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ORANJESTAD — Muchila Creativo is a spe-
cial foundation. The inspiration that art and
music provides forms their tool to work in dif-
ferent fields. Rose-marie Provence, president
of Foundation Muchila Creativo, explains us
more about this creative place. “We exist for meaning that we work together with schools, nizes workshops for companies.
15 years already this year. The reason we have artistic reflects to the lessons like theatre, mu-
started this foundation is that we have expe- sic and visual art. Cultural: We contribute of- The Program & The People
rienced the need for music and art within our ten to events like ‘Arte e Cultura’, carioca Workshops and Projects for schools offered by
job as teachers. I am referring to Mathilda nights and so on. Social-emotional and thera- the foundation are: Music Box, Drum Circle
Vloor, Conrad de Rozario and myself, three peutic: Every year we work on a musical with and musical, Folklore dance and Music and
teachers of elementary school who founded elementary schools, the topic here is the mu- Art workshops for teachers. Courses within
this foundation.” sical of West Side Story. While working with the their program are: Theater Production for chil-
children we have noticed the social problems dren and adults, Music course and Artbox /
The three wished to offer more to the children that they often deal with and the project can Visual Art courses. Board of the foundation is
than just the regular classes and thus started to help some children to express themselves formed by President: Rose-Marie Provence
offer musical projects that the children loved and release their stress. That is exactly what MSc, Secretary: Emerita Emerencia and
to participate in. “The word Muchila is actually we strive for, the process is important to us, Treasurer: Sandy Patrick Maduro. The Com-
Papiamento for hand bag, used in former days not the end result.” Therapeutic applies also missionaire exists of Marielle Perez, Geof-
by fishermen or farmers to stack away their to the integration of art and music within au- frey Wever, Monique Croes and Arts teach-
tools while working. The symbolic meaning is tism sessions or for people that go through ers are Emerita Emerencia :Theatre, Frans
the luggage you carry with you, so your emo- depressions. The children express themselves Lacle: Visual Arts, Jane Lanooij: Music, Rose-
tional ballast that can be used or transformed with painting classes, music lessons and story- Marie Provence: Music and Mayra Stroeken:
in a positive way by performing art and music. telling for example. The foundation also orga- Dance.q
Our goal is to promote art and music in the wid-
est sense of the word, for all age categories.”
Fundacion Muchila Creativo is a foundation
that works in the social, cultural, artistic, cre-
ative and therapeutic field. They want to mo-
tivate children, youth and adolescents to ex-
press themselves in the fields of music, dance,
visual arts, drama and arts as a whole.
They also want to expand their creative hori-
zon by means of literature and multimedia. This
is done by means of courses, lectures, presen-
tations, workshops, seminars and expositions.

The Process Matters
Rose-marie: “We work on the principles of
three pillars: Educational & Artistic, Cultural,
and Social-Emotional & Therapeutic. We work
constant within these areas. Educational

If you would like to support the foundation, please call + (297) 583 8921 If you would like to donate, you are welcome to contribute through the
bank account Arubabank # 256 4640 190 is on the name of Fundacion Muchila Creativo. For more information visit the website: muchilacreativo.
org/main or Facebook Fundacion Muchila Creativo. Thank You!