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Rhythm Events in our community

Everything is Music
Friday, August 20, 6-8 pm
CCB Plaza, downtown Durham
This was a wonderfully successful event:
Perfect weather; set in the center of downtown Durham; good set up and support by Durham Parks and Rec; great audience participation AND a really good turnout of playful folks of all ages!

Here's a few photos of the amazing event. You can click this link to see more photos!

Here's what we did:
Using the Rumi poem Where Everything is Music, the following arts organizations will collaborate to offer this exciting performance and participatory multi-media arts presentation:

Triangle Playback Theatre - improv theatre

Triangle SoundPainting Orchestra - improv music

Music Explorium - Rockin' Recycled Percussion making and a Community Drum Circle - all ages

We brought lots of hand drums and hand percussion to play on, and folks brought their own or made their own. What fun!!

Everything is Music was the title of our 3rd Friday Art Walk scheduled by Durham Parks and Rec for this coming August 20th at CCB Plaza in Downtown Durham. Using this entire Rumi poem as a springboard, we collaborated with Triangle Sound Painting, Triangle Playback Theatre to offer this exciting performance and participatory multi-media art presentation. It was a FREE event.

We will offer Rockin' Recycled Percussion Making
and a Drum Circle
at NC Zoo's Africa Day

Saturday, October 9th, 10am - 3 pm

Come enjoy the zoo and
"Make a drum ~ Play a drum"

You can hire Music Explorium, too!

Rockin' Reuse Percussion
Instrument Making and Parades
livens up any festival!

Great FUN for Festivals and Excellent Team Building
for Corporate Events

GO GREEN with Rhythm FUN!

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Our 2010 festivals include:

NC Zoo Earth Day; Raleigh Planet Earth Celebration; Durham Earth Day Celebration; Rocky Mount Kids Day; Concord private school Arts Festival; Hillsborough Last Friday; Zebulon Back to School; NC Zoo Africa Day

Your festival participants will get to create their own creative-reuse percussion marching band instruments, learn some funky marching beats and march and play in our Rockin' Reused Percussion Parade. It's a lively community expression of music! And a great idea for creative and sustainable reuse. Participants use reused/recycled materials to create personalized percussion drums, shakers, guiros, kazoos, whistles or anything you can march and make music with. Make a shaker from a can or tube . . . a drum from a detergent bottle . . . a whistle from a cone. We bring all kinds of resonant reused/recycled materials for instrument making and for decorating these fun instruments. We lead the parade and everybody gets to strut their stuff! We bring a van load of resonant recycled/reused materials and fun materials to decorate instruments. Our facilitators make it easy for you - we handle all set up, clean up, and supervision of our tent, plus we lead kids and adults in instrument making and rhythm games throughout the day.

We give a special thanks to Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and RTP Signs for donating wonderful reuse materials for drum making.

Don't want a parade? How about an all-ages interactive drum circle?

We offer a variety of options to suit your needs.
Combine our instrument making option
with junk percussion jams
and/or a parade Free price quotes for any combination of these options
Register online using the Event Registration Form or call us at
(919) 484-9090 or Cathy's cell phone at 919-219-2371,
to inquire about and schedule your event.
or just email us: Contact us for details.

When you hire both The Scrap Exchange and Music Explorium® for your festival you get an added bonus! Participants can even make costumes for the parade!