By Staff | Wayuu Taya Foundation
We create opportunities and hope for Wayuu children through music. We continue with our music program, which is focused on systematizing its instruction and music's collective and individual practice. We work in collaboration with the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela (EL SISTEMA) to ensure that the teaching of music is a tool for the social improvement and cultural transformation of the children of Mara, thanks to the support from our allies, volunteers, and donors.
THE GREAT CONCERT.
In the first half of this year, we managed to present a great concert, which integrated the musical exhibition of the symphony orchestra and the intercultural choir. More than 220 children and young people showed progress in their academic orchestral training mastery of string, woodwind, metal, and percussion instruments in harmony with the elements of ancestral Wayuu music. In this first concert, with a great expression of joy and spontaneity, the children and young people of the Wayuu Taya Nucleus offered both an orchestral sample and the Choral Program. It was an emotional meeting dedicated to all who made this program possible, which also opened the doors to motivate more children and young people to participate.
TAKING CARE OF THE INSTRUMENTS.
The Wayuu Taya Nucleus has more than 270 musical instruments for the orchestral program.
Additionally, we have guitars, cuatros, mandolins, drums, and furros, for the Alma Llanera program and traditional Wayuu instruments such as the Sawawa, maasi and wotoroyoy or Totoy, maracas, and Kasha and for the Ancestral Music program. One of the projects carried out this year was the construction of a storage module for musical instruments for their controlled and orderly safekeeping, applying preservation criteria. We are very grateful for acquiring this storage unit and organizing the structure functionally and academically. To complement the care of the instruments, we obtain cases specially designed for each specific device, achieving 100% protection. An essential element of the music program is to foster among its members a sense of belonging and the importance of the care and preservation of musical instruments, which are delivered daily to children and young people for orchestral practice.
A HOME FOR THE MUSIC PROGRAM.
The music program shares the space with the Tepichi Talatshi school in the community of La Popular in the Mara municipality in Zulia, Venezuela. More than 400 children attend this school regularly, and in the afternoons, four days a week, the Wayuu Taya Nucleus operates with an enrollment of more than 220 students, which we estimate will increase to 300 by the end of this year. The increase in the number of children and young people participating, the transversal growth of training programs, and the need to incorporate new cultural activities indicate that we must manage with great diligence the construction of a headquarters for the Music Program to have a permanent space for the development of the artistic and cultural potential of the Guajira subregion. Thanks to your help, we have met goals that provide new opportunities to Wayuu children and young people from vulnerable communities in the Venezuelan Guajira. We encourage you to continue supporting us to create opportunities and hope for them and make a difference in the lives of those we serve.
By Staff | Wayuu Taya Foundation
By Staff | Wayuu Taya Foundation
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