Virginia Arnette, Dustin Ramsey, Yan Su and Kylie Bearse

Our goal is to create a video highlighting Mongolian culture with an emphasis on its music. Through our search for contacts and information on Mongolia, we stumbled upon a school in Denver that teaches Mongolian culture. We have met with local Mongolian musician Aruinbold and filmed him playing the traditional Mourin Kur Horsehead and teaching local students. We have also met with Peace Corps Volunteers who spent time in Mongolia. Yan, our expertise film editor, has also traveled to Mongolia and brought back beautiful footage of rural Mongolia. Ken Iwamisa, a Professor here at the University, teaches a digital photography class that travels to Mongolia and we have the privalige of using some of his photographs. As a group we have shot comparison scenery shots here in the Denver/Boulder area as well as filmed our interviews. Dustin and Virgina transcribed a traditional Mongolian song for the piano and french horn which will provide for some musical enrichment within our video.

We have met some incredible people and can't wait for the world to learn all about Mongolia, the school here in Denver and Aruinbold and his beautifully unique music.

-Virgina, Dustin, Yan & Kylie