Audacity Performing Arts Project It provides special spaces for recreation and art, which helps the comprehensive development of children and young people, because through art they can understand and express their feelings, as well as form ties of identity from their roots and within their community.
Art is a language of expression during childhood and adolescence, creativity and imagination play a relevant role in the entire process; When painting, drawing, doing theater or learning music or dance, children, without realizing it, can experience deep feelings and sensations that allow them to show themselves as they are.
Audacity Performing Arts Project is a non-profit organization that seeks to bring young people closer to art through school programs that complement the development of children and young people.
Audacity teachers understand the world around children and come to listen to them as they spend time together during CORAL classes, which is a program designed for after-school recreational activities.
Paul Contreras is a teacher who is part of the CORAL program and seeks to be part of the lives of children and young people, not just as another teacher, because he hopes that they find a friend and someone to trust, since he was a child who He experienced the same circumstances that students face today.
?I went to schools like these, our family didn't have much money, we weren't poor, but we didn't have much either, my mom and my family did what they could to continue with school and we stayed in the after school program because my mom worked. Now these students mostly have that life, where their parents drop them off at after-school programs and come pick them up at the end of the day,” commented Paul Contreras.
For Paul, being in the classroom is more than a job, it is the opportunity to change lives, touch others and in the best cases leave a mark on those who needed it most.
"What we do is more than being here, I like to say that we share our time with them, we are with them and we listen to them and talk to them," he added.
For teachers in the Audacity Performing Arts Project's CORAL program, the tradition of celebrating the Day of the Dead is not common in schools, despite having Latino students.
?Their parents do not share these traditions with their children, but Day of the Dead is very important because it talks about death but it does not speak ill of death, since people who are gone still maintain a connection with their family and specifically in the United States. United States do not like to talk about this holiday or death, so it is not common?, he stressed.
However, through CORAL programs we seek to bring children and young people closer to knowing their roots and traditions, in this way they can understand the world around them and form ties with their community, their countries of origin and their families.
For teachers, being part of this great work of the Audacity Performing Arts Project of bringing recreational activities closer to study centers with the CORAL program is something that helps children and young people find a moment of fun, but also a free space where they can express themselves in the best way they want to show the world who they really are.
It is important to look forward with this program and look for areas of opportunity so that more schools can take part, so more children and young people find these spaces for development.
?We are looking to expand the organization to various areas and other places, since parents do not know the work that is being done, the fact of expanding would help more communities and help us so that they know us, that they know who we are, in What do we help children and their families? concluded Paul Contreras.
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