Drums
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Drum Circle with Aaron Meli
Aaron will be teaching an open level Drum Circle where everyone is welcome to come and develop their percussive skills.
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Talking Drum with Baba Ade
With a wide range of sounds, sometimes reaching a whole octave, you will learn how to play ‘call and response’ rhythms, come up will your own phrases and learn about the history of how Talking drums feature ceremonially.
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Caribbean Drums with Blaggy
A journey into the techniques used in "Nyabinghi drumming and chanting". Nyabinghi music is heavily rooted in the Rastafarian community in Jamaica and has influenced Ska, Reggae and dancehall.
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Bodraphonics - Celtic drumming for everyone
These engaging and informative workshops are designed to give the beginner the tools to play along to a range of Celtic and English dance and folk tunes, while also being able to challenge and progress the more advanced musicians.
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Dun Dun Drums with Dembis Thioung
The West African DUNDUN drums are a set of three double sided drums hit with sticks that make up the HEARTBEAT, the MELODY and the SOUL of traditional West African djembe music. They provide the rhythmic and melodic base for drumming ensemble.
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Djembe Drums with Mohamed Gueye
The Djembe drum is the back bone of West African music. In these advanced workshops Mohamed will challenge participants opening up the world of the Djembe and its infectious rhythms.
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Japanese Taiko Drums with James Barrow
An incredible artform - learn the ancient practice of Japanese Taiko drumming with James who has been teaching for over 20 years
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Ewe Drum with Kakatsitsi
Broaden your drumming horizons with 3 sessions from these two heavy roots group from Ghana and Nimibia.
Dance
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This workshop will provide an insight to the Senegalese style of dance. With explosive moves and fantastic drumming rhythms, participants can be assured they will have fun whilst learning something new.
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Diola and Djembe Dance with Aida Diop
Back by popular demand Aida will be delving back into the world of West African Dance with Diola and Djembe dances. These rich and vibrant dance styles will give you a great insight into Senegalese culture.
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Bollywood taster workshop with Aanchal Gupta
Enacting the lyrics though dance has always been the true essence of Bollywood which is very conveniently achieved by combining expressions and drama to highly addictive Bollywood steps.
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Move it - to World Rhythms with Ann Earle
'Move It!'- Lively workout using rhyming world music and various cultural dance styles to awaken and warm-up body and soul.
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5 Rhythms with Bernadette Ryder
A free-style, catalytic dance-meditation, 5Rhythms works to free the body, open the heart, still the mind and awaken consciousness.
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Flamenco with Felipe de Algeciras
Come and try this exciting dance for everyone, with all its passion, fun and feeling. You will be inmersed in the unique music played live and direct so that your feet can tap their way through this beautiful form of expression.
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Afrofusion with Kenzi Ireland
Kenzi Ireland’s ‘Afrofusion’ is an exciting, creative, high energy dance class. Utilising the rich diversity of African dance movements with song, this class empowers students to explore their musicality, creativity, subtlety and power.
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Classical Indian Dance with Manuela Benini
Join Manuela in learning Kathak dance, a classical dance style from the north of India that literally means story teller.
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Street Dance with Ocean Bell-Grey
Ocean is back with his very popular street dance class to get you all moving to some gritty urban beats.
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African Dance for ‘Experienced Veteran’ Dancers’ with Rubba
Rubba will teach the Damba Takie which is a stick dance from Ghana. This dance in it's traditional form is celebrated by Butchers.
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Irish Set Dancing with Sharon and Mick
A taster of Irish Set dancing, danced in square sets to lively jigs, polkas and reels. The Wednesday session is open to all to try. If you would like to perform please attend the other 3 sessions in order to produce a nice polished set.
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Doris Morris with Vic Sprake
Morris dancing is a traditional English Folk Dance, performed through rhythmic stepping and movement through figures by a team of dancers.
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South African Urban house fusion with Nyaniso
This is aimed at expression, that is the heart of sbujwa, the heart of art. Just as you would listen to the latest house music in the township to get and an idea of where South Africa is.
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Bedouin Dance from the Arabian Peninsula
Traditional folkloric line style dance with earthy rhythmic foot work and clapping. This will be an open level workshop for all ,complete with the use of traditional costumes for performance.
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Kule Dance with Kakatsitsi
Kule – a new dance choreographed by our lead dancer Kofi Adarkwah.
Song
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Your Voice with Celestine Walcott-Gordon
Your Voice - is about encouraging individuals to express themselves vocally in the truest form. Through relaxed yet focused guidance, singers will have the space to develop their artistry and confidence.
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Harlem Jazz with Dionne Draper
Sing and dance the night away at the 'Harlem Fields' Speakeasy. Be part of the most colourful 1920's jazz story ever to be set in the Leicestershire countryside. It's jazz with hay bales!
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Songs of the Orixas with Jon Hardeman
Delve into the beautiful, powerful call and answer praise songs of the Orixas, the suprahuman expressions of natural forces, communion and the divine self, from the African/Brazilian religious ceremonies of the Candomblé.
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English Folk Songs with Yvette Staelens
Come and explore English folk songs … and more at Doris! We will discover and share the songs of our singing ancestors - the true voice of the people!
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Love Peace Harmony World Family with Hilal Yildirim
Love, Peace and Harmony song carries the high frequency and vibration of love, forgiveness, compassion and light. We will learn and chant to release blockages and transform in every aspect of our lives.
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Jamaican Folk Songs with Tan Teddy
Tan Teddy Jamaican Folk Culture Group will be facilitating folk singing workshops, encouraging harmonic voices to showcase a rich combined folk singing fusion
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Afro-Colombian Song with Jose Augusto Barco and Sandro Granda
Warm and sticky Afro- Colombian call and response songs which will remain in your soul for the winter to come.
Music Making
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Musical Composition with Alphonse Touna
It is an opportunity for the participants to use any musical instrument of their choice. By the end, the participants will have an improved team spirit, confidence and ability to perform live.
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Balafon with Ben Lawrence
Get lost in the beautiful melodic world of the Ghanian Balafon. This class is an introduction to group performance.
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Zimbabwean Mbira Music with Denise & Kennedy
Immerse yourself in the sacred magic of mbira music through playing, singing & exploring the rhythms of this ancient tradition.
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Introduction to Indian Classical Music
Here you will gain an understanding of the life-blood of Indian Music, how musicians think, communicate and express themselves.
Movement
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Giving and Receiving Yoga with Ali Jane
A guided practice in Partner Yoga and Thai massage. Come to wind down and soothe aching muscles with this nourishing and heart connecting practice.
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Qigong with Bill Commerford
Inner Qigong exercises are easy to learn and facilitate wellbeing, self-awareness of posture, breath, stillness and integrated movement.
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Ra Yoga with Cara Jefferies
Ra uses movement and breath to feel lightweight in your body and bright in your mind!
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Mat Pilates with Matt and Anne-Maries
Pilates Mat work. Join these are fun and informative classes and learn something new about the way your body moves.
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Animal Spirit & Tai Chi with Dr Olu Taiwo
Join Olu Taiwo in these two workshops that will take you on a journey through ancient movement and animal connection.
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Hatha Flow Yoga
Hatha Flow Yoga is energising and relaxing at the same time. We will warm up the body gently and then come through a flowing sequence of postures.
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Yoga for drummers with Heather Murray
Yoga to channel our 'ki', merge with our 'ma' and for drummers to play from the heart and the hara.
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Capoeira Angola with Ollie Dennison
Capoeira is an Art combining dance, music, and philosophy. Originating from Brazil it is a discipline that exercises the body and mind. We would like to encourage intergenerational and family learning in these sessions.
Ceremony, Meditation and Healing
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Sacred Community Fire with Carole Nomessin
Fire provides warmth, lights the unseen and helps us rediscover our inherent capacity of knowing and connection.
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Soundbath Healing with Gail Stewart
You are invited to experience the benefits of a sound bath with the great gongs, to luxuriate and pamper your mind, body and spirit.
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Medicine Wheel with Jo Elliot
Morning prayer to greet the day with appreciation, to acknowledge the gift of life and the blessings of this world.
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Tibetan Meditation with Nyima Kunchok
The Sound and vibrations bring your attention to a place of rest deep within yourself and allow you to reconnect with your true nature bringing you understanding and acceptance.
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Sufi Philosphy and Whirling Sheikh Ahmad Dede
Whirling is an active meditation and an ancient Sufi technique. During these workshops there will be wisdom talks and an introduction to the meaning of the secrets of whirling.
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Guided Meditation and Tea Ceremony with Jitei White
The Ceremony of Tea is a beautiful way of experiencing yourself, of experiencing Tea and finding a deep connection with all things.
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Gong Bath with Aaron Meli
Gong Baths are one of the most soothing, body detoxing holistic rejuvenating vibrational ancient tools. A gong bath or gong sound meditation is a sound massage for the body and mind (great for those of you who like the idea of a massage, but don't like to be touched).
Cosmic Workshops
BRAND NEW workshop tent this year hosting a wholesome array of healing workshops
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Vision Board workshops with Agata Palmer
Create your Vision Board to focus your intentions and choices in living your life to fullest of your unique purpose and desire.
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Mama Luna Red Tent Steam with Emma Ako
The Mama Luna Red Tent Steam is for women to come together and learn about natural womb health and healing.
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Reflexology Made Easy with Holistic Holly
The wonderful art of Reflexology: How and when to use it (no experience required)
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Physio Yoga Weave with Lesley Dike
Yoga... a great way to explore and invest in your body's well being, especially after camping and long car journeys!
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Native Herbal Medicine with Stephen Watts
A practical focus on the native plants surrounding the site, teaching and experiencing their edible, medicinal, spiritual and folklore uses.
Arts, Crafts and Creativity
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Creative Writing with Adriana Dorsett
By using found objects and ephemera as vehicles, we will imagine narratives. We will ask ourselves what things feel like, and draw upon our emotional memories to feel, sense and collage moods, colours and tones.
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Banner Bonanza with Alex Lucas
Put your mark on Tribe of Doris! Help make banners that will be used year after year at Tribe of Doris!!
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Sacred Geometry with Colin Power and Heike Bielek
Explore the wonderful world of Metaphysics, through the creation of beautiful mandalas, fractals, and geometric images.
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Soft Metal Work with Kevin Hughes
We will be using simple metalworking tools to create our own designs in copper aluminium and bits of scrap metal. Let your imagination run wild in metal!
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Watercolours with Pip Gillman
We will practice watercolour techniques, wet-into-wet, dry brush etc. We will paint from life, memory and imagination.
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Tribe of Doris Bayeux Tapestry with Brook Tate
Brook will teach workshops on drawing and painting, bringing the sketches back to a large canvas to reproduce the drawings on a much larger scale. As the week progresses we should get one long storyboard of the Tribe of Doris!!!
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One World, One Love
Join us to experience what a world without borders could really look like – ours will be full of art, poetry, film-making, dance, colour and joy.
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Wood Carving with Pa Modou
African Woodcarving workshops . Learn the ten steps of carving and ten basic roles of health and safety in handling carving tools. Also learn he history of Gambia and design
Walks, Talks and Learning
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Equine Facilitated Learning with Kate Mably
Connection, in a world where we increasingly feel disconnected horses have something to teach us.
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Ancestral Memories in the Creative Process
Ancestral memory theory says that memories of our ancestors are retained in our DNA and collective memory which is why we sometimes have an affinity with places, music or movement we have never encountered before
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Sugar, Sugar: Dramatic readings and writing workshop
Find your voice at the Sugar, Sugar writing workshop with Lainy Malkani author of ‘Sugar, Sugar Bitter-sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers.
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Age Defying Nutrition
Join me to discuss natural health solutions that can increase our vitality now and prevent health conditions in the future.
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Exploring Stanford Hall with Nick Fothergill
Want to know more about the land, the house and the history of the beautiful site that welcomes us back for our 4th year at Stanford Hall?
Kids and Youth
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Woodland Crafts with Bob Blunden
Set in a woodland hideaway, these workshops will take you through some Doris bushcraft basics - fires, shelters, carving, instrument making.
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Gumboot Dance with Cecilia Ndhlovu-Edwards
Originating from South African gold mines, the gumboot dance is an empowering and exhilarating dance that expresses the miners fight for freedom and their need to communicate with each other when talking was forbidden.
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Afro Brazilian Percussion with Claudio Kron
An infectious, high energy, fun workshop in which a variety of Brazilian rhythms are taught, practised and performed.
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Chanter & Drumming Pipe Band Style
Come and have a go at making a lot of noise with lots of laughter.
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Capoeira Angola for ALL the family with Ollie Dennison
Capoeira is an Art combining dance, music, and philosophy. Originating from Brazil it is a discipline that exercises the body and mind. We would like to encourage intergenerational and family learning in these sessions.
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Wooden Games with Oluwatosin Shittu
Play in a green world where the creative Wooden Game become magic and reality that you made in freedom.
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Family Singalong with Poco Drom
Back by popular demand our favourite animal sing along friends! A great way to get all the family singing.
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Drum and Dance with Ruth and Jerome
Movement, music, fun and games for little people. Join a mini drum circle, wiggle, jiggle and stretch as we sing and dance.
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Stencil Graffiti T-Shirt Making with Stephanie Turner
Create your own unique T-shirt using stencilling techniques, masking tape and spray paint. Celtic, African and Sacred Geometric patterns.
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Song/Lyrics and Performance with Watusi87
Creative exploration of various ways of performing the arts, with songwriting at the forefront.
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'Captain Arthur Barrel and The True Story Of The Pirate Patch' with Kim Brulee
Interactive storytelling show with art, music, props and puppets. Held in a planetarium/camera obscurer!
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Flamenco for children with Elena, Karina and Sonia
Girls and boys of all ages come and have fun and dance to Flamenco music. We will make up a little choreography using our bodies, feet, hands and other props and perform in the Saturday showcase!
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Family Jamming with Jules Olsen
A crazy mayonnaisey jamming session for all the family and everyone is welcome. Bring voices, instruments, family and friends and let’s make some noise.
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Sports with Juan Jose Muniz Martos
Burn off all your excess energy, make new friends and breath in that lovely country air with Juan. He will be facilitating football and volleyball sessions every day.
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"Pull Up" DJ Workshop with KMT Freedom Teacher
DJ Workshop - Learn various techniques such as drop mixing, Beat matching and Scratching.
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Clonkerboard for Babies and Toddlers with Naomi Rosenberg
A Clonkerboard is a colourful resonance board that the children can sit on and feel the vibration of songs, chants, rhythm, music and speech.
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Carnival Costumes with Mariana Pinho Rabello
Create beautiful recycled and up-cycled carnival costumes and props for an exciting parade on Sunday led by Mariana and young people! Delivered by the "Transform Project"
Roughly what time will the programme start on the 9th please?
Opening Ceremony will be 4-5pm and then taster workshops all evening plus open mic from 8pm x
Hi - my first time at summer school. I am not clear if you have to book workshops and how to? Advice please Thanks
Hi Mary
No need to book workshops, you simply turn up to them as and when you want. The programme will be available online by the end of July so you can start planning the merriment! Only thing you pay separately for is the sauna or massages should you want to enjoy something like that. Massage you book once on site. Any other questions?
Hi please can you confirm that you received my application to teach a workshop? Cheers! Heather
Sooo excited about all the new and different workshops this year as well as wonderful old favourites!!! And the Healing Field looks like a ‘must visit’ destination between workshops! So now can you arrange for MORE hours in the day to fit everything in please ! 😀
Glad you like the look of things to come…it’s always hard to balance Doris favourites with a fresh programme. We thank and appreciate all teachers who have taught before and to all those that are yet to! xx