Each week we share indigenous news, stories, and media from around the world in our weekly round-up. With a focus on arts, culture & promoting the strength of indigenous knowledge. We also introduce new members who have joined our global collaboration network.
This week, we’re happy to feature:
Co-creative platform of transformation and innovation in tune with living creation Earthkeepers.
Swiss non-profit Mama Tierra that sells handcrafted art products to help indigenous women maintain their communities and natural environment.
Dedicated group of East Arnhem Land individuals who believe in making a difference; Why Warriors.
Curacao-based artist Giovani Zanolino, who aims to create art in a state of communion with his instincts, simply letting the hands doing their work.
Independent non-profit with the sole purpose of improving the lives of Indigenous Australians through media-outlets ICTV.
The Shipibo Conibo Center in New York, set up to promote and perpetuate the creative life-ways and knowledge of the Shipibo Conibo people in the Peruvian Amazon.
Interesting fact: The Shipibo Conibo Center in New York is result of a film that was co-directed by Matteo Norzi, Leonor Caraballa and Abou Farman. Moved by the feeling that the making of this film was more than just an adventure that would end with a screening and the wisdom of the Shipibo Conibo, they decided to perpetuate this experience.
Icaros: A Vision is a story about fear and the release from fear – the fear of illness and of death, but also the fear of life and living. It’s about the possibility of living through one’s fear – which is what the Amazonian plant Ayahuasca is good at getting you to do. Centered on the nightly ceremonies that are the main feature of shamanic retreats, Icaros revels in darkness, replicating a shamanic journey. The film mixes in elements of reality. Set in an actual Ayahuasca retreat in Peru, it features real shamans and indigenous non-actors from the Shipibo community, mixed in with western actors. Aspects of the film are based on Leonor Caraballo’s true experiences. Icaros: A Vision is a filmic tapestry about the meeting of cultures, a West in search of its lost soul and the indigenous Shipibo adapting their expansive practices and unique view of the universe.
The movie is screening in film-festivals in Goteborg and Istanbul in the coming months and will released theatrically in the United States in April. You can see a few fragments of it in the trailer:
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