In addition to our monthly jams, drumming workshops and performance opportunities, the Tri-Cities Drum Circle also hosts special events about every two months which vary from oceanside campouts to meditation circles to campfire drummings to children's drumming workshops. These free drumming gatherings are completely facilitated, they are open to the public, and they are designed for new and veteran drummers alike. They usually consist of freeform jamming or thematic drumming (ex: at a candlelight drumming, meditational and trancing rhythms are used throughout the evening).
Children's policy: children are welcome to the Special Events but only if they are supervised by a legal guardian throughout the event and only if the children are there to drum themselves. Please do not bring infants as the volume of our activities easily upsets them.
The folks who meet for these jams are people of diverse spiritual paths, backgrounds, and drumming experiences. They come together for an evening for one purpose: to learn from each other and to share the heartbeat using their "bangy thing of choice." Our primary focus with these gatherings is to build a drumming community which encourages everyone's full participation, regardless of one's drumming skill or experience. As with all of our activities:
Bring: your drumcomfy clothesdrinking water
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Do Not Bring:religious agendaspolitical agendasbusiness/marketing agendas |
All of our special events are free to attend, but they are only held if enough drummers sign up for them by the event signup deadline. There's a lot of really fun stuff planned for 2007 and we hope you can join us for it:
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Saturday May 17th 7:00-10:00pm
The Unity Church in Yakima will be hosting a Candlelight Drumming on May 17th in Yakima this year. For those of you who may never have attended a Candlelight Drumming before, they have a very different tone to them than our monthly jams or our other drumming events: they are meditative, trancing drum sessions, they are held indoors, they last about 2-3 hours (from 7pm-10pm), and they take place by candlelight amidst the sweet smells of mild incense, brewing tea and spiced cider-- perfect for cold dark winter nights. The rhythms used throughout the evening (interspersed with a few surprises) are spontaneous, mellow, and kept deliberately simple to enable the drummers to 'zone out' together in the darkness. The night gets very tribal in some spots, and past attendees have described this event as introspective. A low table is set in the center of the room with warm blankets laid out around it (we also have stools for those who would rather sit upright instead of on the floor), and each drummer is asked to bring his/her drum, a candle in a stable candle holder to be set on the table, and a favorite mug for drinking hot tea or spiced cider (which will be provided). Candlelight drummings are not religious, political or ritualistic by design, and they provide a truly wonderful and unique winter drumming ambiance!
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Sunday June 1st 2:00-3:00pm
The Unity Church of peace in Walla Walla is hosting a Labyrinth Drumming on Sunday June 1st at their facility in Walla Walla. If you've never done a labyrinth drumming, it is a very meditative experience. A large labyrinth etched into the floor or constructed using candles or other boundary markers is encircled by the drummers. Each drummer is invited to enter the labyrinth and move in rhythm towards the inner center and back out again. The rhythms vary thru the drumming. For more information, contact Barbara Eckhard at kreckh@charter.net. The carpool for this event leaves the Tri-Cities at 1:00pm. For information on the carpool, email info@thedrumcircle.org.
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