Right now I`m coursing Theatrical Design at the Universidad de Chile. This career involves being able to create and compose all the visual aspects of not only theatrical pieces, because even though the emphasis of the curriculum is set in theater, teachers form you to be able to take care of the visual aspects of any kind of show. These aspects are mainly the lightning, costume and scenography areas.

Among the subjects I have had to study, almost half of theme have been theoretical, such as History of Universal Theater, History of the Theatrical Design of the XX`th Century or Theory of the Representation. The other half are subjects related to the technical aspects of our discipline, such as Graphic Tools and Technologies. The theoretical subjects are intended to give us the foundations to create an all-embracing design applying the knowledge we have been learning with the technical subjects, all these converging in the main subject of the curriculum, which is called Workshop.

Our Faculty is Arts, but it`s divided in Departments, so we study in the Theater Department with the acting students only, in a old beautiful building located in the center of Santiago. By now, that I`m coursing the third year of the career, the Department feels like home. The classrooms and technological equipments are humble, but they are improving. If I could change something, I would add more open areas to the building, because the space gets to small for the disciplines requests, and I would improve the Lightning Lab. It would also be lovely to add some green areas too!, I think that would help the relaxation and health of the students.

The teaching methods vary form teacher to teacher, every one has their own perspective of the discipline, but in general they are very passionate and they invite you to give your 200% in order to make designs that rock the audiences. 

And advice: open your mind to be creative and exercise the collective work. 

Pino Wacho

Two summers ago I went with 3 firends of mine to visit a very dear friend that lives in Pinowacho. Pinowacho is a tiny rural town nearby Licanray , close to the lake Calafquen, under a volcano that it`s called Villarrica. It`s a very beautiful place that inspires peace, because there is so much to contemplate.  We went there in one of my friends car. The part that I enjoyd the most was the expedition we made to the native forest, because  I felt like if  it was in a natural sanctuary. Another thing that I loved to do was to cook with muy friends, some times in the bonfire, sometimes only in the pot. I actually find cooking a very relaxing task, thats why I like it so much! And of course because of the delicious results of it! Another activity we made was to go swimming in the lake. This felt marvelous, because the water was very peacefull, so en it allouds our bodies to relax. 

We stayed there in tents and we made bonfires every night in order to warm up because though in the day it was sunny and hot, in the night the temperature decreases a lot, but it was a very good excuse to play music arround the fire.

"My mistakes are my life"

                                              -Samuel Beckett.-

It is very common that people wants to have a perfect life, without making mistakes. I think that is because when we make a bad decision or something doesn`t work the way we had planned it, it often causes pain. For instance, if a young person doesn`t choose his career well and he stars going to the University and after a while he regreats and retires, it is probably that the family of the person reproach him. Though it is understandable from point of view of the economic costs of that bad decision, it is shame that it looks like people doesn`t have the opportunity to get a little bit lost in the road of life, just in order to find there selves.

I think that when we realize that we have made a mistake we are in front of an opportunity to learn about our selves. If we become conscious of the causes of the mistake and if we are very honest with our selves about our feelings in regard of the bad action or decision, we can accept what has happend and integrate it in order to rectify the mistake and make much better choises the next time.

Nevertheless, I`m not saying you should make mistakes on purpose!. I`m refering to the inocent mistakes that people often make without bad intentions, although I think this learning process may apply to bigger mistakes if their is enough collective coscience.