Casa Circulo Cultural and Yerba Buena Cultural Center for the Art, held the meeting of local artists "Represent-Art", which showed how diverse, complex and wonderful the Bay Area is in terms of art, where men and women of different ages showed their abilities.
The event called Represent-Art ?Represent-Arte in Spanish? It was held at the Casa Círculo Cultural facilities, in the heart of Redwood City, a space that received artists who requested to participate in this unique meeting that embraced art as its pillar.
Fiorella Arias, 13 years old, has sung for as long as she can remember, and with great fervor and delight she decided to participate in the gathering attended by residents of the city and its surroundings.
«I love to sing, dance and act. I am very excited to present the song "Alma Mía?", she said just before her participation.
The artist Lorena Segovia joined the meeting, who despite having spent a short time building her art and continuing to learn, recognized the support of Casa Círculo Cultural in its development.
"Here they have helped me capture what I think or copy some drawings, because I don't know how to paint, I'm still learning, I haven't been around for a long time," he said.
Alonso Sicairos, who was present at the meeting, is a globetrotter. The same occurs in São Paolo, Brazil, as in San Francisco, California. However, the opera singer, stage actor, and radio host is originally from Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico.
Teaching is also an art and children are a perfect canvas.
"Kids, when they're taking the class, you really see the person they're going to be. Because that shy child who arrives and doesn't want to talk to you, you begin to see that he develops more confidence in himself. Sometimes you see a child who really says: to me, my mom told me to come here and here I am, and then he is the first to say that he likes that song or? I like to sing?, or you see him that he is walking and singing," said Iris Lezama, from Casa Círculo Cultural, who also delighted the night with her voice.
The event could not miss the mayor of Redwood City, Jeff Gee, who recalled that art is a mixture of culture, legacy and everything that surrounds the artist.
«All this night, the art, the music. This is about the culture, the history, the legacy of the families. This is why I like Casa Circulo Cultural, because it's about culture and family, and it brings it here to Redwood City. I want to thank you personally and on behalf of the City Council. Thank you, what you do is fantastic," he stressed.
Similarly, Gee thanked the founder and general director of Casa Círculo Cultural, Verónica Escamez, for her work with the City Council and all the volunteers here at the multidisciplinary center "because they keep this alive and we need to keep the art and the music alive.
Also participating in the meeting were Lorena Casas Cortina, a plastic artist who from a very young age showed a taste for drawing and painting in her native Veracruz, Mexico, where she studied in local workshops and since then has learned as a self-taught artist experimenting with different materials such as acrylic, ink, pencil, gouache and others.
Itzel Angulo Blancarte, from Tecate, Baja California, Mexico. He decided to participate with his acrylic paintings on textured canvas that he creates with sand and marble dust, and colored pencils.
«I am passionate about colours, nature and the human body. I think art is all about portraying pieces of your mind and soul into something that represents you," he said.
She currently resides in the Bay Area, where accompanied by her husband and children, she explores and discovers spaces that inspire her to create her art.
«My art is not only a representation of myself, but also represents the love for art my grandfather, who was also an artist, taught me and which I hope will become a family legacy that my children and future generations of my family and the Latinx community can experience.
You can watch the video of the «Represent-Art» meeting on the channel of YouTube of Peninsula 360 Press.
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