This program is an exchange process that allows self-recognition and looking within the musical and sociocultural potential of members of the Red de Cantadoras and female singers in general. Through methodologies created by both a person born within the tradition of these musical practices and a singer close to the tradition of the region such as the teacher Nidia Góngora, as well as social workers who have been immersed in experiencing and investigating processes for years women in Chocó such as Aurora Vergara and Ana María Arango.
This exchange of knowledge lies in mapping some of the activities of women in the network, such as having exchanges of experiences between other groups of women and how they have addressed the construction of peace, all this through an innovative moment that results in an experience revealing and enriching. All of the above to value the knowledge of a group of women and people who must be made visible and exalted according to their ancestral knowledge and resilient processes. The project is led by Canapavi with the support of Visible Hands, being a pilot program to rethink other forms of cultural management training for organizations with complex and asymmetric characteristics such as the Red de Cantadoras.
Red de Cantadoras del Pacífico Sur
MÓDULO I
Peacuful singing workshop by Nidia Góngora and Ana María Arango
This module is mainly based on promoting the work that has been carried out by the Canapavi Foundation, specifically in the component of dynamization of the Network of Singers through music. The workshop is formulated considering the cultural particularities of the traditional musical forms of the Pacific and an innovative pedagogical model based on raising awareness from lived experience.
Peaceful Singing is an experience based on the exchange of knowledge, and the collective construction of melodies and the coupling of voices around themes related to dynamics of peacebuilding, with a strong impact on a traditional local aesthetic. Respecting the knowledge and previous experience of each singer or singer, their motivation to learn and their potential resistance to change, the workshop will approach from a re-learning exercise of ways to create melodies and coupling of voices or to decorate melodies of a traditional local repertoire.
During the same moment in time, Ana María Arango will also guide the moment to strengthen her own ways of recognizing the Network of Canters by starting to become aware of the place they occupy within the social fabric in their communities. Using the metaphor of weaving and different artistic activities, work will be done on the importance of networks, self-recognition and that of the other, as forms of resistance to the realities of war and the exclusion suffered by the Colombian Pacific. We will work as core themes of memory in the body, the principles of self-care and the importance of the voice as a spiritual setting that evokes and summons. The main objective of this workshop is therefore, to offer tools for the empowerment and self-recognition of the actors of the Red de Cantadoras. It is intended that these actors understand themselves as bearers of the cultural heritage of the Colombian Pacific and at the same time as agents with the ability to innovate and work together for good living and the safeguarding of values, the memory of songs and ancient wisdom. of the populations that inhabit the magical territory of the Colombian Pacific.
MÓDULO II
Workshop Woman as a builder of peace (Aurora Vergara / Paula Moreno)
Demo recording and music production workshop (4 musical pieces)
This module will be carried out with the participation of Paula Moreno, Aurora Vergara, and Nidia Góngora. It will be a space for reflection and an opportunity to share and highlight some experiences lived in Module I. It will have emphasis around the fact that the female singer of the Pacific has today, in the face of many transformations in sound practices, and in the fact of the construction of paths of peace and healings around a post-agreement context. Also to insist on the demands and commitments of belonging to a network of wills according to the reflection of the role as singing woman who represents a functional role in the community and outside it. Articulated to this and at this very moment, the demo of Canto Pazcífico will be recorded, consolidating the work done in Module I, with Nidia Góngora and Ana María Arango, recording for the Red de Cantadoras, four musical pieces, which were part of the results of Module I.