Drum Circle on Johnson Park
Time to experience the heartbeat of community with Johnson Park's first drum circle Tuesday evening, August 26 at 7PM.
The beat of drums is inherent in every culture as it emulates the heartbeat. Let's come together for this evening and celebrate the diversity of our community!
In 1991, during testimony before the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart stated:
"Typically, people gather to drum in drum "circles" with others from the surrounding community. The drum circle offers equality because there is no head or tail. It includes people of all ages. The main objective is to share rhythm and get in tune with each other and themselves. To form a group consciousness. To entrain and resonate. By entrainment, I mean that a new voice, a collective voice, emerges from the group as they drum together."
Whether you have an instrument or not, it is well worth the experience.
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blacktriangle
Well okay now, looks like I'm gonna spend another night in my week at the park. Cool.
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d_a_n
hippies!
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comptart_lws
drum circles – especially incessant public ones – are annoying as hell. I feel bad for the neighbors who have to endure hours of drumming as an intrusion to their own choice of sound (or lack of it) in their home for that time period.
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Perry
Drums circles are also great for community building, introduction to music skills, a live activity (oppose to watching TV or playing video games), an activity where 8 to 80 years old can play, rhythmic patterns that sooth the soul, provides fantastic mind-body connection, mental health benefits, self-discovery and so much more. There are 50 other noises in the city (loud stereos, Harley's, construction, horns, etc...) that are more annoying that drum circles. Drum away my friends, it's a welcomed sound anywhere.
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MRodgers
HEY! We're doing it again next Tuesday, 9/2 at 7 pm!
AND - come to the JP Light Party on 9/21 (Sunday) from 4-9 pm. Price of admission - a dish to pass, a beverage of your choice, bring a chair and maybe an instrument.
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