HARPY EAGLE MUSIC FOUNDATION

Future Generations Graduate School held its first Residential in India 7th February - 9th March 2010. Visits included Arunachal Pradesh where students interacted with members of the Apa Tani tribe and volunteers of Future Generations/Arunachal. In between classes and site visits students had the opportunity to take in the cultures of diverse India!

Peerless restaurant entertainers, Members of FutureGenerations Arunachal (Mone Gurung, Pasha Aiya, Roto, Yumlum Yarick, Pinkoo, Budhi Tado (hunter now conservationist)

The activities of the foundation centre on the promotion and preservation of indigenous and ethnic music and culture. Specifically the foundation

• Provide music training to students, teachers and special needs children in the instruments that are more common to each ethnic group;
• Raise awareness of the decline of the indigenous and ethnic music and cultures of Guyana;
• Support the implementation of community projects such as HIV/AIDS awareness, malaria and conservation through music;
• Advocates for music to be integrated into school curriculum;
• Preserving indigenous culture through recording and preserving documents and music;
• Conducting research on indigenous and ethnic music of Guyana