The final showcase of Art Rules Aruba produced a tremendous three hour spectacle which took off with a fashion show, and an art exhibition and culminated with a large-scale theater production peppered with video and film, dance, and poetry.
Over 200 local teens participated in this year’s edition of Art Rules Aruba produced by Ira & Ayra Kip of the Pancake Gallery Foundation. They experience intense two weeks of workshop in seven creative disciplines with Dance, Painting, Film, Photography, Fashion & Design, Rap & Poetry, and DJing, on the curriculum. The classes unfolded at Atelier 89 in Oranjestad and at Scol di Arte in San Nicolas.
Art Rules Aruba thanked parents who allowed their children to participate and spread their artistic wings without criticism, or judgment, thus granting them self expression and an independent voice of their own.
The fashion show was received with great enthusiasm as professional models showed off the young designers’ creation, which was in turn photographed by the photography class.
In the packed Cas Di Cultura auditorium audiences were treated to a series of intelligent and surprisingly honest films, and deep and revealing rap and poetry monologues laced with serious theatrical pieces, interspersed with exuberant and uninhibited dance segments as well as a tribute to a late Aruba artist Bobby Farrell, the famous Eurodisco front liner of BonnyM.
Congratulation to the crew of international teachers who skillfully developed Aruba’s talented youth, and inspired them to rise to an impressive level of creativity, originality and inventiveness.
On behalf of the Pancake Gallery Foundation, thanks to all generous sponsors who made the two fantastic weeks possible, already planting the seeds to next year’s third edition of the program.