Program
One:
"A Hundred
Drums Come to "Your College or University"
This presentation consists of a 2-hour workshop
intensive. Workshop includes a half-hour demonstration of music and
instruments, 1-hour hands on interactive workshop with students/participants
and ends with a half hour drum circle. Program coordinators are strongly
encouraged to purchase 50-100 drums and give them to the first 50-100 students,
staff or instructors who attend this workshop. The drum we use in our
workshop/demonstrations is a sakara drum, a small hand held drum made in
Nigeria, West Africa. It is very inexpensive but provides the same
excitement from those who hear and play them. As a matter of fact this
drum is also easy to play so everyone can participate who has a drum. The
"Voices Of Africa"
have these drums available for
sale.
Note: We have found that this type of program on
a College/University campus enrolls tremendous response from the student
body, staff and instructors. The draw is that each participant would
receive a free drum!!! The drums would be purchased by the
University/College. This would be a fee outside of the fee for our
workshop.
Program
Two:
Lecture/Demonstration
This concept works
for campuses as well. Students would be encouraged to attend this workshop
as part of a variety of syllabi. I.E., social studies, anthropology,
philosophy, religion, art, music, education, etc. In this case, students
would be required to attend the workshop as part of their course study.
We would fine tune our presentation around the student body interest and
offer this lecture/demonstration for the duration of the class period.
Here you would solicit the support of the professors, guidance counselors.
Deans and department heads and the result would be a built in audience.
You would also be able to convince funding sources of the educational advantage
of this program and get more financial support.
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