, scenery, posters), try their hands with a variety of technologies (lighting, sound), work with numbers (estimate costs, calculate income), exercise their body and develop confidence in front of a crowd, and of course, express their thoughts and feelings about the world around them!

In Artzenico — a Quetzaltenango-based theater school and experiemental theater group we have found a great partner for this. Over the last semester Artzenico's team has been developing a team of Punto Crea teater coordinators, young people that commit to leading and organizing theater groups in their own communities. Using our challenge-based learning methodology they invite them to find topics of interest and significance and address them through a variety of theatrical methodologies. Young people love it!

As ever, doing this is only possible because of our funding partners. A big part of funding for it comes from institutional grantors, but it is the small individual gifts — yes, this means you! — that give us the flexibility to take chances, reach out to partners like Artzenico and to keep expanding the envelope of what it means to foster creative youth makers.

Please accept our appreciation once again for making this possible, and help us keep doing it by spreading the word among your friends, family and acquaintances. Invite them to add their pledge to our subscription page. Together we can continue doing great things and reaching more youth.

Felix Alvarado

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El teatro es una poderosa experiencia de aprendizaje

Punto Crea es educación STEAM. Esto significa brindar oportunidades de aprendizaje en ciencias, tecnología, ingeniería, artes y matemáticas. ¡Pero es fácil perder el rastro de la A en STEAM! Sin embargo, las artes son tan poderosas como la tecnología, las ciencias o las matemáticas para desarrollar la mente de los jóvenes.

En Punto Crea hemos apostado por utilizar el teatro como nuestra puerta de entrada a las artes. Pero el teatro no solo es un arte en sí mismo, sino que brinda oportunidades para desarrollar, aplicar e integrar competencias a todo lo ancho del currículo de manera divertida y con sentido del mundo real.

En el teatro, los jóvenes pueden escribir (guiones), pintar (fondos, decorados, carteles), probar suerte con una variedad de tecnologías (iluminación, sonido), trabajar con números (estimar costos, calcular ingresos), ejercitar su cuerpo y desarrollar confianza frente a una multitud y, por supuesto, ¡expresar sus pensamientos y sentimientos sobre el mundo que los rodea!

En Artzenico, una escuela de teatro y grupo de teatro experimental con sede en Quetzaltenango, hemos encontrado un gran socio para esto. Durante el último semestre, el equipo de Artzenico ha estado desarrollando un equipo de coordinadores de teatro de Punto Crea, jóvenes que se comprometen a liderar y organizar grupos de teatro en sus propias comunidades. Usando nuestra metodología de aprendizaje basada en desafíos, los invitan a encontrar temas de interés y significado y abordarlos a través de una variedad de metodologías teatrales. ¡A los jóvenes les encanta!

Como siempre, hacer esto solo es posible gracias a nuestros socios financieros. Una gran parte de la financiación proviene de donantes institucionales, pero son las pequeñas donaciones individuales, sí, ¡esto significa usted! — que nos dan la flexibilidad para arriesgarnos, encontrar a socios como Artzenico y seguir ampliando el alcance de lo que significa fomentar a los jóvenes creadores creativos.

Por favor, acepte una vez más nuestro agradecimiento por hacer esto posible y ayúdenos a seguir haciéndolo pasando la voz entre sus amigos, familiares y conocidos. Invítelos a sumarse a nuestra página de suscripción. Juntos podemos seguir haciendo grandes cosas y llegando a más jóvenes.

Félix Alvarado

 

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