Course program 2011

 

Northern Norwegian herbs
By the Liengård on Nordnes you get to learn about herbs that is grown in Northern Norway. It will be organized transport from the festival area to Nordnes and back. The course is hold twice.
Bring along food and clothes/shoes so you can be out door! Be welcome!

 

Time: Thursday July 21. and Friday July 22.

Duration: 11.00 – 16.00

Meeting place: Info booth at about 10:45

Amount of participants: 12

 

Dona Fransisca, also known as Dona Chaga, is from the Chawandawa tribe in Amazon/Brazil, close to the border of Peru. Dona Chaga is a medicine woman and midwife, a knowledge that has been inherited from her parents. In this seminar she wants to give the participants an introduction in the general use of herbs and plants.

 

In the course's second day Dona Chaga wants to focus on herbal use in addition to woman's healt.

During both days of the course the participants are served Unha de Gato (cat-claw-tea).
Two seminars are held over two days.

 

Time: Thursday July 21. and Friday July 22.

Duration: 11.00 – 14.00

Meeting place: info booth

Amount of participants: 20

Language: Portuguese with Norwegian translator

 

Festival sami
Sami is a language we are bound to take good care of, if not it is gonna die. Now you have got the opportunity to learn some sami – for festival use. This course is for beginners or those who wants to freshen up some old knowledge. Sami Language Center is hosting the seminar on the Riddu field, and is being held twice. Already now you will learn the first word, which is 'welcome' = Bures boahtin!

 

Time: Thursday July 21. and Friday July 22.
Duration: 12.00 – 14.00
Meeting place: Lavvu on festival area

Amount of participants: 20

 

Festival Russian
Course in festival Russian that will give you an opportunity to learn some Russian words and expressions that can be used in meetings with guests from Russia during the festival. No prerequisites are needed, suits for everyone in every age. Do you want to challenge your language horizon a little? Sign up then! We are promising you two hours with a lot of fun. The course is held twice.

 

Time: Thursday July 21. and Friday July 22.
Duration: 14.00 – 16.00

Meeting place: Lavvu on festival area

Amount of participants: 10

 

Joiking course- Unfortunately, this course is fully booked
Joik is the old Sami folk music., the eldest form of song in Europe and one of Scandinavia's unique culture treasures. One of the Joik's characteristics are the traditional voice tone some of the participants will learn during the course. This is gonna be a practical seminar with focus on practicing joiking details and joiking melodies. It will be put in small chunks about the joik and practicing of some Sami words.

 

Berit Alette Mienna, from Jergul in Karasjok, is an artist and educator. She works with concerts and joiking-workshops. Recently her solo CD “Árbán” with hymns and joiks released. Her experience over many years with using the joik as an artistic expression and work with children, youth and adults are being appreciated with a 3 year long scholarship from the sami parliament.

 

This course is for all who is interested in learning more about joik and for those who want to feel closer to their roots through the joik. You don't need any prerequisites about joik to participate. Joik is for all voices.

One course over two days.

 

Time: Thursday July 21. and Friday July 22.

Duration: 11.00 – 15.00

Meeting place: Info booth

Amount of participants: 16

 

Learn to embroider with tin wire. This is a tradition which belongs to the south-sami and the lule-sami. It is common to have these embroidery on the gakti, handbags and jewelery. In this course Karin Olsen from Olderdalen in Kåfjord learn you how to sew with tin wire. She lives of sewing gakti's and other sami crafts in Kåfjord. This course is over two days. Welcome to a course in tin wire embroidery.

 

Time: Tuesday July 19. and Thursday July 21.

Duration: 11.00 – 16.00

Meeting place: info booth

Amount of participants: 10

Seminar fee: 100 NOK for deductible.

 

Fádnu is a wind instrument that was made out of fresh, green leaf stalks from the plant Angelica archangelica, for more than 100 years back in time. The instrument was called fádnu which comes from the Sami word for the name of the leafs on the plant. Sound wise the tones can be compared to a Oboe or a clarinet. The playing technique can easily be carried out to produce overtones when switching between certain tones. In that way it can be made effects that sounds like the vocal overtone variations that one often hears in joik.

 

The course is in two parts, one theoretical part and one practical part. It will be braided inn theory about the formerly Saami and other older pieces of music played on historical instruments that will lead us back through human story.

In the practical part the participants will be learning about earlier use of the plant Angelica archangelica, maybe the most important herb for the arctic people in earlier times. We will be going out to pick it and learn how to make a simple version of the music instrument fádnu.

 

There is no need for prerequisites to participate in this course. Have you as well played any wind instruments earlier you will find it easier to make some sound of the flute. In the course everyone will get an introduction to blowing technique.

 

Øistein Hanssen have for many years held course about “older folk music instruments”, “sami music instruments” “the symbols of the sami Noida drums” on festivals, music conservatories, colleges and universities. On the Riddu Riddu festival 2011 he will be holding a course of making the sami music instrument fádnu for the second time. Welcome to fádnu course!
One course over two days.

 

Time: Friday july 22., 13:30 – 16:30 and Saturday July 23. 11:00 – 15:00

Meeting place: info booth

Amount of participants: 10

 

In this course you will see and learn the various processes and techniques by the merging gakti belt to the Lyngen gakti. Behind a complete gakti belt there is at least 40 hours of work. Therefore you will be able to make a mini-belt, a bookmark or a key-ring. Anyhow the course is giving you a good introduction in the merging setup, merging technique and installation of the belt.

Course holder, Cathrine Breivik, will be learning you the same technique and methods only smaller. The course is for everyone in all ages and you need no prerequisites to participate. One course over two days. Well met!

 

Time: Thursday July 21. and Friday July 22.

Duration: 11.00 – 15.00

Meeting place: Info booth

Amount of participants: 10

 

At this course you will be learning how to tan fish leather. Fish leather is considered as a residual product today, but it's not long ago since people in Scandinavia was well known with both fish leather shoes and fish leather handbags! Fish leather has a beautiful pattern, and today it is more and more who has opened their eyes to this beautiful raw material who was highly appreciated.

 

This course will teach you how to use the traditional and environmentally friendly method to tan leather on, fat tanning. This gives a smooth and strong leather. You will learn how you easily can take care of fish leather, so that you can then do it on the kitchen bench at home after you have made today's fish dinner. The technique can also be used on other types of leather such as kid leather or sheep leather, so if you learn the basic principles for this technique you can continue on your own.

 

All you need of materials and tools will be available on the course. You don't need any prerequisites, this is a introduction course which is open for everyone! Fish leather that you tan you are free to bring back home, and on the course there will also be time to have a look at simple products you can sew out of one fish leather, like a small purse or a bracelet. The course is over two days, with a pause-day (thursday) in between to make sure the results are the best.

Did you get curious? Sign up and be well met for the course!

 

Time: Wednesday July 20. 11:00 – 15:00 and Friday July 22. 11:00 – 16:00

Meeting place: Info booth

Amount of participants: 12

Course fee: 100 NOK for deductible.

 

Booza – Burjatian coockery course- Unfortunately, this course is fully booked
 

New this year is that we give the audience an opportunity to learn how to make the Mongolian dish booza. This well tasted dish is consisting of minced meat of beef and pork rolled in to the dough, and then steamed in the pan. Booza is an ancient dish that is common for the mongolian nations and is made for fest and celebrations. The food is prepared and eaten in a traditional tent called Yurta. The Yurta is the mongolian nomad's answers to the sami's lavvu. It is removable like the Lavvu, but the framing and the design is very special.

 

It is in other words time for knowledge lucrative and culinary times in side the little intimate Yurta. Here the bjuratic food tradition is shared with you if you are coming!

 

No prerequisites are needed, but attendance is needed since it is an absolute max amount of people in the Yurta. The seminar is for everyone, wether you are a avowed food enthusiast or just average interested. Common will be that you still are curious to learn more about our neighbors in the east and their culture.

 

Hurry up and sign up, it is limited spaces. Two courses. Welcome!

 

Time: Thursday July 21. and Friday July 22.

Duration: 16.00 – 18.00

Meeting place: Yurta

Amount of participants: 7

 

Two Nenets artist are coming to Norway to visit a sami artist who is a part of the project “Indigenous artist crosses borders in the Arctic.” Sergej Ledkov, artists in the ice sculpture, wood, mammoth and birch, and Nikolay Vylka, artists in the wood sculpture, bone gutted, illustration of books, paintings and graphics are coming to the festival. They both have an education in crafts from the town Salekhard, Jamal- Nenets autonomous area, with specializing in traditional crafts.

 

The Nenets course will teach you about indigenous people's art in the everyday life – with instruction in the use of Nenets knife and other instruments to create traditional art. In the course you will learn to make easy souvenirs of reindeer horns, mammoth and moose bone. This is a unique opportunity to experience how Nenets, who from the childhood on the tundra learns to create with simple tools sleighs, lavvu's, equipment for transport reindeer and not least ornaments that is used on belts, clothing and children's toys. The most exciting thing might be that you have the opportunity to learn how to make a shaman drum. The drum is a model, but is has one of the most important features: - sound!

 

All the equipment will be available at the course. Two course are being held. Be welcome to an exciting course!

 

Time: Thursday July 21. and Friday July 22.

Duration: 11.00 – 16.00

Meeting place: Info booth

Amount of participants: 20

Language: Russian with translators to Norwegian and English.

 

The Sami artist, Hans Ragnar Mathisen, will be giving a presentation of indigenous people's way to make a map from earlier times. Other half of the course is focusing on his own maps with sami place names, from handmade maps from 1974 to digital and semi-digital works. He will be presenting the two most recent maps which is under construction. The course will be held twice.

 

Time: Thursday July 21. and Friday July 22

Duration: 11.00 – 12.00

Meeting place: Info booth

Amount of participants: 15

 

A cultural and exciting travel in the history of the Lyngshest. Some might know the breed by the name Nordlandshest. It has been a controversial name debate about the horse's name in the earlier years, but the culturally contingent is now history.
Course holder Elling Vatne, author of the book “Lyngshesten (Nordlandshesten) – History and culture in the north” and active horse breeder of the Lyngshest through the years, will give you an introduction to the history around the breed Lyngshest, as he choses to call the breed. You will gain knowledge of the horse as a type and working horse. History has been involved in shaping and keeping the breed, and here the former remote village Manndalen has been very central. Not least, there will be an emphasis on how the coastal Saami and the Finnish kvens in North-Troms has help to influence the development of the horse breed. -Did you get curious and want to know more? Sign up!
The course does not require any prerequisites and is suited for all ages, wether you are horse interested or interested in history. The seminar will teach you a bit of the history around Manndalen. The course is held twice.

 

Time: Wednesday July 20. and Thursday July 21. Duration: 11.00 – 12.00

Meeting place: Info booth

Amount of participants: 20

 

Taimyr people from northern Siberia is this years northern people and the you will have the opportunity to learn about their amazing culture, among other things, course in traditional bead embroidery and crafts seminars with reindeer and mammoth bones.

 

Crafts with reindeer and mammoth bones
Time: Thursday July 21.

Duration: 12.00 – 15.00

Meeting place: Info booth

 

Bead embroidery
Time: Friday July 22

Duration: 12.00 – 15.00

Meeting place: Info booth

 

The sami movie director Nils Gaup, known from movies like Pathfinder (1987), The Kautokeino Rebellion and not least Violet Road's new and fantastic music video, is coming to the festival to teach youth between 13 and 25 years about filmmaking. The Film course is a film workshop to immerse yourself in a professional film work. No prerequisites are needed, only the motivation to learn how to make a movie. The goal is to make a film that is going to have premiere under the indigenous film program on Riddu Riddu, Saturday July 23.

 

Time: Wednesday July 20. to Saturday July 23.

Place: TBA

Organizers film course: International Sami Film center and Riddu Riddu.