Teatro con Corazón (Theater with a Heart)

Each summer, I collaborate with the local school to provide a performing arts summer program for the kids. I have the privilege of putting on a musical and teaching them all about musical theater—as well as the core values of community, hard work, and creativity that come with it. 

Palomino, Colombia is a beach-side beauty brimming with barefoot kids punting deflated soccer balls and families of five zooming by on a single motorcycle. Of women in vibrant mantas guajiras, of rivers that grow from snowy peaks and die in the sea, of violence and hope: mi Colombia—home. No feeling matches that of arriving at the school to ten sets of shimmering ebony eyes, my kiddos who walked to school alone just so they could sing and dance through the script I’d created. My chiquis, whose bright smiles every day remind me of why I must bring the arts into the world.