with Sam Holmstock of Entrain
Ongoing: Every Tuesday at 5:30pm

Cotuit Center for the Arts is offering a new class called Drumming through Trauma, designed for veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Drumming through Trauma is made up of weekly 90-minute classes using wooden drums and hand instruments. The classes focuses on drumming as a group, and each week begins with a warm up and ends with open jamming, also known as a drum circle.

Group drumming is an ancient healing practice used for thousands of years for stress reduction, self-expression and community building. Group drumming is also supported by ample scientific research to mitigate veterans’ symptoms of PTSD. Drumming Through Trauma is a unique drumming program that gives participants a physical and emotional outlet to relieve the feelings they have internally suppressed.

The class is taught by Sam Holmstock, a founding member of the band Entrain and teacher of Afro-Caribbean drumming for 30 years.  For the last 7, he has taught on the Cape at Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cape Cod Community College, and the Brewster Treatment Center, a residential program for incarcerated teen boys.

Drumming through Trauma runs Tuesdays from 5:30pm – 7pm and is open to all veterans dealing with PTSD. The class will be held in the art barn at Cotuit Center for the Arts.

All veterans with PTSD are invited to participate. The class is free to veterans with PTSD and drums are provided.

This is a weekly, ongoing class funded by The Golf Club of Cape Cod’s TGC Fund (a donor advised fund though the Cape Cod Foundation)