TRIAAC New Year Schedule

Posted by admin on Dec 31, 2011

Open­ing the way

New sched­ule opens more learn­ing opportunities

“A peo­ple los­ing sight of ori­gins are dead. A peo­ple deaf to pur­poses are lost.”–Ayi Kweh Armah..

It is wise to return to ori­gins to retrieve what has been lost

“Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi”–Akan Proverb

Trans­la­tion: “It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.”

In his intro­duc­tion to two thou­sand sea­sons Armah tells us that hav­ing lost our way it would be most appro­pri­ate for us to go back to our ori­gins to redis­cover what went awry along our path to the present so that we might use our intel­li­gence and insight today to cor­rect it. The Akan of Ghana refer to this process as Sankofa, retrac­ing one’s foot­steps along life’s path to see what has been lost or for­got­ten that would be of use today. Of course, the human path is one that walks back­wards recall­ing the expe­ri­ence of our ancestors.

And so as we enter 2012, TRIAAC is retrac­ing its course to deter­mine what has been lost that might be regained through ret­ro­spec­tion and applied to today’s envi­ron­ment and expe­ri­ences. We began with the con­scious prac­tice of re-membering our Afrikan past for our­selves and chil­dren, and apply­ing the energy of that quest to mak­ing music and incit­ing move­ment, both phys­i­cal and intellectual.

At the cen­ter of the prac­tice is the Malinke dunun and jenbe ensem­ble that is a fam­ily of tones and rhythms that com­bine to make a sin­gu­larly dis­tinct music rep­re­sent­ing the strength of Mande cul­ture and famil­ial tra­di­tion. The sym­bolic, social, polit­i­cal and spir­i­tual val­ues of that cul­ture as it has been extended through its many mas­ter­ful prac­ti­tion­ers since the 1960s, has been rooted in Fort Wayne for more than a decade now. 

In launch­ing our pro­grams for the third quar­ter, TRIAAC has sought to make this har­monic and rhyth­mic prac­tice avail­able to more chil­dren and adults. Hit the “Sched­ule” but­ton to down­load a .pdf file of our third quar­ter schedule.  

Sched­ule And con­tact us with any ques­tions you may have by click­ing the con­tact link. 

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