Videos
Visual Storytelling captivates the Eyes.
Oral Tradition awakens the Ears.
Imagine what Primal Power is unleashed when these are united.
The Living Legacy Project envisions a multi-faceted approach to support the transmission of ancestral oral traditions. This plan of action takes many forms, one of which is through Audio-Video Documentation.
Cultural Crossroads Asia is producing a series of Living Legacy Videos featuring Master Musicians, Storytellers, and Artisans as they narrate their tales and perform their instruments, relate their significance, and demonstrate how to fabricate them. Appearing on our Cultural Crossroads Asia YouTube Channel, it is hoped that these videos will inform and inspire the ethnic peoples of Southeast Asia, young and old, and the diaspora worldwide, as well as an international audience thirsting to learn more about traditional practices and beliefs.
To dovetail with the Akha Oral Tradition School, CCA has devoted its first series to spotlighting an array of Akha Wind Instruments made of bamboo, reed, gourd, beeswax, horn, and leaf: Baulau, Chudu, Chulu, Darbo, Hulepeu, Maeli, Maeli Maelo, Pipa, and Yaja. Each video, spoken in the Akha language with English captions and running from twenty to thirty minutes, is performed by the Master Akha Musicians who grace our school.
Our team of filmmakers, editors, and translators (in Akha and English) are in the final stage of completing these nine videos. Check back often – we look forward to sharing them with you soon.
