ENG: Last month, I held the second workshop in my project, this time with Dr. Moritz Engbers (his homepage here), an independent transformation researcher and facilitator of transdisciplinary processes. We organized this workshop for the Nigerian and Ghanaian scholarship holders of our DAAD SDG Graduate School “Performing Sustainability: Cultures and Development in West Africa (here),” […]
Category: Workshops
Workshop with Silke Lichtenberg
ENG: As part of my project, I will be organizing several workshops in 2025 that focus on various aspects of natural resource use and sustainability in musical instrument making. At the end of January, I hosted the first workshop of this series with Silke Lichtenberg. In her workshop, titled “Cultural-Ecological Systems: Linking Musical Instrument Making, […]
Musiñu Workshop with Ignacio Quispe
ENG: Last week I participated at Ignacio Quispe’s 5-day intensive musiñu workshop at the Centro Cultural Jach’a Tunupa in El Alto. I know musiñu specialist Ignacio for almost ten years now, and I always get enthusiastic every time I hear him speaking about the history of musiñu, his personal musical life stories, the musical bamboos […]
The Musical Bamboos of the Bolivian Andes 