DRUMMING FOR ALL AGES!

Kera Washington has been teaching for over thirty years. Her first love was percussion, which she found studying applied ethnomusicology in college, and deepened while traveling to Haiti, Brazil, Cuba, and throughout the U.S. to study with master musicians. She continues to learn and to share what she knows, believing that collective music-making is healing, is anti-racist work, is pro-black, and connects all humans — gets us closer to humanocentrism, a term coined by her mentor, Gerdès Fleurant — dreaming of and working towards a world where humans do not distinguish which lives matter based on race or any of our identities. In our current reality, understanding that “black lives matter” will get us closer “all mattering,” without prejudice or fear. Learn more about Kera here.

Interested in lessons (on zoom or in person)? Email Kera here!

JOIN US in Dorchester for a week in APRIL!

Organized around the BPS schedule, but for drummers of ALL AGES!!

APRIL VACATION WEEK: 4/20-4/24, Tues.-Sat.!

Morning Session: 11am-12pm; Afternoon Session: 1pm-2pm

group lessons: learn rhythms of the African diaspora, through ancestral connections, collectively

our collective energy is healing, powerful, and will break down the dividing lines between us.

Ms. Washington teaches the way that she learned best:

in call and response style.

In the words of her mentor, Gerdès Fleurant,

“If you can say it, you can play it!”

*Sanitized Synthetic Drums will be provided if you don’t have a drum.

**MASKS MANDATORY, SOCIAL DISTANCING REQUESTED, (SOCIAL CONNECTION INTENDED)