{"id":1610,"date":"2009-10-30T13:43:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T13:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/10\/30\/delta-state-to-present-drumming-and-dance-workshop\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:54:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:54:27","slug":"delta-state-to-present-drumming-and-dance-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/10\/delta-state-to-present-drumming-and-dance-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State to present Drumming and Dance workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The Bologna Performing Arts Center (BPAC) is hosting <\/font><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">a free workshop entitled &ldquo;Drumming and Dance in West Africa&rdquo; <span style=\"color: black\">as part of the Juliet Kossman ArtsPass series on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 9 a.m.- noon at the BPAC.&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Dr. Karen Fosheim, professor of music at Delta State University, will present this workshop, which will be an exploration of the culture of West Africa through drumming, dance, and song.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Participants will learn the basic techniques of African djembe drumming and play traditional African drumming rhythms in an ensemble consisting of drums, bells, shakers, and balafon (marimba). <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">They will also learn the dances and songs that accompany the drumming rhythms.&nbsp;A mini-performance will conclude the workshop.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black\">The workshop is for children ages 9-11. Early registration is encouraged due to limited class size of 15 participants.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black\">To register or for more information, please call the BPAC at (662) 846-4844.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bologna Performing Arts Center (BPAC) is hosting a free workshop entitled &ldquo;Drumming and Dance in West Africa&rdquo; as part of the Juliet Kossman ArtsPass series on Saturday, Nov. 14,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38987,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/38987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}