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Ethno World Historical Timeline

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Welcome to the Ethno World Historical Timeline!

This timeline serves as an archive in providing highlights of every Ethno experience, background information on Ethno, and significant events related to Ethno since its inception. The year 2020 marked the 30th anniversary of the very first Ethno which took place during the Falun Folkmusik Festival in Dalarna, Sweden in 1990.

If you have any information, images or videos you’d like to contribute to the timeline, please leave us a message on the Contact page.

image of timeline

Click the image to view the full timeline in your browser.

Instructions on how to navigate the timeline:

  1. To move through the timeline, hold down the left mouse button and drag left or right OR scroll with the mouse wheel. You can also click on the bottom timeline banner to jump to a specific point on the timeline.
  2. Each Ethno is organized by their country and year. Click the more arrow button to learn about their story.
  3. For 3D mode, click on the lower bottom left 3D icon. Hold down the left mouse button and drag up or down OR scroll with the mouse wheel. Click on individual story to learn more.
  4. Click on the lower bottom right wrench icon to:
    a) Search and filter different Ethno individually or in groups.
    b) Change the view mode, spacing, and zoom.

Documentary pilot: Capturing Footage at Ethno Gatherings

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With international travel not currently an option for our research team, we’re piloting the creation of a documentary using film footage captured by the people attending Ethno events themselves.

This instruction video is for those who have been given the task of filming the footage – the ‘videographers’ – and should help with using the kit, and understanding the types of footage we’re hoping for. It can be viewed alongside the Production Manifesto document, which you can download below the video.

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Arts and Culture Team

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Hear from the Arts and Culture team based at University of Toronto Scarborough.

The Arts and Culture team looks at how Ethno participates in the shaping of culture through music at local, regional, and global levels, and how Organizers, Artistic Leaders, and participants understand and describe the impacts of Ethno. This involves examining the place of traditional/folk musics at Ethno and the place of Ethno in traditional and folk music scenes in Europe and beyond. We’re also looking at professional musical collaborations that have grown out of Ethno.

The Arts and Culture Team is also exploring how Organizers, Artistic Leaders, and participants navigate discussions of cultural issues at Ethno camps and how they may (or may not) introduce and facilitate such discussions.

Our research involves a combination of interviews and participant-observation, including an analysis of the Ethnopia, Ethno Forever, and Ethno-World Facebook pages. We plan on sharing our research through an interactive “sound map” of Ethno camps, written reports and articles, and conference presentations.

Video introducing the Arts and Culture work package

Pedagogy and Professional Development Team

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Our aim in the pedagogy and professional development project is to document a range of understandings of Ethno pedagogy; and to describe and theorise how these understandings are translated into practice. We are specifically interested in pedagogical and professional development values, principles and practices, within the context of Ethno-World.

We are also interested in the ways in which these values, principles and practices are put into practice at local, national and global levels. Examples of the ideas we are exploring are transformational music-making; multi-faceted musicianship; and global musical citizenship: we will value your thoughts on these and other topics you highlight. In brief, we are interested in how and why Ethno pedagogy is described as ‘magic’.

Trauma-informed and consent-based practice

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Catherine Birch introduces her research around trauma-informed and consent-based practice.

With trauma-informed and consent-based practice as a theoretical lens, this inquiry aims to determine to what extent Ethno-World has considered issues of trauma, gender and consent.

For example, how are social and cultural boundaries navigated within the parameters set by each Ethno camp? In the daily group warmups, what is the opt-out for someone who is deeply uncomfortable about physical touch? What provision is there for the participant who has reasons why they cannot engage in a particular activity? How is trauma taken into account, or past trauma identified? How does that impact the planning, and facilitation of an Ethno camp?

The inquiry will focus on how good practice is currently implemented into Ethno camps, considering the social and cultural diversity of participants, enabling a safety-net for those who have experienced prior trauma, and providing the wider Ethno-World with a platform for discussion and constructive dialogue around these sensitive issues.

Ethno Organizers (SenseMaker®)

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Dr Dave Camlin and Helena Reis talk to us about the Ethno Organizers project.

In this project we are using the power of story to build up a detailed understanding of the complexities surrounding the organisation of Ethno events at a local level. We’re pioneering a ‘distributed ethnography’ approach using SenseMaker®, which involves Ethno organizers as interpreters of the significance of their own stories.

A video introducing the SenseMaker project
How-to video explaining how to use the SenseMaker app

Written instructions for completing the survey