EVENTS 2019
AWARDED by the ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND, National Lottery Fund (2019), funding to develop my new project named "Drumming the World". This will be a series of workshops in the Surrey area. ( May 2019-September 2019).
PROJECT AIM
To give an opportunity to children and adults that cannot afford to get into music or don’t get the opportunity to do this often, as well as to benefit SEND children and adults in Mental Health.
Participants will also learn traditional rhythms and technique to play drums from around the world (Africa,South America and Asia) from teachers from these parts of the world.
PROJECT also funded by: Surrey County Council, Mole Valley District Council and APOW.
Surrey County Council
Working with the:
- Up! Orchestra (Orchestra of Unlimited Potential),
- Schools and Special schools within the Surrey area,
- Tutor for I Speak Music Orchestra (Refugee, newly arrived Asylum Seekers and British citizens) including a Performance for Refugee Week, HG Wells, Woking (18th June).
Mole Valley Council
Working with an Adult group with Mental Health issues.
APOW (Amazing People of the World)
Working with a Refugee group and newly arrived Asylum Seekers.
UPCOMING FESTIVALS were my Project will benefit bigger audiences:
Party in the Park Festival, Woking
Drumming Performances by the session members
6th of July
https://www.celebratewoking.info/party-in-the-park/Familyfun
(mentioned in programme as SunDrum Drumming Circles)
Tribe of Doris Festival, Leicestershire
Drum circles,Afro Peruvian rhythms and dance
10th August
UPCOMING Workshops:
Dates TBC
British Red Cross Young Refugee Service
Challengers Charity (play and leisure opportunities for children and young people with disabilities)
West Hill School, Leatherhead (Special School)
Kinsgley Primary Academy (School with high levels of need, Croydon)
UPCOMING FREELANCE WORKSHOPS
12th-14th July
Wonder Fields Festival, Devon
Drum circles for children
30th of July
Workshops in Oxted for children Summer holidays
19th-30th August
SUNDRUM Forest School Sessions
23rd of August
Workshops in Runnymede Borough Council ( funded by a local organisation and offered free of charge to young people in the borough who may not otherwise afford to go on these holiday activities).
PAST WORKSHOPS in 2019
9th April
Challengers, Stoke Park, Guildford
19th April
Gary Mason Charity, 10-1pm – Easter Egg Hunt, Rotary Carshalton Park, Surrey
26th April
Music in Hospitals and Care, 11 am - The Tower Project, London
Music in Hospitals and Care, 2pm - Salvesen House, London
28th March
Drumming circle with cajones and djembes at Sarita Colonia Prison, Callao,Peru
Currently developing ongoing work with:
I Speak Music (Refugee project)
Up! Orchestra of Unlimited Potential (with children and young people with SEND)
Surrey Arts Council
Music in Hospitals and Care (Charity)
Various Primary schools in the Surrey area
Previous Work includes Community events at various location throughout the UK.
Festivals: WOMAD,Tribe of Doris, Starry skies, Fieldview festival, Shambala.
PAST WORKSHOPS in 2018
DECEMBER: - Trained teachers "Drum Circle techniques" at Arte para Crecer cultural centre, Miraflores, Peru
- Drum circles at State Secondary school Miricharo, Pichanaki, Junin, impoverished area of the jungle
region of Peru
- El Pez en la Luna, Drum circle, Miraflores, Peru
OCTOBER- NOVEMBER:
- Running the Mighty Adventurers Drum Recycling workshops and Performance, Virginia Water
- Workshops for young people at Surrey Young Carers, Addleston, Surrey
OCTOBER: - Drum Circle for Arts Partnership Surrey officials, Guildford with the aim to get funding for my
Arts Council England Project. Result: Successfully able too secure funding from Mole Valley District Council
- Trained Drum Circle techniques to teachers at the SEND Networking Session, Guildford
- Teaching activities, ice breakers and rhythm to Refugees at Brooklands College, Weybridge
SEPTEMBER:
-Ted X Frensham, performing with the I Speak Music Community Orchestra, Surrey
- The Tower Project, Canary Wharf, London
- The RNIB Sunshine House School, Northwood
AUGUST: - Afro Peruvian Drum Circle, Tribe of Doris, Leicestershire
- Drum Circle at The Children's Trust, Tadworth
JULY: - Outdoors Drum Circle at Whipps Cross Hospital, Walhamstow -70th NHS Anniversary!!
- Up! Orchestra concert, Brooklands Museum, Walton on Thames, Surrey
- Drum Circle at Banstead Infant School
- Drum Circle with Surrey Arts at The Abbey School, Farnham
JUNE: - "I Speak Music" Community Orchestra performance at Refugee week, Woking
- Drum Circle at The Children's Trust, Tadworth
- Drum Circle at Banstead Infants school, Surrey
MAY: - Drum Circle and performance at the Tate Exchange in the Tate Modern gallery, London
... what a weekend of music making capturing the vibrations of many drumming hands!
APRIL: - Rhythm 2 Recovery Training, Leatherhead
- The Children's Trust, Tadworth
MARCH: - Princess Royal University Hospital
FEBRUARY: - Drum Circle at the Vale Primary, Ashton Vale
- Drum Circle at West Hill (Special School), Leatherhead
