CHILDREN INSPIRED BY MILCO TO CREATE MASKS AND COMICS

Milco, the Parapan American Games official mascot has become quite a popular figure among children. At Culturaymi, the Lima 2019 cultural program held at Parque de la Exposición, children make and paint masks. They also design comic-style posters with the image of the Cuchimilco, the Chancay clay statuette.

University teacher Karen Fasabi is responsible for both initiatives along with Asociación Cultural Las Shicras and the Círculo de Estudios “Cultura para Todos”, formed by students of the tourism and hospitality career at the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega University.

“Milco is not only the Pan American and Parapan American Games mascot, he has also become a cultural ambassador. Through him, children know and broaden their knowledge of the Chancay culture, to which he belongs,” pointed out Fasabi.

The archaeologist Walter Tosso is the advisor of these education proposals. He is the President of the Asociación Cultural Las Shicras and has been dedicated to exhaustive research into the Chancay culture for several years.

The “Creating a Milco Comic Poster” workshop, held at the Culturaymi auditorium, was directed by teachers from the Poussin Design Institute. They gave participants didactic guidelines to achieve a more exact approach to the comic version of the Cuchimilco, and notions of the history of the Chancay culture.

The picturesque Cuchimilco was represented in masks, through the “Make your own Milco mask” workshop at the Lima Art Museum (MALI), as part of the Culturaymi activities. Many children poured their creativity to give color to this character that has become the most famous of the Chancay culture. A unique strategy that brings them even closer to the history of Peru and has Milco as an ally of culture.