What is art?

What is art for artists?

Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.”

(Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519)

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”

(Michelangelo, 1475-1564)

Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”

(Karl Marx/Berthold Brecht, 1898-1956)

What is art for us?

• Fiorella Fuentes: Art is a way to express what we feel and think.
• Emily Diaz: Art is everything that we can express our feelings. We can represent art by drawing, dancing, painting, building and more. Art is the hability to create.
• Dannie Montes: Art is life, art is all of us, because, art is everything.

Source of information: http://the-creative-business.com/

By: Fiorella Fuentes, Emily Diaz, Dannie Montes-10A

Institute: Centro Cultural Sampedrano

Teacher: Ms. Aquino

Final Project of the 4th Partial of English

Guillermo Anderson

Guillermo Anderson was one of the best known Honduran musicians. A singer-songwriter, his lyrics often touch upon themes of ecology and social problems.

Guillermo Anderson was born February 26, 1962. He was Honduras’s best-known world music artist along with Garifuna musician Aurelio Martinez.

His concerts celebrated love, nature and everyday life in this part of the Caribbean. As an artist Guillermo played an important role in Honduras bringing awareness on important issues like the protection of the environment, health and literacy.

Early years

Guillermo Anderson grew up exposed to the mixture of Garifuna, North American, Britsh, and Caribbean cultures characteristic to the Northern coast of Honduras, which later provided the basis for his artistic style. He attended primary school at the Escuela Mazapán, in La Ceiba. It was in this school that he began to write his first poems and songs and learn chords on a toy banjo and sang for the first time on stage.In fourth grade Bill Stover, a teacher from North America, introduced him to American songwriters, like Paul Simon, Jim Croce, James Taylor and Crosby Stills and Nash. He attended secondary school at the Instituto San Isidro, also in La Ceiba. There he made friends with a cultural exchange student from North America, Gus Gregory, who introduced him to progressive jazz of the eighties.

 

His career in the United States

Guillermo, with encouragement of his friend Gus Gregory, traveled to the United States and studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz. There he majored in arts with focus on Hispanoamerican literature, but he also studied music and acting. He was introduced to composition and performance in the theater at the university. With college friends, guitarist Mexico-American Eugene Rodríguez and Argentine Pablo Aslán, he formed a bassist trio called "Now". This trio played traditional Latin American music and songs at college events, bars, and university spaces.He graduated from Santa Cruz in 1986 and subsequently worked in theater with "El Teatro De La Esperanza" in San Francisco, California, and El Teatro Campesino with Luis Valdez (producer of La Bamba). One of his most important experiences during this period was to perform in a bilingual theater for immigrant children, which resulted in his concert and album Para Los Chiquitos.

 

Honduras career

In 1987 Guillermo returned to Honduras. Guillermo first received widespread recognition with his acoustic guitar and two Garifuna drummers. He created La Ceiba COLECTIVARTES, an artist movement with other groups of artists, and invited other artists from Europe and USA to perform different works on La Ceiba. The most popular of these works was "Sabor A Sombra", based on Nelson Merren poetry.

After this, Guillermo started to make concerts and performances at festivals like "Aires de Abril" in Tegucigalpa and the country sides of Honduras. He often traveled to forest areas of Honduras, among them, La Mosquitia, a kind of Central American Amazonia where he recovered their musical traditions.

 

Tours

While performing in concerts in Tegucigalpa, Guillermo Anderson attracted the attention of foreign service officials from various countries and received invitations to festivals such as the "Cervantino International Festival" of Mexico and a concert at the "Memorial for Latin America," in San Pablo, Brazil. These two festivals gave rise to other invitations that propelled his career as a singer-songwriter.

With a solid discography of 12 productions and an extensive career, Anderson was constantly touring in Honduras and abroad. His music was and continues to be heard in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, United States of America, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. In Europe he performed in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, England and The Netherlands. In Asia he received applause in Japan where he made 2 tours of 30 cities. He also toured Taiwan and South Korea. The presentations were sometimes voice and guitar and other times an intense show that performed with his group.

Death 

November 2015 Anderson was diagnosed with anaplastic thyroid cancer. He died in company of his family on August 6, 2016 at the Hospital D'Antoni in La Ceiba, Atlantida.

HIS MOST FAMOUS IS "En mí país"

In my country (En mi país) a patriotic song that exalts the beauty of life in Honduras and refers to its folklore and its symbols.

 En mi País-Guillermo Anderson

Albums

• In 1999 he released the album Costa y Calor
• In 2001 he released the album Pobre Marinero
• In 2003 he released the album Encarguitos del Caribe
• In 2004 he released the album Mujer Canción, Canción mujer and the album "para loso chiquitos"
• In 2005 he released the album el tesoro que tenés
• In 2007 he released the album Del Tiempo y del Trópico
• In 2008 he released the album Songs for a Better Country
• In 2012 he released the album Lluvia con Sol
• In 2004 he released the compilation Llevarte al Mar
• In 2009 he released the compilation El Caribe de Guillermo, A journey through his Songs Vol 1

Source of information: Wikipedia and worldmusiccentral.org

By: Dannie Montes/10A

Institute: Centro Cultural Sampedrano

Teacher: Ms. Aquino

Final Project of the 4th Partial of English

Teofilito Trejo

Teófilo Trejo Pérez (March 5, 1941, La Lima - March 18, 2016, San Pedro Sula ), better known simply as Teofilito , was a writer and Honduran peasant leader, noted for his works on the oral tradition of Honduras.

His life has revolved around the Honduran pation has led him to be a collaborator of the word, monitor of the Radio Schools, president of the board of trustees, auxiliary mayor and president of his base group. He is an oral narrator and stories typical of popular culture, who decided to capture hiesant movement, thus, his tireless spirit of coopers verbal ability with the written word.

The ingenious writer used to write each anecdote in small notebooks, these were taken by the prestigious Editorial Guaymuras  who believed that their stories deserved to be read by the rest of the people.

This is how Las "Perras" of Don Teófilo became more than just anecdotes shared in  circle of colleagues, friends and family, they became an important part of Honduran his circle of colleagues, friends and family, they became an important part of Honduran literature.

His mother passed away when he was nine years old, so he was forced to drop out of school to help his father support his five siblings, working on a banana farm. For many years he worked as a peasant. He founded the National Central of Rural Workers (CNTC), of which he was its first secretary. With the CNTC he fought for the rights of the peasants, at a time when they were exploited, and because of this, Teofilito was arrested more than once. In 1971 he worked as a monitor in the Suyapa Radio Schools of the Catholic Church. In 1988, Editorial Guaymuras published his first book, "Las perras de Teofilito", and in later years published other works.

Definitely this character was born with the gift for the short story, his tenacity and determination led him to sell his books from house to house until he got the recognition he deserved. He became an important peasant leader and at times a preacher in the local Catholic Church.

Death

Teofilito lived in Choloma with his family. On March 18, 2016, he was hit by a hit and run motorcyclist. Teofilito was hospitalized in an emergency at the Mario Catarino Rivas Hospital, in San Pedro Sula, but died that same day from his injuries.

Plays

• The Bitches of Teofilito( Las perras de Teofilito) (1988)

•  Tell me another, Teofilito ( Cuentame otra, Teofilito)(1989)

•  Notes on my life(Apuntes sobre mi vida) (1995) 

• The bitches bitches of Teofilito ( Las perras mas perras de Teofilito) (1997)

• What a dog is Teofilito! ( Que perrero es Teofilito) (2000)

• You continue perreando, Teofilito ( Seguís perreando, Teofilito)(2004)

• They're all bitches, Teofilito (Son puras perras, Teofilito)(2008)

• Theophyllite's Dream ( El sueño de Teofilito) (2010)

Source of information: Hondurastips
By: Emily Diaz-10A
Institute: Centro Cultural Sampedrano
Teacher: Ms. Aquino
Final Project of the 4th Partial of English

 

Ramón Amaya Amador

Ramón Amaya Amador was born in the municipality of Olanchito, Yoro, on April 29, 1916, his parents being Isabel Amaya and Guillermo R. Amador. 

After working as a laborer in the banana fields of the north coast, he began his career as a storyteller and his story "La nochebuena del campeño Juan Blas" was published in issue 15 of the ANC magazine, an organ of the National Association of Chroniclers. published in Tegucigalpa and corresponding to December 31, 1939. 

Who was Ramon Amaya Amador?

Ramón Amaya Amador, storyteller and journalist, is one of the most prolific writers in the country and the one who has more published works.

Ramón Amaya Amador began his journalistic life in 1941 as an editor, first, and later as editor-in-chief of the newspaper El Atlántico, from La Ceiba, founded and directed by Ángel Moya Posas. Subsequently, on October 8, 1943, Ramón Amaya Amador founded in Olanchito, with Dionisio Romero Narváez, the weekly Alert, with the valuable collaboration of his colleague Pablo Magín Romero.

 

Exile

The writer left his homeland in 1944 due to the persecution of the Cariato, settling in Guatemala, where he worked as an editorial writer for Nuestro Diario, during the democratic regime of Dr. Juan José Arévalo, also delivering his contributions to the Diario de Centro América, El Popular Progresista and noon. After the fall of the government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, our compatriot took refuge in the headquarters of the Argentine Embassy, ​​traveling to that southern nation. In Buenos Aires he worked in the publishing house "Ariel" and in Sarmiento, a popular education newspaper, published in the city of Córdoba.

On May 19, 1957, Ramón Amaya Amador returned to Honduras, accompanied by his wife Regina Arminda Funes, originally from Córdoba, Argentina; in that year he joined the editorial staff of the newspaper El Cronista, run by Alejandro Valladares, and founded in Tegucigalpa, with Luis Manuel Zúniga, the magazine Vistazo.

The Honduran Literary Circle paid tribute to him at the Paraninfo of the National Autonomous University in Tegucigalpa on November 11, 1958, with the rector Lisandro Gálvez and university students Rafael Leiva Vivas, J. Delmer Urbizo and Oscar Acosta intervening.

On that occasion, Ramón Amaya Amador read an extensive speech of gratitude in which he affirmed that it was the first time that in his homeland he had received an honorable distinction for his work in letters and culture. This document can be considered as his literary testament.

On April 19, 1959 he left Tegucigalpa with his wife Arminda and his young children: Aixa Ixchel and Carlos Raúl, to settle in Prague, Czechoslovakia, integrating the editorial staff of the magazine Problems of Peace and the Socialism.

Death

Between November 14 and 20, 1966, Ramón Amaya Amador traveled to Sofia, in Bulgaria, on behalf of the Communist Party of Honduras, to the Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party that was held in the capital.

On November 24, Amaya Amador took flight TABSO LZ101 back, bound for Prague via Budapest, however, the flight deviated from its route due to bad weather and had to land in Bratislava, Slovakia. A few minutes after leaving, the plane crashed 5 miles from the airport, killing 74 passengers and 8 crew members, including Ramón Amaya Amador.

In September 1977 the remains of Ramón Amaya Amador were finally repatriated and returned to the city of Tegucigalpa. His widow, Regina Arminda Fúnez, died in the Argentine Republic in 2007.

Published Works

• 
  Green Prison (1945)
• Dawn (1947)
• The Indian Sánchez (1948)
• Under the Sign of Peace (1953)
• Constructures (1957)
• The Lord of the Sierra (1957)
• The witches of Ilamatepeque (1958)
• Memoirs of a scoundrel (1958)
• Biography of a machete (1959)
• Red Detachment (1960)
• The May Road (1963)
• Cocks (1963)
• With the same horseshoe (1963)
• Jacinta Peralta (1964)
• Operation Gorilla (1965)
• Morazaneida (1966) So far only one volume of five edited
• The rebels of the town of San Miguel 1964-1966

 

Inedited books

• 
  The Grinding (1944)
• The India of Love Defeated (1955)
• Mahogany Borders (1956)
• Memoirs of a scoundrel (1959)
• Jug seekers (1961)
• An Apprentice Messiah (1961)
• Wildlands of the coyol or cinchonero (1962)
• The Bottled Man (1965)
• Holy land (1965)
• Morazaneida (1966) So far only one volume of five edited
• Junco's Hat
• The Pa and the Blood
• Shadows of the Mountain
• The Last Order

Summary of Cipotes

The plot collects the painful and hectic life of this small world of shoeshine whose center is the bronze statue of the martyr of the Central American unity, the children who dedicate themselves to this work go to him not because they want to or because they like to kneel In front of those who wear luxurious shoes, while they walk with their bare feet, in general these are families that lose their father and these children cannot go to school and must join any activity to contribute some pennies to the house.

Source of information: redhonduras.com and Wikipedia

By: Fiorella Fuentes-10A

Institute: Centro Cultural Sampedrano

Teacher: Ms. Aquino

Final Project of the 4th Partial of English