We offer you special programs on Andean culture, combined with festivities, excursions and stays in indigenous communities
2023 – 2024 PROGRAMS
MAY
INTENSIVE ANDEAN TEXTILE ART COURSE: THE PALLAY´S WORLD
Weaving Classes – Semiology – Mythology – Pre-Columbian Textile Art
The Andean civilizations´ textile art is one of the most complex in the world. Today, a diversity of techniques, applied in an immense variety of textiles, is being put into practice in high Andean communities. This two-week program offers a textile learning in a multidisciplinary way.
Practical Areas
- Weaving on Backstrap and Pallay
Lectures y Expositions
- The Accha Alta Community’s Textile Tradition: Tecniques, Iconography and Symbolism
- Documentary Moovies
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Seminars
- Semiology of Andean Textiles: Iconographic interpretation
- Astronomy and Cosmology in Archaeological Textiles
- Mythology and Ritual in Andean Textiles
Workshops
- Natural Dyeing
- Handling the Andean drop spindle (Puska) and Thread Twisting
Field Experiences
- Staying and Weaving in an Indigenous Community
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JULY
SUMMER PROGRAM
Andean Textile Art & mamacha Carmen Festivity
July 7 – 20, 2024
In the Sacred Valley of the Incas, the month of July stands-out due to the pompous celebration in honor to the Mamacha Carmen, which is taking place during five days. In total there are 21 teams of masked dancers, accompanied by musicians, who give homage to the “Mamacha”. Through their performance they stage mythologies and historical passages.
In the cemetery the teams of dancers evoke their defunct members, thus commemorating and integrating the world of the dead and that of the ancestors. One can notice an indigenous and catholic syncretism, but also a parallel world full of mysticism and joy.
This special program combines a unique cultural experience with intensive courses in Andean textile art.
Practical Area
- Weaving classes on backstrap loom
Workshops & Activities
- Dyeing workshops
- Pre-Columbian Art workshops
- Documentary film events
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Seminars, Courses
- Semiology in the Andean Textiles
- Andean Textile Art: Cosmology & Aesthetic
- Ritual Masks: Dance, Choreograhpy & symbolism
Cultural Immersion
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ANDEAN MUSIC PROGRAM
Aymara – Quechua Musical Tinku
July 7 – 20, 2024
Popular music, as well as original native music are the two areas that currently cohabitate in the Andes. Popular music is product of a syncretism of musical systems; that is between the Occidental and Andean music, while the original native Andean music and, especially, that played in traditional communities, has its roots in pre-Colombian times.
The linguistic category called ‘tinku’, as much in Quechua, as in the Aymara language, is synonymous of meeting, encounter or convergence and, precisely in this program, we make the music of Puno and Bolivia´s Aymara region converge with that of Peru´s Quechua-speaking area.
Practical Areas
Activities & Field Experiences
- Participation in the locality’s musical groups
- Participation and musical immersion at Mamacha Carmen festivity
- Astronomical observation, as well as that of “Sinc and Signaling ” factors of nature
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Courses & Seminars
- Ritual Masks: Dance, Choreography & Simbolism
- Ritual Calendar & Religious System
- Andean Iconography: A semantic System
- Mythology & Cosmology
- Music & Musical Instruments
Cultural Immersion
- Immersion at Mamacha Carmen Festivity
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OCTOBER
INTENSIVE ANDEAN TEXTILE ART COURSE: THE PALLAY´S WORLD
Weaving Classes – Semiology – Mythology – Pre-Columbian Textile Art
The Andean civilizations´ textile art is one of the most complex in the world. Today, a diversity of techniques, applied in an immense variety of textiles, is being put into practice in high Andean communities. This two-week program offers a textile learning in a multidisciplinary way.
Practical Areas
- Weaving on Backstrap and Pallay
Lectures y Expositions
- The Accha Alta Community’s Textile Tradition: Tecniques, Iconography and Symbolism
- Documentary Moovies
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Seminars
- Semiology of Andean Textiles: Iconographic interpretation
- Astronomy and Cosmology in Archaeological Textiles
- Mythology and Ritual in Andean Textiles
Workshops
- Natural Dyeing
- Handling the Andean drop spindle (Puska) and Thread Twisting
Field Experiences
- Staying and Weaving in an Indigenous Community
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