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- Neo-Shamanism: Contemporary Shamanism with Ancient Roots.
- Sono figlio della cultura Sciamanica. (Italia)
- Green Energy in the Brazillian Rainforest
- Tasting The Vine Of The Soul
- Wave Magazine Interview (Brighton, UK)
- Honorable Sexuality: Vision Magazine Interview With Wilbert Alix
- Facilitating Spiritual Transformations: TranceDance Pioneer Wilbert Alix
- Old Practice Values Ancestral Memories For Wisdom
- Effective Communication: The Experience Of Being Understood
- Trance Dance: An Interview with Wilbert Alix
- Mardi Gras Black Indian Culture
- Wilbert Alix Biography (Hungarian)
- Potresti definire l'Onorabile Sessualità?
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- Faubourg Tremé
- Congo Square
Faubourg Tremé
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans is a riveting tale of hope, heartbreak and resiliency set in New Orleans' most fascinating neighborhood. Shot largely before Hurricane Katrina and edited afterwards, the film is both celebratory and elegiac in tone.
Faubourg Tremé is arguably the oldest black neighborhood in America, the birthplace of the Civil Rights movement in the South, and the home of jazz. While the Tremé district was damaged when the levees broke, this is not another Katrina documentary. Every frame is a tribute to what African American communities have contributed even under the most hostile of conditions. It is a film of such effortless intimacy, subtle glances and authentic details that only two native New Orleanians could have made it.
Faubourg Tremé was home to the largest community of free black people in the Deep South during slavery and a hotbed of political ferment. Here black and white, free and enslaved, rich and poor cohabitated, collaborated, and clashed to create America's first Civil Rights movement and a unique American culture.
Faubourg Tremé & Congo Square
The "heart" of Tremé was Congo Square - originally known as "Place de Nègres" - the area where slaves gathered on Sundays to dance. This tradition flourished until the United States took control, and officials grew more anxious about unsupervised gatherings of slaves in the years before the Civil War. The square was also an important place of business for slaves, enabling some to purchase their freedom from sales of crafts and goods there. For much of the rest of the 19th century, the square was an open-air market. "Creoles of Color" brass and symphonic bands gave concerts, providing the foundation for a more improvisational style that would come to be known as "Jazz". At the end of the 19th century, the city officially renamed the square "Beauregard Square" after Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard, but the neighborhood people seldom used that name. Late in the 20th century, the city restored the traditional name of "Congo Square.