Other Highlights
Seek and you shall Find
3-6 pm Thursday, 10 am-6 pm Friday and Saturday.
Great kids and family activities for everyone including “Shake Ya Nappy” dance sessions for under 2’s, Giant American style skipping rope, Poi & Hula hoop making/ playing and flag making sessions with Helen and Carl, metal workshops with Kevin Hughes and more activities from around the world with Ben Ward from World Jungle and Alex Lucas of Lucas Antics including:
• A Very Well-Travelled Dragon with Alex Lucas of Lucas Antics (12-4 pm)
Join Alex and Catherine with the creation of a dragon, inspired by your favourite places you have visited or fictional lands where you think a dragon may live or explore! Draw, paint, stick and glue your creations on to the segments of the dragon and help us parade our Well-Travelled Dragon at the end of the Sunrise festival!
Create an ancient symbol made by the Huichol Indians of Mexico and the Aymara.
• Flag, poi and hula hoop making with Helen and Carly (10 am-12 pm and 4-6 pm )
Using a world map for inspiration we will be making flags from around the world. How to pick which flag to make? What distant lands have you visited? Where do you want to explore!? Also, poi and hula hoop making… super festival fun!
***Mama’s Hide-Away*** For adult women only, from 6 pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
A space for you to come and catch your breath, get ready for the evening ahead, get dressed and do your makeup. We will have mirrors, lighting, comfy seats, tasty treats and tipples from the Caribbean, extra bling and glitter to help get you in the mood for the evening ahead. Dance the night away or simply chill for the evening.
***Storytellers Circle*** Every evening from 7 pm.
Stories from round the world with a children’s bedtime story session in Grannies Corner.
***Grannies Corner***
Welcome Grannies and Grandads … Cultural Crossroads also has a space for you! Sometimes you just want to sit down and have a cuppa without going back to your tent! There will be storytelling at 7 pm and opportunities throughout the day to participate in workshops from your charity you want! Thanks to Locksmiths Bristol for their contribution. This will be a great place to relax and chill and unwind whatever mood you’re in.
Stories
Jose Barco
Fireside Tales from Colombia with Jose Barco
I will be telling creation tales from different indigenous cultures from Colombia, Including the Kogi who live in The Sierra Nevada De Santa Marta Region in the north, the Muisca from the central mountainous regions Near Bogota or Bakata as the Colombian capital used to be called and the Tikuna from the Amazonian Region in the south.
Bachue, Bochica, Chia, Chibchacun, Yuche and many other characters will come to life around the fire and weave their stories around Andean music, some tropical rhythms, and with the help of the audience to create the right atmosphere.
These are some of the stories I bring from the lands where I was born:
- Kogi Cosmology.
- The story of Yuche and how the Tikunas Came to be.
- Muisca Cosmology
Jose Barco is a self-taught Colombian musician and jewellery maker.
He plays Charango and Marimba de Chonta amongst other instruments with Aji Pa’ Ti and KuKaramacara. He has also collaborated with Khantara and Fuego de Cumbia in Bristol.
Expect to hear from him Andean music as well as Currulao and Bunde from the Colombian pacific coast as well as Cumbia from the Caribbean coast of Colombia amongst other tropical rhythms. Thanks to Mike of Bristol Loft Conversions for webpage support.
Journey
Yani is Peruvian, born and raised in the cloud forest and Andes of Peru, originally from an area known as Sacred Valley of the Incas. In love with creation and nature, a student, and passionate seeker of ancient ways, aspirant candidate to be a real runa (people), Yani will be taking us on a journey to the Andes, through legends and myths of the Americas!
Fireside stories from A Familiar Stranger … intriguing!
***Fireside performances***
Evening music/singing/dance jams round our community fireside or indoor space if wet.
***Playback Theatre Workshops*** Friday and Saturday night.
With Breathing fire - Bristol Black Women’s Playback Theatre Company (Friday and Saturday night). Come and tell your travel story and see it relayed to you live and direct.’Around the world in 80 days’, stories from countries from around the world that relate to you.
Breathing Fire is a group of women of African / Caribbean descent committed to empowering people who have historically been denied a voice. Through Playback theatre (a unique form of interactive theatre performances which tap into the traditions of the Afrikan Griot) through drama workshops we enable people to express their real life stories and experiences.
*** Sunrise Morning Ceremonies with Jo Elliot *** Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 am, Tribe of Doris - Cultural Crossroads
Introduction to the ancient medicine wheel, shamanic rituals and practices. The word ‘medicine’ indicates a vital energy force available to all who call upon it. It also means knowledge. Come as you are and join us in the circle to share your journey of discovery…
Jo is inspired by the teachings of Kenneth Meadows ‘The Medicine Way’ among others.
***Middle Eastern and Gypsy Night*** Friday night.
***African and Latin Night*** Saturday night.
***Sunrise Procession*** 6 pm Saturday.
Meet at Cultural Crossroads at 5.30 pm to join the start of the Sunrise procession at 6 pm. Return at 7 pm for stories in Grannies corner. Wear your national costume or team/group kit. Bring your world flags made in the ‘Seek and Find’.
***Sunday Morning Choir***
Join all our singing teachers and help create the 100 plus choir and help make Yvette Staelen’s dream to come true…
***Sunday Lunchtime Showcase***
To celebrate our time at Sunrise, our teachers and workshop participants share some of what they have learnt over the last few days.
***Our Closing Ceremony*** Sunday after the Lunchtime Showcase.
Initiated by Tashi Dhondup (Bristol for Tibet group) with Tibetan prayers (Om Mani Pedme Hum and Alayle). Joined by all our Doris teachers and facilitators to give thanks for our time at Sunrise.
***Doris Café***
Our Doris Café at Sunrise will be run by Fresh Rootz and BBC Good Food Show winners of Midland street food 2013. Specialising in vegan and vegetarian foods, they promise to bring us fantastic world street food… inspired by and complimenting our Cultural Crossroads workshops. Tingle your taste buds with foods from Colombia, Tibet, India, Africa, Morocco to name a few… take a delicious journey around the world! Special morning treats include locally made fresh pastries!