Education

The pojagi cloth, made by the students of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

A Journey in Color
This pojagi cloth was made by Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) students, using traditional techniques of dying cloth in vats of indigo and hand-sewing it in particular patterns. The Silk Road Ensemble developed a musical work based on the worldwide migration of indigo, a Silk Road dye, as artists in residence at RISD.

The Road to Beijing DVD & Teacher’s Guide

The Road to Beijing, a 20-minute video produced by the Silk Road Project, was filmed during the Silk Road Ensemble’s October 2007 concert tour in China. The free video and teacher’s guide were released in May 2008 with a coordinating curriculum, developed by the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), that addresses China’s quickly developing capital city.

Versions of the curriculum for middle- and high-school students are available from SPICE.