Even those on the front lines aren’t immune to the financial casualties of COVID-19. Dozens of healthcare workers at an emergency room in southeast Tennessee receive devastating cuts to their salaries—but the real cost could be the lives of their patients. When 26-year-old Carl Montgomery comes home from work, he immediately strips down, showers, and…
With a mission to spread the message of peace and hope from the Sahrawi people to as many people as possible, the artist Federico Guzmán summons us below the melhfas to his artwork Tuiza
Don José is an extraordinary man. At 78, he brings together the wisdom of the old man, the energy of a young man and the joy and purity of a child. Dominika Struk had the opportunity to meet him one spring afternoon at the Huerto del Rey Moro, a community garden managed by the residents…
Clara Duarte Ceballos in the Park of Prado de San Sebastián / EMILY MILAKOVIC Although same-sex marriage had been legal for years by the time Clara realized she was lesbian, the world she lived in had not caught up. “I thought I was the only girl in the world who liked other girls.” Clara Duarte…
The depopulation of many rural areas of Spain is creating as many challenges as it is offering new opportunities for those who have not joined in the exodus to the cities. Several residents of Las Infantas, in the province of Jaén, describe their tribulations and hopes living in a village of no more than 400…
Camp “Dignidad” (Dignity) is home to 19 of the more than 800 homeless people that live in Seville; evicted from their homes, jobless, foreign or sick. amongst them, there is also a poet, Manuel.
Laura Place, student of the Communications, New Media and Journalism Spanish program, interviews her professor Marina Blesa. Marina awaits the answers of her students with an ever-encouraging expression. She smiles with her whole face, and those in the class feel better knowing that the energetic woman in front of them is, simply, a good person….
In this video we meet Belial, drag queen who with her collective Las Niñas performed one of her performances in Seville. The process of preparation and performance is observed by John MacFarlane and Micah Golomb-Leavitt.
Traveling through Spain and Europe is one of the most important experiences for students of CIEE in Seville. The community in which they live every day is extended several days a month and the entire continent serves as a framework in which to further develop their learning. Anna Staufer and Brooke Larsen traveled to Berlin…
Alexandra Schonfeld and Anna Staufer introduce us to Fidel Pernia Artero, a baker who left his previous job to dedicate himself to his dream of opening a bakery and offering a bread of the highest quality.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Anna Quigley and Asa Goldstein interviewed the CIEE student Kashaf Momin. In this excellent project, in which its authors offer us images of the demonstration on March 8 in Seville, Kashaf offers us her perspective on the great relevance of this day.
The first time he took his son to his homeland, Jovan pointed to a mountain range and said those words. “My mother’s bones are buried in that mountain.” She died in a concentration camp during World War II, in a camp called Jasenovac, known as the “Yugoslav Auschwitz.” As far as Jovan knew, she died…
To others in the park, from afar she seems younger than she actually is. It could be her small frame, or her brown hair that falls in waves over her shoulders. At a closer glance, however, you can see the wrinkles on her face. You can almost see the years of smiles. Now, instead of…
Usually, he drives his Subaru Forester slowly, with the same care he takes with all things. But today is Monday morning, and his train to New York will arrive in 15 minutes. The driver, Mike, can make the train if he speeds during the last 5 minutes of the drive. With his glasses left at…
In this project by Yasmin Roberts and Rachel Sears we meet Fran Machado, who tells us about La Corrala, a house of neighbors in the historic center of Seville that hosts artistic and educational proposals of different types.
Marie van Rysselberghe and Luis Sevilla offer us this outstanding portrait of the flamenco dancer Carina la Debla. Born in Germany, artist and teacher, the protagonist of this work shows us different facets of her profession and tells us about her conflicts, her joys and her learning of a path that goes far beyond the…
