Drum Making
Cost: $75
Age: 12+ years
1 session
at 2 hours
Location: The 55 Activity Centre
This educational workshop will teach you the origins and history behind native drum-making. The kit contains a 3″ inch drum frame, inclusive of supplies and materials to tie the drum together. The class will include a welcome song, drumming, singing, talking circles, materials, instruction, and a closing circle.
*Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult
Instructor
Tsawaysia Spukwus (Alice Guss)
Alice Guss has been delivering Sacred Drum making workshops for over 20 years. She’s a participant in healing Tribal Journeys and co-produced a number of documentaries including Squamish Nation: Stories from the Heart and Tribal Journeys. During the 2010 Olympics, she coordinated her family’s Sea Going Canoe display and her Family shared songs, dances, history to the Czech Republic Bobsled Team.
Venue
The 55 Activity Centre
1201 Village Green Way Squamish, Squamish, BC, V8B 0N6, Canada
Tickets
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Squamish Arts acknowledges that the land on which we live, work and recreate is the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, particularly the territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nation. It is our responsibility to honour their ancestry by being an ally to the present.
