The four Pillars
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| SUSTAINABILITY ON A HUMAN LEVEL Bimbache - Open Art Project constitutes an active extension of the El Hierro island government’s 100% sustainability project, drawing on a vast network of international organizations, artists, scientists, philosophers and spiritual teachers from various traditions. The WHO predicts stress disorders and depression to become the most serious health issues globally by 2020. At the same time, public consciousness of human sustainability issues is at a state comparable to the nascent understanding of ecology in the 1970s, urgently requiring propositions for practical investigation and solutions. BIMBACHE promotes integration at a practical level and provides concepts for overcoming the enemy mages and dualisms which separate us. |
CANARIAS – CROSSING BETWEEN CONTINENTS: A LABORATORY FOR POSITIVE GLOBALIZATION Artists from all continents and from a wide range of styles and traditions meet and come together in El Hierro (UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve) to create music for the twenty-first century - a fusion of world music, folklore, jazz, classical music from various cultures, electronic music, and more. In its annual festival, multicultural encounters of 8-14 days, Bimbache - Open Art Project provides the platform for the development of a common language and code of communication, an urgently needed model for a globalizing world which is getting smaller every day. Concurrently, the BIMBACHE touring ensemble’s repertoire for the respective next year is developed. |
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| CANARIAS LAND OF CULTURE: TRADITON <-> VANGUARD A STRATEGY FOR CONSERVING A UNIQUE CULTURAL HERITAGE Bimbache Jazz & Roots creates unique and contemporary arrangements of the traditional repertoire of the archipelago and carries the cultural heritage of El Hierro and the Canary Islands to all continents. International editions of CDs / DVDs and tours of the BIMBACHE touring ensemble, which involves some of the most renowned Canarias singers and instrumentalists, are an ideal promotion mechanism for this export and place the Canary Islands on the map of World Music and Open-Art. |
EDUCATION AND INTERACTION: REGIONAL CONTEST • TRAINING LABORATORY • MASTER CLASSES • INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS AND EXCHANGE PROGRAMMS As part of the activities of the BIMBACHE project, virtuosos and instrumentalists from a wide range of musical traditions from around the world offer their expertise in free workshops at international festivals and academies (2005-2009: Spain, Germany, China, USA and various others). Following an open call, the annual festival invites artists from all over the world to come to the Canaries and interact with invited guests and residents of El Hierro. The regional contest offers a forum for young musicians and invites the winners to share the experience of international activities of the BIMBACHE touring ensemble. |
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