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INDIGENOUS AND REGIONAL CULTURES
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Our News - what's keeping us busy!
Gordon Bronitsky invited to speak at McMurry University, Abilene, Texas, March 11-12
Mariachi Imperial de America to tour Albania and Macedonia March 13-20
Sami rights pioneer Magne Ove Varsi - US Tour April 18-May 1
Gordon Bronitsky Invited to Moi University, Kenya
IndigeNOW! Indigenous Opera From Three Continents and Four Countries
Greenlandic filmmaker/playwright/actor Laila Hansen to Tour US, October 2010
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Call for Submissions and Papers
News
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Academic Offerings
Our News - what's keeping us busy!
Gordon Bronitsky invited to speak at McMurry University, Abilene, Texas
Gordon Bronitsky, founder and President of Bronitsky and Associates, has been invited to speak at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas, as part of a symposium entitled The Quest: An Academic Institution Seeks to Honor Native Americans. The event will be March 11-12 in the Garrison United Methodist Campus Center.
The symposium will be called Three experts on American Indian culture and policy will gather to exchange ideas and opinions with the campus community, including faculty, staff, and the general public. The symposium will offer small group discussions, and the event will also present a panel discussion featuring three scholars, including Dr. Bronitsky.
Mariachi Imperial de America to tour Albania and Macedonia March 13-20.
Mariachi Imperial de America has been performing for about 20 years under the direction of Jose Longoria. The band consists of family members as well as close friends. Its members represent various regions of Mexico including Guanajuato, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosi. Band members’ dedication to bringing quality music and entertainment to audiences has made Mariachi Imperial a success. Their charisma and overall love for mariachi music distinguishes Mariachi Imperial from other mariachi groups. They transmit their enthusiasm and love for their music through their performances. They not only sing, but also dance and encourage audience participation. You can learn more about this exciting group at http://www.bronitskyandassociates.com/mariachi.htm.
They will be touring Albania and Macedonia March 13-20 under the auspices of the State Department and the United States embassies in those countries. We hope all our readers in the area--Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Croatia--will have the opportunity to attend some of the performances and experience the musical skill and fun of mariachi. You can visit the tour schedule at http://www.bronitskyandassociates.com/MariachiTour.htm.
Bronitsky and Associates has previously toured Mariachi Imperial de America to China and Armenia--”an 8-day musical party” remembers Gordon Bronitsky, who accompanied the group as tour manager to Armenia.
Sami rights pioneer Magne Ove Varsi - US Tour April 18-May 1
Bronitsky and Associates will tour Sami rights pioneer to the US April 18-May 1. He is the founder/director of the Gáldu Resource Centre for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Kautokeino, Norway (www.galdu.org). The resource centre was created to increase information about the rights of Sami and other indigenous peoples.
Mr. Varsi’s diverse career also includes:
- lecturer in journalism at the Sámi University College
- news editor for SVT Sápmi in connection with the establishment and joint Nordic Sámi TV news on SVT2, NRK 1 and YLE
- president of the Sámi Journalisstaid Seari (Sámi Journalists Association) 1998-2001
- and many other journalistic and international activities
Mr. Varsi’s lecture topics include
- Sami self-determination
- Territories, lands, and natural resources
- Indigenous intellectual property rights
Tour stops will include
- University of Texas at Austin
- Diné College, Tsaile, Arizona (the college of the Navajo Nation)
- University of Hawai’i
- University of Minnesota, and
- Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, Cloquet, Minnesota
You can see the tour schedule at http://www.bronitskyandassociates.com/OveVarsiTour.htm - and we invite all our readers in these areas to attend - he’s a dynamic speaker!
Gordon Bronitsky will be blogging the tour as it happens, so be sure to visit our blog at http://www.bronitskyandassociates.com/wordpress.
Gordon Bronitsky Invited to Moi University, Kenya
Gordon Bronitsky, founder and President of Bronitsky and Associates, has been invited to Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya in the fall to begin working with them to create an annual African theater festival. The University has applied to the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program to bring Dr. Bronitsky to Kenya.
IndigeNOW! Indigenous Opera From Three Continents and Four Countries
When you hear the word Opera, what do you think of? Buxom women with metal bodices and Viking hats? Sobbing clowns covered in blood? Suicidal sopranos hurling themselves from castles? How about dispossessed Aboriginal peoples? Cutting-edge Native American composers? Traditional Sami chants mixed up to fresh beats and new stories? If these things don't come to mind now, they will--after you experience IndigeNOW!, the first annual festival of Indigenous Opera from Three Continents and Four Countries. Now in development, this will definitely be a project to watch for!
Greenlandic filmmaker/playwright/actor Laila Hansen to Tour US, October 2010
Bronitsky and Associates will tour Laila Hansen, Greenlandic playwright/actor/filmmaker, to the US October 1-15, 2010.
Ms. Hansen helped establish Silarmiut, the first theater company in Greenland. She has just finished a documentary film, Inuk Woman City Blues (http://www.vestfilm.dk/sociale.html), supported by the Danish Film Institute, Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Social Affairs.
If you would like to bring Ms. Hansen to your community, please contact Gordon Bronitsky at .
For Your Diary
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Events
Gathering of Nations Powwow
April 22-24
University of New Mexico Football Field
Albuquerque, New Mexico
http://www.gatheringofnations.com
Festivals
Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival
Sydney Opera House
Sydney, Australia
May 6, 2010
http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/About/program_Message_Sticks.aspx
Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival 2010
Theme--Indigenous Wisdom and Youth
Kathmandu, Nepal
May 27-30, 2010
www.ifanepal.org.np
Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2010
Wairoa, New Zealand
June 4-7, 2010
http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2010/jun/wairoa/wairoa-maori-film-festival-2010
Guelaguetza
Last two weeks of July
Oaxaca, Mexico
This may be Oaxaca's most famous festival with visitors attending from around the world. Also known as Lunes del Cerro, regional dancers from throughout the state express their culture on the last two Mondays of the month. The colorful event takes place in an outdoor amphitheater on Fortin Hill, above Oaxaca City, Mexico.
Funding
Funding for Maori language projects
Mā Te Reo is a government body that supports programs, projects and
activities which encourage local community level Māori language
regeneration.
There is an annual funding round and application
criteria can be found at
http://www.ma-tereo.co.nz/
Conferences
The African Indigenous Knowledge Systems Summit
Arterial Network
Botswana
10 March 2010 to 11 March 2010
This summit seeks to cover the following topical issues:
- The role of regional bodies (SADC, NEPAD, AFRICAN RENAISSANCE INSTITUTE) in promoting IK and its innovative models.
- Challenges of integrating IK with other knowledge systems.
- Is the SADC region ready for National IK Systems given the current political, social and economic situation?
- Promoting and protecting African minority languages in Southern Africa.
- How far will the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) protect the use and abuse, access and regulation of IK regionally?
- School Curriculum challenges in the SADC: How far are we and what has been achieved so far?
- Women, IKS and the Millennium Development Goals.
- Intellectual property protection for IKS in the SADC.
For more information contact Charity Bunhu Tel 27 11 781 9131, Fax 27 11 781 8817 Email:
Performing the World 2010: Can Performance Change the World?
East Side Institute
New York City, USA
30 September 2010 to 03
October 2010
The sixth Performing the World conference will be held in New York City from Thursday, September 30 through Sunday, October 3, 2010. The theme of this year’s conference is: “Can Performance Change the World?”
With this theme, we ask performance activists and scholars to reflect on and address the political aspects of their performance work; at the same time, we invite social change activists to reflect on and address the performance aspects of their political activities. We are looking for proposals - for panels, workshops, - performances, demonstrations, installations, etc. - that address this overarching question.
The sponsors of Performing the World - the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy and the All Stars Project, Inc. - are based in New York City. For decades, both organizations have worked to create a performance-oriented culture and community, in conscious and direct relationship to progressive social change. Our activities involve all neighborhoods and social strata in New York City, and have created an international network of connections.
We envision Performing the World 2010 as a three-day “performance of conversation” with people from all over the world - scholars and researchers; teachers, therapists, social workers and community organizers; doctors and other health workers; theatre and other performance artists; union activists and business leaders; economists and political activists - on the subject of performance and the transformation of the individual, the community, and the world.
The question “Can Performance Change the World?” suggests many themes and topics. Here are a few:
- Does performance contribute to people seeing the world in new ways?
- Play, performance and learning in and outside of school
- Community, therapy and community therapy
- Playing at work and working at play
- New health care performances for connecting mind and body
- Therapy, performance and emotional growth
- How is the economy performing?
- What does performing on stage have to do with performing off-stage?
- Group creativity and social change
- Performance, activism and revolution
To submit a proposal, go to http://www.eastsideinstitute.org/page53/page53.html
Publications
Your Genre is Black: Indigenous
Performing Arts and Policy
by
Hilary Glow and Katya Johnson
In February 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generations on behalf of the Australian people. Now what? In this Platform Paper, mid-career Indigenous performing artists think about their post-apology future.
Indigenous theatre blossomed in the 1990s when it was grasped as a means to expose social issues and advance the goals of Reconciliation. Now that generation of artists questions these motives. For some, history and community are central; others are impatient with ‘your genre is black’ and demand the professional respect they have earned. ‘Indigenous artists’, says director Wesley Enoch, ‘have been asked for decades to work at their slowest, to bring everyone along with them. It’s the equivalent of asking Cathy Freeman to run slowly, so that everyone can keep up with her.’
Glow and Johanson provide a forum for practitioners like Rachel Maza-Long, David Milroy, Stephen Page and Rhoda Roberts. Together they call for an end to second-best; and for measures that respond with post-apology confidence to the vision and inspiration that, in the opinion of the Australia Council, ‘remain at the heart of Australia’s culture’.
Dr Hilary Glow and Dr Katya Johanson are researchers and lecturers in arts, cultural policy, history and practice at Deakin University, Melbourne. Hilary Glow is the author of Power Plays: Australian Theatre and the Public Agenda (2007).
To order, go to http://www.currencyhouse.org.au/pages/pp_issue_19.html
Call for Submissions and Papers
Call For Papers - Singing: Interdisciplinary perspectives on a
natural human expressive outlet
UNESCO Observatory, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning,
The University of Melbourne Refereed E-Journal,
Multi-Disciplinary
Research in the Arts. ISSN 1835 - 2776
Guest Editor: Larry O'Farrell
Professor and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning,
Faculty of Education, Queen’s University,
Duncan McArthur Hall, 511
Union Street,
Kingston, Ontario K7M 5R7, Canada
This issue will focus on the origins and implications of singing, a natural, human expressive outlet. Linked to social, cultural, and biological development, singing draws on many disciplines and submits to many forms of analysis and specific explorations. Submissions are invited reflecting multidisciplinary knowledge about singing from the perspectives of psychology, music, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, education, and other disciplines. Submissions may relate to one of the three themes around which the issue will, provisionally, be organized although other perspectives are welcome.
Theme 1: Development of Singing
- Acquisition of Singing – Determining universal, culture specific, and idiosyncratic aspects of the development of singing.
- Singing and Speaking Comparisons – Defining the features that distinguish singing and speech acquisition.
Theme 2: Education
- Teaching Singing and Education through Singing Assessing and improving instructional methods for teaching singing and learning songs, and by using singing to teaching and learn the curricula of other disciplines.
Theme 3: Singing and Well-being
- Cultural Understanding through singing – examining the role of teaching songs of foreign cultures to children to promote lifelong cultural understanding of others and themselves.
- Intergenerational Singing – Determining how singing increases individual physical and psychological well-being and community well- being, with a special focus on intergenerational singing where elder members of a society teach children songs of their culture.
- Singing and Health: Specific health benefits of singing as in breathing exercise compliance in lung disease through singing.
Text: Annabel J. Cohen Ph.D., AIRS Project Director, University of Prince Edward Island. Used with permission.
Editor-in-Chief:
Lindy Joubert
T: +61 3 8344 7437
F: +61 3 8344 5532
E:
Faculty of Architecture, Building and
Planning,
University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010 Australia
Associate Editor:
Naomi Berman
T: +61 3 8344 6054
F: +61 3 8344 5532
E:
For guidelines for contributors please visit the website: www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/unesco/ejournal/.
Please submit articles directly to the Guest Editor. Submission deadline: 1st April 2010
News
Artists Break Down Barriers Between India, Pakistan
“Two of the biggest media groups in Pakistan and India have
orchestrated an attempt at a peace initiative called Quest for
Peace. The goal is to bring the two nations together through music,
literature; and other cultural and business interactions.”
National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123595417
Native Dancing Ban Lifted in Alaska Village
Rachel D’Oro,
Associated
Press. February 21, 2010.
© Copyright 2010 Associated Press. All
rights
reserved.
“Bobby Wells has lived all his life in this remote Alaska village,
where the Eskimo dancing of his ancestors was banned by Quaker
missionaries a century ago as primitive idolatry. Now Wells, 53, and
other residents of Noorvik have wholeheartedly embraced the ancient
practice outlawed in the Inupiat Eskimo settlement, which was
established in 1914…”
Full text available at
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/feb/21/native-dancing-ban-lifted-in-alaska-village/
Australia--Closing the gap means giving power back: Indigenous
leaders
National Indigenous Times
“By Julian Drape
NATIONAL:
ISSUE 195, February 18, 2010:
"If the
Rudd government is serious about closing the gap between black and
white living standards, more power needs to be handed to Aboriginal
people to find solutions, Indigenous leaders say.”
http://www.nit.com.au/news/story.aspx?id=19412
Maori Film Wins Best Feature award at the Berlin International Film
Festival
TangaWhenua.com Maori News & Indigenous Views
“Taika Waititi’s latest film, Boy has won Best Feature award at the
Berlin International Film Festival”
http://news.tangatawhenua.com/archives/3408
Sites of Interest
For more information please contact: .
Maori Television
http://www.maoritelevision.com/default.aspx
Navajo radio, KTNN-AM
http://www.ktnnonline.com/
Academic Offerings
After many inquiries from universities and colleges, Bronitsky and Associates now offers a regular advertising feature, Academic Offerings, in our e-newsletter From All Directions (current circulation 5419 readers around the world).
This will be an excellent opportunity to reach an international audience regarding your programs in the applied social sciences, Indigenous studies, performing arts and related disciplines.
Please contact Gordon Bronitsky at for more information
New Program in Applied Archaeology at the University of Arizona
The School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona offers a
Master’s Degree with a track in Applied Archaeology. Applied
Archaeology is an emerging field of study within Anthropology that
creates and uses knowledge in the context of application. These
applications include collecting information about archaeological
sites for use in cultural resources management, recovering
archaeological data from threatened sites to mitigate the adverse
effects of land modifying projects, managing historic properties to
comply with historic preservation legislation, assisting Indigenous
groups with identification of traditional cultural properties and
heritage management, and creating a sustainable cultural environment
by using the tools of preservation archaeology. All of these
applications produce knowledge that is significant in the discipline
of Anthropology.
The M.A. in Applied Archaeology at the University of Arizona is a
rigorous two-year academic program designed to teach the subject
matter and professional skills needed for a successful career
working for businesses, governmental agencies, tribes, and
non-profit organizations that employ applied archaeologists. The
carefully designed curriculum includes classroom instruction in
anthropological method and theory, laboratory training in
specialized analytical techniques, coursework to establish expertise
in an archaeological region, and an internship to develop
professional skills. The University of Arizona is situated in one of
the densest areas of applied archaeologists in the country and our
program will integrate professionals working in the private, public,
and non-profit sectors of archaeology. The University of Arizona
maintains high academic standards, and graduates of the M.A. in
Anthropology with an Applied Archaeology Track will receive the
education they need for an intellectually and professionally
satisfying career.
http://anthropology.arizona.edu/node/218
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