SHOW AT THE SCHOOL AND GREAT NEWS!!!

Hi dear friends:
The show at the school was great. We invited around 350 children from the schools in the communities nearby. All of them share the myth represented in the play because all their villages are around the lake.
They came with their teachers.
We have an amazing surprise that day! The Art Director Lucho Ramirez announced that he is going to take responsability on the project the next year, so the theater will continue in Umasbamba!
That feel us with joy because the children, the parents and the teachers were asking us to continue.
I am sure you are rejoicing with us! So the farewell show became a celebration one!
We invited the participants in the project in previous years to join us for lunch. Many of them came. It moved our hearts look at them already young.
We also had the visit of Francisco Morales Bermudez, who has profusely contributed to this project. He came with a group of friends who shared with the children some Synergy Yoga. Lots of fun.
 I am having problems to upload the pictures. It seems that my space is full so I put them in Facebook.
Please you need to go to this link to see them.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4844709753791.2194959.1178298062&type=3

Thank you very much for another year of fun, art and education!!!!

DEAREST FRIEND:

We invite you to the farewell show of the play “La Leyenda de la Laguna de Piuray”, performed by the children from the Umasbamba school in Chinchero, Cusco.

It will take place on friday 16^th of November, at 11:00 am at the school.

We would feel much honored with your presence.

Gaby and the crew of the Intiqchurinkuna Project.

FIELD TRIP

 Hi friends: it has been sometime since the last time we posted our activities. The reason is that we were trying to do a trip to Machu Picchu and a show there if possible. It couldnt be because of many things,one of them was it would be exhausted for the younger children to leave home at 5 a.m. and be back at 11p.m.! And the cost of staying overnight far exceeded our budget.
So we decided to visit Pisaq, another beautiful inca place and after that have some fun at a public pool in a village nearby. Here we have some pictures of that day.

 Ready to go

 Arriving at Pisaq incan place

 The children listened carefully to the history of the place. None of them had been there before.

 Group photo!!!

 With the sixth grader´s teacher Zenobio

 High season. The place was crowded.

 Mmmm...time for lunch

 After lunch we were ready to go swimming!!!

 Just two of them knew how to float, but they had the best time ever!!!

 After acquiring more confidence they decided to go into the big pool.

The teachers enjoying the water too.

Bye, until soon!

THE THIRD AND FOURTH SHOW OF 2012

Dear friends: The children performed two more times this month. On the 4th we were at Maras , a small village famous by its salt mines. We arranged with the principals of the 3 schools there to gather all the children in one of the schools to see the show. There were around 400 children from two primary schools and one high school. The Mayor of Maras supported us with the transportation of actors and props.
On the 5th our children had a show for 750 students from a high school in Urubamba named General Ollanta. There were also 75 more children coming from a small rural school near by supported by the ducht Foundation Arco iris. The Foundation provided also the transportation for the actors to Urubamba round trip from Umasbamba.
Both were very good shows though seems to be that the children feel more comfortable with big audiences!
Our goal this year is to do the next show in Aguas Calientes, the town close to Machu Picchu, so the children could have the opportunity to visit the place. Any donation will be use for this purpose.
Thank you!

 Very happy after the show

 Some fun before going back home

The youngest and the oldest of the group

SHOWS IN CUSCO

Dear friends: We have finished the theater training at the school.The new cast is ready! This year we are working with the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th graders.
We had two very succesful shows in Cusco on the 25th and 26th of May.
The first one was presented at Pukllasunchis school for 700 hundred students from primary and secondary grades.They and their teachers enjoyed the show very much. It was a great experience for our children too.
The second show was done at the Main Square of Cusco for another 700 hundred people between children and adults. We were invited to be part of the Festival de Arte Total. The children acted so well and the audience was really happy.
We stayed overnight in Cusco and took advantage to do some fun and interesting activities with the children like visiting a funfair and also the inka place of Sacsayhuaman. We had the support of Casa del Cargador for the children to have accomodation for one night and Pub Mama Africa gave us the funds to cover their meals during our stay.
We are working on getting 4 more shows to complete the six planned for this year!
Here some pictures of the last days of training, the activities done in Cusco with the children and the shows.
Thank you very much! Enjoy!

 Very excited to go to Cusco!

 In the funfair

Walking in the city

 Mario and his children. He is one of the parents who accompanied us this time

 Yulisa and her mother. She is the other parent who also accompanied us in this trip

 In Sacsayhuaman

 Great view of the city

 Enjoying the inka seat

 Lots of fun!

 Beautiful day!!!

 Coming out of the birth canal! That is how we call this tunnel carved by our ancestors

 As soon as we arrived to this place, the energy gets calm

 A moment to internalize in the ancient shrine

 Zenobio, the dedicated teacher who was with us all the trip

Enjoying the forest in the skirts of the hill close to Cusco

 These are some pictures of the last rehearsals before the trip

 Getting the character

 Helping to load the truck...?

Props ready to go!

 Performing at the school in Cusco

 They offered us a snack after the show at the school cafeteria

At the Main Square getting ready for the second show

 Performing for a big audience!

Everybody happy and tired going back home!!!