31/01/2026
KOORSOO
“a faint glimmer of hope”
Creative Mornings GBG with Ron Davis Álvarez
at ISGR
30/01/26
A bone chilling morning air at the crack of dawn in late January was oddly appropriate for the theme of today’s Creative Mornings and our Sit & Draw session.
KOORSOO (کورسو) is a Farsi term meaning “a faint glimmer of hope”, a fuel that can see us through the darkest of days, both local and global. To punctuate this theme, we brought the darkness by brushing the paper with strokes of black India Ink, fully knowing that the experiment might not work. The idea was to let the color shine through the gaps, symbolic of hope.
The speaker for the event was Ron Davis Álvarez, a Venezuelan conductor and music educator who has led masterclasses and lectures around the world, training teachers and developing orchestral programs for children and youth who are often forgotten or left at the margins of society; refugees and migrants. In 2024, he was named 5 top CNN Heroes of the year.
He spoke about his own journey with enthusiasm and a radiating joy, how finding his penchant for music as child in obscurity had driven him to a future of sharing that same spark with children around the globe.
This is our visual representation and artifact of the morning session, expressing that joy and hope.