The Japanese Canadian Association of the Yukon presents: RAW Taiko in Concert!
Experience the booming sounds of taiko with RAW: founded in 1998 as Raging Asian Women Taiko Drummers, RAW Taiko is a Toronto-based organization made up of East and Southeast Asian women and gender non-conforming drummers. They carry on the diasporic taiko tradition that grew out of Asian American and Asian Canadian participation in racial and gender justice movements of the 60s and 70. One of the few taiko groups of its kind in the world, RAW Taiko exists as a critical response and challenge to systemic and internalized oppressions. RAW Taiko plays large drums as creative resistance for social change, carving space for self-expression, education and community building.
