Welcome to the youth program Conectándonos Más. In this section you will find everything you will need for this period.
We look forward to accompanying you through this journey of self-discovery and reconnection to our history through the arts.
This week:
Summary of previous weeks
Glosario General
Consult the glossary with basic concepts we need to have in common during this period.
Artists we will meet
Alfredo Chávez
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer, Chávez’s group repertoire includes bolero, corridor, cueca, joropo, cumbia, son, guajira, Andean music, merengue, and calypso, as well as popular ballads.
Juanita Eufemia Crisanto
Is a Garifuna Community organizer born and raised in Buenavista Palacio, a little town in the neighborhood of “Gracias a Dios” in Honduras. She has been dancing and enjoying the Garifuna culture since she was born
Eduardo Mendonca
Eduardo is Co-Director for Brazil Arts & Education, DBA: show Brazil!. He has played, composed, and directed various genres of Brazilian popular music since 1974. and hasshared international stages.
Mestre Curisco
Mestre founded Capoeira Malês and He aims to share his love of capoeira and wealth of experience with students, based on their shared values of respect, discipline and tradition.
Subjects
Mobile Photography
Instructor: Leo Carmona
Originally from Oaxaca, Mexico, Leo Carmona is a photographer, visual artist, and designer based in Seattle, WA.
Class resources
Autobiographic writing
Instructor: Jacob Taylor-Mosquera
Was appointed as a Commissioner for the King County Immigrant & Refugee Commission. He studied international relations, has a master’s degree in public policy with an emphasis in Latin America and just completed a graduate certificate program in public administration.
History of transatlantic trade and consolidation of racism in Latin America
Instructor: Evelyne Laurent- Perrault
Evelyne is a Venezuelan of Haitian descent. Her research looks into the subjectivity, intellectual creativity, and political imagination of enslaved and free women of African descent, who lived during the XVIII century.
Human Rights: History of human rights and the rights of Afro-descendants; Children and youth rights and migrant rights.
Instructor: Mireidis Marcano
Mireidis is a Political Scientist from the Central University of Venezuela, with a Master’s degree in Democracy and Human Rights from the University of Alcalá de Henares in Spain
Artistic exploration
Facilitator: Sabrina Chacón-Baraja
Sabrina is a teaching artist that cares about representation in the classroom through the power of the arts.
Facilitator: María Luisa Guillén
Poesia Mariarte is a visual creative thinker/artist, illustrator, graphic designer, writer, educator/art therapist, and Indigenous Rights Observer.
Class resources
Complementary activities
Office Hours
Office hours are an alternative time–not mandatory–intended to assist you individually in case you have questions, doubts, and/or require guidance and tools for the development and completion of your creative work. We have scheduled 5 Office Hours distributed throughout the program (check the schedule) A team of advisors will be available to the entire group for 3 hours. It is important that you book a session in advance through the form.
Process:
1. Register for a day and time in the online Office Hour form at least one week in advance.
2. When registering please formulate your question, reflection, or the subject you want to address.
3. The question, reflection, or the subject you want to address must refer to the topic previously discussed in the program or be related to your creative work.
4. You will have 25 minutes per advisory period.
5. Keep in mind that in an Office Hour between 6 and 12 young people can be advised, so it is important that you fill out the form on time.
6. According to the question, reflection, or subject you formulate, The Office Hour coordinators may contact the artist or facilitator so that they are present at the required time, or so that they answer the question in writing, audio or video.
Skill Share
Conectándonos MÁS gives you the opportunity to share your abilities, talents, and experiences as a workshop facilitator. Throughout the program you can schedule a time to offer a workshop open to the community of MÁS. You share your knowledge and we provide you with promotion (flier, outreach and registration) and guidance (mentorship to carry out your workshop)
Process:
1- Your skill-share workshop can last from one to two hours.
2- On the MÁS Website you will find a form where you will share with us what your workshop is about and the necessary logistics to achieve your goal. We will use that information to create a promotion to publicize the event.
3- Choose a date and time with the program coordinators.
4- If you need to work on the details of your workshop, the youth program coordinators will assign you a mentor to accompany you in the planning process.
5- Once you complete your workshop, you will receive a stipend/gift card for your work with the purpose of supporting you in continuing to develop your skills.