Raging For Change

Raging Asian Womxn Taiko Drummers (RAW) is a Toronto-based performing arts ensemble made up of East and Southeast Asian womxn (people who identify as women, non-binary, and gender-queer). Formed in 1998, Raging Asian Womxn carry on the diasporic Taiko tradition that grew from Asian American and Asian Canadian mobilization in the ’60s and ’70s. One of the few all-Asian, all-womxn Taiko drumming groups in the world, RAW is a critical response and challenge to systemic and internalized oppressions. RAW plays large Taiko drums as creative resistance for social change, carving space for self-expression, education and community building.   

RAW has performed at a wide variety of events, including Pride celebrations in Toronto and Buffalo, the Dim Sum Chinese Festival (part of Harbourfront Centre’s World Routes Summer Festivals), Muhtadi International Drumming Festival in Toronto and Tobago, Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts, Toronto’s WinterCity Festival, Labour union conventions, International Women’s Day events, art festivals, social justice events and more. 

Young Park
Stephenie Hui
Jody Chan
Wy-J Kou
Adrienne Mark
Yang Chen
Denice Badua
Rae Bariliea
Courtney Ayukawa

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