May Day / Work Day / Beltane Celebration
This time is ripe for garden work. We need your ready hands. There are so many ways to plug in – from planting to soil ammending, to shaping beds around our new beautiful garden center piece. This garden will bring joy to program participants all season long. We need your help readying to feed campers and expanding the educational potential of our garden space.
Come for as long or as short as you like. There will be time for work and plugging in, for sharing food, and for creating meaning and beauty together.
- 10 – 12 – 1st work party session
- 12 – potluck lunch
- 1 – 3 – 2nd work party session
- 3 – till – Beltane songs & blessings, garden dedication
Date
- May 04 2024
Time
- 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Instructor
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Jay Beck
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Email
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Jay Beck is a percussionist, vocalist, drum-maker, storyteller, actor and educator who has been performing, teaching, touring and recording professionally for many years visiting 15 countries through four continents. He has performed with numerous groups including Madison Greene, Woodspeak, Unidos da Filadelfia, Phillybloco, Netos de Kansala West African Drum and Dance ensemble, Psalters and BEAST. He is a founder of Holy Fool Arts, a core organizer for the Carnival de Resistance and collaborates with his partner Tevyn East. He has studied West African traditional drumming under Mamady Keita, Babatunde Olatunji and Anssumane Silla. He has studied Afro-Cuban drumming, samba drumming, traditional Sicilian frame drumming from masters in the field. He has taught cross cultural percussion workshops as well as using the arts for rites of passage work and cross cultural understanding from age levels of elementary school students to university students as well as at music festivals and after school programs for youth through Artwell in Philadelphia.