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INDIGENOUS AND REGIONAL CULTURES
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Bringing Together Indigenous Peoples and the World Since 1992
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Our News - what's keeping us busy!
ORIGINS™: First Nations Theater From Around The World
Ilene Evans to
tour Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Colombia
American Indian
Playwright Cochise Anderson Invited to Participate in The Dreaming
Festival, Australia
Totonac Delegation Invited to Participate in The
Dreaming Festival, Australia
White Cockatoo Invited to Participate
in the Cumbre Tajin Festival, Veracruz
Inuit Throat Singers Lois Suluk-Locke and Maria Illungiayok Performance in Siberia Cancelled
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Events
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Our News - what's keeping us busy!
ORIGINS™: First Nations Theater From Around The World
Bronitsky and Associates and Border Crossings are entering the hectic final few months before the opening season of ORIGINS™: First Nations Theater From Around The World. The dates have been set - May 4-17, 2009 - so be sure to reserve these dates for an incredible season of Indigenous theater!
Ilene Evans to tour Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Colombia
Ilene Evans is an internationally known actress, singer and storyteller. From the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland to Phoenix, Arizona in the United States, Ilene has been telling her stories through dance, music and the spoken word for 30 years.
We are proud to announce that she will tour to Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in late January under the auspices of the State Department and the United States embassies in those countries.
She will also tour to Colombia March 1-7, again under the auspices of the United States embassy in Bogota. In addition to performances, she will meet with Colombian storytellers, artists and theater performers to share experiences and tell stories.
You can learn more about this outstanding artist at http://www.bronitskyandassociates.com/evans.htm
American Indian Playwright Cochise Anderson Invited to Participate in The Dreaming Festival, Australia
Cochise Anderson is a member of the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations of Oklahoma. His experience includes acting, poetry, traditional music, blues music, and traditional and contemporary storytelling. His mission is to educate non-Indians about the beauty and struggle of Native Americans.
Mr. Anderson performed at The Dreaming Festival (website thedreamingfestival.com) in 2008 as a member of the Native American Dancers, a traditional American Indian dance group whose visit was sponsored by the United States Embassy in Australia. He has been invited back in his role as poet and playwright. His invitation is a reflection of the mission of The Dreaming Festival (website thedreamingfestival.com) to showcase the best Indigenous performance from around the world - he is the first American Indian playwright to be invited to participate in The Dreaming Festival (website thedreamingfestival.com).
Totonac Delegation Invited to Participate in The Dreaming Festival, Australia
Bronitsky and Associates has been contracted by the Supreme Totonac Council, Veracruz, Mexico, to promote their artists to Indigenous peoples and communities around the world. We are happy to announce that a Totonac delegation, including the famous Voladores de Papantla, has been invited to participate in The Dreaming Festival (www.thedreamingfestival.com). They are the first Latin American Indigenous group to be invited to perform at The Dreaming Festival.
The Danza de los Voladores de Papantla (Dance of Papantla's flyers) is a ritualistic dance in Veracruz, Mexico performed by the Totonac Indians. Five men, each representing the five elements of the indigenous world climb atop a pole, one of them stays on the pole playing a flute and dancing while the remaining four descend the pole with a rope tied by one of their feet. The rope unwraps itself 13 times for each of the four flyers, symbolizing the 52 weeks of the year.
This dance is thought to be the vestige of a pre-Hispanic volador ritual common not only in ancient Veracruz but in western Mexico as well.
White Cockatoo Invited to Participate in the Cumbre Tajin Festival, Veracruz
Bronitsky and Associates has been tasked with outreach to Indigenous peoples around the world for the Cumbre Tajin Festival of Identity and the Supreme Totoanac Council. As part of our work, we have obtained an invitation for White Cockatoo to perform at this year’s festival.
White Cockatoo is Australia’s leading traditional dance group. You can learn more about them at http://whitecockatoo.com/. We are now working to tour them into the United States, Canada and Latin America. If you would like this group to perform at your event, please contact Gordon Bronitsky at
Inuit Throat Singers Lois Suluk-Locke and Maria Illungiayok Performance in Siberia Cancelled
The performance of Inuit Throat Singers Lois Suluk-Locke and Maria Illungiayok from Arviat, Nunavut, Canada, at the Polar Rhapsody Festival in Yamal, Siberia November 26-30 was cancelled due to inclement weather in Salekhard, Siberia, which prevented airplanes from arriving or departing the airport.
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Events
Enga Cultural Show
Papua New Guinea
First weekend of August
This is the Provincial Cultural Show for the Enga Province staged during the first weekend of August each year. It is staged at Wabag, the Provincial Capital of the Enga Province, some two hours drive west of Mt. Hagen. Accommodation is a problem and most visitors tend to stay in Mt. Hagen and drive to/from the Show daily during the weekend.
Festivals
New Zealand International Arts Festival
P.O. Box 10-113
Wellington
New Zealand
Telephone: 64/4-473-0149
E-mail:
Website:
http://www.nzfestival.nzpost.co.nz/
Approximate Dates of Festival: February to March
Vancouver International Dance Festival
339 West Hastings Street - 2nd Floor
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6B 1H6
E-mail:
Website:
www.vidf.ca/main/
Approximate Dates of Festival: March
Malta Jazz Festival
Ministry of Youth and Arts, Department of Culture Casa Gaspe 203
Republic Street Valleta Malta CMR 02
E-mail:
Website:
www.maltajazzfest.com
Approximate Dates of Festival: July
Rainforest World Music Festival
Sarawak Tourism Board
6th & 7th Floor
Yayasan Sarawak Building
Jalan Masjid
93400 Kuching
Sarawak
Malaysia
E-mail:
Website:
www.rainforestmusic-borneo.com
Approximate Dates of Festival: mid-July
National Festival of Popular Arts
Dar Talib Unité IV, Hay Mohammadi
Marrakech
Morocco
E-mail:
Approximate Dates of Festival: July
China Shanghai International Arts Festival
Contact: Chen Shenglai
Shanghai, China 200003
E-mail:
Festival date: October
Latin American Cultural Market
Rua Henriqueta Catarino, 123, Federação
Salvador
Brazil 40 230 101
E-mail:
Website:
www.viamagia.org/mercado/
Approximate Dates of Festival: Early December
Conferences
The American Indian Language Development Institute:
A Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking from Our Heart
June 8 – July 2, 2009
Please join us for the 30th Annual American Indian Language Development Institute which will be held at the University of Arizona. AILDI 2009 will offer a variety of classes, special presentations, workshops, and events to help celebrate our 30 years of commitment to Indigenous language education.
Course Topics, Special Presentations & Workshops include...
- Language immersion methods for language revitalization
- Documenting your language through film
- Native American linguistics for your community
- Native American children’s literature
- Language and Native American youth culture
- Development of materials for your language classrooms
The American Indian Language Development Institute's (AILDI) mission is to mobilize efforts to document, revitalize and promote Indigenous languages, reinforcing the processes of intergenerational language transfer. AILDI plays a critical role in ongoing outreach, training, and collaborative partnerships with educators, schools and Indigenous communities nationally and internationally through the use of multiple resources.
Support future students with a donation to our AILDI Founders Scholarship Fund.
The University of Arizona
College of Education, Room 517
Department of Language, Reading & Culture
PO Box 210069
Tucson, AZ
85721-0069
Tel: (520) 621-1068
Fax: (520) 621-8174
Web:
www.u.arizona.edu/~aildi
E-mail:
Publications
National Endowment for the Arts Announces Report on Nonprofit
Theaters
First NEA overview of nonprofit theater network in the
United States
Washington, D.C. -- Nonprofit theaters in the United
States have seen unprecedented expansion across the United States,
according to new research from the National Endowment for the Arts.
All America's a Stage examines developments in the growth,
distribution, and finances of America's nonprofit theater system
since 1990. While the research indicates broad growth and generally
positive fiscal health, it also reveals decreasing attendance rates
and vulnerability during economic downturns.
Nearly 2,000 nonprofit theaters were analyzed for the study, which draws from several data sources such as the Internal Revenue Service, Theater Communications Group member survey data, the U.S. Census Bureau's Economic Census Data, and data from the NEA's Survey of Public Participation in the Arts.
Copies of the All America’s a Stage brochure can be ordered or downloaded in PDF at http://www.nea.gov/research/Research_Brochures.php
Call for Submissions and Papers
2009 Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium - call for papers
Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton College of Education and
Institute for Humanities Research are pleased to announce the 2009
Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium, to be held April 30-May
2,
2009 on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University. The 2009 theme
is "Indigenous Languages Across the Generations – Strengthening
Families and Communities." The Call for Proposals began December 1,
2008, and will continue through January 30, 2009. Mail-in
registration is available on the SILS '09 Web site, and online
registration begins January 1, 2009. For more information, please
visit our Web site, http://sils09.asu.edu, or contact us at
sils09.asu.edu.
Please disseminate this information widely – we hope to see you at SILS '09.
Mary Eunice Romero-Little and Teresa L. McCarty, SILS '09 Co-chairs
Arizona State University
Mary Lou Fulton College of Education
Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Farmer
Building 120 - PO Box 872411
Tempe, AZ 85287-2411
PH: 480.965.6357
FAX: 480.965-1880
EMAIL:
The Revisiting Modernization Conference - call for papers
To be held
from 27th - 31st July 2009 at University of Ghana, Legon
Conference Theme
Revisiting Modernization is an interdisciplinary array of activities
that features an academic conference, art exhibition, creative
writing competition, film screenings, and two keynote addresses to
be held at the University of Ghana, Legon, from 27th - 31st July
2009. These activities, a collaboration between the Institute of
African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon and the African
Studies Multi-Campus Research Group at the University of California,
inaugurate an inclusive approach to thinking about the resonance of
modernization in relation to the contemporary lexicon of
globalization and the shifting parameters of development. This event
is conceived as a forum with pre- circulated papers and
contributions from a wide range of academics, policymakers, and
artists from the African continent, North America, Europe, and
beyond.
We invite academic interventions that explore the significance of modernization on the African continent from critically informed perspectives in the humanities and social sciences that include historical, socio-anthropological, literary, art historical, and cultural/media studies approaches. We seek to organize a collective reflection on the nature of modernization as it has been inflected and transformed since the era of African independence. In addition to evoking the role of transnational developments across the South as an important site of inquiry, we seek to critically examine points of departure for and appropriations of modernization. As a series of techniques typically associated with Western technological expertise and historical experience, we would like to interrogate new ways of imagining modernization as a critique of ethnocentric developmentalism. Modernization as a series of discourses and desires is the overarching theme for the conference in order to specify questions of policy, culture and development and its location in African Studies.
Thematic Areas
The academic papers presented at the Revisiting Modernization
conference will be organized around five thematic areas:
- Performativity and Modernization (2 panels)
- Emerging Circuits of African Art Production and Exhibition (2 panels)
- Cultures of Modernization and Globalization (2 panels)
- New Histories of African Film and Media (2 panels)
- Power, Infrastructure, and Modernization: Historical Approaches and Contemporary Debates (2 panels)
Call for Papers
We invite submissions of a 500-word abstract that explores the
conference theme Revisiting Modernization, in relation to one of the
sub-themes. Please submit your abstract and a 50-word biographical
statement as an MSWord attachment via email by 15 December 2008 to:
Abstracts and biographical statements may also be mailed to:
UCSB/Humanities Center
African Studies MRG
Attention: Conference Proposals
6046 HSSB
Santa Barbara, California 93106-4010
USA
Conference Conveners
Peter J. Bloom, UC-Santa Barbara
Takyiwaa Manuh, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana,
Legon
Stephan F. Miescher, UC-Santa Barbara
For further inquires, please contact:
News
De Haven Solimon Chaffins (Laguna/Zuni Pueblo) has been selected to be a part of the prestigious 51st Annual Heard Museum Guild 2009 Indian Market. The Market will be held the on the 7th & 8th of March, in Scottsdale Arizona. This will be Solimon Chaffins first appearance in the Heard Show.
The 51st Annual Heard Museum Guild 2009 Indian Market. Is Arizona's
largest Indian market. This year brings together more than 600 top
American Indian artists. Visitors can purchase authentic American
Indian jewelry, sculpture, paintings, pottery, weavings, beadwork,
katsina dolls, baskets and more directly from artists. The weekend
also includes music and dance performances, artist demonstrations
and an array of Native and other foods. Admission includes the
festival and all galleries.
http://www.heardguild.org/indian-fair/indian-fair.aspx
Peru’s First National Cultural Policy Congress
National Culture
Institute, 10 December 2008, Peru
Comments provided by the public,
on documents on the country's cultural future serve as a guideline
for the debate that took place in Peru’s First National Cultural
Policy Congress.
http://www.gestioncultural.org/gc/event/detailEvent.jsp?_idSection=57832&idEvent=204079
(in Spanish)
Crackdown on Peru Indian Protest
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080819-protest-video-ap.html
IsumaTV creates Inuit Language and Culture Institute
Inuit filmmaker
Zacharias Kunuk, speaking at the Arctic Indigenous Languages
Symposium in Tromso, Norway, October 20, 2008, announced the
creation of the Inuit Language and Culture Institute on IsumaTV, a
five year $25 million commitment to install high-speed broadband and
public access production studios in every participating Inuit
community.
IsumaTV/ILCI mission starting April 1, 2009 is to use new media technology to preserve, promote and revitalize Inuktitut language and culture in the face of 21st century challenges of climate change, globalization and mining and resource development.
ILCI's immediate objective is to give Inuit equal-access to information technology through IsumaTV to insure compliance with the language and culture requirements defined by the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement and Nunavut's new Bill 7, Inuktitut Language Protection Act.
Northern communities currently have the slowest and most expensive internet service of any region in Canada.
Kunuk proposes a partnership among Isuma, IBC and other Inuktitut media producers to develop the IsumaTV network; and a 1%-for-Language policy to finance it by service contracts with governments, mining developers and Inuit Development Corporations obligated by the NLCA and ILPA to provide good faith, 2-way information services to Inuit communities.
Speaking in Inuktitut, Kunuk said, "Inuit communities must connect at the same speed as their governments and mining companies."
A state-of-the-art high-speed internet network with local production studios in every community would be a world's first, putting Inuit in the leadership of indigenous cultures using new technology to protect language and cultural identities.
www.isuma.tv launched in January 2008 as a multimedia platform for Inuit and Aboriginal content, registering almost 4 million hits in its first nine months. With new funding from Canadian Heritage Partnerships Fund, Telefilm Canada and the Government of Nunavut, IsumaTV 2.0 will expand by April 1, 2009 into a fully interactive social networking site for Inuit and Aboriginal languages and cultures.
Contact:
www.isuma.tv
www.isuma.ca
Indigenous Photographer Wayne Quilliam wins Human Rights Award
Australia’s leading Aboriginal photographer Wayne Quilliam in
partnership with Koori Mail has won the 2008 Human Rights Award for
Print media. The Print Media Award was accepted by Ms Kirstie
Parker, Editor of the Koori Mail, for the National Apology:
commemorative lift out. The Award recognized the enduring record of
a momentous event in an edition full of photographs and colourful
quotes.
Following his ‘Highly Recommended’ in the Walkley Awards for his photographs of the aftermath of the ‘Redfern Riots’ Quilliam felt honored to be part of a team that produced the winning entry. “Over my career I have had the privilege of photographing significant people and events and all carry a special place in my heart, but the opportunity to capture the essence of the ‘Apology’ is at the top of the list. I give thanks to Koori Mail for entrusting me to document such a momentous occasion and to all the people on the day for sharing their stories, the ‘Apology’ was emotive and provocative and I hope my images visualise those emotions”, Quilliam says.
Wayne Quilliam is one of Australia’s most prominent Aboriginal photographic artists with more than 100 solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Europe, Asia and the USA. In the past 12 months he has held exhibitions in Germany, Austria, Vienna, Mexico, USA, China and several galleries in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide including his nude series ‘Lowanna’. He has worked with the traditional people of Mexico and Bolivia, and his work recently featured on the BBC in the UK and next week on Australian Television. He has also photographed and directed a series of work with Russell Crowe and is preparing several shows for 2009.
Contact: Jodie Bujok
Or Wayne directly
Wayne Quilliam
Ph: 0413 812222
You can see a sample of his photographs on the first page of the Bronitsky and Associates webpage, http://bronitskyandassociates.com/
Linz 2009 The European Capital of Culture
Linz – the European
Capital of Culture in 2009 wants to invite guest from all part of
Europe for celebration of opening of the new year on
31.12.08 - 2.01.09
Linz is going to celebrate the start of its European mission with three days of festivities in the company of its visitors from near and far, a premiere typical of Linz in its very atypicality. During 3 days citizens and visitors of Linz will have the opportunity to watch plenty of music shows, performances and other events. From 3 p.m. till midnight at the Danube Embankment IDEA about 70 workmen working without a break are going to assemble a 4 meter tall numeric display made of wood and other materials. The promoters call it: A countdown with a difference!
In many venues in public space there will perform musicians. There will be concert for everyone - enthusiasts of classical or pop music. At midnight an explosive mix of musical surprises will feast your eyes, ears and heart. The Rocket Symphony will be detonating above the Donaupark, composed by Orlando Gough, produced by Tom Ryser and performed by 500 voices from Upper Austria with support from the British choir The Shout.
After 00.00 a party in the whole city will begin. Dancing and celebrating out in the open or in bars, restaurants and clubs and/or at the premiere of Good Night Stuff – the Linz09 nightline with a difference! Good Night Stuff will be putting together programmes of electronic music and digital art and featuring international artists together with Linz’s amazing variety of musical worlds at venues never used before.
Sites of Interest
For more information please contact:
American Indian Repertory Theatre
The American Indian Repertory Theatre is a non-profit American
Indian theatre production company with the purpose of providing an
American Indian theatre experience for Native and non-Native
audiences. The company is dedicated to telling the stories that have
come to us from our ancestors and to telling the stories of a
vibrant contemporary American Indian culture.
http://aireptheatre.org/default.aspx
Kaikuali Theatre Dance Group, Papua New Guinea
The group formed over
15 years ago and has maintained its strong identity and enthusiasm
over the years, a remarkable achievement in the face of continuing
economic challenges and social change in Papua New Guinea. They are
steadily expanding their repertoire of traditional stories, and
working in collaboration with village elders and hereditary
custodians of oral culture to devise new presentations.
http://www.jupacami.net/adventures/png/kaikuali.htm
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