Centro Arte para la Paz – Suchitoto

Classes

Ofrecemos diferentes talleres gratuitos para jóvenes y adultos.

We have five areas of attention on which the classes are developed: music, plastic arts, vocational, emotional attention and dance.

The classes are taught by professional staff as teachers on different days and times; and they are totally free for girls, boys, young women and men, as well as for adults and seniors, for a period of 11 months each year. Some workshops are also taught by local, national and foreign volunteers; and, sometimes the workshops take place outside the center, in educational centers in the city and in rural areas.

With learning-by-doing, through the languages of the visual arts, we connect with the creative side of the brain.

This practice allows us to have a more open to change mind. Being able to turn a problem into an opportunity, while developing a more critical sense of what we see. These are not just visual arts classes, it is a coexistence of young minds that, in the DOING, become BEING.

To empower that wonderful ability that every human being has: THE POSSIBILITY TO CREATE.

Our classes:

Plastic Arts

"They thought I was a surrealist, but I was not. I never painted my dreams. I painted my own reality. Frida Kahlo (Mexican painter representative of Latin American surrealism)

The strength of the forms enables us a way of telling. This makes the plastic arts classes become a space where creativity materializes without limits; the possibilities of expression become endless among colors, techniques, materials and a luminous class where learning by tracing the imagination.

Martial Arts 

«Lo más importante es que el karate, como una forma de deporte usada en educación física, pueda ser lo suficientemente simple de ser practicado sin dificultades por todos, jóvenes y viejos, chicos y chicas, hombres y mujeres». Gichin Funakoshi (Maestro conocido como el creador del karate moderno)

Como entrenamiento físico, las artes marciales no solo nos aportan herramientas para el raciocinio, la reflexión y el buen juicio, sino que, además, nos permiten mantener la agilidad y el buen funcionamiento del cuerpo, ya que se trabajan los dos hemisferios del cerebro, desarrollando equilibradamente las facultades de ambas partes.

English

«Aprender otro idioma no es solamente aprender diferentes palabras para las mismas cosas, también es aprender otras maneras de pensar acerca de esas cosas». Flora Lewis (periodista, corresponsal internacional y escritora norteamericana)

As social beings, we have the ability to seek ways to communicate. Learning another language opens up spaces of thought and other ways of seeing and doing in the world. We are aware of the importance of this learning as a tool for many areas of life. Here, we enable the experimentation of these other languages.

Computing

«Me enseñaron que el camino del progreso no es ni rápido ni fácil». Marie Curie (científica polaca pionera en el campo de la radiactividad)

Computation is all around us; life is becoming increasingly computerized and is inevitably permeating our daily lives, our social relationships. We think of computing as essential learning for the world we live in; to facilitate jobs, to access to new knowledge; but also, to learn how to do it in a conscious and responsible way.

Body expression and puppets

«Soy bailarín, escribo con mi cuerpo y pinto con mis movimientos». Anónimo

La expresión corporal es una actividad cuyo objeto es la conducta motriz con finalidad expresiva, comunicativa y estética en la que el cuerpo expresa y canaliza emociones y sensaciones. Los títeres son también un objeto didáctico mediante el cual se pueden contar historias y expresarse; además, podrán crear los suyos propios personalizados, donde fomentarán la creatividad y las habilidades manuales.

Instruments

«La música expresa lo que no puede ser dicho y aquello sobre lo que es imposible permanecer en silencio».  Víctor Hugo (importante escritor, dramaturgo y poeta de lengua francesa)

Music, that universal language that allows us to cross borders and transform feelings, thoughts and ideas into an aesthetic experience for the listener. We offer classes where Guitar, Marimba, Piano, Strings, Percussion, Saxophone, Clarinet, Harp and Recorder can be learnt.

Crative Dance

«Bailar es simplemente descubrir». Martha Graham (bailarina y coreógrafa reconocida)

Our dance workshops for children are ideal for the little ones to start working on their motor coordination. It helps them in their development and work on creativity, self-esteem, confidence and above all body expression.

Look at the experience of our students: