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African Drumming Workshop with Kofi Dennis

African Drumming Workshop with Kofi Dennis

Join Kofi Dennis in making steady-beat and rhythmic patterns with the African djembe drums and shekeres. There will be lots of movement, singing and chanting! All Ages.

 

 

Date:
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Time:
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location:
Chantilly Meeting Room
Library Branch:
Chantilly Regional Library
Categories:
Black History Presentation/Performance
Audience:
  General Interest  
FCPL Event Guidelines
Registrations open at 2:30pm Sunday, January 26, 2025

About Kofi

Kofi Dennis is a drummer, performer, and educator. He earned a degree in Early Childhood Education at the Komenda Teaching College, University of Cape Coast in Ghana, West Africa, and a degree in Theater Arts (creative dramatics) from the School of Performing Arts at the University of Ghana.

Since being in the DC metro area, Kofi has educated and entertained as a drummer, storyteller, singer and dancer at venues such as the Kennedy Center, Discovery Theater, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and Wolf Trap’s Theater in the Woods and Filene Center. He has taught creative drama at the Montessori School of Northern Virginia in Annandale for the past 10 years and has been a Wolf Trap Teaching Artist since 1998. He is recognized as a master teacher/trainer and presenter of West African Culture.

Kofi runs Play for Concepts and founded Class Acts Arts which features an outreach program is for at-risk youth in DC area correctional facilities. 

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