SPECIAL INVITATION TO GEORGIAN CULTURAL DAYS
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Posted by , October 17, 2006
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Dear Simmons Community, International Multicultural Student Association (IMSA) would like to invite you to an interesting cultural event. Georgian Cultural Days is planned as a two-day event (October 18th and October 25th) with a purpose to introduce the culture of Georgia to Simmons community through art, folklore, and cinematography. We designed this event with you in mind and would like to present an ancient culture with its history and tradition through the activities you all love and enjoy music, photos, and movies.
For our first event which will be held, we have invited an American singer who encountered the Georgian folklore in 1990 and has studied and performed Georgian folk songs ever since. During the past sixteen years, Carl Linich has created a Trio, which has given numerous performances and published three albums of Georgian polyphonic songs. He named his Trio Kavkasia, which means Caucasus in Georgian. (For more information, please visit www.kavkasia.com ) As he remarked in a brief interview, I first discovered Georgian music in 1990 - as sung by Americans! … I had never heard Georgian music before this, and had almost no concept of Georgia as anything other than part of the Soviet Union. The music was so powerful that I knew I had to find out more about it.
- Carl Linich (You can read a complete transcript of Carl’s interview at the end of this announcement)
During his performance on October 18th, he will tell how and when he became so interested with this art, why he loves Georgian polyphonic songs, and what they have taught him about Georgian culture:
The most important thing is to know and understand why the Georgians sing. They sing because they love life, they love each other, and they love singing. Even in what have seemed to me very dark times I’ve seen Georgians singing their hearts out and truly loving every minute.
- Carl Linich (You can read a complete transcript of Carl’s interview at the end of this announcement)*
Carl Linich will give a two-hour workshop of polyphonic songs before his performance, which will be a great opportunity to talk to him personally, learn basic tunes of most popular songs, or even more, and enjoy several hours of the enchanting musical phenomenon, which UNESCO has proclaimed as one of the Oral and Intangible Masterpieces of Humanity.
TIME and LOCATION: October 18, Linda K Paresky Center. Workshop will start at 3:00 p.m. Performance will start at 5:00 p.m.
Please read an overview of the whole event and IMSA’s brief mission statement as a supplement to this announcement as well. * (For more information: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3332111.stm
