PRE-TAMEJAVI EVENTS

"Cocina y Canto" con Martha Toledo: Experiencing the Zapotec* Culture Through Music and Stories
Espectáculo Multisensorial, a fundraising event for Tamejavi sustainability and to continue promoting the cultural development of the Central Valley Immigrant communities.

Martha Toledo, la teca huiini' a Zapotec singer from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, takes us to the sun-filled land where she was born and raised and where she flourished, like the "guie'xhuba," the red tulips that adorn her wavy hair. Her voice dances to the rhythm of the north wind, making her skirt and her cicada heart flutter. Her voice embodies the sounds of rivers and birds in the trees, starry skies, and moonlit nights from the Chimalapas rain forest that flow within her.

Private Home
Selma, CA
Sunday September 16, 2007
1:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Indigenous Music of the Americas through the Voices of Women
Martha Toledo and Rocio Prospero will provide a workshop for music, literature and other students. They will perform and talk about the social and cultural meaning of indigenous music.

Wahlberg - Recital Hall,
Music Building
2380 E. Keats Ave
California State University Fresno
Thursday September 20, 2007

2:00 - 3:15 p.m.

(parking available in Lot D)

TAMEJAVI invites you to experience the Indigenous Music of the Americas through the Voices of Women
By two outstanding Mexican indigenous singers Martha Toledo and Rocío Prospero

Martha Toledo, la teca huiini' a Zapotec singer from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, takes us to the sun-filled land where she was born and raised and where she flourished, like the "guie'xhuba," the red tulips that adorn her wavy hair. Her voice dances to the rhythm of the north wind, making her skirt and her cicada heart flutter. Her voice embodies the sounds of rivers and birds in the trees, starry skies, and moonlit nights from the Chimalapas rain forest that flow within her.

Rocio Prospero Maldonado is a P'urhepecha singer is well known through Mexico as a researcher and performer of the P'urhepecha pirekuas which is a form of indigenous poetry. Rocío has given vocal concerts and conferences I several museums and cultural centers in Mexico and the U.S.

Wahlberg - Recital Hall,
Music Building
2380 E. Keats Ave
California State University Fresno
Thursday September 20, 2007

7:00 - 8:30 p.m. (Parking available in Lot D)

Sponsor by: The College of Arts and Humanities-CSUF, Center for Music of the Americas-CSUF, Central Valley Cultural Heritage Institute-CSUF, Music Department-CSUF, Spanish Program-CSUF

"Blossoms of Fire" a documentary directed and produce by Maureen Gosling
This documentary shows the women of Juchitan, Oaxaca Mexico in their brightly color, opinionated glory as they run their own business, embroider their signature fiery blossoms on clothing and comment with angry humor on articles in the foreign press that flippantly and inaccurately depict them as a promiscuous matriarchy.

California State University Fresno
McLane 121
Friday, September 21, 2007
5:15 p.m.

Event sponsored by Cineculture Club at CSU Fresno