“We Are The Champions My Friends!”
:: May 12, 2010 ::
Greetings! You are reading this posting because you have shown interest in the Dondi Project. We call you a Champion! Other names we call you (they’re all good!) are: Enthusiast! Animator! Evangelist! A teller of the good news Dondi story! Thank you for engaging this project.
Currently the Abbey North Drummers – Christine Cullen, Joe Truss and Bazza Hayward, are in Saskatchewan presenting the project through drum circles and showing our award winning DVD – “Voices in the Ruins”. The May trip west will result in more than 20 events in the 4 Western Provinces and Northern Ontario. You can keep up with the western trip stories on their webblog.
Fourteen months into this project we see communities that have experienced the power of a drum circle to bring people together creating energy, community and engagement.
A recent example is North Bay.
A number of men who heard about the Dondi Project in February at the “Breaking the Ice Manitou Conference of the United Church of Canada Men’s Event” felt called to get North Bay on board. They organized an event at Omond Memorial United Church. Forty five people showed up, an intergenerational and ecumenical gathering. A man and his university aged son brought their own drums and made music side by side;
- A United Church minister brought his eight year old daughter and joined in the rhythm;
- Two young man, from Angola living in North Bay, spoke of how the DVD we showed had touched them;
- A woman astounded us saying that her mother was born on the kitchen table of the Dondi manse!;
- A Roman Catholic serving on his church’s Outreach Committee let us know that he was taking the Dondi Project back to his parish.
From this event a group of men are already planning for North Bay to be one of our 100 sites participating in our National Drumathon on October 1st and 2nd.
“WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS MY FRIENDS!” |
