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Residencies:

West African Komei
African-American/ West Adrican Ties
African Games and Stories
African Cultural Journey
African Life Experience

Workshops:

Stories and music:
Original stories and songs accompanied by Djembe drum and other percussive instruments. Childhood stories passed down by grandma and griots in Bunumbu village, Sierra Leone.

K-2nd graders interactive stories and games
Act out stories and learn popular games and songs from West Africa.

Drumming technique lessons
Traditional way of learning drumming technique. If you can sing it, you can play it.

Instrument making
Make instruments from recycled materials including bottle caps, grains, soda cans, gourds, cardboard pipes etc.

Traditional textile tie dye and batik
Make bedspreads table cloths, and quilt pieces by learning the stitch and dye and batik methods of putting patterns on white pieces of cloth.