With the start of the academic semester, the Unaerp Sports, Culture and Wellbeing Center carries out, during the month of February, an intense cultural agenda to welcome students back to campus and promote the integration of freshmen into the University. The activities are part of the Freshman and Veteran Welcome and Integration Program.
Among the events on the program are performances by the Unaerp Choir; the Tachycardia Battery, from the Medicine program; the Vocal University Group (GRUV); juggling performance with As Inigualáveis Irmãs Cola and bands formed by University students.
Cultural programming is part of the Freshman and Veteran Welcome and Integration Program
According to the coordinator of the Sports, Culture and Wellbeing Center at Unaerp, Bernardo Bonini, the cultural program “is a big event, which we repeat every semester, with new attractions, so that students can get into the atmosphere of University". Bonini also highlights the “Poética de Clay” exhibition, carried out by the Publicity and Advertising program alumnae, Poline Manhas, which is set up in the HUB room, in the Community Center. “In this welcoming week, numerous cultural activities are taking place and we have a poetic exhibition of clay sculptures by Poline, which is the first to inaugurate this exhibition space, intended to welcome students who are about to enroll at the Institution”.
For Poline, an artist who returns to the University 25 years after graduating from the Advertising program, it is gratifying to return to Unaerp with the exhibition. “I never imagined myself as a sculptor. It was something that emerged from my process as a graphic designer, I think my works bring this cleanliness that I liked to portray in logos. Returning to the University with this work is very special and rewarding, a hug after so long.”
Visual artist and alumnae of the Publicity and Advertising program, Poline Manhas says that returning to Unaerp is "a hug"
Poline's childhood friend and painting teacher, Lucilei Bonato de Jesus says she feels proud of the artist and that Poline's sensitivity enhances her pieces even more. “I see the pieces becoming more and more elaborate, everything has a story and everything has a reason. Poline is very sensitive, so what most values her pieces are the sincerity, affection and love with which she makes each piece. When a university opens this space for an artist to exhibit their art, it is fantastic, because it is a place that has thousands of young people who need to value this.”
Students welcome new students – In addition to alumni, students from the Institution are also part of the cultural program, with performances by the bands Katraka, Petróleo Tropical and The Parks, formed within Unaerp, and the Grupo Universitário Vocal (GRUV). According to André Paterlini, from the Sports, Culture and Wellbeing Center, Unaerp students themselves are welcoming the freshmen of 2024, providing culture and art. “This way we are also discovering and revealing these new talents here within the University”, he highlights.
The aim of cultural programming is to discover and reveal new talents within the University
Among the bands that performed during the program is The Parks, which makes its debut this semester. Augusto Tavares, the band's lead singer and Law student, says that three of the five members met at school and already shared the desire to have a band. “Me, João Gabriel and Caio came from high school together and we always had the idea of creating a band. By chance, we met Felipe and Thaís, who also shared a passion for music, and we decided to start the band, at first just as a hobby, an escape valve from the rush of college.”
Regarding participation in the cultural program, which aims to welcome new students, Tavares says it was a surprising experience. “I never thought I could be at Unaerp doing anything other than studying, something outside of my program, and presenting the University to so many new people”, says the student.
The member of The Parks, Thaís Rodrigues, a Psychology student and the only woman among all the bands that performed, says that, at the beginning, she felt insecure, but that the friendship with the other members reassured her. “The passion for music is greater than anything, and I’m very happy to represent it, to be able to be here and say something like ‘you can too’”. The student concludes by saying that she hopes that in the future an all-female band will make its debut at the University. “It’s very important for us to be everywhere, because we can also do everything.”
Every start of semester, Unaerp promotes a Cultural programming
