photo: Jane Feldman
Ongoing ‘Moving Sound’ Series
check online Zoom workshops
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Gaston Bachelard called earth, water, fire and air the “hormones of the imagination.”
As Pir Zia Inayat-Khan points out in his book ‘The Holy Mysteries of the Five Elements,’Sufi authors refer to the elements of which we are made as“witnesses of being”.
Let’s listen and learn from the elements.
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ONGOING every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 10 a.m.
M O V I N G SOUND SESSIONS
Explore the transformative power of your voice and honor and celebrate the elements with creative movement.
Every session includes a gratitude dance and a kindness practice.
Email spiesarts@gmail for the Zoom link
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Sunday, October 22nd
“Your Name is Singing”
Becket Arts Center
Go to “Now and New” for more infO
‘baby totem’ clay sculpture - JoAnne Spies
~*~ The Power of your Name ~ honoring the earth
A Five-Week Series
EACH WEEK WE WILL HONOR AND EXPLORE A DIFFERENT ELEMENT
Wednesday afternoons
March 24th - April 21st
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Exploring different aspects of your name through the elements with sound, movement, drawing, story and poetry
Limited to SIX participants on ZOOM
To register
and for more information
email JoAnne Spies at:
spiesarts@gmail.com
Payments can be made at my bandcamp site.
Click on the full album or a single song, and pay what you like.
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Ongoing singing and toning online gatherings, exploring the majestic sound of the RAV Vast drum.
Bmin pentatonic RAV Vast drum.
Contact me at : spiesarts@gmail.com for more info
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH ~ 2021 MIDWINTER MUSICFEST 9A.M. - 5:30P.M. At @1:30pm - 2:50 I’ll be offering my session: Moving Sound, Singing Water
We’ll be doing music improvisations and creative movement to the elements. There are infinite ways to explore the realms of earth, water, fire, air and ether.
Looking forward to this!
Check out the other offerings for this full day extravaganza of music, movement and more:
You can register up until 8 a.m. on Feb 20 here:
Info and Registration for MidWinter MusicFest
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A webinar of music and movement activities presented on July 18th:
Music 4 Wellness resource page
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MUSIC AND MEDICINE CONFERENCE
BRIDGEPORT, CT
presenting 'Story Songs : Using Poetry and Music to Build Community'
in concert SATURDAY 7:00-8:00PM TRANSFORMATION THROUGH IMPROVISATION ENSEMBLE
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"Incantations and Song Magic" bascom lodge
I'm looking forward to the second year of "Song Magic and Incantations" atop the highest mountain in Massachusetts, Mount Greylock. Last year J.K. Rowling designated our own Mt. Greylock the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardy!
Come join me at Bascom Lodge on May 27th as we weave our magic, creating our own chants and songs.
To register: email spiesarts@gmail.com
MOUNTAIN BLESSING SONG @NOON BASCOM LODGE MAY 27
Kicking off the 80th season of Bascom Lodge, it's an honor to create a mountain blessing song that will salute all the elements. Hope to see you up there!
Ella Tawes in "Song Magic and Incantations' atop Mt. Greylock at Bascom Lodge photo: Gillian Jones Berkshire Eagle
My favorite thing is to tailor a workshop to an event. Invited to present a workshop on Family Day at the Rockwell Museum in conjunction with the opening of Istvan Banyai's "Zoom" exhibit, I asked participants to zoom in on different shapes they saw, then explore the rhythm and feel of these shapes. Everyone had fun with rhythm games, and had opportunities to conduct to different styles of music.
"ZOOM" by Istvan Banyai
Adding to Paul Klee's saying: "If a line is a dot that went for a walk".......a song is a sound that wanted to talk.
workshop for "Zoom" with guest conductor from audience photo: Stephanie Plunkett
WorkshopS
Istvan Banyai "Zoom" exhibit, Family Day workshop Norman Rockwell Museum Stockbridge, MA
"Writing Songs of Peace” Simon's Rock College, Great Barrington, MA
"Watershed Waltz" Assembly Program Undermountain School Sheffield, MA
Presenter at “Mahler, Creativity and Conflict” Austen Riggs, Stockbridge, MA
"Songwriting and Improvisation"Herman Melville's Arrowhead, Pittsfield, MA
“The Art of Improvisation”A Walk through the Galleries with Sound and Rhythm
Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
“Power, Passion, and Play: Reclaiming Our Voices” Miss Hall’s School, Pittsfield, MA
main gallery Rockwell Museum
GOOD WORDS AND KUDOS
SYMPOSIUM FOR EDUCATORS, NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM
"I can't thank you enough for the outstanding session that you conducted with our educators at Norman Rockwell Museum during our Symposium for Educators yesterday. As always, you were captivating, and the interactive opportunities that you provide make personal expression comfortable and possible for all.
People clearly enjoyed this immersive approach to teaching, and will hopefully now feel comfortable introducing such elements into their own work with students.
Thank you again for making this inspirational session possible, I look forward to working with you to develop opportunities for the future."
Stephanie Plunkett, Chief Curator, Norman Rockwell Museum
International Women's Day - Simon's Rock College
"JoAnne, thank you so much for adding your music and strong voice to our program yesterday! It was just the perfect, rousing, interactive break we needed from all the sitting and talking, and you certainly modeled for us what a powerful woman looks like when she's writing/righting the world!"
Jennifer Browdy, PhD Founder, Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Simon'sRock College
"Writer and song" drawing by JoAnne Spies
"JoAnne,
I'm so glad you came and shared the evening with us. I loved your songs -- really amazing, powerful, original. I can't wait to hear more. I hope we see you next year at Omega."
Love, Janet Gilmore / Jimmie Dale Gilmore
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"JoAnne is a seasoned performer with a strong, beautiful voice and a great sense of rhythm. She is wonderful to watch and listen to. Her authenticity, her spunk, and her pure love of music is infectious. If you can make it, you will be glad you did." Mieke Kohl - SOMA Dance Studio Eclipse Mill, North Adams, MA
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"I just listened twice to your wonderful CD while making blueberry muffins. I could hardly wait to write and congratulate you on your inspiring songs and authentic voice. I had to make myself focus on not burning the muffins. You are a honking, hooting, get down and get sacred, smell the water and trees lady. "
Trisha Pope - Director, Sutton Gospel Choir, Quebec