2004 World Music Workshop in Bali

Application and Information

 

Please print with your web browser, fill out, and mail with your check to the address below.

 

1. Name __________________________________________________________

2. Mailing Address __________________________________________________________

 

__________________________________________________________

 

3. Telephone, fax, and e-mail __________________________________________________________

 

4. Professional interests __________________________________________________________

 

5. Special interests in Indonesia __________________________________________________________

 

6. Health problems, if any __________________________________________________________

 

Your Japan Airlines flight departs from Los Angeles (or alternate city at a different time) on July 19. You will have a free overnight and breakfast at the Nikko Airport Hotel in Tokyo or Osaka.. Following the big buffet breakfast in the morning you will have to pay a departure tax of approximately $25 when you depart for Bali.

 

Please enclose a deposit of $300 made out to "Center for World Music" and send to Dr. Robert E. Brown, Center for World Music, 4417 Shade Road, La Mesa, CA 91941, as early as possible to ensure a seat on the plane. High season flights fill up very quickly.  The number of participants who can be housed at Flower Mountain is limited, with selection made on a first come, first serve basis.

 

Latecomers will have to pay for accomodation in Ubud and daily transport. Payment is fully refundable up to May 1, 2004, if plans have to change. Otherwise, the balance is due on that date. .

 

Bali workshop for three weeks--international travel, hotel

rooms  in Japan both ways, accommodation, 3 meals a day

as needed, tuition, two excursions, all events at the Payangan

Festival, June 30-July 6                                                                   $2,495.00

 

Optional week-long tour in Central Java—round-trip air from

Bali, all local travel, visits to monuments and other sites, grand

evening in the Mangkunegaran Palace with royal dinner (if

sufficiently enrolled), gamelan and court dance performances,

a visit to Dalang Oemartopo (faculty) in Wonogiri village,

with an optional extended stay in Java or Bali after the tour ends        $445.00

 

Total enclosed _____________on ____________ (date)                   

 

Balance due by May1_____________

 

The World Music Workshop (Bali only) ends on Sunday, August 8, with departure on Monday night, August 9, and arrival in Los Angeles around noon on Tuesday, August 10. Those who participate in the optional tour to Central Java return to Bali and depart on Sunday, August 15, with arrival in Los Angles on August 16. Participants who wish to extend their stay in Indonesia may request departure on any day (except Thursday, Friday or Saturday) with 60 days of original arrival under present regulations. (There is some possibility that visa regulations may change in Indonesia, in which case you will be notified before departure from the United States. Please indicate first and second choices if you wish to return after August 15. It is important to book your return as soon as possible because return flights normally fill up early and are often difficult, if not impossible, to change once you are in Indonesia.

 

Return date: First choice ______________Second choice____________

 

PRELIMINARY INFORMATION: Cultural tours and workshops in Indonesia led by Dr. Robert E. Brown have been offered by the Center for World Music since 1971. Most participants enjoy the broad scope and relaxed approach, and there have been a number of repeat customers. The Indonesian people are famous for friendliness and hospitality and you will quickly feel at home there.

 

This year's World Music Workshop is a development from many previous workshops, which began in 1971 with the first organized on-site study program in Indonesia for Javanese and Balinese performing arts that was especially set up for foreigners. The success of many of those first participants who have used the experience to become leaders in their fields has inspired the continuation of workshops and cultural tours for over more than thirty years.

 

The 2004 World Music Workshop is designed primarily for college professors and school teachers, graduate or undergraduate college students, members of gamelan clubs, dancers, puppeteers and percussionists in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia who wish to have an intense training with leading teachers. Musicians will be able to bring back materials (notation, cassettes, even instruments) to share with their performance groups or their students. The program is also designed to be flexible enough to accommodate those who do not yet have this particular kind of background so that they will be able to immerse themselves in a rich cultural experience through performance study. We anticipate offering some introductory experiences with other varieties of world music, as well: African mbira, drumming, and dance; South Indian singing and rhythm through drum syllables; early European music, Middle Eastern drumming and ney (flute); classical dance of India, and perhaps Turkish mehter band.

This year the program opens with a four-day orientation, during which you will become acquained with the island of Bali and its culture, try out some of the classes to be offered and meet the teachers. The orientation offers organized tours and other activities but will also allow time for individual exploration, relaxing, attending some performances and trying out the excellent restaurants of nearby Ubud village.

 

Participants in the workshop will organize and present performances of world music and dance during the two final days of the Payangan Festival, immediately following the three weeks of workshop sessions. During the entire final week they will be able to attend nightly Festival concerts presenting rare kinds of gamelan and dance in Payangan village.  In 2002 and 2003, performances by workshop participants were a great success and warmly received by the locals.   This year the weekend sessions will end with poco-poco (pronounced pocho-pocho) line dancing, for which lessons are available to everyone as a part of the workshop.  This dance craze is now popular all over Indonesia and provides a good opportunity for enjoyable interaction with the villagers of Payangan.

 

Before you can board the flight in Los Angeles or elsewhere you are required to have a passport valid for at least an additional six months. Unless there is a change, sixty-day tourist visas are automatically issued to citizens of most North American or European countries at the port of entry in Indonesia. No shots are required, but you may wish to check with your doctor for his/her recommendations. Malaria has been eradicated from the areas we visit. A detailed information sheet offering advice about Indonesian etiquette, climate, clothing, packing, and health can be found elsewhere on the website (Advice to Passengers).

 

Each participant is responsible for personal accident, health and travel insurance and by signing below acknowledges the responsibility to provide it. Your signature absolves the Center for World Music and its Directors of any future responsibility for illness or accident during the tour period.

 

Signed _______________________________Dated ________________