{"id":11491,"date":"2022-07-11T09:47:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T16:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=11491"},"modified":"2022-07-12T12:08:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T19:08:23","slug":"redwood-city-is-painted-with-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/redwood-city-is-painted-with-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Children and teens paint Redwood City with hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

The two hardest years of COVID-19 lockdown put many things on hold, but never the creativity of the children who, through painting, expressed their hopes for a better post-pandemic world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children's teams Casa Circulo Cultural<\/a> and other local organizations and schools, accompanied by their parents, displayed their colorful and expressive murals in an alley in downtown Redwood City, located behind the parking lot of the Sequoia Hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mural \u201cWe Are All One\u201d made by students of Casa C\u00edrculo Cultural Photo: Irma Gallo P360P<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u00abBack to Books\u00bb mural made by students of Casa C\u00edrculo Cultural Photo: Irma Gallo P360P<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis year it was a little more difficult to get them to sign up because of the pandemic, but 13 teams did and submitted their sketches, which were reviewed by a committee. The judges decided to include all teams with three smaller murals at 816 Main Street,\u201d said Redwood City Vice Mayor Diana Reddy during the Youth Mural Alley Project opening event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe leaders of each team then attended a second workshop where they learned how to transfer the sketch drawings to a 4 x 8 canvas, as well as tips on how to paint the mural. We provided them with all the materials and delivered the plywood to their location,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Casa C\u00edrculo Cultural<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To conclude her speech, the Deputy Mayor greeted and thanked the child artists for their work, their families for accompanying them, and the Redwood City Arts Commission for the grant that made this project possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with Peninsula 360 Press, Chris Beth, director of the Recreation and Community Services Department of Redwood City Parks, said that art is a good form of expression for children and adolescents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd on this particular project they\u2019re working as a team,\u201d he continued. \u201cThese are collaborative murals done by young people who came together through their schools or organizations and created something really beautiful in this alley that was really neglected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Casa C\u00edrculo Cultural<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Susie Peyton, a member of the city's Art Commission, said the goal was to "create a place where there was only art made by young people." They reached out to more than 80 different schools and organizations and got 13 organizations and schools to participate with their murals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peyton also said she is convinced that no matter where they come from or what language they speak, if children and young people are given the opportunity to create art they will excel academically and in other areas of their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wendy Segovia, program coordinator at Casa C\u00edrculo Cultural, said that the children at this cultural center made two murals: "one was for the little ones, about the importance of reading books and not being so focused on technology, and the second was about inclusion, so that the older ones could express that they agree that we are all equal."<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wendy Segovia, program coordinator at Casa C\u00edrculo Cultural Photo: Irma Gallo P360P<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

She also said that the process of creating the works of art took place during daily painting classes under the supervision of teachers Roberto Cruz and Ram\u00f3n Franco, who guided the children and adolescents to finish their projects in the best way possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juliana Garc\u00eda, a student at Casa C\u00edrculo since she was very young and who participated in the mural for inclusion, said that this cultural center taught her a lot about her culture "and helped me a lot to express myself as the person I am today."<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naomi Segovia, also a student at Casa C\u00edrculo Cultural, said that \u201cit taught me some things about here in the United States and other things about my country \u2013 Mexico \u2013 that I didn\u2019t know, and it helped me talk to other people and overcome my fear of being in front of people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Casa C\u00edrculo Cultural<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just spoke with a child who is very proud of what he did. These opportunities are often not available at school. These cultural events are very important for all of our youth, so they have a place where they can express themselves,\u201d said former Redwood City Mayor Alicia Aguirre in an interview with P360P.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These works of art, in which children express their hope for an inclusive and equal world, where interest in culture overcomes addiction to social media, can be visited free of charge at 816 Main Street, in the alley of the Sequoia Hotel parking lot, in downtown Redwood City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Casa C\u00edrculo Cultural<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Los dos a\u00f1os m\u00e1s duros del confinamiento por COVID-19 pusieron muchas cosas en pausa, pero jam\u00e1s la creatividad de los ni\u00f1os que, por medio de la pintura, expresaron sus esperanzas en un mejor mundo post pandemia. Equipos de ni\u00f1os de Casa C\u00edrculo Cultural y otras organizaciones y escuelas locales, acompa\u00f1ados por sus padres, exhibieron sus […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover","9":"category-culture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11544,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions\/11544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}