This Spring Semester, Trinfo took part in Mi Casa’s Transformando el Futuro Service Learning Project. One of the goals of the project is to conduct an investigation on how families of Mi Casa’s students originally came to Hartford and the history of the Frog Hollow neighborhood, where many of their students live. Trinfo’s role in the project was to assist in putting together an artistic presentation where students will be able talk about their Hartford experiences. Trinfo taught a revised version of our Lyricist Lounge curriculum. The first part of the curriculum is on how to write poetry. The second part consists of voice recording of their poems. Lastly, students were taught how to showcase their poetry along with their voice recording into a movie. Below are the videos of their artistic creations:
Our Hartford Poem (Nuestra Poema de Hartford), by various Artists
This is a collective poem written and produced by Mi Casa students and Trinfo Staff on Hartford
The following are 10 of the individual poems produced by Mi Casa students:
First Day in Hartford, by Luis
Graffiti, by Jose Hernandez
Romance, by Irvin
Poem by Aracelis, recorded by Luis, Pictures found by Kimberly
Poem by Davielimaris
Poem by Francisco Garcia
Poem by Jadier
Poem by Lusidalia Velasquez
Poem by Rosa Mercedes
Poem by Ted Torres