LesleyWaldron will be joining us to present a short workshop on West African Dance with a brief history of the relationship between dance, drum and song.
Participants should be prepared to dance barefooted, have a drink of water and pen and paper if they would like to take any notes. We may also do some interactive polls or trivia via Kahoot!
KUUMBA ~ CREATIVITY SHOWCASE
Children,Youth and Parents ~Exercise your CREATIVITY!
Choose 1 Activity from the KUUMBA ACTIVITY list to present.
(*Challenges may require more time)
ALL: BE SURE TO ADD YOUR KUUMBA ITEM TO YOUR SHOE BOX
KUUMBA ACTIVITY LIST
BEAUTIFUL ~ BETTER ~ BENEFICIAL
Impressive, Pleasing, Attractive
Improve, Advance, develop, add to
Helpful, Useful, advantageous, positive
What is your something beautiful?
Think of something you can make even better.
How can something you do benefit /help others?
Use newspapers, magazines to find examples of Kuumba.
How would you use the Seven Principles to better your life?
How have you benefited from something someone has done?
Make a collage using the colours red, black & green taken from pictures, or any other source
Choose a person from history.
Become that person and tell what you did that demonstrated KUUMBA
What is something you can do to benefit someone else?
I am beautiful because…
Create a poem, book, picture, song/rap with this starter
What can you do to better yourself?
What can you do for yourself that will benefit you?
What impresses or pleases you at ACHA.
How would you improve ACHA?
What can you do for ACHA that will be beneficial?
How can we make our community beautiful?
What can you do to make your community better?
What can you do for your community that will be beneficial?
Draw a self-portrait.
Design an improvement award for someone you know.
Create an award for someone who has done something you think is beneficial for others
*Challenge
Reflect and present a plan on
What can you do to make somewhere (ACHA, Community, Home the World) more beautiful?
*Challenge
Research and present a person of African Descent, present/past
How did this person’s actions make a problem or situation better?
*Challenge
Research and present using creative expression
a video, slide show, pictures, movie, mural) of a person of African descent (Present) who has done something beneficial.