Guanajuato, Gto., November 24, 2016.- Within the Cultural Week, the Gallery "El Atrio" presents "Free hands", an expo of artistic works made by inmates from the ten centers of social reinsertion (Cereso) from the State of Guanajuato.

The show is an initiative between professors and students of the University of Guanajuato (UG), who supported by the Direction of Cultural Extension and the project of social reinsertion "Persuadir", they seek to influence in the construction of a society that includes the voice and expression of more sectors.

Moved by the idea that art is a weapon that transforms, the workshops seek to encourage human contact, democratization of art and diffusion of a vast experience of the human knowledge.

The project emerged in 2009, when the Direction of Cultural Extension of UG receives a petition to give a painting workshop at the Cereso of Guanajuato, within the Cultural Week.

The success of this initiative gave origin to an annual program, which extended to all Ceresos in the state.

Around 120 inmates are benefited with this artistic workshops and they expose their work made in a year, where you can find oil paintings, technical drawing, photographs among others.

The General Director of the prison system of the state of Guanajuato, Victor Hugo Resendes Macías, thanked the University of Guanajuato for the support and sustained that this workshops reflect in a positive way in the inmates' behavior, since it allows them to develop motor and artistic skills.

Currently, each workshop lasts one week (20 hours), which rotates, until all the ten Ceresos are covered in the entity, with the collaboration of six workshops.

This way, the inmates have been able to take music courses, scenic arts, theater, drawing, painting, mime, folkloric dance, ballroom dance, singing, guitar, cardboard crafts, scenography and elaboration of theater plays.