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The twin goals of the Mugen Taiko Dojo teaching programme are accessibility and excellence. We run introductory weekend workshops for adults at the Dojo, as well as hands-on workshops for children as part of our outreach work. Weekend workshops at the Dojo are open to the public and attract participants from all over the UK, and from as far afield as London, Inverness, Belfast, Paris, Amsterdam. We also run more advanced workshops at the Dojo, ranging in level right up to the Taiko Academy, the purpose of which is to train and develop professional-level players. We also host “Guest Teacher Workshops” which enable people in Britain to learn directly from the best teachers from Japan and beyond. |
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The Dojo itself is the first purpose-built space for taiko drumming in the UK, a converted byre in the South Lanarkshire countryside. The word Dojo means school or place of learning in Japanese. More specifically it means “The Place of The Way”, so it is a place for learning the path of the art form: the philosophy, the training of the heart and mind as well as the actual technique of how to play. |
