FRIENDS OF BOLIVIA ARE PROUD TO PRESENT AN ILLUSTRATED TALK ON THE BIRDS OF BOLIVIA FOLLOWED BY THE DOCUMENTARY “THE CALL OF THE WATER”
Doors 1.30 PM
Talk: 2:00PM
Film 3:30 PM
Tickets
Full: £10
Concessions: £8
(This event is a charity fundraiser organised by Friends of Bolivia)
THE BIRDS OF BOLIVIA
An illustrated talk by Stephen Lowe
For a land-locked country, Bolivia is remarkably rich in bird species. Stephen Lowe’s talk “Birdy Bolivia” will outline Bolivia’s biological importance in the context of the Continent as a whole; and seek to explain why the birds endemic to Bolivia are found there and nowhere else, in the context of the country’s geography and its geological past.
He will also touch on some wider topics, including the concept of a species, the state of ornithology and nature conservation in the country; and how to go about watching birds in Bolivia.
The talk will be followed by the acclaimed documentary:
UMATURKA, The Call of The Water
By Giovanna Miralles & Dr. Peter Wilkin
In the Bolivian Andes members of the Aymara community of Quillacas perform an annual ritual to summon rain clouds at the end of the dry season that reflects the ecological co-dependency of the Andes and the Amazonian region.
The protagonists in Umaturka relate a sometimes fraught and contentious narrative. The result is an unsentimental portrait of the reality of an ancient tradition in a modern world.
Stephen Lowe is a retired finance professional. He has been a keen birdwatcher since youth, has travelled extensively and to date seen over 7300 bird species on all Continents. He has visited Latin America over ten times, though still cannot speak much more Spanish than to order a beer or get to the airport. He is however quite good at scientific names in Latin. Countries visited - some for many weeks - include Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica and Chile.
Giovanna Miralles
Direction, Script and Co-production.
Artist, writer and independent filmmaker, studied film at the International School of Film of San Antonio de los Baños, EICTV, Cuba. She has worked in diverse areas of filmmaking.
Dr. Peter Wilkin,
Production, Cinematography and Camera
Peter holds a PhD in Environment Anthropology and a Master in Ethnobotany from the University of Kent in Canterbury. He has specialized in Latin America and specifically in the Andes.
Rating: 18
Length: 40mins
Friends of Bolivia is a UK based charity dedicated to improving the living conditions of Bolivia’s most vulnerable people by providing financial assistance to charities and NGOs working in the country.
Since our foundation, over 30 years ago, we have sent over £400,000 to a handful of adopted projects which support Bolivia’s most vulnerable citizens: children, women and the elderly.
Our adopted projects are:
Help for two old people’s homes, one in Beni and one in Oruro
A canteen for poor children in Cochabamba
Day care for poor children in Escoma, La Paz
Vocational training for disadvantaged teens in Santa Cruz
Residential and medical care for children with special needs in Tarija
Funds for the communities affected by the Amazon fires in Bolivia
Friends of Bolivia would like to thank you all for your support without which we would not be able to help so many people in Bolivia.