The World Music School Helsinki – in collaboration with Kulttuurikameleontit and Alli Paasikiven Säätiö – gave two music workshops under the title “Africa goes South America”, on May 27th 2017, at the wonderful World Village Festival!
Both sessions were packed with kids and their families. The organizational team of the festival was superb and so was our collaboration with Kulttuurikameleontit. We are looking forward to be present again next here! 🙂
Check here the 360 video of one of the sessions and some photos. To see more, please check here.
We just signed a collaboration with the Kulttuurikameleontit ry.
This year we will produce together three events focused on African Folk, partly supported by Alli Paasikiven Säätiö.
The first of these will be at the World Village Festival: Africa goes South America on May 27th – 12:45 and 19:00 – at the World Village Festival, Kids’ Corner.
We invite you and your family to discover through dancing, drumming, and singing the connection between traditional African and Salsa rhythms. Expert musicians will be leading two workshops hosted by the warm and multicultural atmosphere of the World Village Festival.
The workshops are designed for families and will be a fun and interesting experience you will remember with joy. There will be drums available for you and your kids and you are of course welcome to bring yours.
Workshop 1: AFRICAN RHYTHMS AND SINGING
12:45 opening speech
12:50 warm up with percussion
12:55 teaching of rhythms and singing
13:10 end of the workshop
Workshop 2: AFRICAN ROOTS OF SALSA DANCE
19:00 opening speech
19:05 warm up with afro rhythms
19:10 teaching of salsa steps
19:25 end of the workshop
We are looking forward to meeting you, your kids and friends on May 27th at World Village Festival 2017!
Kulttuurikameleontit ry is a non-profit organisation that works against racism, enhances multiculturalism and diversity and the integration of immigrants through art.
All of the events organized by World Music School Helsinki aim to connect the local cultural minorities through music. www.worldmusic.school, we teach music as a mother language!
This project is part of the official Finland 100 festivities for 2017.
On the footsteps of the fundamental work of Elias Lönnrot in the 1800s, we aim to collect and record the current socio-cultural landscape of today’s Finland with it’s minorities, expressed in the traditional music and dance. These series of events are designed for anyone interested in music or dancing. You can learn how to play traditional dance songs and how to perform music for the dances. If you are interested in dancing you will learn the steps and form of the dances by performing it together with live music. Everybody and all kinds of music instruments are welcome, previous experience is not required. Just bring your instrument, voice and body!
THE PLANNED EVENTS and DATES:
Feb. 19th – 18:00 – 21:00 – at Bokvillan Helsinki – Sami and Brazil Folk Dances with Live Music
April 23rd – 18:00 – 21:00 – at Bokvillan Helsinki – Indian and Peruvian Folk Dances with Live Music
Mai 27th – 12:45 and 19:00 – at World Village Festival – African and Latin America Folk Dances with Live Music for Families
July 13th – 20:00 – at Kaustinen Festival – Galician and Bulgarian Folk Dances with Live Music
Sep. 17th – 18:00 – 21:00 – at Bokvillan Helsinki – Klezmer and Griot Folk Dances with Live Music
Nov. 26th – 18:00 – 21:00 – at Bokvillan Helsinki – Burkina Faso and Nigerian Folk Dances with Live Music
It is fundamental to make this approach flexible and to make it now. Finland has been assimilating many cultural traditions from other regions of the world and it is assimilating it (e.g. the tradition of Tango in the Seinäjoki region). Our identity is now stronger than ever if we look at these influences with committed and honest eyes and ears.
Pedro Aibéo
Pedro Aibéo is a trained Design Architect (M.Sc., Dipl. Ing., TU Darmstadt, Germany) and Civil Engineer (M.Sc., Licenciatura, FEUP, Porto) with over 50 buildings designed and built on 15 countries currently practicing at “AIBEO architecture”. He is also a Kone Säätiö Research Fellow, a Visiting Associate Professor at UNAM University, Mexico and at Wuhan University of Technology, China, and a Lecturer, Research Assistant and Doctoral Candidate at Aalto University, Finland on “Architectural Democracy”. He has also regularly lectured about Architecture at the Universities of QUT Brisbane, TU Darmstadt and FAUP Portugal. He is the founder and Artistic Director of “Cidadania” theatre+games group, Germany, with written and directed theater plays at the United Nations and the Staatstheater Darmstadt on urban slavery and astronomy. He is a professional Musician at “Homebound” and the founder and Chairman of the “World Music School Helsinki ry”. He is a drawing teacher at the croquis nights and at Kiasma in Helsinki and a comic novel writer on mathematics. He is a published current affairs author in several newspapers.
World Music School Helsinki is a registered, non-profit organization in Finland (rekisteröity yhdistys)
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