PachaKamani
On Tuesday, September 3th, we host on our weekly FM slot on 88,4 Berlin / 90,7 Potsdam the episode 29 of PachaKamani series at 12:00 (CET)
Sesión 29 - Kamani Archipel. Alasita: Ritualidad, miniaturas y patrimonio | Webinar parte 1
¿Te gustaría conocer más sobre el significado detrás de la fiesta ritual de La Alasita en Bolivia? ¿Cómo las miniaturas adquiridas en esta celebración se convierten en elementos sagrados y metas cargadas de energía?
En la sesión 29 desde Archipel y PachaKamani compartimos la primera parte del webinar dedicado a La Alasita, patrimonio cultural inmaterial de la Humanidad, donde dos expertos en el tema, Félix Mendoza Poma y Varinia Oros Rodríguez, compartirán sus conocimientos sobre la historia, el significado y la importancia de esta fiesta única en el mundo.
La Alasita
En nuestra publicación del año 2022, La Alasita: Patrimonio cultural, fertilidad y crecimiento te presentamos el mundo de La Alasita y su importancia en la ciudad de La Paz, Bolivia. La Alasita es una fiesta con un profundo sentido ritual de perseverancia y crecimiento, donde se intercambian objetos en miniatura con la esperanza de que se «materialicen» en el futuro próximo.
La celebración de La Alasita es impresionante, ya que «la ciudad se transforma» unas horas antes y después del mediodía del 24 de enero. El flujo vehicular se frena momentáneamente, las calles y avenidas se cierran por las ferias asentadas alrededor de plazas e iglesias, y muchos empleados tienen permiso para asistir. Todo este escenario se crea para que las personas puedan adquirir sus miniaturas sagradas. En 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 declaró 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.«
En resumen, La Alasita es una celebración única en el mundo con un profundo significado ritual y cultural, y su importancia ha sido reconocida por UNESCO como patrimonio cultural de la humanidad.
Información sobre nuestros invitad@s Félix Eleuterio Mendoza Poma Título de su ponencia: «ILLA, su etimología»
Es tutor en educación y tecnología. PH.D.(c) Ciencias de la Educación e Investigación; M.Sc. Calidad de la Educación Superior. Gerencia e Ingeniería del Mantenimiento. MAESTRANTE en Energías Renovables y Eficiencia Energética. DIRECTOR EN MUYTA CONSULTING. Docente e Investigador Independiente en Ciencias Ancestrales. Fue Director y autor del diseño curricular de la Carrera de Ciencias Matemáticas UTA. Director de Investigaciones de la UTA. Facilitador en la SAFCI, Consultor en la UNEFCO.
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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.
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