We had the visit of Cindy Fan from B&R, our sponsors of the rural school project.
And we had the visit of Thomas, a yoga instructor who taught some exercises to the kids.
Thanks B & R to give us such a great experience in our lives!
Friday, June 27, 2008
Visits
Thanks B & R to give us such a great experience in our lives!
Monday, June 23, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
THE PROJECT IN RURAL SCHOOLS
Brief project summary:
The Intiqchurinkuna Project consists of making a theater production of local myths and legends performed by school children of two different rural Andean grade schools. There will be two different productions, one each year over the first two years of the project. The children from the 4th and 5th grade (9 to 12 years old) will be prepared through art workshops from April to July. In August the rehearsals will be completed and the final result will be shown at the school, then at the district capital and province capital towns in September. For the next five years, Intiqchurinkuna project will be commissioned to contract six performances annually for each production, providing a theater director for rehearsals and a stage assistant. As the little actors finish their studies and graduate from grade school, a new group of students will be trained to replace them.
In this way a permanent artistic activity will be carried on at the school.
These theatrical performances will be maiinig high standards thanks to the constant supervision of the organizers, the ones who will take care of the costumes and stage equipment for the show at the school and away from the school.
A proper investment has to be made to create a very high quality show that could be contracted to perform at one of the many hotels in the Sacred Valley and Cusco, good enough to attract the tourists to the community itself, being a very original cultural product. In that way, the communities will be benefit by the tourism directly. At the same time, the show will be presented at communal and social events and for sure at the school anniversary celebration.
The general objectives of this project are:
Help to solve in part the lack of cultural shows and art projects for children in the Andean provinces.
To re enforce the rights of children to benefit them physically, mentally, spiritually and socially: Proper education, fun, games and recreation.
To preserve and to spread our cultural ancestral heritage.
Our specific objectives are:
To encourage the practice of art in the schools
To allow Andean schools to directly benefit by tourism.
The results that we expect to accomplish are:
To introduce in rural schools a permanent opportunity for children to develop their skills and aptitudes through having fun.
Give an opportunity to the kids to travel out of the community to show their artistic abilities and their own cultural manifestations to different audiences.
Make the children self-esteem stronger.
To preserve and let people know the valuable cultural heritage.
To create a resource to improve schools.
To show that local organized people can benefit directly from tourism through their own cultural manifestations.
The project has chosen the Umasbamba community, 35 kilometers from Cuzco, located at the Chinchero district, at 12,000 feet ASL, situated next to the beautiful lake Piuray from where the water supply for the city of Cuzco is taken. Umasbamba people live principally from agriculture and raising animals like cows, sheep and pigs. Women are traditionally weavers and they hand produce fine woolen pieces, most of them colored with all natural dyes. They sell a small amount at the Chinchero Sunday market and a few in Cusco. Part of the costumes that the children will wear in the theater performance will be woven by them and when the tourists will visit the community to enjoy the play, these women will be able to show and sell their textiles making an extra direct economic benefit to the families of the community.
There is a primary school at Umasbamba with 130 students, distributed in 6 grades. The school class hours are from 8 am to 1 pm.
“The myth of origin of the lake” will be represented by the 45 students of the 4th and 5th grade. They will be trained through workshops seven and half hours per week from April to July after class. The project will provide lunch to these children to avoid them having to go home and come back, considering that some of them live approximately one hour or more by foot away from the school.
The Art Director is Mr. Luis Ramirez (curriculum enclosed).
The coordination has been made properly with the principal of the school Mrs. Eufemia Pedraza and the president of the school parents Bernardino Hancco Inquiltupa.
Who I am and how I came to conceive of my project.
My name is Gabriela Meneses. I am a professional tour guide and a cultural promoter. I trust that art has to be part of any education system because it deals with our emotional part and give us a chance to express ourselves and have fun. Since I was a child I felt very drawn to my local culture. When I was young, I was continuously visiting all the Inca and pre Inca places all over Perú, studying and reading about the culture, and until today still participating in the traditional festivals.
In that way I realized three important things:
1. How important it is to give the proper value to this amazing heritage we have received.
2. How important education is for a real change in the society.
3. How people from our country that still live in the traditional way and keep their culture alive could organize themselves and find ways to get economic benefits directly from the foreigners who come to visit Peru.
I also noticed the big lack of interest of the authorities and very much scarcity of artistic and cultural programs for children in the provinces.
For all that I create a project and called it INTIQCHURINKUNA (Children of the Sun in native Quechua language) directed to children and youth to preserve our cultural patrimony and promote education, art, culture and recreation.
My first activity in that direction was to work with the children and young people from the Rayampata community in Calca, Cuzco in1995, to represent theatrically the myth of the community, related to some rocks shaped like a man and a woman in the very top of the mountain. I got funds from Centro de Estudios Andinos Bartolomé de las Casas from Cuzco and chose Debora Correa Benitez, actress from the renowned Peruvian Theater group Yuyachkani, to be the art Director. The impact in the community was superb for their self-esteem. Elders and adults were helping the project in many ways and got so touched that some days previous to the début they made a pilgrimage to the place of the legend to make the proper offerings and rituals.
For seven years after that I was teaching art and education workshops. In 2003 I was directing a radio program for children in Urubamba at the Educational Radio Station La Salle. Here as director of the radio show, I took advantage of the media to organize an Art Festival for children that continued for five years, consisting in professional theater shows, puppets, art exhibitions of paintings made by different schools, music, traditional dances perform by children from the high communities, make up tents and workshops. More than 750 children directly participated and around eleven thousand children and adults were able to enjoy the activities. (See the posters)
For 2008 I am coming full circle in my work to the origin and I would like to develop the rural community theater production of local myths and legends of the Andean communities. This proposal could be repeated in many more than two communities according to the financial support of people interested in this type of labor.
Thank you very much.
The Intiqchurinkuna Project consists of making a theater production of local myths and legends performed by school children of two different rural Andean grade schools. There will be two different productions, one each year over the first two years of the project. The children from the 4th and 5th grade (9 to 12 years old) will be prepared through art workshops from April to July. In August the rehearsals will be completed and the final result will be shown at the school, then at the district capital and province capital towns in September. For the next five years, Intiqchurinkuna project will be commissioned to contract six performances annually for each production, providing a theater director for rehearsals and a stage assistant. As the little actors finish their studies and graduate from grade school, a new group of students will be trained to replace them.
In this way a permanent artistic activity will be carried on at the school.
These theatrical performances will be maiinig high standards thanks to the constant supervision of the organizers, the ones who will take care of the costumes and stage equipment for the show at the school and away from the school.
A proper investment has to be made to create a very high quality show that could be contracted to perform at one of the many hotels in the Sacred Valley and Cusco, good enough to attract the tourists to the community itself, being a very original cultural product. In that way, the communities will be benefit by the tourism directly. At the same time, the show will be presented at communal and social events and for sure at the school anniversary celebration.
The general objectives of this project are:
Help to solve in part the lack of cultural shows and art projects for children in the Andean provinces.
To re enforce the rights of children to benefit them physically, mentally, spiritually and socially: Proper education, fun, games and recreation.
To preserve and to spread our cultural ancestral heritage.
Our specific objectives are:
To encourage the practice of art in the schools
To allow Andean schools to directly benefit by tourism.
The results that we expect to accomplish are:
To introduce in rural schools a permanent opportunity for children to develop their skills and aptitudes through having fun.
Give an opportunity to the kids to travel out of the community to show their artistic abilities and their own cultural manifestations to different audiences.
Make the children self-esteem stronger.
To preserve and let people know the valuable cultural heritage.
To create a resource to improve schools.
To show that local organized people can benefit directly from tourism through their own cultural manifestations.
The project has chosen the Umasbamba community, 35 kilometers from Cuzco, located at the Chinchero district, at 12,000 feet ASL, situated next to the beautiful lake Piuray from where the water supply for the city of Cuzco is taken. Umasbamba people live principally from agriculture and raising animals like cows, sheep and pigs. Women are traditionally weavers and they hand produce fine woolen pieces, most of them colored with all natural dyes. They sell a small amount at the Chinchero Sunday market and a few in Cusco. Part of the costumes that the children will wear in the theater performance will be woven by them and when the tourists will visit the community to enjoy the play, these women will be able to show and sell their textiles making an extra direct economic benefit to the families of the community.
There is a primary school at Umasbamba with 130 students, distributed in 6 grades. The school class hours are from 8 am to 1 pm.
“The myth of origin of the lake” will be represented by the 45 students of the 4th and 5th grade. They will be trained through workshops seven and half hours per week from April to July after class. The project will provide lunch to these children to avoid them having to go home and come back, considering that some of them live approximately one hour or more by foot away from the school.
The Art Director is Mr. Luis Ramirez (curriculum enclosed).
The coordination has been made properly with the principal of the school Mrs. Eufemia Pedraza and the president of the school parents Bernardino Hancco Inquiltupa.
Who I am and how I came to conceive of my project.
My name is Gabriela Meneses. I am a professional tour guide and a cultural promoter. I trust that art has to be part of any education system because it deals with our emotional part and give us a chance to express ourselves and have fun. Since I was a child I felt very drawn to my local culture. When I was young, I was continuously visiting all the Inca and pre Inca places all over Perú, studying and reading about the culture, and until today still participating in the traditional festivals.
In that way I realized three important things:
1. How important it is to give the proper value to this amazing heritage we have received.
2. How important education is for a real change in the society.
3. How people from our country that still live in the traditional way and keep their culture alive could organize themselves and find ways to get economic benefits directly from the foreigners who come to visit Peru.
I also noticed the big lack of interest of the authorities and very much scarcity of artistic and cultural programs for children in the provinces.
For all that I create a project and called it INTIQCHURINKUNA (Children of the Sun in native Quechua language) directed to children and youth to preserve our cultural patrimony and promote education, art, culture and recreation.
My first activity in that direction was to work with the children and young people from the Rayampata community in Calca, Cuzco in1995, to represent theatrically the myth of the community, related to some rocks shaped like a man and a woman in the very top of the mountain. I got funds from Centro de Estudios Andinos Bartolomé de las Casas from Cuzco and chose Debora Correa Benitez, actress from the renowned Peruvian Theater group Yuyachkani, to be the art Director. The impact in the community was superb for their self-esteem. Elders and adults were helping the project in many ways and got so touched that some days previous to the début they made a pilgrimage to the place of the legend to make the proper offerings and rituals.
For seven years after that I was teaching art and education workshops. In 2003 I was directing a radio program for children in Urubamba at the Educational Radio Station La Salle. Here as director of the radio show, I took advantage of the media to organize an Art Festival for children that continued for five years, consisting in professional theater shows, puppets, art exhibitions of paintings made by different schools, music, traditional dances perform by children from the high communities, make up tents and workshops. More than 750 children directly participated and around eleven thousand children and adults were able to enjoy the activities. (See the posters)
For 2008 I am coming full circle in my work to the origin and I would like to develop the rural community theater production of local myths and legends of the Andean communities. This proposal could be repeated in many more than two communities according to the financial support of people interested in this type of labor.
Thank you very much.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Monday, June 09, 2008
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Saturday, June 07, 2008
EL PROYECTO (español)
PROYECTO INTIQCHURINKUNA 2008
1.-ANTECEDENTES
Proyecto que se ejecuta en el Valle Sagrado de los Inkas, Cuzco, Perú para preservar el patrimonio cultural y promover educación, arte, cultura y recreación para los niños a través de festivales y exhibiciones de arte, talleres de creatividad, montajes de teatro y actividades recreativas.
Intiqchurinkuna surge por la escasez y falta de importancia que se da a programas artísticos y culturales para niños en provincias.
Se inició en el año 1995 en la comunidad campesina de Rayampata, provincia de Calca, con el proyecto “Recreación Cultural para niños Comuneros”, que consistió en representar teatralmente con los niños y jóvenes el mito propio de su comunidad, bajo la dirección artística de Débora Correa Benítez, actriz del renombrado Grupo de Teatro Yuyachkani y con el auspicio del Fondo Descentralizado para el Sur Andino del Centro Bartolomé de las Casas.
En el 2003, se organiza un festival de arte para niños durante 5 años consecutivos en las ciudades de Urubamba y Calca, capitales de provincia, en el que hubo espectáculos de teatro, títeres, música, pasacalles, exhibiciones de pintura, carpas de maquillaje y talleres cortos y contó con la participación de más de 750 niños de escuelas, hogares de niños y también artistas locales, nacionales e internacionales. Se beneficiaron alrededor de 11000 niños y adultos. Se hizo posible por el auspicio de empresas privadas, instituciones educativas y el gobierno local.
En el 2008, como una segunda etapa y volviendo a sus orígenes, Intiqchurinkuna preparará con los niños de las escuelas de comunidades campesinas, montajes teatrales de sus propios mitos, dirigidos por artistas profesionales que serán difundidos públicamente tanto en el Festival Intiqchurinkuna en septiembre 2008 en Urubamba, como en otros lugares.
2.-Objetivos
GENERALES
- Cubrir la carencia de espectáculos y proyectos culturales dedicados a los niños y niñas en provincias.
- Poner en práctica los derechos del niño en beneficio de su desarrollo físico, mental, espiritual y social: derecho a recibir educación, derecho a disfrutar de los juegos y recreaciones.
- Conservar y difundir nuestra herencia cultural ancestral
ESPECIFICOS
- Incentivar el arte en los centros educativos
- Lograr que las escuelas rurales se beneficien directamente del turismo.
3.-DESCRIPCION DEL PROYECTO
El proyecto INTIQCHURINKUNA tiene dos partes:
La primera es el Festival de Arte Total para Niñ@s que se lleva a cabo cada septiembre en Urubamba desde el 2003.
La segunda es el taller de teatro en comunidades campesinas que se inició en 1995 y se retoma este año en la comunidad de Umasbamba del distrito de Chinchero.
A continuación se detallan ambas.
3.2 PROYECCIÓN INTIQCHURINKUNA EN ESCUELAS RURALES
Se realizarán montajes teatrales de los mitos locales interpretados por los niños de la escuela primaria de dos comunidades campesinas. Habrá dos producciones diferentes, una cada año, durante los dos primeros años de iniciado el proyecto.
Se preparará a los niños del 4to y 5to grado (9 a 12 años de edad), a través de talleres de arte de abril a julio. En agosto se harán los ensayos generales y el resultado final se mostrará en la escuela, en la capital de distrito y en la capital de provincia en el mes de septiembre.
A partir del siguiente año de montado el espectáculo, Intiqchurinkuna se encargará de conseguir un mínimo de 6 presentaciones anuales de cada montaje por 5 años, proveyendo un artista encargado de realizar los ensayos previos y un asistente de la puesta en escena.
A medida que los niños actores terminen sus estudios escolares, se irá preparando nuevos niños en cada escuela y así sucesivamente cada año.
Se invertirá en crear un espectáculo de gran calidad artística para que pueda ser contratado para presentarse en hoteles del Valle Sagrado y Cuzco, así como atraer la visita de los turistas a la comunidad, por ser un producto artístico original. Asimismo, la obra podrá ser presentada en eventos comunales y anualmente el día del aniversario de la escuela.
Intiqchurinkuna mantendrá la calidad de estos montajes encargándose de cuidar el vestuario, máscaras, elementos escenográficos, pista musical y cualquier otro elemento indispensable para la puesta en escena de la obra.
3.2.1.-RESULTADOS:
Crear en la escuela una oportunidad permanente de que los niños desarrollen sus aptitudes y habilidades a través del entretenimiento.
Dar oportunidad a los niños de salir de su comunidad y mostrar sus habilidades artísticas y sus manifestaciones culturales ante diferentes públicos.
Fortalecer la autoestima de los niños.
Preservar y dar a conocer el patrimonio cultural.
Crear un recurso económico para desarrollar las escuelas
Mostrar que la población local organizada, puede beneficiarse directamente del turismo a través de sus manifestaciones culturales propias.
3.2.2-BENEFICIARIOS
DIRECTOS
Un promedio de 40 niños por comunidad cada año.
Los estudiantes actuales y futuros se beneficiaran por las donaciones que reciba la escuela por la presentación del montaje.
Estas donaciones servirán para cubrir las necesidades de la escuela y los alumnos y para hacer autosostenible el proyecto.
INDIRECTOS
Niños y adultos espectadores de las funciones.
Comunidad en general por la preservación y difusión del legado cultural.
3.2.3.- EVALUACION Y MONITOREO
Durante la ejecución del proyecto se realizará una evaluación semanal de la labor por la productora, los jefes de áreas, los profesores de la escuela y los auspiciadores que así lo deseen.
Otras evaluaciones se harán al finalizar cada etapa estipulada en el Plan de Trabajo y después de cada función.
Al finalizar cada año se hará la evaluación anual con los profesores, padres de familia, auspiciadores, autoridades y público en general.
El monitoreo de parte de Intiqchurinkuna será permanente para mantener la calidad del espectáculo y cumplir los objetivos propuestos.
3.2.5.- PRIMERA ETAPA:
La comunidad escogida para efectuar el proyecto es Umasbamba, distrito de Chinchero, provincia de Urubamba, departamento del Cuzco que se encuentra a orillas de la laguna Piuray, que es la que provee de agua a la ciudad del Cuzco. Los pobladores tienen como actividad principal la agricultura y crianza de animales en pequeña escala. Las mujeres son tejedoras y producen prendas fabricadas tradicionalmente con lana de oveja, teñidas en su mayoría con tintes naturales, que escasamente comercializan en el mercado dominical en Chinchero, la capital de distrito y a veces en Cuzco. Las principales prendas del vestuario que lucirán los niños en la obra teatral serán tejidas por ellas y al recibir la visita de los turistas a la escuela para las presentaciones, podrán hacer una exhibición y venta de sus tejidos, beneficiándose también con el proyecto.
La comunidad cuenta con una escuela primaria pública con 130 alumnos distribuidos en 6 grados. Los niños del 4º y 5º se calcula que serán un total de 45 para este año escolar, con quienes se representará el mito de origen de la laguna de Piuray.
El director artístico del proyecto es el señor Luís Ramírez (ver currículo en el anexo)
Los talleres se dictarán desde principios de abril hasta fin de julio los lunes, miércoles y viernes 2 horas y media diariamente. Se ha previsto proveer un almuerzo a los niños, profesores y asistentes del taller a la última hora de clases para iniciar el taller inmediatamente después, permitiendo de esta manera que los niños no deban ir y volver a casa, considerando que algunos viven a 1 hora de camino. Las evaluaciones se harán cada viernes.
Se han hecho las coordinaciones necesarias con la directora de la escuela, señora Eufemia Pedraza y el presidente y tesorero de la Asociación de Padres de familia, señores Bernardino Hancco Inquiltupa y Zenobio Quispe Contreras.
Friday, June 06, 2008
The Lunch
The project provide lunch for 33 kids every monday , wednesday and friday before the thearter workshop. They love It!!!!!!!
Thursday, June 05, 2008
THE FESTIVAL
EL FESTIVAL DE ARTE TOTAL INTIQCHURINKUNA 2008 Se realizará en el Coliseo y el Teatrín de la I.S. La Salle en la ciudad de Urubamba por dos días consecutivos: viernes 19 y sábado 20 de septiembre. Se presentarán un grupo de títeres, una comunidad campesina con una obra de teatro y un grupo de artistas profesionales con teatro y/o circo tal como figura en el programa más abajo. Además habrá algún número de magia o similar como intermedio. El festival estará conducido como cada año por los niños del programa infantil Vamos a Aprender Jugando, quienes recibirán un taller de preparación actoral y oratoria por dos meses antes del evento. El día viernes19 se realizará la presentación en horario escolar ( 10 a 12am )para permitir que delegaciones de alumnos de las escuelas, acompañados por sus profesores, puedan asistir como parte de su formación educativa y cultural Se designarán cupos específicos para las escuelas de la ciudad y anexos. Se presentarán un espectáculo de títeres en el Teatrín dirigido a niños de 5 a 7 años de edad y paralelamente otro de circo/teatro en el Coliseo para niños de 8 a 13 años. El mismo día viernes en la noche se realizará una función de títeres abierta para el público familiar. El sábado por la mañana se volverá a presentar una función de títeres y por la tarde la función de circo/teatro, ambas abiertas para el público familiar. Durante ambos días se exhibirán los lienzos de 3.50 x 1.50 pintados por 12 escuelas de la provincia, entre las cuales se sortearán dos televisores y dos DVD Player donados por el Municipio. Con estas pinturas se imprimirá un calendario para el 2009 Se fabricarán polos del festival para el equipo Intiqchurinkuna y para regalar. Se solicitará el apoyo de la promoción de algún colegio secundario para apoyar en orden, disciplina y logística. 3.1.1 RESULTADOS Se brinda a los niños espectadores un espacio de entretenimiento cultural y a los niños participantes la oportunidad de desarrollar sus aptitudes y habilidades artísticas. Se crea un espacio para el encuentro de diferentes expresiones culturales. Convierte a la provincia de Urubamba en un foco de desarrollo y promoción cultural. 3.1.2 BENEFICIARIOS Los niños participantes en las actividades de teatro, pintura y conducción del show serán 120 Los niños, jóvenes y adultos espectadores serán un total de 2700 aproximadamente durante los dos días de funciones.
PROGRAMA
Viernes 19
10.00am Títeres (Teatrín de La Salle)
10.00am La Leyenda de Piuray - Escuela de Umasbamba
Intermedio
Grupo de circo y/o teatro profesional para niños
(Coliseo La Salle)
6.30pm Títeres (Teatrín de La Salle)
Todo el día: Exhibición de lienzos pintados por escuelas
Sábado 20
10.00am Títeres (Teatrín de La Salle)
3.30pm La Leyenda de Piuray - Escuela de Umasbamba
Intermedio
Grupo de circo y/o teatro profesional para niños
(Coliseo La Salle)
Todo el día: Exhibición de lienzos pintados por escuelas
Viernes 19
10.00am Títeres (Teatrín de La Salle)
10.00am La Leyenda de Piuray - Escuela de Umasbamba
Intermedio
Grupo de circo y/o teatro profesional para niños
(Coliseo La Salle)
6.30pm Títeres (Teatrín de La Salle)
Todo el día: Exhibición de lienzos pintados por escuelas
Sábado 20
10.00am Títeres (Teatrín de La Salle)
3.30pm La Leyenda de Piuray - Escuela de Umasbamba
Intermedio
Grupo de circo y/o teatro profesional para niños
(Coliseo La Salle)
Todo el día: Exhibición de lienzos pintados por escuelas
AFICHES INTIQCHURINKUNA
Afiche INTIQCHURINKUNA 2003
Afiche INTIQCHURINKUNA 2004
Afiche INTIQCHURINKUNA 2005
Afiche INTIQCHURINKUNA 2006
Afiche INTIQCHURINKUNA 2007
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