SFCC World Drumming Fall 2009

Spokane Falls Community College World Drumming instructor, Marty Zyskowski, and SFCC World Drumming students perform a West African drum piece in Building 24. Marty describes the piece as follows:

The original idea of my piece was to echo the meaning of the name affixed to Building 24 described to me as the Salish name, Sn-wey-mn or "Trading Places." My original concept was to have 4 Djembe student drummers (with myself performing on Axhaste/shaker and African double bells) perform a celebration pattern modeled after a West African rhythm called 'Coucou.' We would be "trading places" in the drum configuration patterns and eventually trading off our drums for "hands" playing these same patterns on the banister railing, steps, and walls transcending floor one to floor two.

Our gratitude to Marty, our students, and SFCC Video Storyteller, Rick Suhr. This video is copyrighted by SFCC.

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[jeremy1158]

Oh yea and it means "place of commerce"

[jeremy1158]

The SFCC Multicultural Committee awarded a mini-grant to

have two Native American consultants tour the campus to

identify ways the campus could become more welcoming

to Native American students with art, architecture and

storyboards. With help from retiring instructor Rich Baldasty

and local tribal elders, one finding was to name the new

building sn-wey-mn... Wheew, but now you know

[DayLateFriend91]

Its the name of the school building..i forget why they chose that name but yeah

[bigd0113]

how com at 0:08 you have sn-w'ey'-mn lol do you guys even speak salish im just wondering cause i speak it im from the kalispel reservation