Day: February 7, 2024

Daniela Gascón Ramírez

2023 – Creative Passion – Cuba

Through the course I understood that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.

I understood that it is the way of appreciating life and each of its details that really makes the difference. So I started by looking at myself, looking inside myself to discover the beauty that I held and then I could offer it to the world and see everything around me with it.

These resources (beauty) that I discovered in me were various, such as empathy, affection and kindness. That is why I no longer look at the ugly, cruel or inhuman around me. I use my beauty in every step I take and I am able to see with empathy and kindness all the good that is out there.

All this thanks to art, thanks to the course and the tools it gave me. Maybe the world is still the same, but now I see it with the colours and beauty I discovered in me.

Yanela Lázara Rosabalela

2023 – Creative Passion – Cuba

At the time I joined the ‘Creative Passion’ course, I was going through a very complicated situation in my life. I had fears, insecurities and more over I had been let down by important people. 

Actually,  I can honestly say that this course has changed my life for the better for several reasons.

The course,  through art, has healed my inner fears, and channeled my insecurities with movement exercises and meeting others. 

Secondly, I met beautiful people who I feel are now part of me, and I am part of them.

Thirdly, I was able to learn about the multiple connotations of identity and how it can be a symptom of integration and disintegration at the simultaneously. 

Fourthly, I was able to see life with different eyes, that is, with optimism and hope for a better future.

 This opportunity gave me back the desire to dream, and to believe in the process of change and transformation in a collective way, and also as an individual. 

If I had to highlight something unique and extraordinary about this course, it is the possibility it offers to the participants to be themselves, without fear of being judged, rejected or offended by others.  It is a space of not only creative freedom, but also cultural, identity and artistic freedom. This makes it possible that at the end of this wonderful time together, I felt like a student and a teacher at every stage of the process, because I learned from everyone and I feel that my classmates also learned from me. My perceptions of beauty today are less demanding and more just. Moreover beauty lies in the ability to accept, even in the midst of diversity, the sublimity of being authentic.

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