AFRICAN CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ARTS
Advocating for CULTURAL heritage through
educational workshops for schools and inspirING individuals.
WORKSHOP BOOKINGS
List of Services
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DrummingList Item 1
Students get to excercise on their own drum and learn some African rhythms with unusual but rather amazing grooves. At the end of the session, they all demonstrate what learnt by performing for each other in a musical circle. Our engaging sessions have sensory plans, that also cater for students with learning disabilities, with a range of traditional sensory facilitating instruments.
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SingingList Item 2
Sing African/ Music works with providing African Traditional Instruments like Adungu (Bow Harp), Amadinda (Xylophone or marimba) and Akogo (Thumb Piano) which all produce calm beautiful sounds and students are prompted to utter various African sounds and harmonies to produce rythms.
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Story-tellingList Item 3
Through our rhyming stories, students learn how African greetings and songs help keep traditional disciplines. Students practice foreign afro-languages and learn about aspects of town and village african life, shown by photos, DVDs and traditional outfits.
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Cultural DancingList Item 4
The workshops gets students to learn the history of the dance and rhythms for their future reference during the session. This gives them an understanding of traditional life and culture in Africa. This is a positive contribution for wellness and fitness.
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African Visual Arts
In Tie and Dye or Block Printing, we examine a collection of African textiles and decorate fabrics. We illustrate a collection of beads and jewellery from Africa, with common materials, patterns and colours. We also demosntrate Capoeira, a Brazilian Martial Arts initially developed by African slaves.
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Costume Design/Making
Making costumes provides an excellent insight into the history and purpose of the costumes. Students are prompted to ask questions that introduce profound explanations of traditional life of the tribes where the costumes derive. Heritage is indeed first expressed by one's attire.
PROFESSIONAL AFRO-ARTISTS
INSTRUMENTAL TEAM
SKILLED ENTERTAINERS
Our Team
ACD ARTS consists of diverse professional afro-dancers, band artists, and entertainers from various parts of Africa, who have a passion for dance, and for educating others through dance and sensory arts. In addition to being highly accomplished in their fields, we are also energetic, positive and caring.
Our team brings students together to practice and learn traditional African dances and sensory arts. In these workshops, students learn various dance techniques, African dance, sound rhythms, costume designs, visual arts with crafts and story telling that are unique to different African cultures. These dance workshops not only serve as a way of preserving African culture but also promote fitness, wellness, and cultural exchange. We operate in schools across the United Kingdom with our head quarters in Hackney, London.
The schools we work with in particular often book our workshops as part of cultural exchange programs, festivals, dance classes, black history month workshops e.t.c, allowing students to adapt distinctive cultural ideologies and accentuate African heritage demonstrations. Overall, our African dance and sensory cultural workshops offer an interactive way to celebrate the culture, promote diversity in a contemporary and educational model.
