Music to Strengthen Endangered Languages

Community workshops with endangered languages

We facilitate workshops to promote the creative use of endangered languages through music and art. These languages are mostly spoken by minorities that have been systematically oppressed and, therefore, our work includes highlighting their voices and claims, as well as their ancestral memory and cultural constructions. We use folklore, hip-hop and musical improvisation, among others, to create participatory multimedia content.

MAPUCHE, EMBERA INGA

We facilitated a long-distance collaboration between three women activists, from different places throughout South America, who sing about their environmental activism in their native languages.

JEFÃ: EMBERA CHANT

This music video is part of our work with the Embera community, which is in a situation of forced displacement in Bogota, Colombia. The song fuses fragments of three stories that are part of their cultural construction.

Special thanks to:

Arto Arte Collective

Secretary of Culture, Recreation and Sports of Bogota

Endangered Language Documentation Programme (Berlin, Germany)