On Friday of Week 10 in Term 3 the Year 6 students will be treated to a Japanese Taiko Drum Workshop run by EZ Japanese from Melbourne.
The instructors name is Kiyomi.
At 8:50 6KOH and 6MRO with half of 6SSE will come to the AUDITORIAM ready for a 9am start. In Lesson 2 at 9:50, 6DGA and 6HHI and the other half of 6SSE will come to the AUDITORIUM for their workshop which will start at 10am. 6WVA can come in either session time slot.
Kiyomi's rules are very simple:
The drums will be set up like this is in the AUDITORIUM:
The arrows will be explained to you in the workshop.
Here is the schedule for the workshop:
Take a look at this Taiko Drum group from Tasmania auditioning for Australia's Got Talent in 2011. You can see how energetic Taiko Drumming is!
Did you hear them say that Taiko Drumming originally had not only a martial art focus but it also has a religious connection? For Japanese people who follow the Buddhist or Shinto religions, they believe that they need to create noise to get the attention of their gods. Do we have to make a loud noise to get God's attention?