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INDIGENOUS AND REGIONAL CULTURES
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Our News - what's keeping us busy!
Gordon Bronitsky, President, Bronitsky and Associates, to present at professional meetings in February and March
ORIGINS™: First Nations Theater From Around The World—Inaugural season dates
ORIGINS on the Road™Apache playwright David Velarde to Sweden, 2009
Sami director and playwright Harriet Nordlund to the USA, 2009
Aboriginal Australian playwright David Milroy to Siberia, 2010
Greenlandic actor and director Laila Hansen to USA, 2010
African-American Storyteller and Performer Ilene Evans
Tour of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait, February 2009
Tour of Colombia, March 2009
For Your Diary
Events
Festivals
Funding
Conferences
Publications
Call for Submissions and Papers
News
Sites of Interest
Our News - what's keeping us busy!
Gordon Bronitsky, President of Bronitsky and Associates, will present papers on international cultural marketing at the annual meetings of...
- Southwest Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association, February 27, 5:45 pm, Sendero Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Hotel Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Society for Applied Anthropology, March 21, 10:00 am, Nambe Room, La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico
ORIGINS™: First Nations Theater From Around The World
ORIGINS™ Dates - Please note that the Inaugural Season for ORIGINS™ is scheduled for May 4-17, 2009. We are finalizing the program and will be sending out a press release soon!
ORIGINS on the Road™
Apache playwright David Velarde and Gordon Bronitsky will participate in a Sami playwrights conference in Jokkmokk, Sweden in June, under the auspices of the Beaivvas Sami Theatre, funded by the United States Embassy in Stockholm.
And we have begun the first steps to tour
Sami director and playwright Harriet Nordlund--tribal colleges and public universities in the United States in October 2009
Aboriginal Australian playwright David Milroy--Indigenous communities in Siberia in summer 2010
Greenlandic actor and director Laila Hansen--tribal colleges and public universities in the US in 2010.
Tour arrangements are currently underway for these Indigenous theatermakers; if you would be interested in bringing them to your community, please contact Gordon Bronitsky,
African-American Storyteller and Performer Ilene Evans
Tour of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and
Kuwait, February 2009
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.
As well as being an accomplished performer, storyteller, and singer Ilene is an educator and it is through her not for profit organization - Voices From The Earth based in Thomas, West Virginia she does much of her work. You can learn more about this outstanding artist at http://www.bronitskyandassociates.com/evans.htm.
Bronitsky and Associates worked with the United States embassies to tour Ms. Evans to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain. Ms. Evan’s dynamic performances were a hit with audiences throughout the region at libraries, universities and media interviews. Ms. Evans also had several interviews with Kuwaiti television and radio stations.
Tour of Colombia, March 2009
Bronitsky and Associates is also working with the US embassy in
Bogota to tour Ms Evans to Colombia in March. She will perform to
audiences at universities, district cultural offices, and cultural
centers and theaters throughout Colombia and will have several media
interviews as well. A special feature will be several meetings and
workshops with Afro-Colombian students and actors. The tour will be
highlighted by a reception at the residence of the United States
ambassador to Colombia, Bill Brownfield.
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Events
Accelerated Second Language Acquisition
(ASLA) Workshop
April 16-18, 2009
University of Montana
Missoula, Montana
It has been estimated that languages around the globe are disappearing faster than animal species go extinct. For many, the struggle to maintain endangered languages has reached a crisis level. Developed by Dr. S. Neyooxet Greymorning in response to the growing concern of Indigenous peoples to maintain their languages, Accelerated Second Language Acquisition (ASLA) is one of the most effective and beneficial training workshops for language instruction and acquisition currently being offered. If you or anyone you know is looking to strengthen or improve on language instruction as well as strengthen or enhance the language learning ability of students, regardless of whether they are 3 or 60, see information for the 5th Giving the Gift of Language teacher training workshop at www.nsilc.org. At this website you can read comments from students and instructors who have used this break through methodology for second language acquisition, watch videos of two stories being told in an Indigenous language by a student who learned through ASLA, and read an on-going summary of results of a language class currently being taught by Dr. Greymorning at the University of Montana.
Festivals
Drums Along the Hudson: A Native
American Festival
Sunday, May 17, 2009
11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Inwood Hill Park – 215th Street, Manhattan
FREE
For more information, contact Carl Nelson, Producer,
Yalukit Wilam Ngargee: People Place
Gathering 2009.
January 9-February 7, 2009
The Yalukit Wilam Ngargee: People Place Gathering is an Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander cultural festival celebrating Indigenous
culture, 29 Jan to 7 Feb and opens the 2009 St Kilda Festival
program at St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Website http://www.stkildafestival.com.au/YalukitWilamNgargee
Contact
Bo Svoronos, festival producer
Indigenous Arts Officer
City of Port Phillip
Ph: +61 3 9209 6502
e-mail:
Funding
Grants for Art Projects Promoting
Multiculturalism and Intercultural Interaction
Grants for Innovative Performing Arts Programs, Finland
The Ministry of Education has allocated a 100,000 euro appropriation
for art projects promoting multiculturalism and intercultural
interaction to be implemented during 2009. The projects will be
evaluated mainly on the basis of artistic criteria. The
appropriation can be used for allocating grants to support the
artistic activities of immigrants and national ethnic minorities and
art projects promoting intercultural interaction.
The aim in awarding the grants is to:
- promote opportunities for immigrant artists and artists of national minorities to take part in Finnish artistic life on an equal basis
- support the multicultural work of other artists, working groups and art projects promoting intercultural competence in Finland.
www.taiteenkeskustoimikunta.fi
Creative Capital: Multi-Arts Production Fund
The Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, a program of Creative Capital
supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Doris Duke
Charitable Foundation, supports original new work in all disciplines
and traditions of the live performing arts. The goal of the MAP Fund
is to assist artists who are exploring and challenging the dynamics
of live performance within our changing society, thus reflecting our
culture's innovation and growing diversity. MAP is especially
interested in providing support for work early in its development.
Applications for MAP support must come from U.S. nonprofit
organizations; nonprofit artist-services organizations may apply as
fiscal sponsors on behalf of artists or ensembles. The application
deadline is January 20, 2009. The online application process will
open on November 3, 2008.
Visit the MAP website for more information:
http://www.mapfund.org/
Conferences
Yulkuum-Jerrang: 2nd Indigenous Economic
Development Conference “Growing Our Future”
The theme for the Conference is “Growing Our Future”.
Yulkuum-Jerrang is a unique, pioneering, and inspiring event. The
three-day program will bring together Indigenous entrepreneurs and
the broader Indigenous business community, government agencies, the
academic community, community based organizations, the corporate
sector and the wider business community for discussion and debate on
the key trends, challenges and opportunities in fostering Indigenous
economic development.
Conference website:
www.conferenceworks.net.au/kbn
Event Manager: Conference Works
Phone: +613 9870 2611
Email:
Publications
The Impact of Culture on Tourism
The Impact of Culture on Tourism
examines the growing relationship between tourism and culture, and
the way in which they have together become major drivers of
destination attractiveness and competitiveness. Based on recent case
studies that illustrate the different facets of the relationship
between tourism, culture and regional attractiveness, and the policy
interventions which can be taken to enhance the relationship, this
publication shows how a strong link between tourism and culture can
be fostered to help places become more attractive to tourists, as
well as increasing their competitiveness as locations which to live,
visit, work and invest.
Creative Economy as a Development
A view of developing countries co-edited by Garimpo de Soluções and
Itaú Cultural, this book aims to stimulate the debate around the
creative economy and if it can be a development strategy and, if it
can, what needs to be done to make it concrete. In order to increase
access to this discussion, the digital book is available for free
download, in Portuguese, Spanish and English.
http://www.garimpodesolucoes.com.br/
Making Solid Ground
The making solid ground review examined the Australia Council’s
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander key organizations program and
new ways to support the national Indigenous arts infrastructure.
Call for Submissions and Papers
Second International Conference on
African Cultural and Development 2009
The deadline for the submission of
Abstracts is Friday, April 24 2009.
The Second International Conference on African Cultural and Development seeks to draw global attention to African Arts and culture and the significant impact it has on the development of the African continent.
The organizers of ICAD2009 to be held in Accra, Ghana 14th -24th June 2009 invite the submission of papers on the topics outlined below and others falling within the scope of the meeting to be considered for presentation and discussion at the conference.
The conference aims to bring together scholars from a broad range of disciplines spanning Developments Studies, African Culture, Social Sciences and Humanities as well as representatives of African Traditional Institutions, Non-Governmental organizations and Government Agencies to discuss a variety of topics aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals while strengthening the outcomes of ICACD 2008.
The first International Conference on African Cultural and Development was held from the 21st - 26th April 2008, in Kumasi.
The organizers of ICAD2009 to be held in Accra, Ghana 14th -24th June 2009 invite the submission of papers falling within the scope of the meeting to be considered for presentation and discussion at the conference.
For more information or details please
contact Gordon Bronitsky:
Abstracts can be submitted to Kojo Appiah,
E-mail:
What’s Culture got to do with it?
Nordic Africa Institute
15 June 2009 to 18 June 2009
Sweden
The main aim of this conference is to discuss what role the study of culture plays and could play in understanding change in contemporary Africa.
http://www.nai.uu.se/events/conferences/culture/index.xml
Indigenous Arts Listserv
The Inuit and Indian Art Group
The Inuit and Indian Art Group is primarily an ON LINE discussion group, covering ANY aboriginal arts or crafts. The best part is that it is FREE, however, one must be either invited or recommended by a current member. Just mention that you have heard of the Group through FROM ALL DIRECTIONS.
Artists, collectors, dealers, teachers, curators, etc. discuss various related topics by e-mail. Starting 5 years ago, the group has members in 17 countries on 5 continents with well over 400 members. There are several artists (aboriginal and non-aboriginal); plus 26 Inuit, Inupiat or Aleut members; and 68 Indian members. PLUS numerous collectors and dealers.
If you are interested in joining,
send an e-mail to the Moderator:
News
Obama’s Pledge to the Arts
In November, during his first interview after winning the election
on NBC’s weekly news programme “Meet the Press”, host Tom Brokaw
asked Mr Obama what kind of cultural and artistic changes he would
make as president. “Our art and our culture…that’s the essence of
what makes America special, and we want to project that as much as
possible in the White House,” said Mr Obama.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=16703
Larissa FastHorse Invited to Speak in
Mexico
Larissa FastHorse, Lakota from the Sicangu Nation in South Dakota,
has been invited to be a speaker at the International Colloquium of
Theatre for Children and Young People being produced by ASSITEJ
Mexico in Mexico City, March 2009. She will be lecturing on the
topic of Challenges and Opportunities of the Theatre for Teens.
Larissa's plays have been produced by The Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis MN and Native Voices at the Autry in Los Angeles CA. In 2008 she was a panelist and invited playwright to speak at the ASSITEJ World Conference, the world wide organization to promote theatre for youth. She is currently in development on several new plays as well as TV and film projects. Larissa is also a choreographer with international experience.
Historic Wellington Land Returned to Maori
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4847914a8153.html
Solomon Islands Culture of Division will
soon build a new National Art Gallery funded by the Solomon Islands
Government through its Tourism sector
http://solomontimes.com/news.aspx?nwID=3533
Aniksak and Uyaupiq interviewed on Isuma
TV, Nunavut
Aniksak and Uyaupiq are Lois Uyaupiq Suluk-Locke and Maria
Illungiayok from Arviat, Nunavut, Canada. They are accomplished
performers of Inuit traditional throat singing, drumming and
storytelling. They were recently interviewed on Isuma TV in Nunavut
and you can see the interview at
http://www.isuma.tv/beta/lo/isumatv-interviews/lois-suluk-locke-inuit-throat-singer
You can learn more about these outstanding performers at http://www.bronitskyandassociates.com/inuit.htm
Trevor Jamieson
Aboriginal actor and playwright Trevor Jamieson, creator of
Ngapartji Ngapartji (www.ngapartji.org) won the award for Best
Leading Man for Ngapartji Ngapartji at the Sydney (Australia)
Theater Awards.
Inuit Blues Singer Lucie
Idlout releases Swagger February 10, 2009
Lucie lived much of her early life in the High Arctic on North
Baffin Island, Northwest Territories as it was known at the time,
now Nunavut. Of Inuit heritage, Lucie has obvious ties to the
culture of the north and the struggles that come with its unique
geography. Her passion as a songwriter and artist stretches far
beyond the treeline.
Her sophomore effort, Swagger, continues in the tradition of her 2004 debut, E5-770, My Mother’s Name. The album, produced by Chris Shreenan-Dyck who has worked with Blue Rodeo, Kris Kristofferson, and Ron Sexsmith was released through Sun Rev Records on February 10, 2009. Swagger tackles love, abandonment, loneliness and the search for balance in life.
In 2007, Lucie opened for The White Stripes in Iqaluit during their in-depth tour of Canada. She opened for the legendary and highly respected Buffy Sainte-Marie at Ottawa’s Westfest earlier this year. She also performed at Quebec City’s 400th Anniversary celebrations with Le Strada. Her first album took her all over Europe, hitting stages of this nation’s finest festivals including the Stan Rogers Folk Festival, Vancouver Folk Festival, Northern Lights Festival and The Great Northern Arts Festival as well as prestigious festivals such as the Tilburg Festival in Germany and the Ravenna Festival in Italy. Last year she was honored to be chosen as one of fifty Canadian artists to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Canada Council for the Arts. Performing at the Governor General’s Gala, the event encompassed singers, dancers, visual artist, writers, filmmakers and musicians from across the country. Each artist represented a year in the life of the Canada Council, having either won one of the many awards administered by the council or gained a grant to help them continue to do their art.
Beaivvas Sami Theatre, the National Sami
Theater in Norway, Tours “The Frost Haired and the Dream Seer” to
India, Bangladesh and Nepa
The Sami are the Indigenous people of Arctic Europe; their homeland,
Sapmi, is now divided among Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. This
is the first time ever that Sami theater has toured to South Asia
From its beginnings in 1981 as the first Sami theater, Beaivvas Sami Theatre has grown from being a small theatre group run by idealistic enthusiasts with little or no financial support, to its present status as the Norwegian National Sami Theatre Company, fully subsidized by the Norwegian government. The theatre’s aim is to strengthen Sami identity through the production of plays of professional quality in the Sami language, as well as to promote Sami culture in Norway and abroad. The company has frequently given guest performances far outside the borders of Norway, travelling as far as Greenland in the west, Spanish Basque Country in the south, and eastern Siberia. But now for the first time in history the Sami have brought their culture to South Asia, performing in Mumbai, Kathmandu and Dhaka.
‘Cultural
Symposiums’ organized nine Regional Culture Councils in Bolivia in
2008
Cultural Symposiums 2008, an initiative of the Vice Ministry of
Cultural Development, for more than six months, reached the nine
regional capitals of Bolivia with art, music, theatre and, above
all, debate. One of the objectives that the national project
achieved was the constitution of nine regional culture councils that
have agreed to carry out important actions on the formulation of
cultural policies.
http://www.culturasdebolivia.gob.bo/
Sites of Interest
For more information please contact:
Solomon Islands Tourism
http://www.visitsolomons.com.sb
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