Representative of Resounding Rhythms West African drumming School will open our morning at 9:30 and also present a morning workshop. Resounding Rhythms formed in 2006 and have been drumming with joyful abandon ever since. Their schedule maintains weekly, on-going classes in Guinean, West African drumming technique, special workshops, guest teachers, and general mirth and merriment […]
Portland’s historic Abyssinian Meeting House executive board is honoring Ashley Bryan as their first inductee to the Abyssinian Hall of Fame. Representatives of the board will be at the October 4 Community Storytelling Event at 1:00 pm to induct Mr. Bryan. Established in 1828, the Abyssinian Meeting House on 73 Newbury Street in Portland, Maine, the third-oldest […]
Saturday, October 4 9:30 African Drumming – Resounding Rhythms 10:00 Ashley – morning session, especially for kids. 11:15 Workshops for all ages – The Telling Room (writing) Puppet or mask making African Drumming […]
“We Are Born of Cast-off Pieces” Puppets, Poems, Masks A Brunswick Community Forum on the Art of Story-Telling Featuring Ashley Bryan “We paint, we write poetry and we express ourselves out of our desire to bring people together in a way that goes beyond who we are as individuals,” so says Ashley Bryan, artist, […]
Ashley Bryan will be joined by Maine Inside Out, giving a performance and discussion by formerly incarcerated youth. Maine Inside Out collaborates with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people to create and share original theater, inside and outside correctional facilities, in order to help engage the community in dialogue and inspire a shift from our current […]
“We Are Born of Cast-off Pieces” Puppets, Poems, Masks A Brunswick Community Forum on the Art of Story-Telling Featuring Ashley Bryan “We paint, we write poetry and we express ourselves out of our desire to bring people together in a way that goes beyond who we are as individuals,” so says Ashley Bryan, artist, story-teller, […]