November 2011

  • Friday, November 11th, 2 - 4 pm 
    "LET EVERYBODY SING!" is a community singing event to which everyone is invited. No musical or vocal experience is necessary and new singers are especially welcome. Songs will be simple, fun and easy to learn. On this day of remembering and honouring those who gave their lives so that we could have peace and freedom, what better way is there to celebrate our gratitude at being alive than to join our voices in harmony. Singing is good medicine for the heart, mind, soul, and spirit. So come and let your voice be part of the joyful noise! Contact Shasta for more information.
  • Saturday, November 26, 10 am to 5 pm 
    Moving Meditation - Finding Stillness Within Movement through TaKeTiNa. Led by Shasta & Brian. Open Door Yoga Studio, 1461 Venables St. East Vancouver. With your voice as your guide and your body as your instrument, relax into a process of rhythmic stepping, clapping and vocal chanting. Discover your own path to stillness within movement and silence within sound. Experience the joy and vitality of group singing and the transformative power of chaos, while learning to be at ease with uncertainty. No musical experience is necessary. $40 if paid in advance, $50 on the day of the workshop. *** NOTE: Registration for this workshop includes 10% discount for residential weekend workshop at Rivendell Retreat on Bowen Island, Jan. 13 to 15, 2012. ***

    • January 2012

  • Friday Jan. 13 to Sunday Jan. 15 
    "The Rhythm Inside You" - a residential weekend TaKeTiNa experience led by Brian Hoover and Shasta Martinuk. Explore your relationship to rhythm in sacred space at the beautiful Rivendell Retreat on Bowen Island. Allow yourself to be nurtured in body, soul and spirit. This residential retreat will provide many opportunities to journey deeply into the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of rhythm through the practice of TaKeTiNa. There will also be time to be in silence and in nature. Cost is sliding scale $295 to $395 including 5 meals. ("Tuition and Meals only" option available for Bowen Island residents who wish to register but not stay at Rivendell.) The workshop begins after supper on Friday evening at 6:30, and ends with lunch on Sunday. Maximum of 20 people. Register by contacting Shasta.
  • Sundays, 7 to 9 pm, Jan. 29 to Apr. 22 
    The Bowen Island Village Songcircle is a weekly gathering for the purpose of sharing easy-to-learn and fun-to-sing music from many different cultures and traditions. All adults and older youth are invited to join. No musical or vocal experience required, in fact new singers are especially welcome. Cost is sliding scale $75 to $150. Bursaries are available is money is an issue. Contact Shasta to register, or come to the first one or two weeks as our guest to check it out. This songcircle is based on the Ubuntu choir model. See ubuntuchoirs.net for more information.

    • February 2012

  • Friday February 24 to Sunday February 26 
    Women&MenFriends Soultime Creativity Retreat at The Haven on Gabriola. An opportunity for adults and older youth (18 and up) to hang out together in the field of co-creative fun. We make up the weekend as we go along, but you can bet there will be singing, drumming and dancing, storytelling and poetry, and who knows what else we will get up to. Cost is sliding scale $325 to $500 up to Jan. 24th, after that the scale goes up to $398 to $600. Financial assistance is available. Contact Shasta for more information.

 
 

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