Carolyn and Latanya Dance	Mar Stevens	Denis Solis ~ Las Bomberas

Samba at Drum Sundays ~ with Michaelle Goerlitz

We’ll be focusing on samba de roda, which includes congas and drums played with sticks. Bring a conga, and/or tamborim, agogo bell or pandeiro - all other hand drums welcome!

We meet at Laurel Jujitsu, 4148 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA (map)

Cost is $25 – $10 (sliding scale);
Under 12 free;
No one turned away for lack of funds

Class is open to ALL LEVELS.

There will be a limited number of drums to borrow on a first come first serve basis.

About Michaelle Goerlitz

Michaelle Goerlitz

Known for her versatility, Michaelle was a founding member of Wild Mango. She has played, recorded and toured with a variety of artists including the VNote Ensemble, Mark Levine, Soul Sauce, the Pickpocket Ensemble, rhiannon, Wayne Wallace, Val Pettiford, Jami Sieber, Barbara Higbie, Samba Rio and Tammy Hall. In 2007 she was named a rising star under the percussion category in Downbeat magazine.

Join us again for the last program in this series:  on July 7, with Lali Meija.

We’re in planning for the next series.

Playing Drums!	Drums!	Debbie Fier

See  “Faculty”~the names and bios of all the wonderful women who have taught at Born to Drum, Drum Sundays, or other WDI events.  They are an inspiring group indeed.

Linda Tillery

Linda Tillery is a veteran drummer, vocalist,  producer, and cultural historian whose career has spanned 34 years. Since the 1960′s, Tillery has been regarded as one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most versatile singers.

In the 90′s Linda took command of an even broader repertoire, tapping into the diverse resources of African American roots music. She shares with us the historic beginnings of Black music through Work Songs, Spirituals, Play Songs, Field Hollers, Moans and Ring Shouts.

When registering, please register and pay separately for each additional person.

Payment is by credit or debit card through PayPal.  You do not need a PayPal account to make your payment.  If you don’t have a PayPal account you’ll need to enter your credit card information when paying.

If you don’t have access to a credit or debit card, we will assist you in registering.  Just email us at camp@womendrummers.org or leave a message at 510-464-5902.  We’ll help with your registration and arrange payment.

If you are using someone else’s credit card, please let us know the name on the credit card.  Other wise we won’t be able to match your registration with your payment.

Thanks for registering for the Community Camping Trip.  We’re looking forward to a terrific week-end of music and community with you.

WDI Community Camping Trip is offering Trade Skills/Services for Fee for those who would otherwise not attend because of lack of funds. If you want to provide your services/skills in lieu of paying fees, please email camp@womendrummers.org or call 510-464-5902 and tell us:

(1)   the skills you will provide,

(2)   if you are willing to work at camp, such as setting up/taking down camp, helping with registration, monitoring the gate, etc., and

(3)   the days you plan to attend camp.

There is a limited number of Trade for Fees spots and we will decide based on needs for your services.

We will gather at Bort Meadow, Anthony Chabot Regional Park, 20 minutes from Oakland and 40 minutes from San Francisco. There is no address for the meadow entrance. The entrance is on Redwood Road, 4 miles south of the  intersection of Redwood Road and Skyline Blvd. Directions are below. The gate to the Meadow must remain locked throughout the day. We will have volunteers at the gate to let you drive in. If there is no one at the gate, park your car and walk down to the Meadow and find a volunteer to let you in.

Map coming soon!

Exclusive use

WDI has reserved the Meadow for the weekend and will have exclusive use of the various fire circles, picnic areas, etc.

Weather

The weather varies greatly at the Meadow at all times of the year. Be prepared for both hot, sunny California days and cool, foggy days and nights. Bring both your sweater and shorts! You will want a warm blanket and comforter in case of cold nights.

What to Bring

These are suggestions to help you pack for the week-end. You can download this document to use as a checklist when you’re getting ready.

“What to Bring”

* Your tent
* Foam sleeping pad
* Pillow
* Sleeping bag
* Lantern
* Food for 5 meals
* Snacks for between meals
* Ice chest
* Camp stove and fuel or charcoal or wood for cooking
* Pots, pans and eating utensils
* Matches
* A bundle of wood for campfire. Bring only commercially purchased and certified uncontaminated firewood to limit spread of Sudden Oak Death Fungus.
* Your drum(s) or percussion instrument(s)!
* A comfortable chair or stool for drumming.
* Tape recorder and tapes or other recording device with extra batteries, a notebook and pens
* Tape or band aids for your fingers – plain white adhesive is good.
* Refillable water bottle
* Prescription Medications
* Wash cloth
* Toiletries, Soap* Sunscreen (#15 +)
* Flashlight
* Changes of clothes* Hat and refillable spray bottle to stay cool on what to bring list
* Sturdy shoes for hiking
* Warm jacket
* Raincoat
* Day Pack
* Alarm clock for waking up on time and watches to keep track of class schedules throughout the day.
* Still Camera (no videos please and no flash)
* If you are hiking, extra shoes and socks
* Cash or checkbook for teachers selling their products

Women Drummers International assumes no responsibility for loss of or damage to personal property.

Please do not bring unnecessary items of value. You may want to carry with you or lock in your car any valuables that you must bring.

Video recording is not allowed, so please don’t bring your video camera — and please resist using that great video recorder on your cell phone.

Camp Rules

Camp rules are set forth below. Failure to follow the rules could result in individuals or the group being asked to leave the Meadow and could jeopardize our future use of Bort Meadow.

Parking is limited. Carpooling will be required.

We are able to drum outdoors until 10 pm. Under Park rules, quiet time is from 10pm to 7am. After 10pm we can have fireside chats, readings, jokes, singing, camaraderie.

Bring only commercially purchased and certified uncontaminated firewood to limit spread of Sudden Oak Death Fungus.

The following are not allowed on the premises:

* illegal substances
* fireworks,
* pets
* weapons of any kind
* alcohol
* amplified sound audible over 25 feet away
* generators.

When smoking outdoors, please deposit butts in appropriate containers, and NOT in trash cans or the campfire.

Check out time is 6 pm on Sunday. Please vacate premises by that time and leave the site as found.

Driving Directions

Directions coming Westbound on Interstate 580
* U.S. 580 W to CA 13N, exit 26A towards Berkeley.

* Exit Carson Street toward Redwood Road.

* LEFT onto Mountain Blvd.

* RIGHT onto Redwood Road. Cross Skyline Ave and drive 4 more miles. Bort Meadow Staging Area is on the right. Look out for balloons and signs.

* The gate to the Meadow will be locked. There will be WDI volunteers to let you in. If there is no one at the gate, park your car in the upper lot and walk down to the Meadow to find a volunteer to open the gate for you.

Directions coming Eastbound on Interstate 580*

* U. S. 580E to 35^th Avenue exit in Oakland.
* LEFT on 35^th Avenue. 35^th Avenue becomes Redwood Road.  Continue on Redwood Road and cross Skyline Ave. Drive 4 more miles and Bort Meadow Staging Area is on the right. Look out for balloons and signs.

* The gate to the Meadow is locked. There will be WDI volunteers to let you in. If there is no one at the gate, park your car and walk down to the Meadow to find a volunteer to open the gate for you.

Directions coming Southbound on Highway 13

* Highway 13S to Redwood Road exit in Oakland.

* LEFT on Redwood Road. Cross Skyline Ave and drive 4 more miles. Bort Meadow Staging Area is on the right. Look out for balloons and signs.

* The gate to the Meadow will be locked. There will be WDI volunteers to let you in. If there is no one at the gate, park your car and walk down to the Meadow to find a volunteer to open the gate for you.

For directions from a specific location, enter information in Mapquest or Google Maps as follows:  Your starting location in the “From” box and “Redwood Road and Skyline Blvd, Oakland, CA” in the “To” box. From Redwood and Skyline, go 4 miles south on Redwood Road.  Bort Meadow is on the right. Look for balloons and signs.

August 23 – 25, 2013

Bort Meadow, Anthony Chabot Regional Park

Join us on August 23 – 25, 2013 at beautiful Bort Meadow, Anthony Chabot Regional Park, just 20 minutes from Oakland, California for a weekend of camping, drum workshops, drum circles, shared meals, fireside chats, and camaraderie for women and girls, 12 years and up.

WDI’s Community Camping Trip is a fundraiser for Born to Drum 2014. All of our faculty is generously volunteering their time to teach workshops or lead drum circles. The organizers of this event are also all volunteers, and we will be asking participants to volunteer an hour or so each day to help with logistics.

Whether you are brand new to drumming or have been playing for years, you will find workshops that will both support and challenge you. We welcome women new to drumming and will offer workshops to help you build a strong foundation. Workshops range from beginning to advanced with many all-levels classes. All workshops and drum circles are outdoors.

Prices for a whole weekend of drumming are $40-$80/per day. Register early. Space is limited.

Those who cannot attend are encouraged to donate to Born to Drum 2014.

We will be tenting at Bort Meadow.  Our cars will be parked at a designated spot a short distance away from the meadow. There is limited parking. Carpooling is required. There are no electrical or other hook ups for RV. There are porta-potties but no showers. For those who do not want to camp out, the meadow is close to your homes or hotels in Oakland. Join us during the day!  If you want to spend the night, bring your tent and camping equipment. Please bring a chair or stool for drumming. Potable water is available.  You will find more details about what to bring in the section on Practical Information.

While we will share meals, everyone is responsible for bringing and cooking their own food and snacks. We will have a communal kitchen for those who want to cook together.

Trading services/skills in lieu of fees is available for those who may not be able to attend because of lack of funds. For more information, see the drop down menu or email us at  camp@womendrummers.org.

You can register now using the button below, or go to the registration page.

Carolyn Brandy

Carolyn Brandy has been drumming for over 40 years. She has been instrumental in bringing women to the spirit and healing of the Drum. Carolyn is the Artistic Director of Women Drummers International and co-creator of the Born to Drum Women’s Drum Camp. She was also the founder of the Bay Area’s favorite marching band, Sistah Boom in 1981. In 1976, Carolyn co-founded the popular band, Alive! that toured the nation for almost Women Drummers International10 years and has 4 recordings to its credit. She has worked in the SF Bay area for many years as a composer, performer, teacher and cultural worker

Carolyn is an expert in the folkloric drumming styles found throughout the island of Cuba. She has been a practitioner of the Yoruba-based Cuban religion, Regla de Ocha, also known as Santeria, since 1977. She was initiated as a priest of the religion in Havana, Cuba by Amelia Pedroso in 2000.

Carolyn has led five successful cultural tours to the Island of Cuba to study Folkloric music. She has organized workshops in Havana, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Camaguey, Santiago De Cuba, and Guantanamo, where the groups studied with masters of Afro-Cuban drumming and dance.

Carolyn has recently produced an instructional DVD series called: Step by Step Conga Instruction. More information about her DVD’s, and projects, can be found at: http://www.carolynbrandy.com

Lora Jo Foo

Lora Jo Foo is a color nature photographer, writer, author, organic farmer, labor and environmental justice organizer.  She took her first drum class at Born to Drum camp in 2010 and has been playing the djembe ever since.  You can learn more about Lora Jo and her work from her website, earth passages.

Malke Singer

I’m approaching sixty, a Jewitch lesbian who lives in Oakland,  currently experiencing a delicious if precariously balanced phase of great happiness living in Upper Peralta Creek neighborhood  in  a  little hundred year old Victorian cottage with my teenage son,  our dog,  and tortoise.  I love heights and ladders.  I work as an Occupational Therapist in WCCUSD.  I like to write and am a student of drumming of Africa, the African Diaspora and the Middle East.

BTD 2012 Faculty Roster

Daily Program (Overview of Day’s Events)
Faculty Bios
Class Descriptions
Class Schedule
WCR Site Map 1
Driving Directions to Walker Creek Ranch
Checklist: “What to Bring”
BTD 2012 Evaluation

We’re bringing copies of these documents to camp. But we also suggest that you download and print out a copy to bring to ensure that you have what you need. And of course some of us like to mark them up ahead of time!

Marketplace BTD 2011 Photo by Vaschelle André

The marketplace will be available on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, all three days of camp. If you are an artist, craftsperson, or body worker, we hope you’ll join us for one, two, or three days. Of particular interest are percussion instruments, drum bags, soaps, herbal teas, clothes, jewelry, etc. We welcome other visual arts as well as services such as massage and body work.

Details of costs and arrangements are in the application which you can here as a word document BTD 2012 Marketplace App — Word or a .PDF document BTD 2012 Marketplace App – PDF

Please email your application to womendrummers@gmail.com. If you don’t have access to email you can send it to us, along with your check, to

Marketplace
Born to Drum
P.O. Box 3715
Oakland, CA 94609

Payment: Payment should be made before camp and preferably by June 20. There are options on the application for staying overnight and for purchasing the wonderful Walker Creek Ranch meals. You will make your selections and compute the amount you owe using the application form. Payment options are by check or by credit card.

To use your credit card, use the PayPal button below and enter the amount you owe. You do not need a PayPal account to use this option. You will be prompted to enter your credit card information. If you do have a PayPal account, you can also pay using the bank account you set up with PayPal. You will receive a receipt from paypal that will show your payment for “born to drum marketplace fees”. Our PayPal email address that shows on the receipt is “drumcamp@borntodrum.org”.

To pay by check, send your check to

Marketplace
Born to Drum
P.O. Box 3715
Oakland, CA 94609

We will also acknowledge your payment and if needed contact you with any questions about your application and payment.

This is a women-only event and vendors must be female.

Spaces are outside on the dining room patio, so we recommend a canopy or umbrella. Tables can be provided. Just let us know in your application whether you want to reserve one or more.

Class Descriptions are here

Teacher Bios are here

Gourd Drums and Shekeres

We are looking forward to another fun raffle this year. One of our dear friends has donated some wonderful items and more are coming in from our faculty and marketplace vendors. More info soon!!!