PachaKamani

This Tuesday, August 26th on our 12:00 CET FM slot on Colaboradio / Freies Radio Berlin Brandenburg we release another episode from PachaKamani.

La Alasita: deseos, fertilidad y crecimiento (01/2021) En este episodio, exploraremos la tradición de la Alasita, una festividad ritual que se celebra el 24 de enero, donde las personas compran miniaturas con la esperanza de que sus deseos se hagan realidad. La importancia de esta fiesta ritual para los habitantes de la ciudad de La Paz, es muy grande. Por ello, el año 2010 artesanos, feriantes, ritualistas y autoridades locales, iniciaron las gestiones para que UNESCO reconozca a La Alasita como patrimonio cultural de la Humanidad. Este objetivo se logró el 7 de diciembre de 2017, cuando el Comité Intergubernamental de Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Inmaterial de UNESCO declaran la inscripción de La Alasita en la Lista Representativa del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad, mediante la aprobación del expediente titulado: «Los recorridos rituales en la ciudad de La Paz durante la Alasita».

Contenido del Episodio:

• Significado y elementos centrales de La Alasita. • Importancia de la Alasita para La Paz y Bolivia. • Criterios sobre la declaratoria de La Alasita como Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad. • Referentes ancestrales y rituales de La Alasita. • La importancia del significado de «crecimiento» para La Alasita, algo más que solo deseos.

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Aires Creativos

This Tuesday, August 26th on our 14:00 CET and replay the next day at 2:00 CET FM slot on Colaboradio / Freies Radio Berlin Brandenburg we release another episode from Aires Creativos.

En el tercer episodio de la segunda temporada del podcast Aires Creativos, del proyecto Nuevos Aires Chilenos para Oboe, la periodista Romina de la Sotta, conversará con el compositor David Cortés sobre sus inquietudes como creador, su gestión como presidente de la Asociación Nacional de Compositores y su labor como docente. Podremos escuchar la obra “Dignidad” para oboe solo, escrita por Cortés el año 2020.

Aires Creativos es un ciclo de entrevistas con compositores y compositoras, en las cuales se profundizará en sus procesos, búsquedas y motivaciones, con un foco además en el trabajo colaborativo que han desarrollado con José Luis Urquieta. La mitad de las entrevistas son realizadas por Nayive Ananías y la otra mitad, por Romina de la Sotta. Se estrenará una sesión al mes, hasta diciembre.

Aires Creativos se transmite por Spotify y Archipel Community Radio de Berlín y también en nuevosaireschilenosparaoboe

Producción, José Luis Urquieta Producción Alemania-Bolivia, Bertha Elena Artero, Lluvia Bustos, Comusik

Archipel e.V is a small arts and culture association registered within the german requirments, according to which we assigned as our main purpose advocating for tolerance in all areas of culture and the concept of international understanding, especially supporting the emancipation of entities that have been pushed to the margins.

In the last months we have watched consecutive war crimes being commited by Israel backlashing Hamas horrendous attentat on October 7th 2023. We have watched powerful governments, in particular the German, support inconditionally and financially an offensive in Palestine that is unjustifiable. We watched hate speech profaned by the mouths of people in charge. We watched hundreds of international human rights organisations desperately denoucing an on-going massacre. We have watched protests, especially in Berlin, that in no way endorsed Hamas - instead mourne and demanded respect to human rights - be violently supressed. We have watched police reinforcement of racial profiling and provocations to the Palestinian, Arab and Muslim communitites living in Berlin. We have watched a quick escalation of discrimitation and ignorant statements about Arabs and Muslims, specially inside schools, from educational staff and school communities. We have watched german art and educational institutions, when at all making public statements, show solidarity to the losses of Israel and silence about what is happening in Palestine. We confirm a complex set of silencing mechanisms at play against those that are critical of mainstream narratives.

Hereby we publicly declare our devastation about this situation and that we do not agree with the ways the German government and the German cultural and academic circuit has acted so far. We are disapointed and specially revolted by the discrepancy between all the decolonial discourse that has permeated the arts - a staging in which all members of our organisation have acted upon - and the general retraction to a brutal scenario that blows up the main injustices and power inequalities decolonization fights against. We understand there are many mechanisms for silencing at play, still, we cannot accept the submission to this oppression of speech and criticism. We call specially the german voices to work out through their reasons not to speak up and use their locus of speech that is of particular relevance to the injustices exploding in the last months and to the extreme-right agenda that is taking over more and more space.

We would like also to call attention to the many ways in which this current crisis reinforce mechanisms of polarization and separation between people all over the world. Archipel will put its efforts in maintaing its open channel for all voices and contuining to produce spaces of encounter in times of further increase in broken relationships. Inasmusch as we feel we must speak out against the current upmost injustices, we also need to stay aware of the importance of connectivity and cross-communication in the sight of a large aparatus that is trying to disrupt valuable interpersonal relationships. We want to contribute to free and diverse media environment and foster cultures of listening that produce empathy and respect.

CEASE FIRE NOW. REPAIR.

p.s. We keep changing at the beginning of this statment days, for weeks, for months... now it's a year and a few months since.