THE PEACE DRUM PROJECT
What is The Peace Drum Project?
Designed to provide Boston teens with quality after-school arts programming and
leadership training, The Peace Drum Project helps teens from different backgrounds,
schools, and neighborhoods develop artistic, problem solving and critical thinking
skills together. Each year, twenty Boston teens (ages 13-18) develop positive
relationships with youth, while they gain mastery of a variety of performing
and visual arts skills that help them tell their own stories. Through workshops
given by project staff-artists and guest artists, the teens explore: acting,
storytelling, drum making and playing, bookmaking, journals, banner-making and
other forms of expression. Through these art making activities, the teens develop
new tools for expressing their feelings, ideas and experiences in positive and
meaningful ways.
The Peace Drum Project is also an arts-based community service project bringing
teen participants together with senior citizens from the same Boston neighborhoods
to help them tell their stories to the larger community. The teens and elders
work together to learn about each other, and to create Peace Drums, which are
visual stories about their own lives. Each spring, the drums, books and other
creations from the project are exhibited in the community to bring families,
the teens, the elders and others together to celebrate their stories and their
creativity, and to build bridges across the generations.
Click here for Peace Drum Photo Exhibit.
If you are a Boston teen interested in participating click here
for an application form.
Click here if you are a Parent or Teacher of teens.
For more information about The Peace Drum Project , contact Susan Porter at 617-524-6378 or at cai@tribal-rhythms.org.