FROM ALL DIRECTIONS
INDIGENOUS AND REGIONAL CULTURES
AND WORLD MARKETS
News from Bronitsky and Associates
Bringing Together Indigenous Peoples and the World Since 1992
a monthly newsletter from Bronitsky and Associates about events and people from indigenous and regional cultures in the international scene--festivals, funding, conferences, publications and current issues.
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Our News - what's keeping us busy!
Cumbre Tajin Festival, Mexico
World Indigenous Performing Arts Festival and Performing Arts Market
International Conference on African Culture and Development
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Festivals
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Conferences
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Call for Papers
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Our News - what's keeping us busy!
Cumbre Tajin Festival, Mexico
Gordon Bronitsky (President) and Tony Duke (Director of Operations and Development) have just returned from the 9th Annual Cumbre Tajin Festival in Veracruz, Mexico (www.cumbretajin.com). The Cumbre Tajin Festival has contracted Bronitsky and Associates to promote the festival internationally, especially to Indigenous festivals and communities. Bronitsky and Associates worked with the Festival and the Australian Embassy in Mexico to bring
- Cathy Craigie, the Executive Producer of the Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islanders Yabun festival; she also served as a member of the Advisory Council of the Arts Ministry of New South Wales, and Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islanders Council of the Australia Council for the Arts.
- Wayne Quilliam, Aboriginal photographer
Wayne took thousands of images of the festival and the Totonac people.
Both were introduced to the Supreme Council of the Totonac people, who welcomed them with warm and hearty abrazos in recognition of commonalties as Indigenous people.
In addition, Cathy Craigie was honored at a reception at the home of Katrina Anne Cooper, the Australian ambassador to Mexico, for International Woman's Day. Cathy spoke about the history leading up to Australia's historic Sorry Day, in which the Prime Minister apologized to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia for 200 years of mistreatment. She spoke especially movingly of her own response to the apology, which she heard with other parents at her daughter's school. In the audience for the luncheon were representatives of the ambassadorial corps, local media, Mexican government, and the arts community.
Wayne Quilliam's photos were the subject of a special exhibition in the ambassador's home, introducing the audience to a unique perspective on Aboriginal women. The audience was also treated to a preview of Wayne's images from Cumbre Tajin.
Discussions are now underway for closer cultural and artistic ties and exchanges between the Totonac people and their Aboriginal counterparts in Australia.
World Indigenous Performing Arts Festival and Performing Arts Market
Discussions are continuing regarding the creation of a World Indigenous Performing Arts Festival and Performing Arts Market in New Mexico. The Festival/Market would showcase the best Indigenous performing art and artists from around the world in a broad range of disciplines - contemporary music in all its diversity, theater, modern dance, and spoken word.
International Conference on African Culture and Development
The organizers of the International Conference on African Culture and Development (http://www.icacd.ccoghana.org/ ) have confirmed the participation of Bronitsky and Associates in the Conference, scheduled for April 21-26 in Kumasi, Ghana. The conference theme is Cultural Dynamics: Greasing the Wheels of Africa's Development. The goal of the conference is to begin to promote the idea of societal and cultural considerations in drawing and implementing development programs in Africa.
Bronitsky and Associates will speak about "Developing Festivals, Developing Our Communities: the Roles of Community and Regional Festivals in Economic Development".
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Events
Native American Art Auction
(Live and Silent)
Benefiting Nationally-syndicated Public Radio programs
National Native News and Native America Calling
Saturday, April 19, 2008
6 pm
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
2401 12th St NW
Albuquerque, NM
USA
Join Native America Calling host Harlan McKosato and Comedian Drew LaCapa
For an Evening of Great Native Art, Food, Fun and *Drink
Special Welcome by Lakota Opera Singer, Bonnie Jo Hunt
Special Feature:
Alaska Native Art and Traditional Yup'ik Dancing
Admittance: $50.00 per person
Tables starting at $500
*Cash Bar
To RSVP or for more information:
Susan Braine
Chief Operations Officer - National
505-401-3533 or
Festivals
18th ANNUAL ZUNI FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND CULTURE - in partnership with the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center of Zuni Pueblo, NM, the Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona,
hosts a celebration of the Zuni way of life and Zuni expressions of creativity. The A:shiwi people will share
Zuni language, lifeways, and traditional dances and flute playing. Zuni weavers, inlay jewelers, fetish carvers
and
painters will share their artistry. Learn about the shaping, forming, and painting of traditional Zuni pottery.
The festival dates for 2008 are May 24-25. Please visit
http://www.musnaz.org/Heritage%20Program/Heritage%20Program.htm
THE DREAMING FESTIVAL - Australia's International Indigenous Arts and Cultural Festival presented annually at the Woodford Folk Festival site about one and a half hours drive from Brisbane in the beautiful Sunshine Coast hinterland. The Festival dates for 2008 are 6th to 9th June. Please visit www.thedreamingfestival.com
ALIANAIT ARTS FESTIVAL - The Alianait Arts Festival is an annual event hosted in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. The Festival will showcase Inuit traditional arts and new artists from across Nunavut, Canada, and the circumpolar world, including the incredible Inuit circus, ArtCirq, Nunavut films, theatre and more in ten days of celebration in 24-hour sunlight. The Festival dates for 2008 are June 21-July 1, 2008. Please visit http://www.alianait.ca/home_2007.html
FESTIVAL IN THE MIST - Traditional love songs and other traditional performance, arts and crafts of ethnic minority groups of Lao Cai Province, northern Vietnam, will be performed at the Le Hoi Tren May (Festival in the Mist) in Sapa, Vietnam, from April 28. Artists of the H'mong, Dao, Giay, Tay and Xa Pho communities will take turns to perform dances and songs of their peoples in the Ham Rong Mountain Tourist Area April 29-30. Traditional foods, games, arts and crafts will also be demonstrated and available for sale, including a fair in the Sapa town stadium April 28-May 3.
Funding
Aboriginal Arts Secretariat, Canada
In collaboration with the Aboriginal Arts Advisory Committee and with all sections of the Canada Council,
the Aboriginal Arts Secretariat has the primary responsibility for developing policies, programs, strategic
initiatives, and budgets to support Aboriginal Peoples artistic practices in all arts disciplines. For more information
about funding programs, please visit
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/aboriginal/
Conferences
Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons
Hosted by Queensland University of Technology
25 June 2008 to 27 June 2008
Brisbane, Australia
Second information bulletin: Updated call for papers, Registration and Accommodation details:
http://www.cci.edu.au/event/creating-value-between-commerce-and-commons
Publications
First Ordinary Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for Cultural Diversity
UNESCO, Canada, March 2008
A number of documents have been published following the first Intergovernmental Committee for
the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL-ID=36295&URL-DO=DO-TOPIC&URL-SECTION=201.html
Building a Creative Innovation Economy report
Cultural Ministers Council, Australia, February 2008
A report that highlights the value of the creative sector in driving innovation and growth throughout
the economy.
http://www.cmc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf-file/7817/Building-a-Creative-Innovation-Economy.pdf
Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Vol 37, No. 3
Heldref, USA, December 2007
Contains articles on arts support, including the Sociology of arts support and case studies from a
selection of countries.
http://heldref.metapress.com/app/home/issue.asp?referrer=parent&backto=journal,1,16;linkingpublicationresults,1:119929,1
Call for Papers
Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events
Routledge, England, March 2008
Routledge has released a call for papers for its recently launched Journal of Policy Research in
Tourism, Leisure and Events.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1940-7963&linktype=1
• e-misférica 5.2 • Race and Performance in the Americas
e-misférica, the online journal of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is seeking both
performance and book reviews for its forthcoming issue about performance as a means of racial formation in the
Americas. How have specific performances contributed to establishing contexts for affirming, contesting, and
complexifying racialized categories, experiences, and aspirations? How are recent books laying the discursive
groundwork for new approaches to race through the conceptual lens of performance? And furthermore: how are
recent scholarly works situated with regard to performances of racialization; how does performance theory
take account of performed theory, and vice versa?
Reviews on a single performance or book are usually around 750 words long and can be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Comparative reviews on a body of work can justify a greater length, but in general, reviews should maintain an efficient pace. Please send review proposals and a short bio by April 2 to .
News
New Director at Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
Dr Dawn Casey started as the Powerhouse Museum's new director, becoming the first Aboriginal
Australian head in the Museum's 128-year history. One of her first tasks was to oversee the opening of the Yinalung yenu:
women's journey exhibition. The exhibition explores the important place that Aboriginal women have in
Australian society - and features the outstanding achievements of six prominent women who share their stories:
Aunty Sue Blacklock, Dr. Marilyn Clarke, Dr. Marlene Kong, Aunty Beryl Carmichael, Professor Larissa
Behrendt and Bronwyn Bancroft
Koori Mail:
http://www.koorimail.com/index.php?page=GeneralNews
Aboriginal Australia and the Australia 2020 Ideas Summit
Invitations to the Rudd Government's Australia 2020 ideas summit will go out soon. Nearly 8000 people
are nominated to take part in the summit, which will be held at Parliament House in Canberra April 19-20.
The Summit is expected to help shape a long-term strategy for the future of Indigenous Australia. One of the
ten key sessions at the forum will be "Options for the future of Indigenous Australia". It will be co-chaired
by historian and former Co-chair of Reconciliation Australia Jackie Huggins.
Koori Mail:
http://www.koorimail.com/index.php?page=GeneralNews
One-Stop Shopping for Maori Tourism Offerings
Maori tourism operators are hoping to boost their businesses through a new one-stop guide targeted at
in-bound tour operators and international tourism wholesalers. The Maori Tourism Trade Manual
2008-2009 features around 100 businesses throughout the country, including well-known attractions such as
Kaikoura's whale-watching, the Shotover Jet, Rotorua's Hell's Gate and Orakei Korako and will be distributed free to
the tourism industry.
New Zealand Herald:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c-id=252&objectid=10501727
Brazilian Indians Defend Their Rights to Land
Thousands of Indigenous people in the west-central Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul are living in
precarious camps or small overcrowded reservations, lacking the land they need to grow the food needed to
overcome high levels of malnutrition. But despite government recognition of their ancestral land, their claims are tied
up in court. Meanwhile, their community leaders face the threat of being killed for attempting to secure respect
for Indigenous people's constitution right to their traditional lands.
IPS News:
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41422
Singer Buffy Sainte-Marie and the 1950s Blacklist
Another honor now gathers to the name of Buffy Sainte-Marie. As she related at the National Museum of
the American Indian's Rasmuson Theater March 19, the Cree singer, composer, musician and educator joins
folk song legend Pete Seeger and others among the performers and artists blacklisted by the federal government
in the 1950s and 1960s.
Indian Country Today:
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096416929
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