{"id":1812,"date":"2022-01-04T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T15:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/datadc\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2022-01-09T12:49:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:49:12","slug":"introduction-post-alicia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/datadc\/2022\/01\/04\/introduction-post-alicia\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction Post Alicia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Hi everyone! My name is Alicia Henriquez. I\u2019m a junior, double majoring in Latin American Studies and Film and Media Studies. I\u2019m an international student f<\/span>rom N<\/span>icaragua, which is where I grew up and then I went to school in China for two years before coming to St Olaf. I have four older siblings who now live in different countries, so I don\u2019t get to see them as often as I\u2019d like to. I also have two bulldogs, their names are Luna (Moon) and Gea (Earth) and they are the cutest dogs on the planet. I am currently staying with my boyfriend\u2019s family in Nicaragua because my parents live in Costa Rica now, and they have Mafalda, who is a weird mix between labrador and poodle and she\u2019s the third cutest dog on the planet.<\/p>\n

\"\"I am taking this course for two reasons, the first one is because it fulfills the WRI requirement, which is one of the last ones I have left to finally be done with the BA degree, but also because it was the one that interested me the most from the list. Since I was little, me and my family have had a strong connection with art in all of its forms. Me and my brothers learned how to read music before learning how to read words because my parents insisted a lot on us learning how to play an instrument. I started learning how to play the violin when I was five. My dad, my brothers and I are fairly good at drawing and illustrating and I also like doing embroideries and photomontages all the time. But something that pushed me to be more creative and to create things more consistently was a social uprising after a 13 year long dictatorship in Nicaragua in 2018 that consisted mainly of artistic expressions as a way of changing\u00a0 the way in which people see conflicts and\u00a0 ways of demanding their rights without violence.\u00a0 Since then, most of my embroideries and photomontages have been focused as a way to demand for the Nicaraguan people\u2019s rights. I think this relates a lot to the class and specifically to the question of why democracy needs the arts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Something that excites me about the class is to understand how films as artistic expressions have been related to democracy, but I also want to learn more about democratic and creative processes in the US because I didn\u2019t grow up here. I’m also excited about the Washington Performing Arts and the Smithsonian American History Museum consultations!<\/span><\/p>\n

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