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Drums No Guns Commission,
Inc. | Upcoming Events
2008
- Commencement, Class of
2008 -Yale Divinity School/Institute of
Sacred Music.
- MLK Jr. 2008 Holiday
Celebration
Drums No Guns Commission,
Inc. | Previous Events
A partial history of our
national and local efforts
(1996-2007)
2007
- Martin Luther King Day
Celebration: Wexler-Grant School, State
Capitol (Hartford, CT), and Yale
Peabody Museum (New Haven, CT).
- Hartford Public School
Summer Youth Program, M. D. Fox
Elementary School (Harford, CT):
Drumming for Life and Celebration.
- Drumming in the Garden
(in the Hill neighborhood of New Haven,
CT), sponsored by Christopher Prokop,
Executive Director for the Yale Lead
and Asthma program in cooperation with
two church denominations as a community
outreach project.
- Freedom Schooner
Amistad Send-Off celebration (New
Haven, CT). Performed at the reception
for dignitaries and Amistad crew, the
ceremony at New Haven City Hall, and at
the Amistad launch for its 16 month
historic Atlantic Freedom Tour. (After
the reception, the requested and
received a copy of our CD Rhythms from
the Heart to accompany them on their
tour)
2006
- Kwanza Celebration:
SCSU Ethnic Heritage Center (New Haven,
CT) and Blessed Sacrement Chuch
(Bridgeport, CT)
- Yale Divinity School Of
Sacred Music - Convocation.
- Pro Football Hall Of
Fame Induction celebration for Rayfield
Wright (Dallas Cowboys) at Glenmoor
Country Club, Canton, Ohio; featuring
Drums No Guns and Cecelia Calloway
(daughter of Cab Calloway) opening
performance for Richard Street of the
'Temptations'.
- National Children's
Month -'Proud Me Kids Day' (Hartford,
CT)
- Commencement, Class of
2006 -Yale Divinity School/Institute of
Sacred Music.
- Celebrating Black
History and Youth Awareness, Longfellow
Elementary (Bridgeport, CT)
- Cultural Awareness:
Celebrating Youth and African American
History at Wilbur Cross Annex High
School (New Haven, CT) creative freedom
of self expression through drumming,
word, song, dance.
- MLK Jr. Holiday
Celebration - Wexler/Grant School Youth
Conference of New Haven. Also, State
Capitol (Hartford, CT) with U.S.
Senator Joseph I.Lieberman and States
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal
(who participate in bell ringing and
drum circle celebration), and Yale
Peabody Museum 'Drum Circle for Peace
and Environmental Justice'.
2005
- National Adoption Day
with 'r Kids Family Center, at City
Hall (New Haven, CT)
- Yale School of
Management 10TH Anniversary Alumni
celebration (New Haven, CT)
- Hill neighborhood,Yale
Lead and Asthma program and New Haven
Land Trust (promoting community
building, survival and ecology).
Drumming and Art in the Gardens.
- International Festival
of Arts & Ideas 10th Anniversary
Citywide Press Conference at Cafe
Botegga, (New Haven, CT), also 'Drum
City' Drum Circle of 1,000 drummers and
world music concert; featuring Drums
Across America band on the 'World'
Stage.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Holiday Celebration at State Capital
(Hartford, CT), also Yale Peabody
Museum (Legacy of Environmental and
Social Justice) and The Annual MLK Jr.
Youth Conference at Wexler-Grant
Community School (New Haven, CT)
2004
- New Haven Festivals,
Inc. July 4th Fireworks Celebration ,
25 entertainers performing the
launching of 'Drums Across America'
2004-2005.
- International Festival
for Arts & Ideas, opening
ceremonial carnival parade and Artist
residency, fathers program at 'r Kids
Family Center (New Haven, CT)
- Yale School of
Divinity, drum and music ceremony for
students missionary trip to Africa,
also Yale University Child Daycare
Center, 25th Anniversary
celebration.
- Martin Luther King ,
Jr. Holiday celebration at State
Capital (Hartford, CT), also Yale
Peabody Museum (New Haven, CT)
2003
- Yale University,
Department of Epidemiology and Center
for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS,
participated in AIDS Science
Day.
- New Haven Green
Memorial Fountain Dedication
Ceremony.
- International Arts
& Ideas kick off Luncheon,
Sponsored by Fleet Bank, Fleet
Financial Building (New Haven, CT) Arts
& Ideas, Drums No Guns in
partnership with 'r Kids Family Center
for "Heart of the Matter " workshops
and musical activities, New Haven
Green.
2002
- The Ethnic Heritage
Center (Southern Connecticut State
University) and Drums No Guns
Commission, Inc. teamed up in a joint
venture collaboration for its 3rd
Annual Heart of the Matter Cultural
Music and Ethnic Heritage
demonstrations, workshops and
presentations, as a part of the
International Festival of Arts and
Ideas of greater New Haven.
- 'r Kids Family Resource
Center (New Haven, CT), in
collaboration, fostering a year around
DNG afterschool - creative arts
leadership program
(2002-Present)
- Yale University School
of Medicine (Department of Pediatrics),
Yale - New Haven Lead and Asthma
Training and Resource Center, operating
a year-round "Drumming For Life"
program. Sponsored by City of New Haven
Office of Cultural Affairs and United
Illuminating Co.
2001
- Alliance For Justice
(Washington, DC) - The Launching of a
national documentary about the CoMotion
Program filmed in Richmond,
Virginia
- National Luncheon,
April 18, 2001 (Capital Hilton,
Washington, DC) "Reclaiming Democracy"
(opening and closing performing
group). Special guest appearance
by 2001 Ally Award recipient Deloris
Jordan, mother of sports legend Michael
Jordan, and keynote speaker, Bruce
Arnold Ackerman, Sterling Professor of
Law and Political Science at Yale
University.
- City of New Haven
"Fighting Back" Citywide Community
Awareness March and Rally, concluding
with concert on the New Haven
Green.
- Greater New Haven
community cultural arts after school
programs (2001-Present)
- Common Ground High
School, The New Haven Ecology Project,
Inc., Ecology and Cultural Music
Programs. Cross Annex Transitional high
school, DNG violence prevention
edu-concert and workshop series.
- Million Mom March
(2000-2001, Washington, DC) with
Michael Mills and Drums No Guns
Commission, Inc. leading 800,000
marchers on the national Mall (May 14,
2000, broadcast live on CSPAN); and the
2001 Hartford Million Mom March (May
14, 2001) MMM event aired (DNG leading
march) on CNN Headline news: Bush on
Gun Violence/Guns in America.
2000
- Strong Academy School
Family Resource Center, Drums No Guns
Commission, Inc., and Ethnic Heritage
Center "Breaking Barriers and Bridging
Cultures" Edu-Concert performance aired
on CTV(New Haven, CT)
- New Haven Public
Schools (Board of Education) "Kids
First" alternative music, art and
education components for the Bridge
Project/Comprehensive School Reform and
Bilingual Education Program.
- Amistad America and
City of New Haven sponsors Fund Raising
Gala and the Homeport Celebration of
the replicated Scooner "La Amistad", in
conjunction with Opsail 2000.,
historical tall ships display across
the north eastern seaboard.
1999
- National Education
Association (NEA) Echo Star Safe
Schools Network national satellite
broadcast, with the U. S. Department of
Education and the U. S. Department of
Justice (Richmond, VA) performing for
safe and nurturing schools.
- Concert for Peace and
Cultural Diversity, on the New Haven
Green, 20,000 attending.
1998
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
National Holiday Celebration at State
Capitol (Hartford, CT) performing
with Governor John G. Roland on drum
and cowbell.
- Feed The Children/New
Haven Board of Education and
Lipton/Pilot Pen Corporation, launching
Pilot Pen Tennis tournament at Yale/New
Haven Tennis Center.
- National Red Cross
Conference/Grand opening (Richmond, VA)
with former National Red Cross
President Elizabeth Dole.
- National Crime
Prevention Council Press Conference
(Saatchi & Saatchi, NY) "Taking
Back Guns", with former Atty. General
Janet Reno.
- National Handgun
Control and Handgun Violence Fund
Raising Gala (Washington, DC) meeting
with members of the U. S. Conference of
Mayors, Boston's OPERATION CEASEFIRE
and others, Featuring: Tony
Bennett National Annual Handgun
Control Conference for the handgun bill
(Washington, DC) with Jim and Sarah
Brady, Senators and Legislators.
Performance by Michael Mills,
representing DNG.
- City of New Haven Parks
Department, New Haven Police Dept. and
community organizations, Back to School
prevention concert and youth showcase,
New Haven Green.
1997
- Feed the Children World
Ministries/Hunger Relief and
Development (Hamden, CT) Teens help
feed others and " Drop the Guns America
Day " juice give away to local
charities, church groups and the needy
in Treadwell Business Park (Hamden,
CT)
- Centro San Jose
Community Center (New Haven, CT) DNG
cultural arts programs
(1997-2000)
- CT Department of
Environmental Protection and Yale
Peabody Museum, MLK day
celebration.
- Living Faith Outreach
Ministries, (Hartford, CT) Community
Youth programs.
- Casa Otonal elderly
residential and community center (New
Haven, CT), Puerto Rican Festival
celebrating twentieth
anniversary.
1996
- Stand For Children
March and Rally (Washington, DC)
accompanying the 2000-voice "America
Sings" Choir with 400,000
attending.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
National Holiday Commission Celebration
(1996-Present: State Capitol, Hartford,
CT)
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