Artistic events
CONCERT LORENZA - KEITH SECOLA - 06/28/07
NAVAJO France
is honored to introduce you the singer,
KEITH SECOLA.
Exclusive concert on Wednesday May 16th at 8pm
Lounge bar Le YONO
37, Old street of the Temple - 75004 Paris
Cover: 5 euros
KEITH SECOLA, Native American, is a member of the Anishinabe tribe and nation located at the north of Minnesota and at the South of Ontario. Involved artist standing for the native American people, KEITH will sing for the Navajo France Association.
LORENZA, founder of the Navajo France Association and initiated with the traditional songs of the Navajo people will accompagny KEITH’s talent with her voice and music.
Our close friend PURA FE, native American from the Tuscarora Nation will also be among us.
Come and relax, and you will enjoy country music, traditional songs from the native people of North America and a simple, spontaneous and generous sharing of a meeting of different cultures.
DINEH SAND PAINTINGS
The “Le Jardin du Créateur” Association (“Garden of the Creative one Association”), whose goal is to support one’s awakening to creativity and one’s welfare, received Lorenza Garcia on March 2006, 18th and 19th to carry out a collective realisation. It was made of Navajo sand paintings and was connected with Nature, the Dineh nation and its ancestors.
Through Navajo songs, sharing and exchange, a verbal union was born between the 12 participants, and it brought 3 holy sand paintings.
Common work, “the creative breath of the reigns of the living beings”, is a multicultural work conjoining tradition and modernity, an union of three works which have 3 functions of collective healing. On top of expressing the interdependence of the beings, these works also express in common the Moon-Sun alliance, and they express separately the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms.
The Association, allured by the depth and the harmonious beauty (Hozho) of this collective production, will continue the holy bond of friendship which was woven during these 2 days.
CREATION OF A SAND PAINTING - January 15, 2005
On Saturday January 15th, we gathered some curious people at the Hétic school buildings to create a sand painting. Solenne Gros de Beler, Virginie Chelles, Vithia Chip, Victor Laplace, Gaëlle Mouraret, Adrien Naeem and Lore Brit carried out a splendid sand painting thanks to Lorenza Garcia’s artistic help.
The students wished to represent the community which links each one to another, Hétic. This is why the painting was entitled “Way of Community”.
The Community enables the transmission of know-how and thus gives to one the courage of facing the world.
CONFERENCE AT THE MUSEUM OF LYON - June 5, 2004
Saturday June 5, 2004, from 2pm to 6pm, thematic day: “Art and Sand”, with the Museum of Lyon.
In bond with the exposition “SANDS”
With the surroundings reminding the Tibetan traditions of mandala and Navajo healing paintings, the exposition deals with the use of sand and its symbolism in art.
How did the modern and contemporary arts take hold of this matter? What are the sources of inspiration of the artists who work this medium today? How sand also became medium of architecture?
2pm - SAND IN THE MODERN ART AND CONTEMPORARY
How sand became matter for art? What are the main movements which used it and why?
Abdelkader Damani, Art and architecture coordinator at the cultural centre of Meeting of Tourette and President of Gibralt’ art
4pm - TESTIMONIES
What are sand working’s features ? How do contemporary artists meet up with ancestral traditions of other cultures?
Lorenza Garcia, painter sculptor
Odile Rosso, artist
5pm - PROJECTION
Saho or sand architectures
Saho, Mali France, 1996, 56 ‘, Original version with French subtitles
Louis Decque, director