Women
Drummers International
Thank
you all for your contributions to Born to Drum 2008
You
were Born to Drum!
And
you proved that at Born to Drum Women's Drum Camp 2008!
We hope
you had a wonderful camp. We
also hope you'll let us know, if you haven't already, what
worked for you and where you would like to see improvements
and changes. You
can download
the evaluation form (.pdf file) and email
it back to us when you've
completed it or send it by regular mail to Born to Drum, P.O.
Box 3715, Oakland, CA 94609.
We send
a special thanks to our faculty and
staff, including the twenty-five women who attended through
the Work Study program and the many volunteers who lent a
hand
before,
during, and after camp.
Most of
all, we are grateful to the women who attended camp and
brought their many gifts to bear on the week-end. It
was a joy to see you there and to share this event
with you. Many of you also donated to our Work Study
fund, which made it possible for 25 women to attend camp (and
if you haven't donated yet, you can do so here). Our
goal is to continue to make Born to Drum financially accessible
to all women and your generous support helped us toward
this goal. Thank you from all of us.
This year we held our first concert
-- an amazing event that we hope to make a tradition -- at La
Pena Cultural Center. Thanks to La Pena for their
support and for all the work they've done over the years
to create and maintain a cultural center for our community.
Thanks
to the Patsy Lu Fund and the Open Meadows Foundation
for their generous grant in support of this concert.
The following businesses
provided in kind support for the concert and the camp. We
are lucky to be in a community where this support is available
and hope that we will
all in turn
support these businesses:
Berkeley
Bowl Market
Berkeley Natural Grocery
Cheese N Stuff, Berkeley
Peet's Coffee and Tea, Berkeley
Rico's catering, San Francisco
Trader
Joes, Rockridge
Listen
here to Carolyn
Brandy and Afia
Walking Tree on
the July 14th edition of Women's Magazine, KPFA
Listen
here to Carolyn
Brandy and Thoz Womenz on Bay Native Circle,
KPFA