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Public Service
Announcement:
URI Summer Camp to offer events for general public, children, teachers
Media Contact: Jan
Wenzel, 401-874-2116
KINGSTON,
R.I. -- December 21, 2004 -- Bring your fiddle, banjo, guitar, harmonica, mandolin,
mountain dulcimer, sitar, or drums for hands-on instructions. Practice your
singing, songwriting, dancing, cloth-making, and visual arts. Discuss cultural
issues in the classroom with K-12 colleagues.
The University of Rhode Island's Multicultural Center is offering participants
of all ages and all levels of expertise from novice and expert an opportunity
to do all that and more at the third annual World Voices, World Visions folk
music and dance camp. The camp will be held on URI's Kingston campus from Sunday,
July 17 through Friday, July 22, 2005.
The camp is designed to build understanding and respect for people and cultures
around the world through participation in and exposure to the folk arts, public
dialogue, and study and reflection.
"The mission of World Voices, World Visions is to help participants understand
what it means to be a global citizen and to develop a sense of responsibility
for each other beyond the limits of family and nation," said Melvin Wade, director
of the Multicultural Center. "The folk arts allow us to understand our own identities.
And as we become more secure in our own identities we can become influenced by
others and build bridges."
The "world arts" component of the camp brings together an assemblage of several
of the nation's leading folk instructors in folk music, dance and other creative
arts. Headlining the camp will be banjo-fiddler Ken Perlman of Leominster,
Mass., guitarist Robin Bullock of Paris, France, fiddlers George Wilson of
Wynantskill, N.Y., and Donna Hebert of Amherst, Mass., singer-songwriters Bob
Franke of Peabody, Mass., and Kim and Reggie Harris of Philadelphia, Pa., dulcimer
stylist Ken Kolodner of Baltimore, MD., and dancer Somaly Hay of Waterford,
Conn.
Joining them will be a stellar contingent of Rhode Islanders, including harmonicist
Chris Turner and fiddler Rachel Maloney of Providence, singer-songwriter Aubrey
Atwater and Elwood Donnelly of Foster, storyteller Valerie Tutson of Providence;
fiddler Sandol Astrausky of Wakefield, cloth-makers Osunkemi and Sangoyemi
of Hopkinton; along with singer-instrumentalists Doc Wood, Paul de Mesquita,
and Stephen Myles of Kingston, RI., (the Cognitive Dissidents), sitarist Koyel
Ghosal of Kingston, RI., drummer Dana Maguire of Charleston, RI., and dancers
Augusto Dougal and Silas Pinto of Kingston, RI.
While a pronounced Celtic influence is featured in this year's music and dance
schedule, the camp will also offer an array of workshops addressing diverse
tradition of music, dance, and the creative arts in Appalachia, Afro-America,
Cambodia, New England, Nigeria, India, Cape Verde, and Guatemala, along with
a capstone public dialogue intended to knit together the themes of the camp.
Jam sessions, dances and choir rehearsals will conclude the evening schedule.
In line with the family orientation of the camp, children between the ages
of 5 and12 can attend "World Village," a program of activities through which
young people can build community through music, dance, crafts, storytelling,
and games. "World Village" will be coordinated by educator Clarissa Uttley
of Lincoln, storyteller Valerie Tutson of Providence, and drummer Dana Maguire
of Charleston, RI.
The camp will also offer two classes for graduate students as well as elementary
and secondary teachers who wish to more effectively understand and incorporate
the folk music into their classroom practice. Doc Wood will teach a class
that provides an immersion experience in music and dance of the camp. John
Anthony Scott will teach a class in the history and structure of the American
folk ballad. Through the University of Rhode Island School of Education,
either class can be taken for graduate course credit.
Rates for "World Arts" range from $225 for a commuter attending one class to
$575 for a resident including lodging, board and admission to all classes and
events; for "World Village," $175 for a commuter to $350 for a resident. Early
bird special rates are available.
For more details or register, please go to www.uri.edu/mcc or
call Mailee Kue at 401-874-2851.
Last updated:
06/03/2005
