FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD

BlAcKs aNd wHiTeS FeStIvAl

The Carnival of Blacks and Whites, it is the biggest and important holiday(party) of the south of Colombia, though his Geographical Indication it belongs(concerns) to the city of San Juan of Pasture, 1 Colombia, also it(she) has been adopted as other municipalities nariñenses and of the Colombian suroccidente. It is celebrated from January 2 to January 7 of every year and attracts a considerable number of Colombian and foreign tourists.

PRECARNAVAL 28 DECEMBER

Day of Innocent 

It was a tradition to play with water on December 28, setting in this game the spirit for the near(next) carnival; understanding itself also as a collective purification. Even itdoes little it was conjugating with hoaxes or laughable acts and of roguish(picaresque) regional as(like) stuffed pies of cotton gave, to offer coffee with salt, to throw(shoot) a currency or ticket(bill) tied to a nylon, to change the signs of the business, to announce unexpected visits, or longed for events. Today they are realized playful alternate to the game by water as the Rainbow in the Asphalt and the Walk of Innocent in bicycle by the sites(places) of cultural interest of Pasture. Rainbow in the Asphalt.

A contact with the skin(leather) of the city, with expression of ephemeral art that assembles(brings together) artists, Bohemians, men, women, children, lovers of the art, creating a scene(stage) where every element and every participant breaks the fear of the street, to other one, to which they will say, to kneel, to kneel down, to go to bed in the street, public excellent space, being related by the others, by the city, by the creation; forming(training) ephemeral links in every outline, in every form that the chalks give in a subtle(fine) way in the complicated and travelled texture of the street of the legendary neighborhood of the Colorado, to reaffirm the agreement with the gods, with the holiday(party), with the carnival, across the color, the imagination and the street.

30 DECEMBER

Serenade to Pasture

There is known in the national and international area the existence and proliferation of Trioes of high quality in this region of the country. For tradition, the trioes of ropes(strings), they have linked themselves to the holidays(parties) decembrinas and of carnival. At present, like(as) synthesis of this process, there has been instituted this concert that is realized in Nariño's Plaza from five o'clock in the afternoon until 11 p.m., beginning with the participation of each one of the trioes that shape the Serenader of Trioes, integrated(repaid) for more than 22 of these famous groups. Ultimately it is the Serenader the one that produces an honoring to Pasture, with a magnificent serenade represented by persons' multitude that they love this musical kind(genre) and for tourists related in the region.

31 DECEMBER 

Parade of Old Years

Parade of allusive puppets to public prominent figures or social situations, which by means of satirical, critical and ironic language represent pleasing and ungrateful actions(shares) of facts or persons emphasized in the year that ends. The Old Year is elaborated traditionally in sized paper and carton, rags, shaving of wood or with disposable materials, often dressed(smart) by secondhand(worn) clothes. To the old Year it is wept by a widow who generally is a man dressed in woman. The Old Year says goodbye with a testament that enjoys intellectual keenness and wittiness, and is incinerated to the midnight.

ON JANUARY 2

CARNIVAL 

Offering the Virgin of Mercedes Homenaje that the inhabitants of the corregimientos of Pasture exhaust the Virgin of The Mercedes, Mistress of the city, who offer him(her) flowers and products of the region to the sound of prayers and musical bands, evoking the origin sincrético of the carnival, asking for license to enjoy the event and in order that the holiday(party) works out "nice".

The Colonies Show its Culture - Day of the Meeting The city of Pasture is a point of meeting, crossing way from ancient times, migrations of rural sectors, peoples(villages) and cities shape a rich and numerous group of colonies of different places of the department, of the country and of the world. On January, two in a grand parade they present their cultural, artistic and gastronomic values, concluding in a great meeting in the Plaza of the Carnival. Young and Alternative music.

Event that is realized in the Plaza of the Carnival between four o'clock in the afternoon and eleven of the night, with the participation of groups belonging to the kinds(genres): Blues, Classic Rock, Experimental Rock and mergers, Funk and commercial rock, Rock in Spanish, urban Ska and Heavy metal. This concert offers a space of meeting and enjoyment for the young lovers of this type of music.

OF JANUARY Carnavalito. The infancy comes to the Carnival Parade realized by the girls and children who show his(her,your) creative ingenuity and the cultural alive(vivacious) inheritance(heredity) expressed in small motives, offers that are the latent future of the Carnival. The concentration of the parade is in the Park Simón Bolívar, and concludes in the Plaza of the Carnival. I sing to the Earth. Choreographic groups Honoring to the Andean feeling, to the mother land, to the ancient memory(report), escenificado in an epic parade of choreographic groups, numerous groups of musicians and dancers. Evening parade that is realized on January, three by the path of the carnival, concluding in a choreography of brotherhood and in a great concert of Latin-American music in the Stadium Liberate.

ON JANUARY 4

Chestnut grove Parades of the Family tradition  

On January 4 realizes the traditional parade of the family Chestnut grove, sample of attitude of hospitality of the pastusos. He(she) recalls the tradition and the characteristics of the urban and rural settlers of the region, is the anteroom, the welcome, to the holiday(party) of Blacks and Whites(Targets). In the parade there represent scenes authors of novels of manners and prominent figures who have left his(her,your) fingerprint in the history of Pasture. The parade is celebrated from 1928 when a group of connoted friends invites to a family trashumante to enjoy the holidays(parties) that were realized in the city and they baptize her with the name of " Family Chestnut grove ". This day a symbolic personage, " Pericles Carnival ", does reading of the decree, text that trastoca the established order, express his(her,your) complacency of the advent of the holidays(parties) and it(he,she) prohibits the sadness, receives to the Family Chestnut grove, gives the welcome to the visitors, invites to the clean game, to living fraternalmente with happiness and I respect the days of the Carnival.

ON JANUARY 5 

Day of Blacks.

Game and Identity playful Origin of the Carnival, carries out on January, five. It is symbolized as a caress at liberty by license of other one, playful of progressive extroversion, which begins with, " the pintica ", the application of cosmetic of black color on the skin(leather) of the neighbor, of the friends and friends, of transients, of visitors, of the group, up to staying covered(overcast) faces, arms and parts(reports) of the body of black color, to take part in " game caress " allows to express the intrinsic human feeling, the Ethos, degraded nowadays.

ON JANUARY 6 

Day of Whites

Great Parade deifying Day and culmen of the holidays(parties). It is a cultural surprising fact. In friendly confrontation the craftsmen, musicians, dancers and actors, take part in the great parade showing his(her,your) ingenuity, his(her,your) creative potential, in a condensamiento of the artistic expressions and where the happiness is the carrier of the human warmth that infects the spectators to being actors and taking part in the game, in the unfolding and collective catharsis. January, six is the great stop of the carnival holiday(party), the parade is the central event where the craftsmen of the sculptures of paper(role) show all his(her,your) magnitude. The body of the parade is shaped for: individual disguises(fronts), extras, lees, not motorized coaches, coaches, two choreographic groups and artistic invited groups

Another page you can find and see more information about this festival:

http://www.carnavaldepasto.org

N.P.A

Hi!! I'am going to tell you about my experience in NPA.

It is the first time I do this, but I feel very good.
my Delegation was Indigenous social aliance and my comision was human rights.
It all started in english class were we have to present an exposition in which we have to tell our class mates, miss Gomezcasseres and Luisa Parra that is a girl of 8 grade that that day was in our class for helpping us in N.P.A we have to talk about our delegation (indigenous social aliance).
I think that the information about N.P.A that gave us Luisa Parra was so complete and it help me so much in the real day.
Then we have to present the portafolio with all the information of our delegations and comisions to Miss Adrianathe next weeks we research more about the topicand we had to start making the possition paper.
Finally the day arrived we had to go all dress up with fancy clothes, first we had a flag raising and they gave us the platelets with our corresponding delegation and then we went to the classroom and we start the debate about the Indegenous human rights in a very intresting convertsation in wich each delegate expressed the opinion of their delegation and in wich the comission get to some conclutions thata was afterwards read in th general assambleyin where they deliver the superlatives awards.
And this is my experience in the NPA.

By: Ma. Camila Cortes

N.P.A (Nacional Peace Assembly)

Well, this is the experiense i had in NPA. This is the first time a make a debate like this. it was so exiting, and i had a good experience. In my case i had the delegation of EU (European Union) and in the Comision of Narcotrafic with the topic of "social and economical impact of illicit crops".

It all started in english class when we had to present to our class mates, to miss Gomezcasseres and to Luisa Parra (a studen of 8º that was gonig to help us) your own delegation, the importance of it and how it help the comunity. then we had like a pracite with the precidents and with the other delegates. that day i had a good experience because erery time a knew evrey thing about my delaegation so for me it was so easy. in that day the practice was from 2:30 pm to 4:15 pm so in time a could prectice even more for the real one (Naciona Peace Assamebly). When the day of the real debate arrived, i was so afraid because a kenw that, that grade was my wole achivemnt. fortunatly every thing was pretty good and i did not had problems. my delegates helped me in the debate when i didnt know what to said. but in general every thing was perfect.

By: Enid Rico

NPA

Well my comision was ''Economic and social '' and my delegation was '' Representantes Captadores de dinero'' and i think that was good and bad, first bad because when i was reading the position paper the delgation of ''Representantes de Inversionistas'' felt Hurt becuase in the paper posicion i talked about the banks that they had too high the interest so they put us ''challenge competition'' And then the president enter like a delegation us '' Representantes de Inversionistas'' and also was against to us so they take out us from the room and they told us that we were going to lose the vote because in the posicion paper i put '' Representantes Captadores ilegal de dinero'' and that was too bad because we were aceptingt that we were ilegals but i think that well, that was wrong but no too BUT as they thought because as DMG know that they are ilegal but they continuing doing that business because they have their reasons that's what i wanted to do, give my reasons about why i do that business that i knowed that was ilegal but i continuing doing that because of my reasons. So they put us '' challenge competition'' and they thought that the thing thaT i put in the posicion paper was so but so they decide,... by voting if they were going to take off the vote and they do that so the decision was that they take off the vote.

That was too bad, then we talk to the Adriana telling that, we were so worry because we thought that we were going to lose the subject but Adriana told us that it only get down the points and she told us that if we participate they points could get hight again, so we do that. That was the good thing.

When we were in the middle of the debate the presidents penalise all the comision because we were doing too much noise but i think that that was unfair because i was quiet.

Then we continue in debate participating us much as we can and it continuous at until 4:30pm i think it was a very hard day. it was from 7.00 am to 4:30pm., they gave us a recess of 20 minutes.

When we came back to the debate i was so nervious because all the comision was against us a president became in that case ''David Mursia'' and help us.

By: Daniela Cruz

NPA = National Peace Assembly

THIS IS THE PROCESS ABOUT THE ASSEMBLY WE HAVE LIVED AT SCHOOOL, SINCE THE FIRST MOMENT WE STARTED TO TALK ABOUT IT, TO THE LAST MOMENT WE FINISHED TALKING ABOUT IT.


"Well,the first time when I was inside the classroom with all my classmades and with Luisa,(she was our helper)when she started to explain the instructions or conditions to participate in the assembly, inmediately I thought that I couldn't participate well.
Luisa explained us how to talk: PARLAMENTARY LANGUAGE, There was an specific way to talk, for example, you could not say: 'I THINK', it was: 'THE DELEGATION THINKS'.

After understanding that, we had to do a simulacrum to practice how to act and react towards a discussion between two "enemies". My "enemies" were: Representatives of investors,Bank of the Republic, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,etc. My performance in the simulacrum was pretty good because I talk many times.

After making a practice the real NPA was coming, and I felt prepared. When the assembly started some people start talking about what was the problem, I mean, the trouble, for example: the Bank of the Republic started saying that we, (Representatives of Money Colectors)were stealing people using our pyramid system. We told them it was a complete lie, because the Bank of the Republic was REALLY stealing people with the interest rate; and it is TRUE!! 36% of interest rate per year, That is a lot!! The assembly continued very well organized until the Representatives of investors did challenge to us to the competition, then it was desicion of the people inside de classroom, to deside if we lose the right to vote or not. We lost. But we could talk and debate also.

At the final part of the debate, some girls that were the Press, gave us some papers that were called "SUPERLATIVES", those papers were to say which was the most beautiful girls and boys in Press, in the commission, it means the most pretty delegate, the most pretty president and also which was the most distracted, the most angry, the most extrange etc.That was the end.

But in conclusion, in general I enjoyed the NPA. :):)

By: Margarita Rey Páez