Bali Workshop, January 1-23, 2013

Six Credits, $4,800 all expenses included. 
Financial aid eligible.

Bali Travel Schedule

As far away as you can get from Europe and North America, the small tropical island of Bali lives in a different time and in a different way.  With a 210-day calendar of daily activities centered on spiritual balance, community harmony, and daily practices of dance, drama, music, painting - practices westerners view as "art" -- the Balinese also rely on international tourism to supply income essential to life in a global money economy.  For the Balinese, the central question is whether they can maintain the sacred core of their way of life and still succeed by selling the Bali experience to outsiders that regard everything as for purchase or for sale. 

Whether they can pull it off is not quite as exotic and remote a question as it appears: the rest of the world faces global crisis and wonders if there is no alternative.  What is happening now in Bali offers some important clues to us at Superior and people around the world.

For three weeks during winter break, a group of 10 students will enter Balinese society as the guests of a royal family and experience Bali as tourists cannot.  We'll form a Banjar, the basic organization in Bali and learn the basic rhythm of village life.  We'll learn about ways of being Balinese by keeping Balinese time and learning by doing the daily rituals, learning from villagers and teachers.  We will work with the leading dancers, musicians, shadow puppet masters, healers  and priests and travel to temple festivals in search of the trance, taksu and sacred acts that the Balinese think separate them from the tourists. 

We will develop relationships with ordinary Balinese trying to make their way between two worlds.  We will get into the cooperative and sustainable agriculture with the people who do it and by planting rice ourselves.

Since we can't become Balinese, at least not in 3 weeks, there will be free time for each person to take in the natural beauty, to hike, swim, take in the sun as well as "research" the tourist club scene, shopping and such.

Three meals a day at the best restaurants in Bali are included in your tuition.  And, at then end of the course, we will decompress in a small beach village with discussion, sun, snorkeling and the like.

For more information, contact Marshall Johnson

University of Wisconsin Bali Schedule:

Wednesday 4-Jan 17:00/23:00 Arrive Dps, Direct to Ubud (includes two trips)

Pasah                                        Dinner at hotel

Thursday 5-Jan    

• 8:30 Orientation SNACK 
• 11:00 Treasure Hunt in village 
• 1:00  Lunch at hotel and debrief treasure hunt 
• 4:00 Shopping for Pakaian Adat 
• 6:00 Dinner at Rucina and Gung's home  

Friday 6-Jan

• 8:00 Language Lesson  # 1 
• 10:30 Slide lecture:  A FINE BALANCE: INTRO TO BALINESE CULTURE 
• 12:00 Depart for lunch Tepi Sawah  
• 1:30 Drop off in village, find your way back 
• 6:30 Dinner at Nomad's in Ubud/Debrief  

Saturday 7-Jan

• 8:00 To project with Rotoracts  Pasah
• 12:00 Lunch with Rotoracts at Ibu Jero's Kedewatan 
• 4:00 Lecture:  Religion and trance (Garrett Kam) Assignment: SPACE 
• 6:00 Dinner at Hotel 
• 8:00 To temple festival in Batuan  

Sunday 8-Jan

PURNAMA

• 8:00 To Batur lake, volcano and temple; Gunung Kawi temple 
• 12:30 Lunch Kampung Café 
• 1:30 Visit to Mask Maker and stonecarver 5:00DEATH RITES (Rucina) 
• 6:30 Dinner Laka Leke  

Monday 9-Jan Free Day  

Tuesday 10-Jan

• 8:00 Leave for Rangki:  scavenger  hunt for carvings Pasah
• 11:00 Gamelan lesson with Pak Dibia 
• 1:00 Lunch (seafood in a box) 
• 2:00 Journaling and reflection 
• 3:30 Sacred Singing 
• 4:30 Dance lec demo and lesson with Ibu Arini 
• 6:30 Dinner 
• 7:30 Chartered performance: pendet, legong, barong, topeng (includes dinner for all performers)  

Wednesday 11-Jan

• 7:00 Village walk 
• 10:00 To Tampaksiring for water blessing ritual (bring change of temple clothes) 
• 12:00 Lunch at CLEAR 
• 4:00 Lecture:  BALINESE TIME 
• 5:30 Dinner at hotel 
• 7:00 Tentative outing to trance dance ritual (TENTATIVE)  

Thursday 12-Jan

• 8:00 Language Lesson #2 
• 10:00 Assignment:   time 
• 12:30 LUNCH ON OWN 
• 4:00 Kecak workshop
•  6:00 Dinner at Gung Ti's 
• 7:30 Kecak performance  

Friday 13-Jan Free Time

Pasah

• 12:30 Lunch Warung Pulau kelapa (meet at Ubud Wantilan) 
• 2:30 Massages at Sri Sedona 
• 4:30 To dalang's home for lecture and workshop on Wayang 
• 6:00 Dinner at dalang's home (nasi bungkus) 
• 7:00 Performance (in English) OPENING AT TONY RAKA'S  

Saturday 14-Jan

• 8:30 Depart for Royal Cremation 
• 12:00 Picnic lunch (Juice Ja sandwiches) 
• 4:00 History of Bali: Garrett Kam 
• 6:00 Dinner Café Wayan/debriefing time and space  

Sunday 15-Jan

• 12:30 Lunch at Sawah Indah 
• 4:00 Lecture:  Role of Media and Facebook in Bali/Indonesia 
• 5:30 Lecture:  Gender Issues in Bali 
• 7:00 Dinner at Hotel: Debrief Gender and Tourism  

Monday 16-Jan

• 8:00 East Bali outing:  Gamelan factory, Hall of Justice, Klungkung market, Pis Bolong factory, lunch in Sidemen; Tenganan  village Pasah
• 6:30 Dinner BLACK BEACH  

Tuesday 17-Jan

• 9:00 Visit to Environmental foundation 
• 10:30 Visit to BAWA (Dog Rescue Foundation) 
• 12:00 Lunch at Sari Organic Free time 
• 6:30 Dinner at Kafe 
• 8:00 Lecture: Life Cycle Rites  

Wednesday 18-Jan

• 8:00 Depart for University in Denpasar 
• 9:00 Meet with Students: Student Life 
• 10:00 Debate on Tourism/Development  
• 12:00 Lunch together at Denpasar café 
• 1:00 Visit to Badung Market: Buy something unusual 
• 6:00 Dinner in Jimbaran  

Thursday 19-Jan

• 8:30 Lecture:  Modern Bali Pasah
• 10:30 Lecture: Tourism in Bali 
• 12:30 LUNCH:  hotel 
• 2:00 Visit to Subak with Alit Artha Wiguna 
• 6:30 DINNER: THREE MONKEYS  

Friday 20-Jan

• FREE MORNING 
• Lunch on own 
• 3:00 Language class 
• 6:30 Dinner: Pizza 
• 8:30 pura taman sai kapal br uma CALONARANG TRANCE RITUAL  

Saturday 21-Jan 

• FREE MORNING 
• 12:00 Lunch/ Hotel 
• 1:00 To Amed Dinner  

Sunday 22-Jan

• 8:30 Snorkeling Assignment: Oral history 
• 12:30 Lunch 
• 7:00 Dinner on beach Boat rental, inc. snorkeling gear rental  

Monday 23-Jan

• Time for assignment/beach time 
• 12:30 Lunch 
• 3:00 Oral History presentations and Final Evaluation 
• 19:00 Dinner at hotel JOGED and GENJEK  
• 21:00 Leave for airport  

Tuesday 24-Jan 2:00 Flight Leaves