school Workshops
Afriquetone works with schools to deliver drumming workshops to children of various ages. It has delivered over 60 drumming workshops to different schools and community centers across Scotland. Most of these workshops have been one day events, whereby children are given introductory lessons to experience African drumming and percussion. Most times, the key issue is to give the children a feel for hand drumming.
getting started
Workshops start by getting the children to do a few stretching exercises to relax the muscles of the arms.
Then a description of the drums and percussion that will be used is given.
Following on, the children are introduced to hand drumming techniques in a way they can relate to (Stories and games are normally used)
Finally, they get to make up different rhythms under our supervision and guidance. So far, this has been a fun experience for the children and their teachers.
A list of school workshop packages is provided on the following
page.
ongoing engagements
Presently, Afriquetone delivers workshops for the Torry youth project every summer and runs a two week workshop at the kincorth primary school. It also runs weekly classes every Wednesday at the kaimhill primary school, Aberdeen.