Earth Drum Council

Last Updated: April 26, 2009

Upcoming Events!

Phoenix Fire Gathering, August 13-16, 2009 in California (this link takes you off this site)

Rhythmical Alchemy Playshop, with Arthur Hull, September 11-13, 2009

The Last Drum and Dance Saturday was December 15, 2007

 

We appreciate that people make efforts to be aware of the carbon impact of traveling to festivals and events. In addition to intending "carbon neutrality" by donating to organizations working to offset climate change, we urge everyone to consider how to actually reduce personal carbon output by reducing consumption and directing efforts to creating and maintaining local opportunities for communities to gather to drum and dance together.

 

See Calendar for more. Please scroll down for links to articles and our mission statement.

 

Fun Stuff to Read:

Articles and Writing by Morwen Two Feathers:	Interviews with various EDC personalities and friends
Why Drum?	Jimi Two Feathers
What's a White Girl to Do?	Rev. Bonnie Devlin
Why We Do It	Morwen Two Feathers
Finding Our Way Home	Marilyn Middleton
The Art of Transformation	Jeff Lowe
The Art of Transformation: Around the Fire	Bill Thorpe (otherwise known as Billy Bardo)
To Be at Home on Earth	All interviews conducted by Universal Heartbeat students
Rhythms of the Earth
Roots of the Magic Fire Circle
The Magic of Rhythm
Walking Between the Worlds
Syllabus: Universal Heartbeat: World Culture and Community Drumming. Taught at the Tufts University Experimental College by Morwen Two Feathers between 1996 and 2000	Universal Heartbeat student's impressions of Drum and Dance Saturday.
Click here for info about Mending the Sacred Hoop: A Gathering of the Five Colors, which happened in October, 2000

Rhythm is the Universal Heartbeat Feel the Pulse Celebrate your Spirit and the Dance of Life The Fire beckons, the Circle calls Let us join together One Heart, One Spirit, One Family   Earth Drum Council (EDC) was founded in 1990 to create opportunities for people from all walks of life to experience the universal heartbeat of the drum.

Earth Drum Council Organizes workshops and events featuring drum and dance teachers of many diverse traditions (West African, Afro-Caribbean, Brazilian, Middle Eastern, Celtic, and more) Teaches rhythm workshops and classes designed to help people access their innate rhythmic competence and make music together For 18 years, sponsored an ongoing open community drum and dance event once a month in Cambridge, Mass. (see Calendar for details) The work of Earth Drum Council focuses on drumming as a tool for community-building, cultural awareness, and personal growth. Drumming and dance have played similar roles in cultures all over the world: celebration, communication, marking rites of passage, invoking religious ecstasy, and healing. We strive to create a space where many different drumming and dance traditions can be experienced, respecting the integrity of each culture while acknowledging that all are related in the human heartbeat. In that acknowledgment is the seed of a new culture, one that honors all regardless of race or sex, integrating mind, body, heart, and spirit. EDC was founded by Jimi and Morwen Two Feathers. Jimi Two Feathers is a skilled facilitator and teacher who has been drumming and dancing for over thirty years. Morwen Two Feathers is a musician, teacher, writer, and consultant who has been dancing for over twenty five years and drumming for nearly twenty. Together they started Earth Drum Council to bring people together to drum and dance in community.
Earth Drum Council may be reached by calling us at (978) 371-2502. Our mailing address is: Earth Drum Council, PO Box 1284, Concord MA 01742 USA. Please send us your comments!

EDC logo by John Ward.

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