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Time for a new adventure. Like all of my past ones there will be drumming, teaching, learning and meeting incredibly talented and creative people. I'm off for Israel in May for two-weeks.
I work for Port Discovery Children's Museum, located in the heart of Baltimore's Inner Harbor district. Since last fall, I have been working with two classes of fourth graders: one is located in Columbia MD and the other is in the Central Arava region of south-central Israel. They have been collaborating together as part of a story-creating, storyboarding and storytelling project that builds on descriptive & narrative writing exercises that targets their visual interpretation skills. Just another way of integrating the arts to teach core classroom curriculum.
No trip would be complete without a heavy dose of drumming. I'm taking one drum: a 20" Cooperman bodhran. It has been a regular travel companion of mine for the past several years. The TKL backpack case is quite superb. My only reservation has to do with whether it will fit in the overhead compartment. I'm flying EL AL out of JFK. Their fleet standard for the flight to Tel Aviv is a 747-400. Don't know much about that plane, but I will find out.
While there I will be working with the 4th graders on how to perform Kamishibai, which is a traditional Japanese storytelling art form that dates to 12th century monks. I refer to it as PowerPoint 11 A.D. So as not to miss out on an opportunity when drumming I am planning on taking a hand-held Digital Recorder. Does anyone have any suggestions? The one that I am looking at is the M-Audio Micro Track II Portable Digital Recorder.
My ideas are evolving exponentially. I get to have my own "Willy Wonka" moments, too. This is fun!!! If I can figure out all of the details of blogging, posting pics and video, podcasting, etc, I will share some of my trip with you all, if anyone is interested.
If anyone wishes to be included in my adventure, please email me directly at kamishibai.project@gmail.com. I'll be leading a Kamishibai storytelling workshop for all of the participating Israeli students and teachers, plus visiting the Israel Children's Museum in Holon, as well as Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. If you have friends and contacts (musicians, dancers, artists, etc) in Israel and would be willing to make introductions I would be grateful and ask that you write me directly.
Thanks for your kind attention. From time to time, I have to go somewhere that I have never been and speak music with people whose spoken tongue I do not understand. However, I am very comfortable speaking the language of rhythm and melody. It's often times much easier to express myself speaking that language than English.
Well, that's enough for now....
Shalom...Daveed
Time for a new adventure. Like all of my past ones there will be drumming, teaching, learning and meeting incredibly talented and creative people. I'm off for Israel in May for two-weeks.
I work for Port Discovery Children's Museum, located in the heart of Baltimore's Inner Harbor district. Since last fall, I have been working with two classes of fourth graders: one is located in Columbia MD and the other is in the Central Arava region of south-central Israel. They have been collaborating together as part of a story-creating, storyboarding and storytelling project that builds on descriptive & narrative writing exercises that targets their visual interpretation skills. Just another way of integrating the arts to teach core classroom curriculum.
No trip would be complete without a heavy dose of drumming. I'm taking one drum: a 20" Cooperman bodhran. It has been a regular travel companion of mine for the past several years. The TKL backpack case is quite superb. My only reservation has to do with whether it will fit in the overhead compartment. I'm flying EL AL out of JFK. Their fleet standard for the flight to Tel Aviv is a 747-400. Don't know much about that plane, but I will find out.
While there I will be working with the 4th graders on how to perform Kamishibai, which is a traditional Japanese storytelling art form that dates to 12th century monks. I refer to it as PowerPoint 11 A.D. So as not to miss out on an opportunity when drumming I am planning on taking a hand-held Digital Recorder. Does anyone have any suggestions? The one that I am looking at is the M-Audio Micro Track II Portable Digital Recorder.
My ideas are evolving exponentially. I get to have my own "Willy Wonka" moments, too. This is fun!!! If I can figure out all of the details of blogging, posting pics and video, podcasting, etc, I will share some of my trip with you all, if anyone is interested.
If anyone wishes to be included in my adventure, please email me directly at kamishibai.project@gmail.com. I'll be leading a Kamishibai storytelling workshop for all of the participating Israeli students and teachers, plus visiting the Israel Children's Museum in Holon, as well as Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. If you have friends and contacts (musicians, dancers, artists, etc) in Israel and would be willing to make introductions I would be grateful and ask that you write me directly.
Thanks for your kind attention. From time to time, I have to go somewhere that I have never been and speak music with people whose spoken tongue I do not understand. However, I am very comfortable speaking the language of rhythm and melody. It's often times much easier to express myself speaking that language than English.
Well, that's enough for now....
Shalom...Daveed
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