Wakan Wiya Two Spirit Drum Circle

5000 MacArthur Boulevard,Oakland CA 94613

10 April, 2022

Description

Healing drum circle with Wakan Wiya Two Spirit Drum. Join collective prayer through song and heartbeat. This is both an in-person only circle at Mills College campus in Oakland, CA. Please register to receive location and directions. Healing Drum Circle with Wakan Wiya. We will put down tobacco and share palabra, share prayer and song as we give thanks for the ways in which our full Two Spirit selves can, and do make our way in this world with the help of medicina in all forms. We will offer 4 rounds of song prayers and try to teach a few new songs while we spend time together for community healing work. This drum circle is cosponsored by CasaTiaLuna@Mills, the Office of the Chaplain and Casa Tia Luna. Please bring a tobacco offering or other medicine offering for our drumkeeper, and food/drink to share with the circle. Register for our Thurs March 17 Drum Circle @ 6pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/x/healing-drum-circle-with-wakan-wiya-two-spirit-drum-tickets-293504087627 ~~~ *Wakan Wiya (Sacred Woman) Two Spirit Drum is our Native American drum founded and led by Indigenous Two Spirit women in the Bay Area. Our drum was gifted to us to support access to drum medicine for our Two Spirit communities, our friends and familia. We support Two Spirit peoples returning to our Native drum traditions where healing medicine is for all. Our circles will always center Indigenous Two Spirit TGNC LGBQIA+ peoples, and we ask everyone who attends to respectful of this focus. Our community drum will only travel to public spaces and ceremonies with safe social distancing and masks. While we are a public drum, often asked to open ceremonies and events, we understand this as drum medicine, prayer and ceremony. If you'd like to invite us to your community or organization, please contact us at [email protected]. *Drumkeeper M. Zamora is a Chicana, Tongva and Yaqui Two Spirit feminist community organizer and teacher. Her ancestors come from the Los Angeles Basin and northern Mexico’s Sonora and Chihuahua regions. In her prayer communities she is a ceremonial singer/drummer. She has also led Native women’s drum circles with Turtle Women Rising, Bay Area American Indian Two Spirit (BAAITS) Drum, and is currently the drum keeper for the Wakan Wiya Two Spirit Drum at Casa Tía Luna (SF) and Spirit Root Medicine People: Indigenous Two Spirit Lifeways (East Bay). Zamora has taught Ethnic Studies, Chicana/o Latina/o Studies, and Gender Studies and Feminist Theory at California State University East Bay, University of San Francisco and Stanford University. She is currently an administrator for Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Mills College.