This Saturday, October 31, the workshop “Building Lakitas” (Construcción de lakitas) will take place at the San Miguel de Azapa Archaeological Museum. The activity is part of the JAYMA Seed Project “Trenzar el viento” (“Braiding the Wind”), led by Andrea Chamorro, principal investigator at CMUS.

The workshop will teach participants how to make lakitas, instruments that are part of a living musical tradition in the Andean region. According to the organizers, it is “an opportunity to approach the instrument through its materiality, its sound, and the cultural memory that accompanies it.”

The “Trenzar el viento” project seeks to highlight the value of the knowledge associated with these aerophones, connecting the practices of lakita communities.

Lakita Building Workshop
Saturday, October 31, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
San Miguel de Azapa Archaeological Museum