Performance: Drumming Activation with Afia Walking Tree, Deb Lane, and friends
After a morning of intense presentations, there is nothing like reconnecting to our bodies before lunch by dancing to the rhythms of great percussionists, and there are none better than Educator, Ritualist, Cultural Drummer, Ambassador, Spiritual Earth Activist Steward, Community Advocate-Trainer, and founder of Spirit Drumz and Raise Yuh Voice Jamaica, Afia Walking Tree; and Deb Lane, formerly of the Santa Cruz World Beat Band, Pele Juju; and their cohorts.
Zellerbach Theater Lobby & Patio
March 27th | 12:40 pm to 1:10 pm
Panelists
Afia Walking Tree
Percussionist, Educator and Facilitator
Afia Walking Tree, M.Ed., a Jamaican-born feminist percussionist, educator, and facilitator working at the “crossroads of rhythm, land, and liberation,” is an adjunct professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), an Artist-in-Residence with the African American Policy Forum, and One Billion Rising/V-Day’s Jamaica Coordinator. Afia has returned to Jamaica to steward a 25-acre regenerative land-based sanctuary and learning hub (Solidarity Yaad), where she curates nature-immersed healing journeys and eco-experiences rooted in ancestral wisdom, agroforestry, food security, and community care, prioritizing BIPOC women, and gender-expansive, queer, and trans-masculine people.
Deb Lane
