African Drumming and African Art & Craft workshops for schools

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We provide each pupil with their own djembe drum for our workshops

Teaching Drums

Teaching Drums provide African educational workshops for schools

Teaching Drums provide African educational workshops for schools, colleges, universities and youth groups in the UK. The overall aims of our drumming workshops are to have fun and to experience the thrill of making music together in a group. The drum circle is a very powerful method of building children’s confidence and self-esteem. Children love banging the drums and learning rhythm and traditional African songs and chants to accompany the drumming.

Teaching Drums also provide African Art and Craft Workshops. Children have the opportunity to make their own African mask, batik picture, Adinkra print, Kente cloth, African jewellery, Ashanti gold weight etc. Our workshops are interactive, fun and educational. Children will learn about daily life in Ghana and about African culture. The workshops also include display items, information sheets, PowerPoint presentations and follow-up worksheets for teachers. For further information please email info@teachingdrums.com

African drumming workshop at the International School of Prague

"I’ve never felt so much joy in the halls. The whole school was buzzing!” says Marnie Hurst, International School of Prague

Our Services:

Drumming Workshops

Art and Craft Workshops

Why teach African drumming?

● Fun and energising

● Encourages creativity

● Improves co-ordination

● Promotes diversity

● Enhance Recall

"Thank you so much for a wonderful afternoon. The children and staff had a great, noisy, uplifting time." Alison Reid, Methlick Primary.

Teaching Drums provide educational materials for schools to promote cultural awareness, diversity and global citizenship. Schools can hire our Resource Box for one or two weeks. The resource box contains a huge variety of African crafts, masks, clothing, hats, leather bags, African jewellery, musical instruments, photographs, books, lesson plans and other educational materials. The Resource Box is an excellent opportunity for children to get a real taste of Africa.

Hire our African Resource Box for your special Africa weeks at school

NEWS & EVENTS

World Fair Trade Day 8 May 2010

We provide special Fair Trade Workshops for schools which celebrate African culture through music, arts, story-telling and education and promote and teach the value and benefits of fair trade. Interested in our fair trade workshops click here for more info.

Special World Cup Workshops May, June and July 2010

Celebrate this years African World Cup and teach your pupils about the diverse culture, wildlife, music and people of South Africa through our drumming and arts & crafts workshops. Please email info@teachingdrums.com for further details.

England Visits weeks beginning 3 May, 17 May and 14 June 2010

We have dates available during these weeks for schools in England, both in the Midlands and the South for our African educational workshops; African drumming, African Arts & Crafts, Africa Day Experience, Fair Trade Day and our new World Cup workshops. Please email info@teachingdrums.com for further details.

International Women's Day 2010

We provided a drumming workshop and stall for International Women's Day at Cumbernauld Theatre for our charity Lasajang Community Project (www.supportghana.co.uk)

Pre-MOBO event, The Hub Glasgow 29 September 2009

Teaching Drums presented a stall and drumming workshop at the Pre-MOBO event organised by Scottish Enterprise at The Hub, Glasgow to celebrate music of black origin.

Celebrate this first African World Cup with our workshops at your school

Pre-MOBO event by Scottish Enterprise at The Hub, Glasgow

African Arts for Scotland, 80 Stirling Road, Kilsyth, Glasgow, G65 0PT

For further information or to book a workshop please phone or email:

Tel: 01236 823869

Email: info@teachingdrums.com