BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EducArte - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.educarteinc.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for EducArte REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211119T193000 DTSTAMP:20260429T073543 CREATED:20210910T200152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211120T013012Z UID:10000112-1637344800-1637350200@www.educarteinc.org SUMMARY:Choro Lecture Series: Connections between Brazilian Choro and American Jazz\, by Andy Connell (virtual) DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Andy Connell\, PhD\, discusses the similarities between American jazz and Brazilian choro. He also presents the work of Hermeto Pascoal\, one of Brazil’s most eccentric\, prolific\, and treasured composers and musicians\, and a man once described by Miles Davis as “one of the most important musicians on the planet.” \nThis is a free\, virtual event that will later be posted to EducArte’s YouTube page. \nAbout Andy Connell:\nAndrew Connell is an ethnomusicologist whose primary research is in Brazilian popular instrumental music\, focusing on issues of identity and musical globalization. He has recent articles published in Music Cultures of Latin America: Global Effects\, Past and Present (UCLA Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology) and Women and Music in America Since 1900 (Greenwood Press) and has given presentations at various national and international conferences including the Society for Ethnomusicology and the International Council of Traditional Music. His current scholarly activities include completing a book on Brazilian jazz. \nAs a performer\, Dr. Connell plays saxophone and clarinet in ensembles ranging from jazz to classical chamber music to Brazilian chorinho. He studied jazz improvisation and arranging with Ray Brown\, clarinet with Rosario Mazzeo\, Janet Averett\, and Fred Ormand\, and saxophone with Don Sinta. He has played with the Santa Cruz\, Monterey\, and Toledo (Ohio) Symphonies\, and has appeared at the Monterey\, Montreux–Detroit\, and San Francisco jazz festivals\, and the Spoleto Festival USA. In addition\, Dr. Connell has performed with a wide range of artists including Luciano Pavarotti\, Dave Leibman\, Lou Rawls\, Mike Marshall\, and Hermeto Pascoal\, and has recorded for the Musical Heritage Society\, Intrada\, Adventure Music\, Earthbeat! Traveler\, and Acoustic Levitation labels. At James Madison University\, Dr. Connell teaches courses in American music\, the history of jazz\, world music\, and coaches small jazz ensembles. \nThis project was made possible by a grant from Maryland Humanities\, with funding received from the Maryland Historical Trust in the Maryland Department of Planning. Maryland Humanities’ Grants Program is also supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and private funders. Any views\, findings\, conclusions\, or recommendations expressed in this series do not necessarily represent those of Maryland Humanities\, Maryland Historical Trust\, Maryland Department of Planning\, or National Endowment for the Humanities. \n \nLearn more about the full Choro Lecture Series this fall. URL:https://www.educarteinc.org/event/choro-lecture-series-connections-between-brazilian-choro-and-american-jazz-by-andy-connell-virtual/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Choro Lecture Series,Online,Presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.educarteinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Andy-Connell.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="EducArte":MAILTO:educarte@educarteinc.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210702T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210702T201500 DTSTAMP:20260429T073543 CREATED:20210213T172810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210703T133000Z UID:10000053-1625252400-1625256900@www.educarteinc.org SUMMARY:Workshop: An Overview of Philippine Native Music with Bo Razón DESCRIPTION:Bo Razón\, photo by Judy Razón\nThis presentation will cover pre-colonial music roots from two Philippine ethnolinguistic regions which have now become the main sources for Filipino world music. Various ethnic instruments and rhythms from both the Northern & Southern tribes will be demonstrated. The focus will be on bamboo and gong instruments as well as the native boat lutes. The workshop will also examine the Hispanic influence in Philippine music from over three centuries of colonization. Various stringed instruments like the Philippine Banduria & Laúd will be featured as well. \nAbout Bo Razón:\nBo Razón is a multi-instrumentalist\, composer\, recording artist\, and educator. His influences are mainly native music from North & Sub-Saharan Africa\, Cuba\, Southeast Asia\, Brazil\, the Caribbean\, North America\, the Iberian peninsula\, and the Middle East. Passionate about traditional music of indigenous world cultures as well as contemporary music genres\, he seeks ways in which the two may coalesce organically. His skill sets have brought him to work in a musical capacity with several global institutions of art and culture such as the British Council\, the Goethe Institut\, the Alliance Francaise\, Instituto Cervantes\, and the Philippine National Commission for Culture & the Arts. He has taught World & Afro-Latin music at the University of the Philippines\, as well as teaching music to K-12 school kids in California. Bo plays several stringed and skinned (percussion) instruments from diverse global cultures and has performed with many major artists from around the world in many settings and venues in Asia\, Europe\, and the Americas. URL:https://www.educarteinc.org/event/workshop-southeast-asian-music-with-bo-razon/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online,Workshops & Classes ORGANIZER;CN="EducArte":MAILTO:educarte@educarteinc.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T203000 DTSTAMP:20260429T073543 CREATED:20210205T003849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T192321Z UID:10000037-1617822000-1617827400@www.educarteinc.org SUMMARY:Clave - Orphan Roots of American Culture: A Workshop on African Rhythm in Modern Music with Jean-Francis Varre DESCRIPTION:https://www.educarteinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Clave%20-%20Jean-Francis%20Varre.mp4 \nThis interactive workshop is the first in a music and culture series tentatively titled “Black Atlantic.” The focus of the workshop is to shed light on the black African aesthetic of rhythmic structure commonly dubbed “syncopation” by Western musicologists but better explained by the Afro-Cuban concept of the “clave.” Participants will see how this African principle was incorporated into and influenced Western concepts of musical meter ranging from Brazil to the US\, how it remains at the core of nearly all modern music\, and how it can be applied in composition. \nJean-Francis Varre will lead combination of short verbal histories of various “claves” accompanied by live demonstrations of the musical styles on guitar and vocals and in dance. Participants will learn to clap and maintain a specific clave as the music performed over it is varied\, by genre and era\, in order to deepen the understanding of its application. \nRegister for the workshop \n \n\nAbout Jean-Francis Varre\nJean-Francis is a singer multi-instrumentalist who holds BA in Sociology with a focus on postcolonial studies. Jean-Francis Varre was born to Senegalese and Cape Verdean immigrants in Washington\, DC. He began singing at 13 years old\, at first in English\, and later in Spanish and the languages of his heritage: French\, Wolof\, and Portuguese. A self-taught singer\, songwriter\, and instrumentalist\, Jean-Francis has performed musical genres including American soul & rock\, Cuban salsa\, and Senegalese mbalax in multiple local and international projects such as DC rock groups Lucy Brown and Sitali\, Brazilian samba/axé celebrity Tonho Matéria\, British soul icon Omar\, Grammy-nominated hip hop fusion artist Christylez Bacon\, and Grammy-nominated salsa/timba ensemble Gonzalo Grau y la Clave Secreta. \nJean-Francis currently leads the band Sahel which performs a fusion of his influences. In 2017 and 2018\, Sahel shared bills with international artists such as Les Nubians\, Habib Koite & Bamada\, Bombino\, and the Afro-Cuban All Stars. Sahel is presently in the process of recording its first original release. \nBetween 2016 and 2019\, Jean-Francis travelled to Havana\, Cuba and Bahia\, Brazil to advance his diaspora studies and build a foundation for sustained documentary work and collaborative musical projects. In 2018\, Jean-Francis won a DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Sister Cities grant for an artist exchange between Washington\, DC and Dakar\, Senegal entitled “Black Gold\,” which included discussions\, collaborations\, and performances free to the public in both cities. The project took place in May and June 2019 and was also supported by the Smithsonian and Dance Place. At the 2020 DC Music Summit\, Jean-Francis led an interactive workshop shedding light on the black African aesthetic of rhythmic structure entitled “Clave – The Orphan Roots of American Culture.” These projects comprise the first chapters of a long term educational bridge building endeavor tentatively titled “Black Atlantic\,” which traces and recounts the movements of African peoples throughout the diaspora and their influence on modern world culture through the evolution of the music of the 19th and 20th centuries.  URL:https://www.educarteinc.org/event/workshop-clave-rhythmic-keys-of-the-diaspora-with-jean-francis-varre/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online,Workshops & Classes ORGANIZER;CN="EducArte":MAILTO:educarte@educarteinc.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210324T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210324T203000 DTSTAMP:20260429T073543 CREATED:20210205T004550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T193510Z UID:10000036-1616612400-1616617800@www.educarteinc.org SUMMARY:Workshop: Rhythmic Innovations in the Pagode Samba Movement of Rio de Janeiro with Philip Galinsky DESCRIPTION:The original meaning of the word pagode in the samba scene of Rio de Janeiro is a communal gathering of musicians to play\, sing\, and dance this most typical of Brazilian genres. Percussionist-ethnomusicologist\, Philip Galinsky\, Ph.D. (founder and director of Samba New York!) is the first scholar to have published an in-depth study in academia in English on the so-called pagode samba movement. This spontaneous initiative spawned a resurgence of these gatherings in Rio and throughout Brazil\, featuring a recovery of certain “roots” elements and several important innovations in the music in the 1970s and 1980s\, leading to a renewed space in the media for the samba. \nIn this online workshop\, based on his master’s research on the pagode in the 1990s and more than 25 years of experience teaching samba percussion\, Dr. Galinsky will trace the early history of this movement. He will also highlight some of the new instruments created and introduced into the samba by members of Grupo Fundo de Quintal (The Backyard Group)\, the pioneering band of the movement and one of the most influential ensembles in the history of the genre. \nRSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/771276363806309 \nRegister for free URL:https://www.educarteinc.org/event/workshop-samba-percussion-with-phil-galinsky/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online,Workshops & Classes ORGANIZER;CN="EducArte":MAILTO:educarte@educarteinc.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T203000 DTSTAMP:20260429T073543 CREATED:20210208T185833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210319T164240Z UID:10000030-1616094000-1616099400@www.educarteinc.org SUMMARY:Workshop: Samba Grooves and Rhythmic Patterns with Richard Miller DESCRIPTION:Explore traditional samba grooves and its variations\, including the grooves of João Bosco\, Djavan\, Martinho da vila\, and many more. Bring your instruments! All are welcome. \nRegister for free \nRSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/453378672377880 \nAbout Richard Miller: \nRichard Miller\, Ph.D.\, explores the richly expressive sounds of the nylon string guitar (both 7 string and 6 string) with a repertoire that includes Brazilian styles (choro\, samba\, bossa nova\, forró\, etc.)\, American jazz\, Latin American styles (salsa\, bolero\, tangos\, etc.)\, and Classical guitar. He is also active as an educator\, composer\, and writer/presenter for academic publications and conferences. He earned a Ph.D. in music theory from Catholic University of America in 2006 and he has taught theory and guitar at Georgetown University. He holds a Master of Music degree in guitar performance from Manhattan School of Music. Richard Miller was born in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil to an American father and a Brazilian mother and moved frequently in Brazil\, United States and Puerto Rico (see “Treble is my middle name” under musings). He has become well known in the Washington\, DC area for his performances of both classical guitar music and popular Brazilian and Latin-American music and has traveled extensively for concerts and recitals in United States and Latin America. A review of a recital by Richard at the State Department affirmed “Throughout his recital\, he not only displayed impeccable technique but communicated his love of this beautiful music.” A review in the Washington City Paper by Joel Siegal of the duo of Richard Miller with Patrick de Santos (voice) stated “Patrick and Richard strike a remarkable balance between disciplined technique and otional abandon.” URL:https://www.educarteinc.org/event/workshop-african-rhythms-in-brazilian-music-with-richard-miller/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online,Workshops & Classes ORGANIZER;CN="EducArte":MAILTO:educarte@educarteinc.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210224T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210224T203000 DTSTAMP:20260429T073543 CREATED:20210208T185916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210213T235943Z UID:10000031-1614193200-1614198600@www.educarteinc.org SUMMARY:Workshop: Deep Listening and Emotion in Sound with Brian Falkowski DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free workshop with DC-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Brian Falkowski. In this workshop\, Brian will discuss and demonstrate the often overlooked art of how to critically listen to music and hear emotion in sound. This skill is applicable to all genres of music and ability levels\, no experience necessary. \nRegister for free \nAbout Brian Falkowski\nBrian Falkowski performs with a wide variety of groups at many top venues throughout the DC metropolitan area. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Music where he studied saxophone\, flute\, and clarinet with Chris Vadala and Dale Underwood. Since then he has traveled the world playing all styles of music on cruise ships\, and has won top prizes at the Takoma Park Jazz Festival\, DC Blues Festival\, Fischoff Chamber Music Competition\, and Mu Phi Epsilon Soloist Competition\, and recently was named winner of the 2020 Emergent Seed competition in the Instrumental Category. Equally at home in the studio as on stage\, Brian’s playing can be heard on 33 albums by various artists\, including his 2011 debut album Transitions\, the Zeitgeist Media progressive music documentary Romantic Warriors\, and Tosin Aribisala’s 2018 album Africa Rising\, which received a Grammy nomination for “Best World Music Recording.” In addition to performing/recording and teaching privately\, he currently leads his own group “Kaleidoscope\,” which features his original compositions\, dynamic improvisation\, multi-textured electronic experimentation\, and mixed-media visual art. URL:https://www.educarteinc.org/event/workshop-deep-listening-in-jazz-with-brian-falkowski/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online,Workshops & Classes ORGANIZER;CN="EducArte":MAILTO:educarte@educarteinc.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210213T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210213T163000 DTSTAMP:20260429T073543 CREATED:20210131T010357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210214T023511Z UID:10000038-1613228400-1613233800@www.educarteinc.org SUMMARY:Workshop: Brazilian percussion with André Coelho DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free workshop with Brazilian percussionist André Coelho from Rio de Janeiro. The workshop will cover some background on Brazilian rhythms and describe each of the main instruments used in batucada and rodas de samba: surdo\, pandeiro\, tamborim\, cuíca\, agogô\, reco-reco\, reqique de mão and repique de anel\, tantam or rebolo\, ganzá or chocalho\, and others. \nThe workshop will take place on Zoom. \nFacebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/431179028321450 URL:https://www.educarteinc.org/event/brazilian-percussion-workshop-with-andre-coelho/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online,Workshops & Classes ORGANIZER;CN="EducArte":MAILTO:educarte@educarteinc.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200731T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200731T153000 DTSTAMP:20260429T073543 CREATED:20200628T151940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200905T134724Z UID:10000010-1596204000-1596209400@www.educarteinc.org SUMMARY:Ethnographic research workshop: Interviewing DESCRIPTION:This online workshop is the third in a series of ethnographic research workshops organized in partnership with Fulbridge\, the Fulbrighter Network\, and EducArte. The workshops are for Fulbright alumni\, current Fulbrighters\, and prospective Fulbrighters\, or for anyone interested in ethnographic research. We welcome people from all fields and disciplines to share their experiences and expertise. \nThis workshop (on Zoom) will be an open forum discussion about ethnographic interviewing. Some of the questions we will discuss are: \n\nWhat are the differences between formal interviews and informal conversations?\nWhat are best practices when working with translators and transcribers?\nWhat are discipline-specific suggestions for reading and re-reading transcriptions\, note-taking\, and qualitative research coding?\nHow do we deal with issues of consent/confidentiality when using quotes from interviews or informal conversations?\n\nTo register\, visit tiny.cc/FulbridgeEthnography3. More information about the workshops and video recordings of previous workshops can be found here. URL:https://www.educarteinc.org/event/ethnographic-research-workshop/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Workshops & Classes END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR