Curaçao gaat binnen afzienbare tijd als autonoom land verder. Daar is een bevolking voor nodig die opgewassen is tegen de nieuwe verantwoordelijkheden, een bevolking die gelooft in haar eigen kunnen. En wie kan daarbij beter als inspiratiebron optreden dan de Curaçaonaars zelf, vindt Stichting Fudsek. Ze startte een multimediaal project. Minister Vogelaar gaf gisteren het startsein voor het eerste onderdeel, de website Curaçao Top 100. Wereldwijd kan iedereen hier inspirerende Curaçaoenaars nomineren of stemmen op één van de genomineerden. Een jury beoordeelt of de nominering en verkiezing eerlijk verlopen.
In een tv-show worden de 100 personen die de meeste stemmen hebben behaald, bekendgemaakt. In het najaar 2008 verschijnt een boek in het Nederlands en Papiaments, waarin zij hun inspirerende verhaal vertellen. Het streven is om 50.000 exemplaren weg te geven aan alle Curaçaose jongeren tussen de 15 en 24 jaar, ongeacht waar ze wonen. Van degenen die in de top 10 staan komt een speciale televisie-documentaire, Portretten Curaçao Top 10.
Meer informatie over de spelregels is te vinden op de website.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Dance from Barlovento
Una Sola Voz
A world music theatre festival brought the Venezolan music-theatre group Teatro Negro de Barlovento performed in Amsterdam this week. I visited it with friends and of course we were amazed and by the performance. The group perform Afro Caribbean dance from the region Barlovento, were one f the biggest population of African descent resides in Venezuela. Even though we are aware of the Pan African Caribbean connection which exists in most countries in the Caribbean and Americas, it is always nice to see similarities and so on. The great thing with Venezuela is the fact that it’s a neighbour country of my island Curacao. Enslaved Africans that succeed in escaping from the slavery system in Curacao, had to flew to Venezuela. That means that those young people there performing were family, our people. We talked to them about the dances and similarities. It was amazing to see them using a seashell as a instrument, something that’s also done on Bonaire and sometimes Curacao in the harvest celebration the simadan or seú.
Here a video clip of the performance on You Tube.
A world music theatre festival brought the Venezolan music-theatre group Teatro Negro de Barlovento performed in Amsterdam this week. I visited it with friends and of course we were amazed and by the performance. The group perform Afro Caribbean dance from the region Barlovento, were one f the biggest population of African descent resides in Venezuela. Even though we are aware of the Pan African Caribbean connection which exists in most countries in the Caribbean and Americas, it is always nice to see similarities and so on. The great thing with Venezuela is the fact that it’s a neighbour country of my island Curacao. Enslaved Africans that succeed in escaping from the slavery system in Curacao, had to flew to Venezuela. That means that those young people there performing were family, our people. We talked to them about the dances and similarities. It was amazing to see them using a seashell as a instrument, something that’s also done on Bonaire and sometimes Curacao in the harvest celebration the simadan or seú.
Here a video clip of the performance on You Tube.
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