Glastonbury 2013, The Orb and Kakatsitsi
Channel: UbuntuLiving
Date: 25/03/2014

Indigenous People - Wishing Well Fundraiser

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http://wishing-well.eventbrite.co.uk

A day of drumming, singing and dancing workshops with The Kakatsitsi Master Drummers, playing together to orchestrate an evening concert with sound healing musicians, raise funds for The Chithurst Mannor Healing Wishing Well (www.chithurstmanorhealing.com) who make treatments and medical services available to vulnerable people in the community that can not afford it.

    10h00 The morning workshop and singing workshop is for for beginners to intermediate levels. 

    13h00 we break for lunch 

    14h00-17h00 The afternoon workshop will be for intermediate to advanced drummers. We may break into two groups, beginner and advanced if the numbers are right.

    19h00-21h00 A concert by The Kakatsitsi Drummers and workshop attendees including and some local sound healing musicians who will help us entrain a coherent consciousness with which we can learn how the co-operative fundraising model and wishing well work and how to use them...

About The Kakatsitsi Drummers

The Kakatsitsi Master Drummers from Ghana are one of Africa's leading traditional drumming groups. Over 12 UK tours, including appearances at WOMAD, Glastonbury and numerous folk festivals, they have wowed audiences with their combination of funky, accessible dance grooves and five part harmony singing, the quality of which sets them aside from most other drumming groups.  They have recently added two female dancers to their line-up who perform some of Ghana's most popular traditional dances as well as leading the audience in some follow-the-leader collective traditional dancing. 


Bio Cultural Diversity

A growing recognition of humans as intrinsic parts of ecosystems implies that successful conservation requires consideration of human activities and needs as well as those of other species. Humans are part of, rather than separate from, their environment and therefore their practices and culture are an integral consideration for any kind of environmental campaign. There is therefore little point developing conservation or environmental policy without considering the needs, and the culture than informs them, of the people living in an area into consideration. This culture includes traditional forms of governance, economics and music/art and ritual.

Successful conservation strategies require acknowledgement and support of traditional knowledge systems and practice. This means that we look at the interrelationship between traditional practices and the environment, for example where music mirrors a respect / prayer for the environment it would be good to encourage the sustainability of such a practice as a means of protecting the environment.

Read more: http://www.indigenouspeople.org.uk/bio-cultural-diversity/ 


The Social Benefits of Rhythm

Rhythm and dance are languages of positive emotion. They are at the heart of community promoting empathy, a deep and lasting bond between individuals and to the natural world, the central building block of all moral and social development and hence a core ingredient in contemporary notions of 'citizenship,'  'environmental education' and 'diversion from risk.'        

Drumming is a social metaphor. The interaction of the various component instruments, and the rhythms they play, can be understood to represent a harmonious community in which the contribution of each individual integrates with that of those living, or playing, around him. The common culture of the drumming community is embodied in the traditional rhythms, chants and dances that are passed down through the generations or is newly imagined by the master drummers, the custodians of the tradition.

"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful; and also because he who has received this true education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive omissions or faults in art and nature, and with a true taste, while he praises and rejoices over and receives into his soul the good..."

Socrates, The Republic III

Read more: www.indigenouspeople.org.uk/education/benefits-of-rhythm/