New Mexico Humanities Council
Grant Application Form (Mini or Regular Grant) NMHC Use Only
Total Amount Requested: 6310.00 Total Amount of Matching Contribution: 22050.00
Application Deadline: 17 May 2019, 11:59pm MT Award:
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Project Title: Traditional Spanish Christmas Music - Ronda Los Carrozas de Cifuentes Project Description: The project consists of a presentation of traditional popular music from the rural Castile region in Spain, the Christmas Rondas. This term defines a group of people that plays and sings in the streets. Today, this Christmas tradition is little known in Spain, and on the verge of disappearing. Our 15-member group arrives in New Mexico on Dec 15 and travels for six days presenting our program at venues in Albuquerque, Saint Michael's and All Angels, one day; Santa Fe, San Miguel Chapel, one day; Tularosa, Saint Francis de Paula church, two days; and Acoma Cultural Center, two days. The program includes a 45 minute lecture and slide presentation by scholar Enrique Díaz Martínez, explaining the history and meaning of Christmas Rondas and relating them to rural traditions in New Mexico. The lecture invites conversation with the audience. Subsequently, the Ronda members, including the scholars, will play and sing popular Spanish Christmas songs that will be interpreted by community scholar Edmundo Cabellos Llorente, a folk musician, who will demonstrate traditional handmade percussion instruments used in the Rondas, and explore the lyrics of the romance-style verses of the compositions. The lecture and interpretation will address a variety of humanities areas, such as social history, the human urge to preserve intangible heritage transmitted through oral memory, and the present role of women in an activity that until very recently was practiced only by men.
Sponsoring Organization: Lore of the Land, Inc. Description: Lore of the Land, Inc. Recent Programs: Training Indigenous Aural Folklorists in Documentation and Archiving, a four-year project funded by NEA and Ford Foundation, connecting communities with resources to present indigenous perspectives, support local control of historic materials, and diversify national audiences for significant cultural traditions. New Mexico Forts Project, Bureau of Land Management, aggregate historical materials into compelling stories to improve the interpretation of Territorial-era military forts in New Mexico. Thinking Like a Watershed, NMHC, produce lecture series at the KiMo, radio programs, and book manuscript, about NM bioregions and watersheds. Watershed Consciousness, Christensen Foundation, radio programs, print media, and an interactive web site explicating the relationship of culture to habitat in the context of watersheds. Proyecto Documental Acequiero y Gastronómico, Christensen Foundation, with Estevan Arellano, investigating acequia cultures of the Upper Río Grande and Northern Mexico, cultural mapping, and providing a 21st century Acequia Users Manual for irrigators and small land owners. City of Santa Rosa, produce an interpretive photographic mural, aural history, web site, and mapping project for the city's scenic byways project, Federal DOT. Mission: Lore of the Land's mission is to develop and nurture bioregional aural history and humanities programs within indigenous, traditional, and rural communities throughout the Greater American West, which includes northern Mexico. We assist these communities with establishing self-directed, community-based programs that are instrumental in maintaining languages, environments, stories, and lifeways. The project directors enable communities to record their own history, control its dissemination, and conserve their unique system of coordinates for navigating within their biospheres. We recognize the direct relationship between indigenous culture and environment, community and the creative process, traditional wisdom and knowledge of habitat, the power of place, and inter-species communications. This community knowledge holds the key to restoring the Earth. In carrying out its mission, Lore of the Land produces free public programs, open dialogues, aural history documentation, public radio series, books, and articles concerning the relationship of traditional, indigenous, and rural cultures to their respective habitats within the watersheds of the Intermountain West; sponsors collaborations between communities of culture and communities of practice; presents cultural diversity as an aspect of cognitive diversity; and fosters the shift from an economic imperative to a biotic imperative as a national paradigm. We act as sponsors for the programs of scholars: including the Muse Times Two series of poetry readings connecting a well-know poet with emerging local poets; the Tewa Language Verb project, exploring Tewa language structure and developing learning materials for family use; Seeking Coherence, 2-year public project exploring the relationship of culture to habitat; and other public events. Since 2005, Suzanne Jamison has served as the Secretary/Treasure for Lore of the Land. She works with the Project Directors, providing financial management, administration, implementation oversight, and reporting for all of the organization's programs and projects. 109 West Fork Road Gila Hot Springs, Mimbres NM 88049 email:
[email protected]; tel: 575/536-9339; fax: ; website: http://N/A; DUNS #: 140233177; SAM.gov: 4QM38; SAM.gov Exp Date: 5/14/20
Project Director: Ms. Natalia Díaz Martínez; Film Director and Cultural Manager, Independent Paseo San Roque, 2, Cifuentes Guadalajara 19420 email:
[email protected]; cel: 346/494-45673
Fiscal Agent: Ms. Suzanne Jamison; Secretary/Treasurer, Lore of the Land 109 West Fork Road Gila Hot Springs, Mimbres NM 88049 email:
[email protected]; tel: 575/536-9339; office: 575/536-9339; cel: ; fax:
Commitment Confirmed: YES
Project Formats: [ X] Conference [ X] Exhibit [ X] Lecture(s) [ X] Radio Program [ X] Reading/Discussion [ X] Workshop [ X] Film or Video Discussion [ X] Symposium [ X] Panel Discussion [ X] Other (explain) [ X] Does program respond to a NMHC request for proposals (RFP)? If OTHER, explain format: Lecture by first Scholar, interpretation of instruments and songs by second scholar, plus performance by 15 musicians/community scholars.
Humanities Scholars Who Will Participate: Mr. Edmundo Cabellos Llorente; Expert Folk Music, Ronda los Carrozas de Cifuentes , Cifuentes Guadalajara 19420 email: cabellosedmundo@gmail; cel: 003/461-7605058
Mr. Enrique Díaz Martínez; Folk Musician, Ronda los Carrozas de Cifuentes , Madrid Madrid email:
[email protected]; tel: 003/491-3014292; cel: 003/467-6407401
Evaluators: Ms. H. Henrietta Stockel; Historian Anthropologist 1100 Marshall Ave., Tularosa New Mexico email:
[email protected]; tel: 575/439-7922 Dr. Cipriano Vigil; Ethnomusicologist and Musician , El Rito New Mexico 87530 email:
[email protected]
Agreement: By signing and submitting this application, the authorizing official of the applicant organization, the project director, and the fiscal agent are 1) providing the required certifications regarding disbarment and suspension, and compliance with the nondiscrimination statutes as set forth in the INSTRUCTIONS OF CERTIFICATION, indicating that the applicant is eligible to receive federal funds, and 2) agreeing that any funds awarded by NMHC will be used for the purposes set forth herein, unless changes or revisions are subsequently approved in accordance with applicable policies of the New Mexico Humanities Council.
Signatures Project Director(s): UNSIGNED Fiscal Agent: UNSIGNED
Project Description
1. What is planned? Ronda Los Carrozas de Cifuentes is a group of performers based in the small mountain village of Cifuentes, located in the Castile region of Spain. Rondas is the ethnographic term for the genre of our performance. Carrozas is the name of our group. With funding from NMHC, many in-kind contributions, and local support, in December 2019 we will perform six programs in four New Mexico communities. Using music, lectures, and demonstrations, we will interpret Christmas Rondas, traditional popular music in rural areas of Spain. Rondas describes a group of people who play and sing traditional music in the streets, in this case old Christmas songs. We are part of a musical tradition poorly preserved and little known in Spain, even less abroad. In the past three decades, scholars and regional administrations have been investing in recovering the spirit and meaning of Rondas in modern rural life. This is similar to efforts in rural communities around the globe that value the sustenance their traditions offer them in the face of rampant cultural homogenization. From December 15 ? 21, 15 members of Ronda los Carrozas will travel across New Mexico, presenting our program to communities in four communities: Albuquerque, one day; Santa Fe, one day; Tularosa, two days; and Acoma Pueblo, two days. The program starts with one of the most representative songs of the Ronda, "Abre la Puerta, María", after which scholar Enrique Díaz Martínez, Ronda member, will present a lecture and slide presentation explaining the meaning of traditional Christmas Rondas: their origin and history, their value for transmitting oral tradition, their role in telling the stories of rural community lifeways, as well as the kinds of lyrics and instruments typical to the genre. The lecture, of 45 minutes, will invite conversation with the audience. After each lecture, the 15 members of the group will play and sing popular Ronda Christmas songs, among them traditional classics from Guadalajara, Spain, like "The Holy Virgin Walks to Egypt;" "The Shepherds Come Singing;" or "Open the Door, Maria." These songs will be interpreted by Edmundo Cabellos Llorente, a scholar and folk musician. Both scholars are also performers with the Ronda. Edmundo will explain the history and techniques used to create the handmade percussion instruments in the Rondas. He introduce the context of each song and its lyrics composed in coplas or romances, rhymes that express in a poetic way the daily life of peasants and shepherds. He will address, too, the different ways of interpreting them, depending on the region. The total time of our program will be 90 minutes and it is free of charge. Traditional Christmas Rondas have been part of the folklore and musical tradition of Spain for centuries. Beginning on December 8th, the festivity of the Holy Immaculate Virgin, Rondas performers roam the streets day and night through January 5th, Epiphany Eve. They also play in churches on December 24th and 25th and on New Year's Eve. Nearby towns invite the most popular groups to entertain at events or parties during Christmastime. Many traditional lyrics are sung, but spontaneous creativity emerges as new improvisations are added to the repertoire. In the past, members of the Rondas were single young men: those in charge of organizing the annual festive cycle, preparing town dances, and ensuring proper behavior at balls. There was a ritual of passage to be part of a Ronda and women were not allowed to be in them. Today women are claiming their part in the preservation of the cultural heritage that belongs to the whole community and they are progressively joining more Rondas. Youth are encouraged to go out and sing in the Rondas, and see themselves as part of something that belongs to them, a life testimony beyond a written or audiovisual record of the past. This activity is synonymous with celebration, joy and nostalgia, providing a sense of belonging that strengthens community identity. Today, as a result of migration from rural towns to large cities during the last several decades, most of the Rondas have disappeared. Our modern society is becoming detached from this way of communal participation that is strongly rooted in rural life and traditions. Christmas Rondas have a strong connection with New Mexico traditions, when Hispanic children would go door to door on Christmas morning, getting candy and fruit. Originally this included singing. Similar Christmas traditions, such as caroling, are found in British cultures, and many others.
2. When will it take place?
Our presentation will take place during Christmas time. We have confirmed with venues the dates of December 17th in Santa Fe, San Miguel Chapel, at 4pm. December 18th at 3pm and 19th at 2pm in Tularosa, Saint Francis de Paula church and outdoors in the historic district of Tularosa; December 20th and 21st in Sky City Cultural Center & Haak'u Museum in Acoma Pueblo in the morning, two programs each day; and one last program in the evening in Albuquerque, at Saint Michael's and All Angels Episcopal Church.
3. Where will it take place? In Santa Fe we present our program in San Miguel Chapel. The Chapel is hosting presentations of Las Posadas during the week as well as processions, and we will be part of their agenda. Subsequently, we travel to Tularosa to offer the program in Saint Francis de Paula Church, as well as in the plaza, an area filled with people during the holidays. This historic church serves a community with Christmas traditions linked to multicultural participants, and our program will complement the celebration of their history. In Acoma Pueblo we present the Ronda at the auditorium of Sky City Cultural Center & Haak'u Museum. The local community is strongly connected to this place and have shown their enthusiasm to receive the group as well as their commitment to publicity to bring as many people as possible. Saint Michael's and All Angels Episcopal Church in Albuquerque is well-known for cultural programs celebrating their diverse community. We will present there on the evening of Saturday, December 21st.
4. Who are the managers and planners for this project? Please provide brief qualifications of required project personnel in relation to this project, including Project Director, Fiscal Agent, Scholar(s) and Evaluator. Natalia Díaz Martínez ? Project Director and Planner. ?1986, Graduate in Philosophy, University Autonoma of Madrid. ?1996, Master of Fine Arts, USC, Los Angeles, CA. ?2006, Master of Humanities at Toulouse University, France. ?2000 to present, Documentary filmmaker, professor of film and screenwriting at international film schools. ?2012 to present, involved with Cultural Heritage preservation and Environmental Education in Spain. Suzanne Jamison, Fiscal Management and Reporting ?2005 to present, Secretary-Treasurer, Board of Directors, Lore of the Land, Inc. ?2010, Rural Community Development, MSC, Iowa State university. ?Responsible for grant financial management for Lore of the Land, this project's fiscal sponsor. Enrique Díaz Martínez, Rondas scholar and musician. ?1993, Geology Ph.D., University of Idaho. ?2009 to present, organizes heritage programs at Cifuentes. ?Musician of the "rabel" (rebec), a medieval bowed stringed instrument. ?Presents recitals at local festivals and since 2016, teaches rabel to local students. Edmundo Cabellos Llorente, Community Scholar who will give interpretation of songs and instruments. ?Specialist in Music Education. ?1974, founded Rondalla Cifontina, a musical group for string instruments formed by local youth, with whom he published several CDs. ?1994, published the songbook, "Canciones de La Alcarria", a compilation of traditional local songs. ?2010, received the Alcarria Award for his dedication to music and for documenting and recovering traditional folklore from La Alcarria. Ronda Musicians and instruments: Alejandro López Galvez, zambomba, second voice; Alejandro Martínez Sanz, triangle, second voice; Concepción Galvez Martínez, zambomba, voice; Cristina Galan Henche, castanets, other rhythm instruments, lead voice ; Edmundo Cabellos Llorente, scholar, bottle, lead voice; Enrique Díaz Martínez, scholar, drum-tambourine, voice; Esteban Soriano Martínez, small tambourine, lead voice; Francisco Gamarra Ribalda, jingle cane, tambourine, voice; Javier Martín García, accordion; Javier Ruiz Langa, drum-tambourine, voice; Manuel Galan Salmeron, zambomba, leading voice; Marisol Ribalda Nieto, bronze mortar, bones, second voice; Natalia Díaz Martínez, manager, lamb's hooves, second voice,
Santiago Galvez Muñoz, zambomba, voice; Valentín Galvez García, zambomba, leading voice). Ronda Cifuentes has participated in different regional contests of traditional Christmas carols, where it has won several awards. In each venue, we have the dedicated cooperation of local managers and hosts who will be promoting and supporting our program: ?Melvin E. Juanico, Operations Manager at Sky City Cultural Center & Haak'u Museum in Acoma Pueblo. ?Dave Blackman, Director, San Miguel Chapel, Santa Fe. ?Amanda Taylor-Montoya, Education Minister, Saint Michael's and All Angels Episcopal Church, Albuquerque. ?David Greenwald, Director, Jornada Research Institute, Tularosa. Program Evaluators. ?Dr. Cipriano Vigil, ethnomusicologist and musician, professor and consulting scholar for programs in traditional music programs in northern New Mexico. ?H. Henrietta Stockel, southern NM, expert in Chiricahua Apache culture, presenter at historical conferences, including recent NM Historical Society's conference in Albuquerque.
5. How does this project involve the humanities disciplines? The Ronda is an example of Intangible Heritage which is at high risk of disappearing. Our program of Traditional Spanish Christmas Music is rooted in humanities disciplines and interdisciplinary approaches including ethnography, language, gender and women's studies, and the transmission of oral histories. Like most intangible heritage traditions, they have their origin in rural areas and engage the practitioners and audiences in a different sense of time. The lyrics, topics, and immersive method of presentation are a doorway to understanding social evolution within the context of environment and commitment to community. Today, oral history and oral memory are going through deep transformation in our communities due to new ways of communication and technologies, a phenomenon that affects all cultures globally. This is a concern that we share with the inhabitants of New Mexico, a large state with strong rural communities which often are isolated in the preservation and practice of their traditions, due to long distances, small community populations, and out migration of youth to urban areas. Cifuentes is a town in an isolated mountainous region 100 miles east of Madrid. Similar to many rural villages around the world, it is losing its population, especially young people, which raises the question of how long orally transmitted traditions will remain, beyond archive compilation. Elders don't have anyone to pass on their know-how and traditional wisdom to, and there is a generational gap which we must strive to fill before it is too late. This is not only a threat to Spanish people, but to everyone, no matter the country or culture, and we think that presenting our program to the people of New Mexico is an opportunity to raise awareness and share similar concerns with each other. Self-esteem and identity are essential to community survival. Music and singing have always been an important element for the people of rural Spain, infusing every vital aspect of communities. People would sing a song for each activity of their daily lives: picking olives, harvesting, making wine, baking bread. When a song was heard, everyone knew what their neighbor was doing. Christmas songs share this way of transmitting the tradition through describing daily activities. Christmas Rondas in particular, illustrate our narratives, legends and stories, conveying vivid pictures of our ancestors' lives and customs. It is a performative methodology with the power to preserve cultural diversity and its creative expressions, which are vulnerable to being subsumed by globalization and social transformations. To be viable, living traditions cannot remain static. Change and evolution in the Rondas' performances have incorporated an important new element: the presence of women, who a few decades ago were not allowed to participate. For centuries, it was an unwritten rule that women would stay at home preparing the evening meal to offer the group after their singing. Today, younger couples are joining the group, encouraging their children to learn the percussion instruments and songs, while women demand to play their role as equals in revitalizing the Rondas in their communities.
6. What are the evaluation criteria for this project? The evaluation criteria take into account the engagement of the audience in learning about Spanish Christmas
Rondas and the understanding of the importance of common efforts in rural communities to preserve cultural traditions. There is no doubt that we share many similarities with the people of New Mexico, a land rich in cultural traditions that also strives to preserve and transmit its heritage in songs, music, dances, religious rituals, oral history, and so forth. Our goal is to provide New Mexican audience with a feeling of both connection and emotion that they can transfer to supporting the cultural heritage of their own communities. At the end of each Program, we will give a written survey to the audience: Was the event engaging and did they learn something new? Do they find any similarity with Christmas traditions of New Mexico? Do they think that preserving oral memory and intangible heritage is important today? Can traditions be changed or accommodated to new ways of perceiving society? Do they think that they can have a role in this process? How would they rate the quality of the lectures and performance? Two evaluators will report on our objectives stated above. Dr. Cipriano Vigil, and Ms. H. Henrietta Stockel will assess how the humanities content was addressed (cultural music traditions, oral history and gender); the size of the audience; their emotional engagement; participation in a popular traditional activity; sharing their ideas; discussion with the scholars; and interactions with group members.
7. What is the role of the humanities scholar(s) in this project? For the Ronda Los Carrozas de Cifuentes, this is an opportunity to engage with New Mexican communities we are visiting and have them connect with the same emotions that this musical tradition gives us. Enrique Díaz Martínez will give an introductory lecture prior to the performance. He will explain the concept of the Rondas, their origins, and their evolution from Medieval times to modern popular singing in the rural Castile region. This will serve as an introduction to specific types of Rondas presented by "Los Carrozas de Cifuentes." From the thirteenth century, music flourished throughout Castile. In painting and sculpture, in windows and facades of churches, figures are depicted playing musical instruments. Some, such as the lute or the rabel had an elevated spiritual rank, others like the tambourine or percussion instruments were associated with the devil, probably because of their connection with pre-Christian cultures. These percussion instruments have remained the same to this day and they are the underlying sounds of the Christmas rondas. In the sixteenth century, musicians began to play at events organized by brotherhoods or cofradías. In the next centuries, it gradually became a popular activity relying less on professional musicians and more on villagers playing and singing. Enrique will talk, also, about the link between this type of music and singing, and the Hispanic music traditions of New Mexico. Some old songs are shared, though with differing evolution of melodies and tempo. This reflects the indigenous influence in the musical heritage of New Mexico, which is not present in Spain. After the lecture, the community scholars will demonstrate the distinctive sound and performance that identifies the Ronda. Edmundo Cabellos will discuss instruments and lyrics, talking about their history and cultural impact and meaning. The specifics of the simple daily life of villagers show in the lyrics, for example the stanza of "Open the door, Maria": Open the door, Maria/ I bring you a Christmas gift/ they are baked potatoes / blow, blow, they are burning!". Or in the song "Walk and walk": Little shepherd, why are you crying? /Why do you think I cry?/ I have lost my flock / and I cannot find it anymore. Also, the Holy Family is presented as living the same life as villagers in "The Holy Virgin went washing": Saint Joseph hangs out the washing/ on the flowering rosemary / and flowers smile to him / because they feel so lucky. This "locality" applies to the popular percussion instruments, many of them handmade. The racket bone, the lamb's hooves, the tambourines are an expression of the importance of livestock and shepherd life. The zambomba, with its grave and peculiar rasping sound, enhances the melody, marking the main rhythm and generating a roar that characterizes Spanish Christmas nights. An empty bottle of anis (liquor), is one of the many percussion instruments from the domestic household where kitchen tools become instruments in all kinds of imaginative ways: pans, skillets, spoons, pottery, bottles, mortars. In the excitement of the festivity, musicians use what they have at hand, whether metal, wood, or stone, as long as it helps in creating a sound that expresses the vivid metaphor of their human and spiritual state of mind. This spontaneity, innovation, and integration of sacred and secular will be familiar to New Mexicans who have experienced their traditional Christmas folk pageants, Las Posadas and Los Pastores. With songs, music, and everyday settings, Castile's Rondas and New Mexico's folk pageants bring the vernacular into sacred space and relate these themes to village lifeways. Through communal experiences, people can see themselves as the protagonists. They recognize the human foibles that play out in their lives and, with the resolution of the performance, they experience hope for the triumph of light over darkness.
8. Who are the proposed audience/participants? Estimate of audience size? Our program targets intergenerational, multicultural audiences, families, and visitors interested in understanding cultural traditions through singing and music. The members of the Saint Michael's and All Angels Episcopal Church in Albuquerque are a multicultural community that looks forward to attending musical events in the Church. Our contact, Amanda Taylor-Montoya, will help us promote the program, which will be held in a venue that can accommodate up to 200 people. San Miguel Chapel is located in the Barrio de Analco Historic District of Santa Fe. With its many historic buildings, museums, restaurants and shops, the program will attract Santa Fe locals and holiday visitors, enthusiastic about the experiencing its Hispanic cultural heritage. The church seats 100. A traditional Ronda street procession will gather in the audience. Tularosa's St. Francis de Paula historic church seats 100. This town is strongly rooted in its Hispanic and Indigenous origins and our program is a unique opportunity for this rural community, which is far from main cultural centers, to experience an interpretive program and discuss their diverse reflections. Acoma Sky City Cultural Center will present our program at Ts'Tikinum'a Kaiya Theater, with a capacity for 60 people. We present two times for each of the two days, reaching an audience of 240 total, including people from Acoma Pueblo, surrounding villages, and visitors. Each of our venues will provide publicity through signage and media notices and the hosts will be welcoming the audiences.
9. What kind of publicity is planned to reach the audience? In October, two months prior to our arrival, the Project Director will send each venue, via email, a press kit with photos, a resume on Ronda Los Carrozas Cifuentes, an outline of the event, a brief explanation of the scholars' presentations, and a list of songs we will be interpreting. Our hosts and venues in each community have agreed to disseminate this information through their networks. The Cervantes Institute in Albuquerque will help with state-wide publicity through their media channels and holiday cultural agendas. During the presentation, we will provide a bilingual brochure with a brief introduction to the tradition of Christmas Rondas, the name of scholars and the content of our program, and a list of the songs that will be played. Additionally, the brochure will include the lyrics of the main songs, both in Spanish and English, so that the audience can join in singing the Rondas.
10. Of what value is this project to the audience? This Project is a unique opportunity to introduce a tradition not known in New Mexico and the US. Many elements of the Rondas are shared by New Mexicans, like the Spanish vocabulary and the handmade percussion instruments so similar to the Native ones. Rondas provoke a feeling of belonging to the same community, whether it is done in the streets of a Spanish town or in New Mexico. The audience will receive the printed bilingual lyrics, which will encourage their participation by joining in the singing and keeping the lyrics for later use. The basic principle of a Ronda is to involve the whole community in its joy, emotions, and feelings of belonging to the same "family." Although in the last centuries this traditional music has evolved independently in New Mexico and Spain, the participatory element will contribute to consolidate and increase the cultural heritage of the local communities of New Mexico, not only by the nexus of similarities with Hispanic culture, but by living the experience together. Rondas are a popular expression of elements such as union and solidarity, that reinforce the identity of the community. The Christmas Ronda transmits the elements in a way that is universal. We share the same concern with the people of New Mexico, a land rich in many cultural identities, that also strives to preserve and transmit its intangible heritage: in songs, music, dances, religious rituals, language, history, and community solidarity.
11. Now that you have answered the above questions, please condense the project description into three sentences suitable for publicity. Be sure to include funding support credits for NMHC and NEH in the three sentence description.
With joy and spontaneity, Ronda Los Carrozas Cifuentes, brings a celebration of traditional Christmas music from the Castile region in Spain to New Mexico audiences. With the sounds of historic instruments and the songs' emotional lyrics, the Spanish and NM experiences connect in a narrative space to recognize the practice of intangible heritage in the social collectives of community where heritage lives. These bilingual interpretive programs are made possible in part by generous grant funding from NMCH and NEH.
New Mexico Humanities Council Budget Summary & Supporting Explanations I. Services & Supplies Direct Grant
Sponsor's Matching Cash & In-Kind Donations
Third Party Cash
Project Income
Total
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00
Direct Grant
Sponsor's Matching Cash & In-Kind Donations
Third Party Cash
Project Income
Total
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
400.00
0.00
0.00
400.00
0.00 0.00
0.00 400.00
0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00
0.00 400.00
Telephone Postage Rentals Other Subtotal Basis for Services & Supplies
II. Publicity
Ads Flyers/Posters Brochure Other Subtotal Basis for Publicity
We will design and print our own brochures, which will include interpretive text and photos. Brochures will be disseminated before and during the programs in New Mexico.
III. Travel Direct Grant
Sponsor's Matching Cash & In-Kind Donations
Third Party Cash
Project Income
Total
254.54
0.00
0.00
0.00
254.54
0.00
14455.00
0.00
0.00
14455.00
0.00
5110.00
980.00
0.00
6090.00
1105.00 1359.54
1105.00 20670.00
0.00 980.00
0.00 0.00
2210.00 23009.54
Mileage(limited to $.445 per mile of NMHC funds) Airfare Per Diem(per person daily limit: food $35; lodging - $70) Other Subtotal Basis for Travel
Commercial travel is with a European carrier, Madrid ABQ Madrid. Mileage is calculated as follows: Albuquerque to Santa Fe: 63 miles Santa Fe to Tularosa: 204 miles Tularosa to Pueblo de Acoma: 238 miles Acoma to Albuquerque: 67 miles at $.445/mile Per Diem: Meals for 15 people, 35$/day, during 6 days, December 15 to 21, excluding December 16, when we do not present a program. Lodging includes 6 double rooms plus one single room, for 15 people, for 6 nights. The program begins on Tuesday December 17. The nights of December 18 and 19 are donated by Hosts in Tularosa. "Other" refers to car rental: Two vans will accommodate 15 members of Ronda, allowing space for luggage and instruments, for a period of 7 days, from the day of our arrival to ABQ airport, December 15 in the evening, to day of our departure from ABQ Airport, December 22 in the morning.
IV. Honoraria
Scholars(Please explain if over $350 per scholar, per event) Other Participants
Direct Grant
Sponsor's Matching Cash & In-Kind Donations
Third Party Cash
Project Income
Total
3500.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
3500.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1250.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1250.00
200.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
200.00
0.00 4950.00
0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00
0.00 4950.00
Project Director Evaluator Other Subtotal Basis for Honoraria
The two Scholars (2), perceive 350$ per day, regardless of number of events in the same day, during 5 days: December 17 to December 21. Project director Honoraria is calculated on the basis of 250$ per 5 days, December 17 to 21, and includes organizing and coordinating with venues, evaluators and other contacts through the whole program tour. Two evaluators receive $100 each for one day on-site with the group. One evaluator will attend performances in northern NM and the other in southern NM.
GRAND TOTAL I, II, III, IV Direct Grant
Sponsor's Matching Cash & In-Kind
Third Party Cash
Project Income
Total
Participant (This serves as a brief professional resume and letter of commitment to project.)
Ms. Natalia Díaz Martínez Title: Film Director and Cultural Manager, Independent Address: Paseo San Roque, 2 Cifuentes Guadalajara 19420 Spain
Role: Project Director
Commitment Confirmed: YES
Email:
[email protected] Office Phone: Phone: Cel Phone: 346/494-45673 Fax:
Participant (This serves as a brief professional resume and letter of commitment to project.)
Mr. Edmundo Cabellos Llorente Title: Expert Folk Music, Ronda los Carrozas de Cifuentes Address: Cifuentes Guadalajara 19420 Spain
Role: Humanities Scholar
Commitment Confirmed: YES
Email: cabellosedmundo@gmail Office Phone: Phone: Cel Phone: 003/461-7605058 Fax:
Participant (This serves as a brief professional resume and letter of commitment to project.)
Mr. Enrique Díaz Martínez Title: Folk Musician, Ronda los Carrozas de Cifuentes Address: Madrid Madrid Spain
Role: Humanities Scholar
Commitment Confirmed: YES
Email:
[email protected] Office Phone: Phone: 003/491-3014292 Cel Phone: 003/467-6407401 Fax:
Participant (This serves as a brief professional resume and letter of commitment to project.)
Ms. H. Henrietta Stockel Title: Historian Anthropologist Address: 1100 Marshall Ave. Tularosa New Mexico
Role: Evaluator
Commitment Confirmed: YES
Email:
[email protected] Office Phone: Phone: 575/439-7922 Cel Phone: Fax:
Participant (This serves as a brief professional resume and letter of commitment to project.)
Dr. Cipriano Vigil Title: Ethnomusicologist and Musician Address: El Rito New Mexico 87530
Role: Evaluator
Commitment Confirmed: YES
Email:
[email protected] Office Phone: Phone: Cel Phone: Fax:
Supporting Documents If you are reading this on a computer, you may click the web addresses of the documents to pull them up on your computer. You may also enter or copy the web addresses manually into any browser. Supporting Document #1 https://nmhum.org/grants_files/545/Venueslettersofinterest.pdf Description: Letters of interest from main venues were we present the Ronda Los Carrozas' program: Tularosa, Santa Fe San Miguel Chapel, Pueblo de Acoma Cultural Center and Albuquerque All Angels Episcopalian church Attached to grant on 17 May 2019, 3:17pm MT
Supporting Document #2 https://nmhum.org/grants_files/545/Evaluatorsconfirmation.pdf Description: Confirmation letter from Evaluators Cipriano Vigil and Henrietta Stockel Attached to grant on 17 May 2019, 3:18pm MT
Supporting Document #3 https://nmhum.org/grants_files/545/RondaLosCarrozasengagement.pdf Description: Engagement letter of Members of the Ronda los Carrozas de Cifuentes, support from Cifuentes Municipality, plus photo and link to documentary about Ronda Los Carrozas. Attached to grant on 17 May 2019, 3:28pm MT
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Presenting traditional music group from Spain - Ronda Los Carrozas Melvin Juanico To: "
[email protected]" Cc: Traci Martinez
Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 9:12 PM
Good a ernoon Natalia,
It’s great to hear from you. My apologies for the late reply. Yes, I remember your visit with us last year. We are always happy to hear that people have enjoyed their visit with us here at Acoma Pueblo and the Sky City Cultural Center & Haak’u Museum.
We definitely appreciate the offer to have the Ronda Los Carrozas tradi onal music group from Spain perform for us here in December, 2019. This would be a wonderful treat during the Christmas Holiday Season. I’m sure the music group is very talented and we can’t wait to hear the beau ful performances. I would like to suggest we set up some performance dance of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December 20th, 21st, and 22nd, 2019, during the day me. We could schedule performances star ng at 11am to 2pm each day, in our performance theatre. We would adver se this months in advance to draw a en on and bring in as many people to see the tradi onal Christmas Ronda performances.
Let’s discuss more in detail in making this happen. Give us your thoughts and feedback.
Respec ully,
Melvin E. Juanico Opera ons Manager Sky City Cultural Center & Haak’u Museum PO Box 310 Acoma, NM 87034 505‐552‐7869 (Office) 505‐552‐7883 (Fax)
[email protected] (e‐mail) www.acomaskycity.org
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PS on NMHC deathline: Acoma visit - Program Details on Christmas Ronda from Cifuentes Melvin Juanico To: Natalia Diaz
Wed, May 1, 2019 at 6:04 PM
Good morning Natalia, My apologies for the late reply. Yes, I would support the visit dates to be Friday and Saturday, December 20th & 21st, 2019. Not sure if you all are considering Sunday as well? Also, we can extend the hours of performance from 10:00am to 3:00pm. Let me work on details for 2 nights stay at the Sky City Casino Hotel. I hope this information is helpful and if there any other questions, please let me know. Melvin E. Juanico Operations Manager Sky City Cultural Center & Haak’u Museum PO Box 310 Acoma, NM 87034 505-552-7869 (Office) 505-552-7883 (Fax)
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Confirmation of Los Carrozas engagement at San Miguel Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on December 17, 4:30-6pm Julianne Burton-Carvajal To: Natalia Diaz Cc: David Blackman
Wed, May 15, 2019 at 7:19 PM
Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 11:20am To Whom It May Concern: This communication confirms the engagement of Los Carrozas, a traditional Christmas-season chorus from Cifuentes in the Guadalajara region of Spain, to make a background presentation and demonstration at San Miguel Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Monday, December 16th or Tuesday, December 17th (our preferred date), from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. This National Historic Register venue is located in downtown Santa Fe, in El Barrio de Analco, a National Historic Register District south of the Santa Fe River. Dating from the early 1600s, the Chapel was constructed for and by Native American allies of the Spanish, who originated in the area around Mexico City. (Analco means “the other side of the river” in the Nahautl language of the Valley of Mexico.) From the early 1700s, the area and its chapel served Native Americans from various more proximate regions as well as afromexicanos and others of mixed race, who provided skilled and unskilled labor for the vecinos (Spanish-identified settlers) of La Villa de Santa Fe, officially founded on the north side of the river in 1610 by order of the Viceroy of New Spain, today’s Mexico. Throughout the year, the Chapel hosts numerous public events including lectures, concerts, traditional Christmasseason posadas, and preservation awards ceremonies. The nature of the Los Carrozas offering fits in nicely with our public education mandate and mission. Word of the Los Carrozas event will be publicized in the calendars of two weekly culture & entertainment publications: Pasatiempo and The Reporter. Pews can accommodate an audience of 100 people. In the temporary absence of San Miguel Chapel Director David Blackman, whose particular expertise lies in the preservation of this historic gem, I have composed this message as part of my focus on education and outreach. (We lack staff and equipment to prepare this message in the requested format. If Dave’s or my signature is required, kindly fax a copy of this message to the Santa Fe FedEx: 505 982-6790, to my attention, and I will return-fax, or email, a signed copy as soon as feasible.) In appreciation of this special opportunity, please accept the cordial regards of Dra Julianne Burton-Carvajal Consulting Historian, Curator and Programmer and David Blackman Director, San Miguel Chapel P.D. Attached is the updated informational handout distributed to some 100,000 annual visitors as they enter San Miguel Chapel.
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Natalia Diaz Martinez, Member Ronda Los Carrozas de Cifuentes Paseo San Roque, 2 – 1 izquierda 19420 Cifuentes (Guadalajara), Spain Re: Grant Proposal for Ronda los Carrozas de Cifuentes – Traditional Spanish Christmas Music Dear Ms Diaz Martinez, It is with great excitement that Jornada Research Institute expresses our interest in supporting the proposed Ronda los Carrozas de Cifuentes program in Tularosa. The Spanish/Hispanic heritage of Tularosa and New Mexico as a whole and the preservation of its cultural associations remains a vital component to Tularosa’s future and a reflection of its past. The programs you propose will enlighten our community with examples of Spain’s heritage while providing a broader exposure to the humanities of a related, yet distant land. We hope you are successful in securing the grant funding to make this an exceptional experience for some of New Mexico’s small, rural communities, providing an opportunity to learn about and enjoy this traditional Spanish presentation. Given your proposed schedule, we are in favor of doing two programs – one indoors in the evening and another outdoors in the streets of the Historic District of Tularosa. Please allow us to prepare the venues for you. We look forward to this educational experience and a chance to witness new expressions of celebration in our community through song, music, and shared experiences of your area of Spain. We anticipate that the Ronda programs and performances will be well attended, with broad promotion through Jornada Research Institute. In cooperation with the Tularosa Arts and History Council, we will strive to bring the scheduled programs to the attention of families, youth groups/schools, members of the Tularosa Senior Community Center, those who enjoy cultural artistry through music and song, the approaching seasonal celebration, and experience for the Tularosa community and surrounding areas. P.O. Box 684, Tularosa, New Mexico 88352 – 575-430-8854 – http://jornadaresearchinstitute.com
I will serve as Jornada Research Institute’s primary contact for your program and providing you with support during your proposed visit to Tularosa (December 18 and 19, 2019). Prior to your visit to New Mexico, we will organize a social media campaign to bring awareness of this “oncein-a-life-time” event in Tularosa, through our increasing network of contacts with individuals and organizations. Jornada Research Institute is committed to providing programs that engage, educate and enlighten the public. Submitted with great interest,
David H. Greenwald, President Jornada Research Institute P.O. Box 684 Tularosa, New Mexico 88352 575-430-8854
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PO Box 334, TuIarosa, NM 88352 P「eserving Tradition, CuIture, and History Through Music and Art
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May ll, 2019 Natalia Diaz Martinez, Membe「
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19420 Cifuentes (GuadaIajara), Spain
Re: Grant Proposal for Ronda Ios Carrozas de Cifuentes -Traditional Spanish Christmas Music Dea「 Ms. Diaz Martinez,
The Tularosa Arts and History Counc旧s pIeased to author this Ietter of interest in support ofthe proposed Ronda /os C。rrOZOS de Cげvlentes PrOgram in Tularosa, New Mexico. As you can see in our Mission
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demonstrate our support, Our Board has voted to o什er a commitment to promote the eventto our
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Research lnstitute, We also commit to providing as much assistance as possibie with finding overnight accommodations and an appropriate venue.
Wewish you success in securingthegrantfundingto make thistrip happen foryourgroup. We hopethe experiencew川be as grand forthem aswearesure itw帥befor us!
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[email protected] To: Natalia Diaz
Wed, May 15, 2019 at 5:55 PM
Natalia, Aquí te envio una carta declarando que sí aceptó ayudar come evaluador de su programa o presentación en Nuevo México. Incluso te mando los datos de como ponerse en contacto conmigo. This letter is to verify that I am willing to be an evaluator of your program or presentation here in New Mexico. Included is my contact information. Cipriano Vigil P.O.Box 747 El Rito, NM 87530 Cipriano Vigil
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RONDA LOS CARROZAS DE CIFUENTES Here is a link to a video in internet and several images which show the members of the Ronda Los Carrozas who will go to New Mexico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hhGFB68EhQ (see particularly after minute 11:25)
Singing at the entrance of Cifuentes’ church on Christmas Day
Singing along the streets in Cifuentes
