Kaya Rhythm & Arts

Wellbeing – Education – Music – Art – Storytelling – Dance – African Drumming – Native American – Songs – Traditions and Culture

Exciting and enriching arts-based workshops, projects and events for schools, charities, community groups, businesses and private clients – with a focus on participation, interaction, learning and wellbeing.

Call Alex on: 07729 638144

Email: milesalex8@gmail.com

Provision includes:

Drumming, Song and Dance Workshops
Art and Craft activities
Cultural Days – Native American, African, and more.
Teambuilding events
Parties, Celebrations, Festivals, Fetes and Fairs

Bespoke activities for any group and event – all ages and demographics.

Also specialising in working with special needs, mental health, behaviour improvement and disabled groups.

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Alex Miles, Director and Senior Facilitator.

“I’ve been teaching and running events for 25 years. My training and experience in the arts and world culture started in school, where my passion for drawing, painting and music kept me motivated right through to my Textile Design degree show at the Mall Galleries in London. I then travelled to Japan as an English Language Instructor, continuing to sketch and explore the country in my free time. Then it was on to Australia, parts of Asia and finally back to the UK to restore antique Japanese and Chinese furniture, before embarking on an amazing journey into percussion, African Drumming and Community Music making, learning from many teachers and master musicians, including Arthur Hull (internationally renowned percussionist *).

I took over my fathers business, Kaya Drums, in the early 2000’s and have been developing and improving the workshops that we offer with the same passion, enjoyment and sense of togetherness and wellbeing that I felt as a child and that I have seen and experienced in sharing and working with all of my teachers and students over the years – realising that very often these titles are interchangeable – I have learned as much, if not more, from my students as they have learned, from the amazing experiences and teachings that I have had the immense honour and pleasure in sharing with them.

If you would like to share and be a part of this wonderful learning experience please get in touch and we will find a way to make it happen.”

– Alex Miles

(Director, artist, musician, teacher)

* Arthur Hull is seen by many as the person who conceived and developed the idea of the facilitated community drum circle. https://villagemusiccircles.com/

“We sometimes do not know how to play together, how to work together, how to listen to each other, how to support each other and how to have fun and laugh together.

You have made us realise what an enormous creative potential we all have. Not for a moment were you fazed by our insecurities and inabilities but you gave every one of us the confidence to join in and make music together.

You have brought more to us than drums and music. You have brought yourselves and your enthusiasm to make something fantastic out of what is available. I think you have brought this idea to us: to be ourselves and to make something fantastic out of what we have. “

– Liane Worm – Regional Family Coordinator for Brainwave

These words exemplify the joy and passion for the work that we do and our desire to
share this with as many people as possible.