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Nebraska Humanities Council speaker to appear at Barr Middle Schools
Oscar Rios Pohirieth will present a program on Andean Folk Music and Cultures of South America at Barr Middle School on Friday, May 21.
Pohirieth's program enables the audience to experience the Andean cultures of Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, and Chile through an acoustic journey and storytelling.
Pohirieth will give his presentation at 9:35 a.m. May 21 at Barr Middle School at 602 W. Stolley Park Road.
The founder and director of the award-winning Lincoln-based Andean musical group Kusi Taki (Quechua for Enchanting Music) will play traditional South American instruments including the Quena (flute), Zamponas (panpipes), Charango (ten-stringed small guitar), and Bombo (goatskin drum) and sing in Spanish and Quechua to bring alive the cultures and history of the indigenous peoples of the Andes.
Pohirieth's presentation is part of Travel Around the World Day at Barr Middle School. After Pohirieth's presentation, sixth-grade students will interact with local people from the community who have immigrated or lived in another country. Students will be exploring the question, "How does where you live influence how you live?" Community volunteers will tell about Sudan, Germany, Colombia, Philippines, China, Japan, Mexico, Belize, Nepal, and Bahrain.
The Nebraska Humanities Council and Barr Middle School are making the presentation possible as part of the Nebraska Humanities Council Speakers Bureau.
The Nebraska Humanities Council receives support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Nebraska Legislature, the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, and private donations. The program is one of approximately 300 programs offered through the Nebraska Humanities Council Speakers Bureau.
More than 165 speakers are available, making it the largest humanities speakers bureau in the nation.
For information detailing the available speakers and guidelines for booking them, please access the Nebraska Humanity Council's Web site at
www.nebraskahumanities.org or contact Nebraska Humanities Council at 215 Centennial Mall South, Suite 330, Lincoln, NE 68508.
For more information, contact: Denise Pedersen, sixth-grade social studies teacher, Barr Middle School, (308) 385-5875, dpederse@gips.org
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