Klarinet Archive - Posting 000076.txt from 2008/08

From: BSP6263@-----.com
Subj: [kl] grenadilla conservation: Brenda S-P in Tanzania, Mozambique, UK
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:27:57 -0400

Dear Friends,

I depart for the African Blackwood Conservation Project in Northern Tanzani=
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in exactly two weeks! Thanks to all of you who are assisting with this=20
project. Your financial assistance is making it possible for me to travel t=
o rural=20
communities to help to educate the locals about the value of the wood to=20
both them (the tree roots fertilize the soil) and us. I can really use more=
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help. You can learn more and still help in several ways. More information i=
s=20
available at _http://blackwoodconservation.org/musicproject08.html_=20
(http://blackwoodconservation.org/musicproject08.html)=20

Once I return, I hope you will be interested to hear what I have to report.=
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My lecture-performance =E2=80=9CMpingo=E2=80=99s Fruit =E2=80=93 harvesting=20=
the music tree: the =20
people, the places, the process=E2=80=9D, _http://oboesoftheworld.com/perf3m=
pingo.htm_=20
(http://oboesoftheworld.com/perf3mpingo.htm) , will be updated, and new ph=
otos=20
and video added based on my actual experiences and interviews with locals.

In addition to teaching and playing for the ABCP communities, I=E2=80=99ve=20=
arranged=20
to visit and play for the Mpingo Conservation Project in Southern Tanzania.=
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Then, in Northern Mozambique, I=E2=80=99ll visit the Pemba Mpingo sawmill f=
or 10 days.=20
That=E2=80=99s where most of the wood that our instruments are made from, h=
as been=20
harvested since 1900. I=E2=80=99m told that I will be the first musician in=
history to=20
actually fully participate in the harvest of African Blackwood.=20

From there, I=E2=80=99ll head to the Mezimbite Cultural Center where former=
ly=20
impoverished communities are beginning to thrive by creating high end jewel=
ry and=20
furniture from mpingo scraps.

For those of you who live near London, I=E2=80=99ll be giving a presentatio=
n about=20
all of this on October 21 to which you are invited. =20

Please contact me if you want to assist in any way and if you desire any=20
information about any of the above. Please especially let me know if you ar=
e=20
interested to book performances of =E2=80=9CMpingo=E2=80=99s Fruit=E2=80=9D=20=
any time in the future.=20

Very sincerely,

Brenda Schuman-Post
www.oboesoftheworld.com
bsp6263@-----.com
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