Supported by the Municipal General office of Culture of São Paulo and the Special Coordination Team of the Black Population, this workshop was coordinated by the composer and percussionist Lumumba.

Lumumba

Several meetings took place until that the more than 30 members were ready to present themselves openly. The presentation of the Orchestra took place on May 13, 2003 in São Paulo, aside to the Choral Forum. On this same day it happened the launching of the new site and video of Drums for peace and of the Proposal booklets for the 21st Century of the Alliance. The Drums Orchestra Ilu Bogbo Aiye is now a member of the World Movement Drums of Peace of the Alliance

Choral Forum in the launching

Thanks to the encouragement of being part of an international network, the musicians of the orchestra are doing a step ahead and, inspired in the bases of a fair socio-economy, they formed a cooperative for building instruments and studying the Afro-Brazilian culture. This was a dream of master Lumumba.

During June and July the group continued to play for training in the School of Sociology and Politics in Sao Paulo, besides promoting meetings with specialists in cooperatives. The Orchestra has been playing also in the Cultural Center São Paulo and in the II Regional Meeting of Cultural Policies in the city of Rio Claro.

Drums in the Meeting of Cultural Policies

Recently, the group Ilu Bogbo Aiye was invited to play in the delivery of the Herbert de Souza 5th award session, in the City hall of São Paulo. The award is destined to the natural or juridical persons highlighted for executing projects related to the fight for the citizenship and the combat against hunger, poverty and social exclusion.