Chicago: Djembe Group Classes

DJEMBE DRUMMING

Chicago Live Group Classes
Thursday Nights 6:00-7:00PM
September 19, 2024 - December 19, 2024
Location: Mama Africa Marketplace, 2100 E 71st Street 

Victoria Boateng is a Chicago-based djembe instructor, performer, speaker and self-autism advocate. Her mission is to share how drumming has helped her navigate Autism and impact the disability community through her drumming.

Victoria studied West African drumming with master drummer Bolokoda Conde and Michael Taylor. She is now a substitute teacher at Old Town School of Folk Music and hosts drum classes for the Autism community at Elastic Arts in Chicago, IL. In addition Victoria has consistently practiced mastering her craft on stage with life artists throughout the city of Chicago. She is a part of the all female drum and dance company, Ayodele Drum and Dance and She Wolf Sacred Movement. Victoria graduated from Western Illinois University in December 2012 with a bachelor's degree in communication and minor in theater.