Learning outside university

     About two years ago, a designer and scenary technician agroupation was born, the ADTRES. This association has as its goal to appear as an important part of theater as it is normal to see the name of the actors, directors and writers but it is very rare to see designers ever credited. Even the awards given by the academy are never given to the designers, as they only focus on the mentioned group of people. The theatrical designers of any type are completely forgotten. This is why the association was created, among other things, to attain some presence in the media.

     Anyhow, they have actually made progress and have imparted several courses along the year thanks to a FONDART they won, among them a scenary one they are imparting this year, which I took. It's really good! We began in early August and we are almost 40 people already. We attend twice a week: Tuesdays from 18:00 to 22:00 and Saturdays from 10:00 to 14:00. What's fun about this is that we have our lessons on the theaters themselves and we build stuff every Saturday, so it is not like a normal university lesson where you have to sit, pay attention and take notes about how things would be. This is real hands-on work. We see the different tools and their uses; we examine materials and their qualities, etc... The teachers are designers who graduated from this very university. They are young but they are constantly working. We can watch at least 5 to 6 of their plays a year. They are either working on theaters or working in other areas of the arts such as cinema or tv. Their works are really good, of excellent quality.

    The classes finish in three weeks more, and I think I've learned way more than in regular university lessons. I hope these type of agroupations continue to exist because they benefit everyone