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Classes Seminars Expositions Field ExperienceDuring 2019, we offer you special programs on Andean culture, combined with festivities, excursions and stays in indigenous communities 2019 PROGRAMSOCTOBER13th – 26th October, 2019 THE TEXTIL TUPAY: SACRED VALLEY OF THE INCAS & CHUMBILVILCASIntensive Andean Textile Art ProgramThe Andean textile, or ‘runa p’acha’, is based on thousands of years of development. A huge variety of techniques were developed that, today, go on being applied by female and male weavers in the High Andean communities. On the other hand, and apart from their clothing function, textiles were, and still are, means for the storing and transmission of information. In the Quechua language, the term ‘tupay’ is synonymous to ‘meeting’, ‘encounter’ or ‘convergence’ and, precisely, in this program we facilitate the convergence of textiles from two regions of the Department of Cusco.
2020 PROGRAMSAPRIL01st – 13th April, 2019 INTENSIVE ANDEAN TEXTILE ART COURSE: THE PALLAY´S WORLDWeaving Classes – Semiology – Mythology – Pre-Columbian Textile ArtThe 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.
JULY05th – 18th July, 2020 ANDEAN TEXTILE ART & MAMACHA CARMEN FESTIVITYIntensive Summer ProgramIn 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.
05th – 18th July, 2020 AYMARA – QUECHUA MUSICAL TINKUAndean Music ProgramPopular 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.
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