Cultural festival in Wittenberg: Add youth choirs from Mexico!

Cultural festival in Wittenberg: Add youth choirs from Mexico!

A very special musical highlight was recently celebrated in Wittenberg: the Grossenhain youth choir had the Mexican Coro Juvenil Domus Artis. During this concert tour, the “Songs for A Better World” project was presented, which brought the history and culture of Mexico to life in an impressive way. With around 70 guests in the Katharinensaal, the event was a complete success. In advertising for the encounter, the choirs also appeared on the marketplace.

The visitors were able to look forward to a colorful mix of music and information. The evening was not only a musical journey, but also a look at the cultural diversity of Mexico, shows the Stadtkirchengemeinde Wittenberg . In addition to songs by a better world, stories about the Aztecs, Maya and Toltek as well as European influences were also presented. There were particularly exciting contributions to Mexican holidays, dealing with death and joie de vivre of people.

culinary and exchange

A highlight of the event was undoubtedly the break in which Mexican delicacies were served. Here the guests had the opportunity to talk and to exchange ideas about the different cultures and customs. The evening was rounded off with a Brazilian solo from Wittenberg and a joint dance of the German and Mexican singers.

This exchange and the encounter of cultures are also the focus of the journey of the Grossenhain Youth Choir to Mexico. For the seventh time, the young singers appeared in community with the Coro Juvenil Domus Artis from Chetumal. The journey led the choir members through the Mexican states of Yucatan and Quintana Roo for 16 days and was funded by the German Choral Youth. After a long travel path that stretched over six hours of bus, twelve hours of flight and four more hours of bus, the participants in the colonial old town center of Merida were accommodated in a hotel with pool, as reported on the website of the high school Grossenhain .

cultural experiences and exciting concerts

The first appearances were not only well attended, but also very touching emotionally. It all started with 450 listeners and a Spanish-speaking moderator. As a highlight, you could even watch and marvel at flamingos in the lagoon. In addition, important sites such as the Maya ruins of Chichen Itza were visited, while the singers refreshed themselves in a cenote. The encounters were crowned by several concerts in different locations, including in Izamal, where the concert was secretly streamed and the audience was noticed. Such encounters not only promote cultural exchange, but also the participants learned how important the family coexistence is, because singing often happened with the circle of families of the partner choir.

An important topic of exchange is also everyday school life in Mexico. The compulsory schooling begins at the age of 6 and the school system is divided into three levels: Primaria, Secundaria and Preparatoria. The compulsory subjects cover a wide range, from mathematics and English to psychology and logic. The lunch break is also a very family matter, since lunch is often taken at home with the host families, as Experiment

The entire program was not only a comprehensive musical journey, but also a valuable experience that everyone involved. A reunion of the choirs is already being planned for June in Germany. And so it shows once again how music connects people worldwide and bridges between cultures.