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The Tairona Heritage Trust: January 2020 Newsletter
Happy New Year to all our donors and supporters! The start of a new decade seems the ideal time to update you on our current activities. In October Kogi Mama Shibulata and translator Sylvestre flew to Sweden for the first presentation of projects to the new Unesco...
The Tairona Heritage Trust: September 2019 Newsletter
Dear friends and donors, Thank you for your continued support of the Tairona Heritage Trust. We’ve had a very active summer and here is an update on our activities. Firstly, following a brief breakfast meeting with the OGT Cabildo Santos Sauna when he was in London in...
The Tairona Heritage Trust: April 2019 Newsletter
There are no glaciers left in the Sierra. This morning the Chairman of the Tairona Heritage Trust, Jean-Paul Mertinez, the Kogi-speaking anthropologist Falk Parra-Witte and I met for a long breakfast in London with the Cabildo of the Organisación Gonawindua Tayrona,...
The Tairona Heritage Trust: March 2019 Newsletter
It was decided that a new remit was needed for the Trust. As a small charity we should no longer be engaged in land purchase; other, deeper pockets have been very active. We decided to work alongside others with the same objective. Jean-Paul Mertinez, our Chairman and...
The Telegraph article about Alan’s original encounter with the Kogi
The Telegraph recently published an article about Alan’s original encounter with the Kogi with details of when they watched film for the first time. In 1989 Alan Ereira was sent by the BBC to Colombia’s Sierra Nevada with a small film crew to research an...
Alan’s Colombia Diary
Santa Marta 16 November 6.30am My last morning in Colombia. I arrived in Santa Marta yesterday and was brought to the Irotama as a guest in a new tower, with a vast apartment overlooking the sea and the infinity pool. The terrace has a hammock and a jacuzzi. Such is...
Aluna Screenings in Colombia
Alan is currently on a 12 day trip to Colombia for a series of special screenings to raise awareness and support the Kogi following the recent tragedies in the Sierra. The screenings were organised by a superb team of volunteers in the UK and Colombia and a special...
Aluna to be shown by the City of Santa Marta
We have just received news that the City of Santa Marta has requested a commemorative public showing of Aluna in the city’s main plaza on 9th November, which would have been the 22nd birthday of Jacinto Sauna. Jacinto, the son of the Kogis’ political leader Jose...
Tragedia Golpea la Población Indigena de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Jacinto Sauna fue abaleado en la ciudad de Santa Marta. Hasta el momento nadie sabe quién o porqué lo hizo pero el dolor crece en la comunidad Kogui de la que hizo parte este joven estudiante de ingeniería ambiental. El joven Jacinto Sauna, de 21 años fue abaleado en...