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local Thursday 17 November 2022

Youth cometition “Art Gang Aruba” celebrated their 15th anniversary

ORANJESTAD – Last week at the Cas di Cultura Aruba
the successful final of the youth competition “Gang
di Arte” – Art Gang - took place, celebrating their
15th anniversary.

All participants had to come up with a creative and
original work with the central theme: Hidden Talents.
A total of 15 groups participated in the pre-final that
took place during the Aruba Art Fair during the Per-
formance Art Program dedicated to Youth, a suc-
cessful activity that took place during that weekend,
when the jury selected 10 groups to go on to the fi-
nal.

The participants that qualified for the final were:
1. Alysa Brete with Arte Visual & Fotografia;
2. Naomi Arrindell with Poesia;
3. Dance group The Fearless Four with Shannee
Toussaint, Beverley Elliott, Sheri Godet and Xian-
drény Donata;
4. Gonzalez Duo (Alakina Gonzalez Lujan / Alejan-
dro Gonzalez Lujan) with guitar and keyboard,
accompanied by Denzel Tromp and Andrew
Webb;
5. Rap duo Zef Kerr & Brandon Kerr;
6. Guicel Krozendijk with spoken word and rock
singing;
7. Theatre group The Fantastic Five; Juliana Rowe,
Marie Jayne Vriend, Abigail Evertsz, Naomi Ar-
rinde and Kaiden Paternina;
8. Guizza Steenvoorde with Solo Performance with
spoken word and dance;
9. Dance and rap group I-LEDM; Dimitri Leonora, Is-
dell Hyacinme, Lenz Julien and Amylenne Roga;
10. Dance group No Image Dance Crew; Shäindra
Ashby, Shantal Arzuza Avila, Arzuliane Arzuza
Avil, Dinaly Yarzagaray and Alysa Brete.

At the beginning of the activity after a great dance
opening presented by the participants. The youth
project Op Zoek Naar Boy (Searching for Boy) pre-
sented by Catharsis Productions, a school project in
cooperation with Filomena College Mavo, Colegio
San Antonio, Muchila Creativo, Monumenten Fonds
and the Department of Culture of Aruba, dedicated
to Aruban hero, Boy Ecury.

Special guest was Stephanie Quant launchign her
latest production.

During the event there were also guests from Bo-
naire: Sulainie Martis and Reginald de Palm repre-
senting Openbaar Lichaam Bonaire, Section of Cul-
ture, Art and Literature; and Mr. Bernhard Comproe
representing ACE Foundation. The reason for the
presence of guests from Bonaire is that they also or-
ganize Art Gang and the winners of Art Gang in Aru-
ba will represent our island in Bonaire in May of 2023.

The top five resulting from the evening was:
Fifth place Guizza Steenvoorde.
Fourth place (BMT) Zef Kerr & Brandon Kerr.
Third place Guicel Krozendijk.
Second place Gonzalez Duo: Alakina Gonzalez Lu-
jan and Alejandro Gonzalez Lujan.
First place No Image Dance Crew; Shäindra Ashby,
Shantal Arzuza Avila, Arzuliane Arzuza Avila, Dinaly
Yarzagaray, Alysa Brete.

The Department of Culture thanks and congratu-
lates all schools, teachers, guides, parents and youth
for their great participation.q