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The Ancestral Call Project

Sun, Apr 10

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Join us for a social-awareness project of original music based on the ancestral knowledge and life's philosophy of the Costa Rican indigenous community "Bribri."

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The Ancestral Call Project
The Ancestral Call Project

Time & Location

Apr 10, 2022, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Avenue, 3611 Washington St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130, USA

About The Event

Ancestral Call is a social-awareness project of original music based on the ancestral knowledge and life's philosophy of the Costa Rican indigenous community "Bribri." The Bribri's culture and language are in danger of extinction due to the dominant Costa Rican culture's ongoing cultural and ideological colonization. This project seeks to share and create awareness about this community's ancestral teachings, which in addition to surviving colonization, have remained resistant for centuries, being an example of a society in social and environmental balance.  

The project's inspiration is based on the Bribri language word "Ttök," which means speaking in the ritual language. In the Bribri community, the ritual language is not spoken, it is sung, and it is the way the community communicates with its ancestors and the spiritual world who live in what we call nature. Thus, the word nature does not exist in the Bribri language since it is represented…

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