Drum Circle Spirit

Pre-requisites: No pre-requisites

However, if you are a Drum Circle Facilitator please read Arthur Hull’s book: Drum Circle Facilitation, Building Community Through Rhythm.

The Rhythmical Alchemy Playshop (RAP) is a family-friendly event that people of all ages will enjoy. This is a great place to share your love of music and have fun with drums and percussion with your family and friends.

Items to Bring: Please bring at least one each of the following: shakers, bells, wood blocks, any special orchestrational instruments, your favorite drum, a glass bottle, and a few Found Sounds (1 loud, like a trash can lid, 1 soft, such as crumpled paper), as well as any special instruments you
would like to play in the circle such as xylophones, Tibetan bells, gongs, etc.

Please also bring bottled water & snacks for yourself, notebooks & pens.

RAP Schedule : Playshops begin on Friday afternoon and end on Sunday afternoon.

Registration is on Friday from 5-5:30pm. Each day there will be one lunch for 1.5 hours, with 2 personal breaks of 10 min. each. On Saturday there will be one additional 1 hour meal break.

Training schedules may vary based on local venue's needs. Please contact your local organizer to confirm training
schedule.

Rhythmical Alchemy Playshop Schedule
FRI
05:00pm–05:30pm Registration / introductions / orientation
05:30pm–09:00pm RAP Training
SAT
09:00am–01:00pm RAP Training
01:00pm–02:30pm Meal
02:30pm–07:30pm RAP Training
SUN
09:00am–01:00pm RAP Training
01:00pm–02:30pm Meal
02:30pm–05:00pm RAP Training
05:00pm–05:30pm RAP Training Closing; Drum & Percussion Techniques Circle set-up
05:30pm-06:00pm Snack Break
06:00pm-07:30pm RAP Drum & Percussion Techniques Circle 1.5 hrs

Playshop Cost $300

See List of Hotels and Bed & Breakfasts at:
Hotel lists

Flying?
Please Fly into Richmond, Va / Dulles / or Reagan International

Please Reserve your spot on http://www.drumcircle.com/calendar/index.html

Thanks! Contact Ken Crampton for further information!

Let's define what drum circle spirit is...

A Community Drum Circle is a place for a person to express themselves through rhythm with a group of individuals agreeing to share the experience together. There are many types of Drum Circles, the hippie thunder drum circles, the ethno specific, meditation, healing, spiritual, beginners, intermediate, or my favorite the FACILITATED DRUM CIRCLE ! Hopefully all of the above mentioned Drum Circles invite the diverse individuals from today's society from the city, beach, urban, and suburban to the furthest country we could imagine!

The true drum circle spirit envolves, working together, not undermining, supporting the community, not glorifying ones self or talents. We band together to promote the good of the craft, and to enlighten the dispersed communities through the true nature of empowerment.

Group rhythm making evolves from the earliest times of man or woman, when we couldn't communicate verbally we grunted or banged something as a form of shared expression. That is a Drum Circle! When we join together in UNITY to express ourselves through another voice. Sometimes individuals need to let their voice be head, like creating art, playing drums, shakers, bells, etc. offers a therapeutic tool to every individual.

With the proper Facilitator, drum circles become a place for the individual and the group to experience rhythmical music. Rhythm is inside us all, from the first music we made with our mothers in the womb, our hearts beating in and out of rhythm 'til it became our own. Drumming excites the youngest to the old, I have yet to meet a person unwilling to try the drum.