PINC — standing for People, Ideas, Nature, Creativity — is an all-day conference designed to inspire creativity and innovation among youth.
Ten Sarasota County high schoolers got the opportunity to experience an eclectic conference billed as “a bubble bath for the brain,” thanks to the Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation.
PINC — standing for People, Ideas, Nature, Creativity — is an all-day conference that brings together international storytellers in a TED Talks format designed to inspire creativity and innovation.
Nicholas Coelho, a junior at Riverview High School, left the conference with the inspiration to write a song.
“The main takeaway (of PINC) is the process of creativity,” Coelho said. “Creativity is something that takes failure and it takes persistence.”
His song, he said, is about problems and how to deal with them.
“It’s normal to not feel normal, which makes it normal,” he said.
The song begins: “Sometimes I don’t know what to say. Sometimes silence is OK. The pain, it holds me down. I fallen, I hit the ground.”
His song elicited a mighty applause among the audience in the DreamLarge studio on Tuesday afternoon.
The students who attended the sixth annual PINC Experience at the Sarasota Opera House Dec. 12 were members of local groups: Girls Inc. of Sarasota County, the Boys & Girls Club of Sarasota County, and Unidos Now.
“I feel like (PINC) was one of the best events we did this year and look forward to linking more things like that together,” said John Annis, senior vice president for collaboration and impact at the Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation. “I didn’t get to go this year, but I live through (the students).”
PINC is presented by DreamLarge, a local nonprofit dedicated to enriching the community, and Ringling College of Art and Design.
NOTE: This article was originally published by Herald Tribune on January 31, 2020.
