We saw some fast hands at Dare to Drum this weekend!
Today’s Postcard from Bunchland comes from yours truly and was taken at our Dare to Drum event in Toronto, in which we raised some funds for the Stephen Lewis Foundation. You can still donate here.
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So what all is going to happen this weekend at Dare to Drum?
Lyle Povah at Vancouver Dare to Drum partner MusicWorks breaks it down:
A drum circle is a rhythm-based event where people gather in a circle to express themselves with African drums and percussion instruments. A facilitator guides the session, encouraging and supporting people as they reconnect with their innate sense of rhythm.
1. Walk in and find a chair with a drum from the circle.
2. Your drum circle facilitator will welcome you!
3. Following the drum circle facilitator, you will begin to play. Usually you will start with something simple like a pulse beat.
4. Who knows where the drum circle will go?!
To get you hyped for this weekend’s drumming workshops as part of our Dare to Drum campaign to raise money for the Stephen Lewis Foundation, we give you this photo of kids moving to the beat at a drum circle. Can’t wait to see you all making some noise and shaking your things at our workshops in Calgary, Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto this weekend!
Today’s Postcards from Bunchland comes from urbanshoregirl on Flickr.
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Except they didn’t. They tore themselves away from social media and otherwise went about their day-to-day lives. (What constitutes day-to-day for Lady Gaga, we haven’t the foggiest.)
So Alicia Keys called up some celebri-pals with substantial Twitter followings and asked them to stop Facebooking and tweeting on World AIDS Day. They’ll resume their microblogging ways once the Buy Life campaign hits $1,000,000, which then goes to Keys’ Keep a Child Alive charity.
We actually think Alicia Keys is pretty great. She’s ridiculously talented, not some flash-in-the-pan one-hit-wonder-type, and we sincerely believe she wants to do all she can to support families dealing with HIV and AIDS. She’s also smart; as New York Times columnist Amy Wallace wrote, “(Keys) knows that she’s not alone in thinking that America increasingly treats its celebrities like commodities.”
