Scents and Flavors Niche

• Scents and Flavors Niche
  The flavor of Totonacapan, the nature wisdom and the seasoning of the smoke Women. All in the same dish.
• Ceremonies
  In different park spaces, every day the hosts coordinate rituals and they share mysteries to give strengths to the communitarian spirit and to celebrate life
• Ritual Ceremony of the Flying Men
  In the Plaza del Volador music of drum and flute is Heard, its Mothers Nature heart beat and the song of the birds of the forest: the communication with the gods. Four dancers approach in a row to the flying pole to bring back to life the ancient bow: the Ceremonia Ritual de Voladores.
  
  With the sound of forgiveness, to earth, they call the Wind´s God, they ask for his protection to start the flight. Once the blessing is received, they play the sound of the four cardinal points, between the earth and the skies, to ask permission to the four elements also. They rise, slowly, dressed in withe and red clothes. They take their places in the top of the flying pole, in a height of more than 20 meters. On his feet, in the center of the dancers, above the apple, the fifth dancer, the caporal, he communicates with the sun: is the sound of invocation.
  To the rhythm of the flight´s sound, the four bird-men throw themselves to the edge and they give three turns flying, this three multiplied by the number of dancers result on the fifty-two years of the cosmic cycle that is renewed. The flight brings back the earths balance.
  During the five days of the festival, thousands of dazzled people assist to this communion event between the Mother Earth and the Father Sun and at the same time, banner of the Totonaca´s culture. Space for expression, gathering, knowledgement and interchange of values and concrete conservation experiences, management and preservation of the Mexicans’ practitioners: children, women and men from Veracruz, Puebla and San Luis Potosi that fly the Totonacapan´s sky.
• Environmental Groups Music
  Is the fresh sounds fan, accompanies and delights thru all the Takilhsukut Park. The rhythms and exponents are as diverse as the public of the Cumbre Tajin.
• Workshops
  Opportunity for the guests to know the Totonacan traditions, t olive the creation, to be overwhelmed by the material diversity, learn to dance and to get closer to the musical instruments. All this will be possible on the more than fifty workshops of the Identity Festival: crafts, creative, traditional, of rhythm and ecologics.
• The Purification Niche
  Is the healing space: therapies, healing songs, holy instruments, dances, offerings and conversations with the Totonacan Grandmothers. Philosophy, religion and spiritual roots gathering.
  In the Totonacan Hall, the House of Healing of CAI´s Art shares the healing and therapeutic practices and technics that they have interchange with wise men of all the world and they have enrich with their own ancient knowledgement
• Magnificent Encounters

  Traditional dances encounter

  The history and his turns travel from north to south, form the coast to the sierra, to encounter in the Plaza del Fuego.

  Amaze peak

  Scenic manifestations emerge, amaze and disappear: deer´s dance, ruramuris paintings, cristians and mores, mayan fariseis, street theater men…

  Instalationist encounter

  The Program of organic installations developed in the Takilhsukut Park its one more opportunity to strength the cultural links, secure the institutional relations, spread the indigene art and to define a unique exposition by his dimensions, participants and observers. Parallel to this, as each year, in the Earths Niche it will take place the creators dialog. In this item, the artist will talk about their creative process and the origins and messages of their pieces.

  Artesans encounter

  The DIF calls and meets the Veracuzanean artisans: three hundred creator of all disciplines.

  Healing songs encounter

  Nahua women form Ixcacuatitla, Veracruz, huicholes sings, tibetanean sings, Oaxaca and Tabasco drum men, Yaquis and totonacan flute men, singing workshops.

  Idigenean Acrobatic Lab

  Tradition in movement. Zapotec, tenek, totonacan and nahuas circus men,
• Square of Arts
  Dance in all her historical and contemporanean expressions. From the communitarian to the great production.
• Totonaca Village
  During the Cumbre Tajín festival, the Centro de las Artes Indígenas shows their achievements and cultural dialogs throw the Aldea Totonaca activities. They have workshops, seminaries, sensorium, tastings, games and products from:
  
  - Kantiyán: House of the wise Grandparents, guiders of life. Is the heart of Cumbre Tajín. There ceremonies, welcomes and protocol acts are developed
  - House of the Flowered Word: poetry, oral tradition and dialog with the world
  - House of the Healing Art: mental, spiritual, human, environmental and cosmic healing
  - House of the Cottons World: mythology, production, exposition and offering
  - House of Traditional Totonacan Pottering: the prehispanic wisdom and the contemporanean tools of hands and earth
  - Traditional Dance School: sound and movements of memory
  - School of Flying Children: the change of generation substitution that confirms the future of the flight
  - House of the Music: rhythm that receives and gives knowledgement and sounds
  - House of the Theater: the communitarian life on scene
  - Communication and Diffusion Media: audiovisuals, radio phonic transmissions
  - House of the Traditional Totonacan Kitchen: the gastronomic patrimony
  - House of the Paints: the color on textiles, ceramic, wood, rock, zacuals, corporal painting, murals, medicines, dance, etcetera
  - House of the communitarian Tourism: respectful and sustainable hosts
• Music niche
  Totonacapan and the world strand rhythms, voices and instruments in the musical scenario of the Cumbre Tajin. Every day the moon is received with the singing and joy form the voice and talent of great Veracuz, Mexico and around the world artists. Genders are abundantand also the musical roots in the headquarters of the planets music: Cumbre Tajin.
  
  An example on the previous is the long history of unique moments in the Music Niche: from the Egypsian fusions (Mexico, Siria, Espain), Singing Children from Viena with the Totonacan Children choir, Piet Jan Blaw with Jorge Reyes (Netherlns-Mexico), Karsh Kale with Plastilina Mosh (India-USA-Mexico); all the way to the catalog of what is agitated and expressed in the five continents: Deep Forest (France), Luzmila Carpio (Bolivia), Milton Nascimento (Brasil), Willie Colon (Puerto Rico), susheela Ramaan (India-England), Ma Faiza (India), Paul Livingstone (USA), Diego Torres (Argentina), Tigres del Norte (Mexico), Yungchen Lhamo (Tibet), Sayag Jazz Macine (France), White Cockatoo (Australia), Radio Tarifa (Spain), Suzanne Teng & Mystic Journey (USA), Aterciopelados (Colombia), Ayub Ogada (Kenia), Alan Stivell (England), Estopa (Spain), Momo (Moroco), Fito Páez (Argentina), Rubén Blades (Panama), Namaste (Spain), Miguel Bosé (Spain), Calle 13 (Puerto Rico), Intocable (USA), among others.
• Veracruzanean University Niche
  The maximum house of state studies receives the Encuentro de Cine y Video Indígena, editorial presentations, theatric plays, expositions and conferences.
• Village of Peace
  You dance, you speak and you have gatherings in pro of the concordance spirit: ecology, music, food, ceremonies, drums, puppets, hug therapy and circular dances encourage this space and invite to reflection.
• Childish Niche
  Puppets, clown and circus show. The especial guests are children for the Totonacapan communities.
• dif's Niche
  Program catalog, games and formative workshops: social, environmental and educative topics, thru workshops, games and shows.
• Totonacapan Creators
  Exemplify the art of day to day, the material richness and the diversity of symbols. They talk and they teach.
• Green Areas
  For life greening and to gain serenity: meditations, yoga, laugh therapies, decrees groups, intention and offering circles, dufis turns dance…
• Earth's niche
  Cumbre Tajin and the Smithsonian Institute present a panoramic of the huichol art and a reunion of Mixtec, Totonacan and Canadian organic instalationists.

Takilhsukut Park

Here, the tangible and intangible heritage is part of the experience of life. Cumbre Tajín disseminates it, communicates it to the world, adds value to it and strengthens it with a dialogue that links the best of western and indigenous creation: ceremonies, games, awareness, concerts, acts, conferences, artistic forums, workshops, adventure sports, alternative therapies, animation, dance and creation are some of the axes that articulate the vast offer that Cumbre Tajín has for every kind of audience.