From all corners of the world at the Main Event!
You are invited and welcome to join us for a mass culture exchange at Stanford Hall this summer. Here you can expect great music, song, dance, workshops and food from all corners of the world! You don’t need to travel far to have your peak of what the world has to offer! So join us and some of the best professionals from all the continents across the globe for great, fun and relaxing time. We have a packed schedule so you can choose to be up and active all day, or relax on the grass in the sunshine and enjoy some of the great tastes available! If you’re a dancer there’s everything from...
Read MoreTest something new at the Main Event with Ben and Ghana Goods
We are happy and honoured to have Ben Lawrence as a trader and teacher at this year’s main event. At Ben’s stall you will find beautiful, original and fair-traded traditionally made instruments, textiles, clothes and accessories from the best renowned crafters in Ghana. And on top of that, you will be able to part take in the music workshops which he will be running from there. So don’t miss A little bit more about Ben Ben is a multi-talent who has been involved with music all his life, a dedicated cellist from the age of 9 and having studied music at Dartington Collage from the age of 18...
Read MoreWhat is culture?
There are plenty of definitions, meanings and uses of the word culture, and with it so present all around us, people will have a good understanding of the word as a general. This without even having thought much about the term. If you look it up in a dictionary you will most likely find a definition describing it as socially transmitted behavior such as beliefs, institutions, patterns, arts and other products of human ideas and work. Culture is also something unrelated to genetic makeup, and has it’s own evolution in the history of us. So culture, is really a term with a multitude of...
Read MoreSound therapy, music and Khantara!
The healing nature of sound, music and song has been known since the beginning of culture, and if looked at from the internal perspective there is little to argue against its effectiveness. Everything from music, sound meditation, sound used for massage and other type of healing therapy’s is widely spread, and you’ll know yourself the vast effect that it can have in creating a relaxed or energetic atmosphere. This of course is also true for disruptive sounds, and since we can’t turn our ears off, it can have a stressful effect if you are in an environment where you cannot...
Read MoreA Crib for Cultural Collaboration
As we go towards a more and more globalised times, we are less geographically tied to specific areas, together with the international information highway which is the current connected world there is vast blend of a cultural soup in some places. This of course is something that Tribe of Doris is glad to be in the mix with, and forwarding forward thinking and welcoming the cultural heritage and knowledge each person which are involved with us is something that we do with open arms. For many of the running involvements, Tribe of Doris acts as a crib of cultural collaboration, drawing on the...
Read MoreIntroduction to Kora
One of the favourite sounds for us at Tribe of Doris, is that of the beautiful kora. A harp which is traditionally made from a calabash, a form of opo squash, wood and cow skin. The kora fits in to a wide range of categories of musical instrument and would often be called something like a double bridge harp lute. The sound of the kora is very original, and difficult to describe in words, a harp played more like a guitar in style. But as mentioned, it’s best experienced. The kora is a common in Tribe of Doris events, and the sound is something that we would like to share with anyone who...
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