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We run African Educative workshops celebrating the beauty and diversity of African culture, music, art, food, life african drumming -dance workshops for schools in Devon, Cornwall, somerset, Dorset, South West England. making African drums
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Our curriculum-linked African arts workshops are intended NOT to create any more work for busy teachers. Our workshops can be run in the classroom and require little prior organisation. Abantu Arts bring all the resources and materials we need.
Our African Culture workshops are of a wide range and could involve drumming, mask making, performance, dancing, singing, geography, social studies, and multicultural arts.
You can hire our team to the whole set of listed workshops here bellow or choose and mix them but if you prefer just one workshop from the list that is fine with us. We tailor make them to meet your needs
AFRICA ARTS FOCUS DAY OR AFRICA ARTS WEEK
Combine 4 different arts forms and activities to run the same day
We can run an Africa Arts Focus days or A full Africa arts week for your school, which combines 3 different African art forms and activities to run the same day or spread out over five days.
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AFRICAN DRUM WORKSHOPS
We bring authentic African drums and percussion instruments to your school or group and lead students through a memorable experience of music, community, and the discovery that everyone has a rhythm to share! Emphasis is placed on learning how to play together through listening, cooperation, respecting, and working together as a team. We teach about the origins of the different instruments and how they are played in different parts of the world.
All drum workshops are custom-tailored to be age appropriate. We are equipped to work with Pre-School through High School up to university. Workshops can be held one time or as a series and generally last 45-60 minutes per session .
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We also run workshops involving making drums and other instruments from recycled material to be played with authentic African drums we bring. Click here to see more
Drumming and instrument making
AFRICAN DANCE WORKSHOPS:
We run High-energy African dance workshops. We use African drum music normally played to provide the rhythms for the dance, with the secret drum language prompting the dancers to follow the routines and steps from the beginning to the end.
In Africa, percussion and dance accompany all celebrations, festivals and events like rituals and rites of passage, such as coming of age, birth, courtship, marriage and death and so on. The dance moves passed on from geneartion to genration are designed to reflect movements made during the act or events listed, and are still carried out today in African villages, towns and cities. These are the authentic moves we want to bring to you.
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AFRICAN FOOD AND COOKING
Abantu also offers African cooking lessons and classes for schools, Colleges and community groups. Abantu will enable you to enjoy East Africa's culinary arts and its culture through hands-on experience in the kitchen. In Our cooking lessons and workshops you will learn about herbs and spices as well as their substitutes should you not have the correct ingredients at home. Cooking styles and dishes will be demonstrated by an authentic African cookery expert and then recreated by you.
MASK-MAKING WORKSHOPS
Masks and drums have always gone together in most African cultures, and mask making in Africa is a natural visual art compliment to the musical arts in traditional Africa. In addition to completing hands-on art project, students in Abantu mask-making workshops learn about the ways that masks have been used by different cultures of Africa. African Mask making workshops require a minimum of 1 hour for simple mask making, and 2-10 hours for more complex designs. Our mask making Workshops are led by one of the Guest Teachers on the Abantu arts Team, who has worked as a mask maker for a long time.
AFRICAN STORY TELLING WORKSHOPS
Storytelling has been a traditional means of communicating morals and histories for centuries within the majority of cultures all over Africa Traditionally Africa has revered good stories and storytellers, as have most past and present peoples around the world who are rooted in oral cultures and traditions.
Ancient writing traditions do exist on the African continent, but most Africans today, as in the past, are primarily oral peoples, and their art forms are oral rather than literary.
The Oral Arts and stories of Africa are rich and varied, developing with the beginnings of African cultures, and they remain living traditions that continue to evolve and flourish today.
The story explains a cause, origin, or reason for something--gives an 'etiological explanation...at the end' We will bring this most traditional art form to your classroom or group
We use instruments and various objects in our story telling sessions to make stories memorable for children. We give older students and teachers opportunity to take part in role-plays and acting out aspects of the stories told. Smaller children can draw stories and learn songs too.
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AFRICAN TEXTILES AND CLOTH
We also offer African Tie and Dye and African Batik. Workshops We look at a selection of African textiles and then children and shown how to produce their own piece of fabric, either based on a traditional design or by producing their own with the help of the ABANTU instructor
AFRICAN CRAFTS AND TOY MAKING
Hand-made crafts are an integral part of African culture, and incorporates decorative elements such as bead work, jewellery and clothing, artifacts used in ceremonies and rituals, as well as practical items like clay pots, sleeping mats and wooden head-rests which date back centuries.
Using available and recycled material we will show students how to make their own simple crafts and toys like footballs, roles, cars and so on
We also run workshops involving making drums and other instruments from recycled material to be played with authentic African drums we bring. Click here to see more
Drumming and instrument making
AFRICAN BEADS AND JUWELLERY
Bead and Jewellery making work is one of the most impressive art traditions in Africa. Artists and jewellers carefully consider the materials, colours, textures, shapes, and sizes of the beads to choose those that compliment or contrast with one another.
Beads and Jewellery is made to make as much visual impact as possible. We bring our wide collection of jewellery from different Africa and then everybody gets a chance to design their own beads using available material we provide and under instruction of the ABANTU teacher.
AFTER SCHOOLS CLUBS
We can run after-school or weekend projects and clubs for you in any of our listed African art forms. These after school projects can be an exciting enhancement of your music curriculum many times ending into performances. By working with pupil groups outside formal school hours, we can develop a relaxed working relationship with pupils, teachers or even parents, hence fostering collective learning and participation for both pupils and teacher or even parents.
SPECIAL TEACHER'S WORKSHOPS
ABANTU will provide INSET Teacher training for both trainee teachers and qualified staff within one-off or ongoing African Music, art projects to enhance Professional skills Development, with a view for the teachers to go and use the knowledge acquired in their own classroom situation.
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