One free kid-friendly event we missed in our FC Connection is Kultrun by Neruda Productions. Click here (nerudaarts.ca/festivals/kultrun/artists) to see the schedule of FREE Children/Family concerts. More on Kultrun: Neruda Arts Presents K U L T R Ú N NOVEMBER 14-17 The Region’s first Indigenous and World Music Festival, Kultrún, will feature three distinctive performances by leading contemporary artists each evening from Thurday to Saturday and a free Family Day concert on Sunday afternoon. Evening concerts will begin in the Conrad Centre at 6pm, move to the Walper Hotel Oak Room for 8pm and conclude at the Ren@41 where audience members can stay on to get social, dance and celebrate with other festival fans after the last performance of the evening. Artists appearing at Kultrún include: • Juno nominated, Amanda Martinez • Innu reggae artist Shauit, from the northern Quebec community of Maliotenam • Multilingual, multicultural super-group, NomadicMassive • The awesome sounds of Chadian a cappella group, H’sao • Laetitia Zonzambé from the Central Republic of Africa • Best International Indigenous Artist of 2013 Nominee, Joel Maripil • Top international muralists of the Chilean ALAPINTA collective Kultrún (pronounced cool-troon) represents a long held dream of Neruda Arts Artistic Director, Isabel Cisterna, to present a world music festival that recognizes the contribution of Indigenous and First Nations artists. Isabel named the festival after the first peoples of her native Chile. For the Mapuche people of Chile, a Kultrún is not simply a drum - conceptually it represents their beliefs and vision of the universe. Within this vision lies the diversity of the seasons, the cardinal points and the fraternity and fertility of all living things. Kultrún is the heartbeat of life embodied in the sound and rhythm of the drum.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:07:17 +0000
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