Events, classes and workshops.
The Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum is committed to a programme of continuous learning aimed at equipping Afrikan People with the skills, knowledge and aptitude necessary for unity, liberation and self-determination.
Accordingly we provide classes and learning environments aimed at enhancing our collective understanding of our history, current circumstances and strategies necessary for a prosperous future.
We aim to help produce Afrikan People who draw from the vast well of Afrikan history, learn from it and act on their learning in the present.
Similarly, we want to produce visionaries able to identify a future where our people are successful and prosperous, equipped to develop plans that will guide us towards that future, acted on in the present.
Brother Omowale - THE DRUM HEALER - provides a range of services, both directly and via UKOMBOZII ANCESTRAL DRUMS, which he coordinates as a sub-group of the PASCF.
Our Events.
Haitian Revolution Commemoration
The revolution carried out in Haiti by enslaved Afrikan women and men working in concert, was a world shattering event. It represented the all time single most important symbol of Afrikan people’s resistance to imperialism’s genocidal chattel slavery form of exploitation. The victorious Haitian revolution lasted from 1791 – 1804 and during that time Afrikan revolutionaries defeated British imperialism twice, French imperialism twice, Spanish imperialism twice and on top of that they defeated the class of lighter skinned Afrikans in Haiti when they made the error of trying to re-impose slavery on the island.
Afrikan revolutionaries planned intensively two weeks supported by traditional spiritual rituals in Bwa Kaiman (Cayman Woods) before launching on the night of 22nd/23rd August 1791 under the leadership of priestess Cecile Fatiman calling on the spirit of Ezili Danto and Priest/Iman Bookman Dutty.
Please join Ukombozii Ancestral Drums as we revisit the triumphant Haitian Revolution on Sunday 21st August 2022. Please bring a drum or percussion instrument.
Ukombozii 10,000
Organised through its sub-group Ukombozii Ancestral Drums, Ukombozii 10,000 is the Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum’s project to gather 10,000 Afrikan people and friends in one place at one time together with drums, in order to beat in unity and harmony in honour of our ancestors.
A critical milestone along that path will take place on Saturday 20th August 2022 at 12noon, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN . It will mark the first in a series which will lead up to the full Ukombozii 10,000.
Please join Ukombozii Ancestral Drums as we gather for the first milestone on the Ukombozii 10,000 path. Please bring a drum. If you don’t have a drum, simply put some red beans or black eye peas into a plastic bottle for your professional sounding home made shaker
Marcus Garvey Birthday Drum Salute 2022
Marcus Garvey stayed in England on 4 separate occasions: (i) 1912-1914; (ii) 1928; (iii) 1931; (iv) 1935-1940. He’s known to have lived in what are now Southwark, Lambeth and Hammersmith & Fulham, with a mailing address in Hackney.
Born in the Parish of St Ann, Jamaica on 17th August 1887, he went on to create the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) - the largest international Afrikan organisation of the 20th century. Speaking in the Albert Hall on 6th June 1928 he informed had 11 million members.
On 14th and 18th August 2022, in honour of his 135th birthday Ukombozii Ancestral Drums and friends will gather to pay tribute through our Marcus Garvey Birthday Drum Salute.
Please join us as we honour our great ancestor. Please bring a drum or percussion instrument.
Anniversary Celebration
Founded by Omowale Ru Pert-em-Hru and Oxalando Efuntola-Smith, launched 6th March 2007 and incorporated 11th July 2012, the Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum (PASCF) is a legal entity - duly registered Company number 8138966. Therefore, 2022 marks the 15th anniversary of its inception and 10th of incorporation. These auspicious occasions will be marked with a double anniversary drum salute. You are invited to join the PASCF sub-group Ukombozii Ancestral Drums in celebrating at:
Thursday 14th July 2022 at 7.15pm
Chestnuts Community Centre
280 St Ann’s Road
London N15 5BN
Or
Sunday 17th July 2022 at 2pm
Brockwell Park
Brockwell Park Gardens
London SE24 0NG
Marcus Garvey Memorial Drum Salute 2022
Marcus Garvey stayed in England on 4 separate occasions: (i) 1912-1914; (ii) 1928; (iii) 1931; (iv) 1935-1940. He’s known to have lived in what are now Southwark, Hackney, Lambeth and Hammersmith& Fulham.
He crossed to meet the ancestors in London 10th June 1940 and was initially buried in West London on 14th June before being reinterred in Heroes Park, Kingston Jamaica on 11th November 1964.
On Sunday 12th June 2022 Ukombozii Ancestral Drums and friends will gather in the park named after him to pay tribute through our Marcus Garvey Memorial Drum Salute.
Please join us as we honour our great ancestor.
Please bring a drum or percussion instrument and folding chair.
YORUBA AJE SHRINE
Come and join us on Sunday 19th June to honour and acknowledge the Yoruba Aje Shrine
Time: 1pm
Day: Sunday 19th June
Address: Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0BD
Tube station: Victoria
Our Classes.
Drum Healing
Every Sunday 1pm ,
Waterloo Action Centre, 14 Baylis Road, London SE1 7AA
Though we have few spares, please bring a drum or a shaker
Members £3, non-members £6
Ukombozii Ancestral Drums is a sub-group of the Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum (PASCF)
Ukombozii Ancestral Drums Group Therapy Session in association with The Good Brother Foundation.
Time: 19:30
Day: Thursdays
Price: £3 (Members), £6 (non-members)
The fees help us to keep the therapy group going
Address: 280 St Ann’s Road, London N15 5BN
Please bring a drum or shaker and water for your own consumption as shops are quite far!!
Ukombozii Ancestral Drums - a sub-group of the Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum (PASCF)
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Drum Healing Special
As part of International Women’s Month we are celebrating the greatest ‘Hero’ of the Haitian Revolution - a woman
We will be revealing her name and story at the following Drum Healing Sessions:
24th March at 7pm - Chestnut Community Centre, 280 St Ann’s Road, London N15 5BN
27th March at 1pm - Waterloo Action Centre, 14 Baylis Road, London SE1 7AA
Entry Price: Members £3/ Non-members £6
Please remember to bring your drum or percussion instrument if you have one
Marcus Garvey stayed in England on 4 separate occasions: (i) 1912-1914; (ii) 1928; (iii) 1931; (iv) 1935-1940. He’s known to have lived in what are now Southwark, Hackney, Lambeth and Hammersmith& Fulham.
Born in the Parish of St Ann, Jamaica on 17th August 1887, he went on to create the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) - the largest international Afrikan organisation of the 20th century. Speaking in the Albert Hall on 6th June 1928 he informed had 11 million members.
On 15th August 2021, two days before his 134th birthday Ukombozii Ancestral Drums and friends will gather at Speakers’ Corner Hyde Park - where he often spoke - to pay tribute through our Marcus Garvey Birthday Drum Salute.
Please join us as we honour our great ancestor. Please bring a drum or percussion instrument and folding chair.
Education Drum Classes
Many of us admire drums and drummers. We would like to play, but have never been exposed to a safe environment where we can learn without fear of embarrassment.
Ukombozii Ancestral Drums offers a fun filled safe space for people new to drumming to learn.
The emphasis is on participants learning in a comfortable environment where the pleasure of drumming underpins the ethos of the group. Just as when we were children, we learnt best whilst we played and had fun. Through fun filled sessions we hope to help you assimilate and learn better.
This service is particularly aimed at people new to drumming, but will also be a healthy learning/drumming environment for intermediate drummers.
Drum Healing Service.
There are many drums in the community with busted skins. They lay idle because their owners have no means of repair since the skills of drum healing are not widely known and the process of fixing labour intensive and expensive.
Through brother Omowale 'the Drum Healer', there is a solution through his Djembe reskinning service.
To meet Ukombozii Ancestral Drums' objective of gathering 10,000 drummers in honour of our ancestors (Ukombozii 10,000 project) and building it's membership, he is healing/reskinning drums at a fraction of the usual price.
If you want to be part of Ukombozii Ancestral Drums and Ukombozii 10,000 drums project objective, this service is tailor-made for you.
Drum Healing Therapy Groups
Playing/listening to drums can bring so much pleasure and joy into our lives. Yet the drum is capable of bringing so much more.
Where there is a deficit of joy, drums can bring it in abundance, rebalancing situations dominated by sadness. This is just one of the ways in which the healing capacity of drums can positively impact our lives.
Drums are also symbolic of the heart of Afrikan culture, making paying them a means by which socially and economically marginalised Afrikan People can positively reconnect with part of the essence of what it is to be Afrikan.
Afrikan people's experience of externally imposed slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism has fostered a situation where Afrika is at a low point in its history. This in turn has fuelled a situation where many Afrikan People have dissociated from their Afrikanness.
The resulting alienation has led to a level of identity 'confusion', even identity 'rejection' and self-hatred amongst Afrikan People which far surpasses this calibre of problem among other racial groups.
Ukombozii Ancestral Drums offers Drum Healing Therapy Groups aimed at helping participants (particularly Afrikan People) engage constructively with this and similar identity crises.
Therapeutic drumming in groups allows these positive benefits to be amplified as shared experiences that promote emotional wellbeing among participants, both individually and collectively.
The healing capacity and cultural association of the drum are deployed to help create a safe space where Afrikan People can explore identity issues in a non-threatening, fun filled environment that fosters positive associations with Afrikan identity and culture.
