“For Hombro a Hombro it is quite a challenge to promote a culture of preparation for earthquakes, and this is a great opportunity to reach a broad and vulnerable population. An earthquake can occur at any time, when schoolchildren are in their school or at home, and they must be prepared to know what to do before, during and following a major earthquake”said Juan Manuel Arribas, Executive Director of Hombro a Hombro.
“For Hombro a Hombro it is quite a challenge to promote a culture of preparation for earthquakes, and this is a great opportunity to reach a broad and vulnerable population. An earthquake can happen at any time, when schoolchildren are in their educational center or at home, and they must be prepared to know what to do before, during and following a large earthquake”, said Juan Manuel Arribas, Executive Director of Shoulder to Shoulder.
NJCU Afroloop is located at New Jersey City University New Yorkarrives in Peru to make a great musical tour through various universities in Lima y Arequipa. In Lima, there will be a collaborative meeting with Peruvian students, recruited from educational institutions associated with the NJCU, to form the All Star Peruvian Big Band, a large 20-member orchestra that will perform on Saturday, June 18 at 6 pm, in concert. in the open air, in the Parque Jesús Vásquez in San Miguel, within the framework of the San Miguel Festival of the Arts.
Last March, Tamara CunnighamNJCU Vice President for Global Initiatives, on behalf of the NJCU President, Sue Hendersonmade a first visit to Lima and Arequipa, in order to initiate agreements between the NJCU and educational institutions with the vision of a global and multicultural education for the formation of citizens capable of leading the world with wisdom, empathy, humanitarian spirit and humility. .
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“We are very interested in developing bilateral relations with Peruvian institutions. Our commitment to Peru is to generate a great access point to develop the artistic careers of Peruvians with a global vision without limits”President Sue Henderson has stated in her message.
Today NJCU’s allies include the Pontifical Catholic University, the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, the National University of Music, the San Ignacio de Loyola University, the Tempo School, and the Orson Wells Institute; and the San Pablo Catholic University, the National University of San Agustín and the Nuestra Señora de La Merced and Sagrados Corazones de Arequipa schools.
On his new visit, Tamara Cunninghman will continue promoting the implementation of international scholarships and programs with the aim of presenting as musical ambassadors, the university’s jazz group, NJCU Afroloop.
The band’s repertoire It includes Afro-Peruvian jazz rhythms such as landó, festejo, panalivio and valse. Its powerful sound is characterized by the textures created by the double bass, the vibraphone and the piano; for the power of the cajon and drums, and a front line with electric violin, trumpet and saxophone. The band’s vocalist and pianist sings in Spanish and English, with a style full of humanity and countercultural tendencies.
Members that make up the NJCU Afroloop
- Gabriel Joy, Director of Jazz Studies at the City University of New Jersey; first Peruvian to hold a position of this type in the United States, pioneer in the Afro-Peruvian jazz music movement. Gabriel is the Artistic Director of the band, he plays trumpet and flugelhorn.
- Ariacne Trujillo, piano and voice, is a member of the NJCU College of Music; world-renowned Cuban pianist, arranger and composer.
- Freddy “Huevito” cub, drawer, box & jaw. Maestro Huevito is a member of the NJCU College of Music and is recognized as the best living cajon player in the world.
- Braid Shiver, soprano and tenor saxophones; he is also a student at NJCU and one of the most sought following young saxophonists in Newark, New Jersey.
- Alonso Acosta, vibraphone; renowned Peruvian vibraphonist, pianist, arranger and composer, member of the National University of Music in Lima. Currently, she is pursuing her Masters at NJCU.
- Xavi Garcia, violin, Spanish musician; He just completed his Master’s degree at the NJCU. A virtuoso performer, he works with a diverse group of multi-style ensembles around the world.
- Daniella Laysecadouble bass, Peruvian student at NJCU.
- Jasmine de Leonfrom New Jersey, drummer for the group and a student at NJCU.
Peruvian experience in Afroloop
Daniella Layseca, Peruvian spokeswoman for Afroloop Jazz Band of NJCUcame to the United States in 2019 to pursue a jazz career. “I chose the NJCU jazz department because it is inclusive, modern, and of a high level, which has a Peruvian director, a pioneer in Afro-Peruvian jazz, Gabriel Alegría”says the Peruvian double bass player.
“The Afro-Peruvian band at the university caught my attention even before I applied. The fact that my music was played abroad and the band led by a Peruvian director filled me with pride. I auditioned, got in, and in my freshman year we toured Florida, which made me learn more than any class I’d ever taken. Afroloop became my favorite band in college.”says the Peruvian double bass player.
Layseca mentions that her Afroloop experience has helped him find his own musical voice. “It is very enriching to be able to apply my knowledge of jazz to the Afro-Peruvian rhythms that are part of my identity.”, dice.
Currently, NJCU members Afroloop they come from different parts of the world such as Cuba, the United States, Spain, and Peru, but the diversity of the band does not end there, since each one has a different musical background. This makes the band have a unique sound, accepting and celebrating different sounds and musical expressions to form a single sonority.
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The coast of Peru was affected by an oil spill. For this fact, the Government decreed 90 days of environmental emergency following the fact that affects the areas of the National Reserve System of Islands, Islets and Puntas Guaneras in 512 hectares and the Ancón Reserved Zone in 1,758 hectares.
The Ministry of the Environment of Peru declared this Saturday an environmental emergency due to 90 days the geographical area of the Peruvian coast affected by an oil spill, while more information is known regarding the circumstances of the discharge into the sea when a refinery operated by Repsol was supplied.
The Environment Minister, Rubén Ramírez, heads the Environmental Crisis Committee and approved this declaration to guarantee the sustainable management of the territories affected for a week and where recovery and remediation work is being carried out on the spill.
The Agency for Environmental Assessment and Control (OEFA) verified the presence of hydrocarbons in the sea and on the beach strip in several districts of Lima and the neighboring province of Callao.
In the same way, the National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State (Sernanp) verified that the oil moved with the current in a northerly direction, affecting the areas of the National Reserve System of Guaneras Islands, Islets and Puntas in 512 hectares and the Ancón Reserved Zone in 1,758 hectares.
“The crude oil spill constitutes a sudden event with a significant impact on the coastal marine ecosystem of high biological diversity and a high risk to public health,” stated the resolution declaring the Environmental Emergency.
The oil spill, which up to now has affected an extension of regarding 3 square kilometers of beach and sea, occurred on the 15th when an oil tanker unloaded its crude oil at one of the multi-buoy terminals of the La Pampilla Refinery, which Repsol operates in Ventanilla, in the municipality of Callao, the port region near the capital Lima.
Currently, the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating those responsible for the alleged crime of environmental pollution and the Mare Doricum ship, which unloaded the oil, is immobilized on the high seas with a bail letter of 39 million dollars.
Repsol indicated on Friday that it has removed more than 1,580 cubic meters of compromised sand and that it has more than 840 people trained for this cleaning task, which it does not calculate to finish until the end of February, which was also confirmed by the Ministry of the Environment.
For its part, the El Comercio portal interviewed a group of sailors who were participating in a championship the day the spill occurred in the vicinity of the site, but who abandoned the competition due to lack of wind and waves.
Sailor Alec Hughes recalled that he heard a very loud, shrill noise coming from the ship when a group of ten sailboats sailing towards Callao passed by.
“It was a metallic sound, almost like a pop, and two minutes later there was another. The sea was flat, there were no waves, there were no winds, no particular conditions,” Hugues told El Comercio.
Repsol had attributed the abnormal waves to the volcanic eruption on the remote island of Tonga, which according to them generated the oil spill off the coast of Lima and Callao.
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