Projects Managed
Bronitsky and Associates has been involved with hundreds of projects
and events in our history. On this page, we provide a list of our
current activities as well as a small sample of some of our past work.
Recent Projects
Consultant to International Governments
Consultant/Advisor to National and International Festivals
Consultant/Producer for International Arts Touring Companies
Facilitator of International Cultural Marketing Workshops
International Lectures and Speaking Engagements
Publications and Papers
Recent Projects
Executive Producer - ORIGINS™: First Nations Theater from around the World, in partnership with Border Crossings and under the Artistic Direction of Michael Walling, London, England
Stage 1: 2007 - September 1-8, Official launch, with First Nations
Playwrights Symposium
Stage 2: 2008 - 2009 ORIGINS on the Road™
Stage 3: 2009 - ORIGINS™: Premiere London Season
International Marketing and Promotions Consultant for the Cumbre Tajin Festival, Veracruz, Mexico – contracted by the Cumbre Tajin Festival of the Totonac People to promote the Festival internationally and to broker opportunities for touring international Indigenous artists and performers to the Festival and to take Totonac performers to the World
Negotiating for the Development of Regional Arts and Cultural Festivals - utilizing our training and development model to build capacity among the members of the host community
Consultant to International Governments
United States of America Embassies:
Russia
Pakistan
United Arab Emirates
Philippines
Armenia
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Kuwait
Colombia
Albania
Macedonia
Dominican Republic
Peru
Lithuania
United States Department of Commerce
Italy
Macedonia
Embassy of Mexico
China
Australia
Embassy of Canada
China
Embassy of Australia
Mexico
Consultant/Advisor to National and International Festivals
2008 The Dreaming Festival
Native American delegation
Woodford, Queensland, Australia.
2008-2009 Cumbre Tajin Festival of Identity
Paplanta, Veracruz, Mexico.
2001-2003 Encuentro Yoreme Festival
DIFOCUR (Dirección de Investigación y Fomento de Cultura
Regional/Department for Research and Development of Regional
Culture)
Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
2004, 2006, 2007 World of Melody
Festival
IOV (International Organization for Folk Art) Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2000 Spirit of a Planet Festival
Spirit of a Planet Inc.
Bergamo, Italy
1999 Indian Village
Indian Village, Inc
Schönau/Vienna, Austria
Consultant/Producer for International Arts Touring Companies
and Speakers
Chinle Valley Singers (traditional Navajo music/dance; USA)
Lois Suluk Locke and Maria Illungiayok (Inuit throat singing; Canada)
Peter Irniq (Inuit statesman and drum dancer; Canada)
Heath Bergersen (didgeridoo player; Australia)
Sutaras Folk Dance Group (traditional folk music and dance; Lithuania)
Mariachi Imperial de America (mariachi music; USA)
Andrew Thomas (traditional flute music; Navajo; USA)
Transjoik (contemporary Sami music; Sami; Norway)
Jun Tiburcio (Totonac writer; Mexico)
Kwagiutl Dancers (traditional Kwagiutl dancers; Canada)
Matato’a (traditional and contemporary Easter Island music; Easter Island, Chile)
Naa Luudisk Gwaii Yatx’I Dancers (traditional Tlingit and Haida music and dance; Alaska, USA)
Pa’a Taotao Tano Dancers (traditional Chamorro music and dance; Guam)
Gummilori Yanni Yulidji Dancers (traditional Aboriginal Australian music and dance; Australia)
Dakwäkäda Dancers (traditional Athabascan Indian music and dance; Canada)
Fernando Cellicion Traditional Zuni Dancers (Zuni Indian music and dance; USA)
Yellow Bird Apache Dancers (traditional Apache and Plains music and dance; USA)
Virginia Yazzie Ballenger (contemporary Navajo fashion; USA)
Virginia Stroud (Cherokee; USA)
Magne Ove Varsi (Sami rights pioneer, Norway)
Harriet Nordlund (Sami playwright, Sweden)
David Milroy (Aboriginal playwright, Australia)
Laila Hansen (playwright, Greenland)
David Velarde (Apache playwright David Velarde, USA)
Facilitator of International Cultural Marketing Workshops
2004
International Cultural Marketing Workshop in Moscow under the auspices of RAIPON (Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North), the Russian National House of Folk Arts of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Division of International Exchanges of the Russian Federation Ministry of Culture, and the Department of Economics and Strategic Development of the Evenkia Autonomous Region, with assistance from the United States and Canadian embassies
2002
Participant in Creative Performance Marketing Workshop, Vilnius, Lithuania
Mecanismos de Financiamiento Internacional. Mesa Redonda: La Problemática Actual de la Cultura Yoreme. Cuarto Encuentro Yoreme Sinaloa, Culiacan, Sinaloa (Mechanisms of International Funding, Round Table: The Current Situation of Mayo Indian Culture)
2001
Arte y Artesania de los Nativos Americanos en el Mercado Mundial in Mochicahui and Culiacan, Sinaloa, for the Segundo Encuentro Yoreme del Noroeste (Art and Handicrafts of Native Americans in World Markets, presented in Los Capomos, Mochicahui and Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, for the Second Encounter of the Mayo Indians of the Northwest)
International Lectures and Speaking Engagements
2010
"The Role and Significance of Cultural Events for the Development of a Territory." Participant, International Round-Table Discussion, Volgograd, Russia.
2007
"International Cultural Marketing." Bi-National Forum, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
"International Cultural Marketing." New Mexico Native American Economic Summit, Albuquerque.
"Promoting Indigenous Talent Internationally." Bi-National Forum, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
2005
"International Cultural Marketing," Anderson Schools of Management, University of New Mexico
2003
"Marketing Australian Aboriginal Talent." Western Australia Indigenous Arts Showcase, Perth, Australia, February 2003
"The Challenge of Promoting Indigenous Talent Internationally," Asian Arts Market 2003, Singapore, June 2003
2001
"Arts and Native Handicrafts in Global Trade," Encuentro Yoreme del Noroeste, Culiacán, Mazatlán, Los Mochis, Guasave and El Fuerte, Sinaloa, Mexico (Encounter of the Mayo Indians of the Northwest of Mexico)
Publications and Papers
2010
Creating Spaces Where Things Happen: A Life Story of a Business Anthropologist. International Journal of Business Anthropology, Vol. 1, No. 1 – to view the article please click here (Adobe Acrobat PDF).
2008
Report from International Conference on African Culture and Development – to view a copy of the report please click here (1.6 MB - Adobe Acrobat PDF).
2007
International Cultural Marketing Conference/Workshop: Indigenous Performers, World Markets. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter, December 2007
2006
Time Has Come to Create an Indigenous Business Center. New Mexico Business Journal Vol. 13, No. 19, p 16.
Creating Markets for Contemporary International Indigenous Performance. International Indigenous Business and Entrepreneurship Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2005
Keep ‘em Pure, Keep ‘em Poor: Anthropology, Anthropologists, and Talent. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2004
The Challenge of Promoting Indigenous Talent Internationally. High Plains Applied Anthropologist 24(1): 101-102, Spring, 2004
2003
International Cultural Marketing: A Concept Paper. High Plains Applied Anthropologist 23(1): 102-103.
International Cultural Marketing. Paper presented at Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, Oregon.
2001
American Indians, World Markets. Paper presented at Native Stories and Their Keepers: Telling the Public. Sequoyah Research Center Symposium, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Indigenous Peoples in World Markets. Fourth International Business and Economics Conference, St Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin.
Native Update on International Marketing Strategy. National Indian Business Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM
From Tribal Worlds to World Markets. Anthropology Newsletter, American Anthropological Association. 42(3): 6
2000
Case Six: Effective Email use: Are you getting the most out of Email? Applied Anthropology and the Internet: Communication and Innovation, Terry Redding, ed., Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association. National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Online Bulletin Series #19, URL: www.aaanet.org/publications/napa19/default.html
Native American Businesses. 12th Annual Navajo Studies Conference, San Juan Community College, Farmington, NM.
