Be A Member | Give
Tripadvisor Facebook-f Instagram Spotify Youtube

WORLD DRUM DAY

Drum with Us!

Join us for 24 hours of collective drumming in a celebration of unity.  

Let’s drum together from October 18 – 19 | Celebrating 30 years of LEAF 

SCROLL to learn how YOU can join!

About World Drum Day

LEAF Global Arts & DRUMSTRONG announce the second World Drum Day, set for Saturday, October 18, 2025. This initiative invites people around the globe to join in 24 hours of collective drumming to celebrate unity.
 
The concept for World Drum Day is simple: Everyone is welcome, and anyone can participate by drumming for any amount of time wherever you are— even just a few minutes — between noon on Saturday, October 18 and noon on Sunday, October 19. Drummers worldwide are invited to join in by sharing videos of themselves drumming on social media, using the tag #worlddrumday OR post directly to the World Drum Day Facebook event page. Also, a drum can be anything. Djembe, table, steel pan, drum kit, bucket, even hands and feet: whatever you have that makes a beat!
 
World Drum Day is a unifying vibrational outpouring of interactive community drumming, setting an intention for good while connecting thousands of global participants. LEAF Global Arts aims to include 50% of the world’s nations in World Drum Day. It’s a perfect pairing with LEAF’s year-long theme, Each One, Teach One.
"We are all a beating drum {with our heartbeat}." 
Drumstrong logo

ABOUT DRUMSTRONG

DrumsForCures produces DRUMSTRONG™ events globally raising awareness and funds in support of cancer survivorship, education, prevention, and research — through uplifting, facilitated, interactive Rhythm experiences. Rhythm for Health!

A portion of funds raised helps subsidize our ongoing community outreach programs and children’s, young adult’s, adult’s, family’s, and staff’s activities in hospitals, camps and schools.

Learn More

PLAY TO THE BEAT OF YOUR OWN DRUM

Share Your World Drum Day Location

PICK UP THE DRUM & COME TOGETHER

Join us for the second World Drum Day,
from noon on Saturday, October 18 
to noon on Sunday, October 19, 2025.

Everyone is invited to participate!

Back to Top

 

AN URGENT LETTER FROM THE LEAF BOARD:

For nearly 30 years, LEAF Global Arts has connected people through the power of art, music, and culture. Every shared moment has been made possible because of you – our community.

The LEAF Festival is critical to funding LEAF’s larger work: providing global cultural arts programming for thousands of local youth and preserving cultures and traditions around the world.

This year, we are facing a financial crossroads: between the loss of last fall’s Festival, losing a majority of our arts education funding in 2025, and not fully recovering from COVID, the future is bleak. The upcoming LEAF Festival could be our last if we don’t come together to sustain the heart of LEAF’s mission – but we have seen what this community can do when united for a cause greater than itself.

To open the Festival experience to as many people as possible, and to rally the full spirit of LEAF, we are offering a limited number of LEAF LOVE Tickets at a significant discount.

These special tickets, offered at 30% off (our highest discount, even more so than our Early Bird pricing) are our way of ensuring everyone has a place in this story. Full-priced tickets also remain available for those with the means to give a little more to help support LEAF’s vital work.

Your presence, your voice, and your support matter more than ever right now. Join us in making this LEAF Festival one that the world will never forget and ensuring the music continues for generations to come. 

Mayani is a Maasai boy from longido Arusha. He went to boarding school at 6 years old and lost his Maasai language and tradition. Since joining the LEAF program, he has learned to sing Maasai songs, practiced the ‘jump’ tradition and wear Maasai shukas (traditional clothing). Mayani is extremely happy and is currently teaching other youth the culture.

 

 

 

 

CloseMenu

MAIN MENU