Programme (English) Programa (Español)
A Laboratory for Sustainability on a Human Scale in El Hierro (Canarias), UN World Biosphere Reserve
endorsed by UNESCO
presented at EXPO 2008 and at Copenhagen Climate Summit 2009
Artists from all continents and from a wide range of styles and traditions are invited each july to 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. Dancers, paintors, sculptors and video artists are given the opportunity to create hybrid performances in collaboration with the musicians and to exhibit their work in the festival venues. All resident artists offer master classes in their respective fields of expertise - a unique opportunity to learn in-depth about a great variety of artistic and philosophic traditions from around the globe.
In its 6th annual festival and multicultural encounters, BIMBACHE openART once again provides a platform not only for the development of a common musical and artistic language, but also for a common code and rules of communication - an urgently needed model for a globalizing world growing smaller every day.
"As artists, we believe that aesthetics should not be a means to exclude and polarize, but to include and inspire. In this spirit, the music presented here is performed by musicians hailing from as many different cultural as artistic traditions in ever-varying constellations. The substance of the proven meets, mingles and toys with the urgency of the new, the yet illegitimate.
With remarkably little effort, many entrenched divisions are being bridged here: young and old, amateur and master musicians from five continents prove that there indeed i s a universal language, spoken by all who care enough to not mind the effort to seek what unites us rather than to indulge our competitive instincts, who understand that our mere humanity makes us all the same." - CD "La Condición Humana"
2010 Festival activities and labs
Bimbache One World Festival Ensemble - Project Week and Concerts
- t.b.a., application period still open -
"No Handicap!" Lab with Turiya (Germany), singer suffering from cerebral palsy, Parija (Iran), blind singer, Christian Fleck (MC) and residents of the Centro para Discapacitados El Sabinar
Art Exhibitions: SingulArt / Folk Art / RecyclArt / AvivArte
Interdisciplinary Forum on the Human Condition incl. Film Forum
Master Classes and Presentations
please mail us your registrations to info[at]bimbache.info
Arts and Music:
• South Indian Rhythms
• Training Intuition: Motific Improvisation for All Instruments
• Jazz Guitar
• Things nobody tells you: Secrets of Interaction with the Rhythm Section
• Berklee Harmonic Theory and Analysis
• Electronic Music using Ableton Live
• Percussion from El Hierro and La Gomera
• Flamenco Dance and Rhythm
• Oriental Dance
• Brazilian Batucada (Samba School)
and other subjects
Social Sciences & Traditions of Self-Management:
• Native American Traditions and Problem Solving
• Zen Meditation and Philosophy
• Tai Chi Chuan
• Rumi and the Sufi Way
• The Anthropology of Sustainability: Daniel Quinn et al (Reading)
• The Psychology of Sustainability: The Global Financial Crisis and
Addiction to Growth (Reading)
• The Science of Stress (Film Presentation)
and other subjects
For festival reservations, travel information, booking of the ensemble or to apply for
participation as an artist, please mail to info[at]bimbache.info.
