Music Workshop / Class Community Event
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Climate Song Labs will take place once a month, featuring guests including Mi’kmaq leaders, activists, and scientists.
Sometimes there will be talks and sometimes we will have instructional workshops in traditional skills such as drum making.
The events are accessible and free and we are doing outreach to ensure communities most impacted by climate change are welcomed and supported.
Sunday, October 5, Nina Newington will speak about her experiences in forest protection in Nova Scotia. Then Kim Barlow will lead some songs, with lyrics projected so we can sing some good songs that are earthy and heartening. Singing feels good and is a great release of tension. Then we can write some ideas down and maybe sing some more. Instrumentalists welcome. Bring your guitars, ukes, fiddles. We would love to see some brass instruments! This will be the first of many sessions and over time we hope the group will make some songs together and separately, and learn to play them, and take them to the streets.
About the speaker: Nina Newington and her wife raise sheep and garden on the North Mountain in Kespukwitk . She is a writer, lichen hunter and president of Save Our Old Forests. Over the last 5 years she has spent 18 months camped out on various logging roads, protecting forests.
About the song leader: Kim Barlow is a banjo- and guitarist who lived in Yukon and recorded and toured Canada and internationally for many years before returning to NS. Twice Juno-nominated and currently teaching at Acadia’s School of Music, she is also Director of Music In Communities, bringing many programs and events to rural Nova Scotians.
[email protected]
Climate Song Labs will take place once a month, featuring guests including Mi’kmaq leaders, activists, and scientists.
Sometimes there will be talks and sometimes we will have instructional workshops in traditional skills such as drum making.
The events are accessible and free and we are doing outreach to ensure communities most impacted by climate change are welcomed and supported.
Sunday, October 5, Nina Newington will speak about her experiences in forest protection in Nova Scotia. Then Kim Barlow will lead some songs, with lyrics projected so we can sing some good songs that are earthy and heartening. Singing feels good and is a great release of tension. Then we can write some ideas down and maybe sing some more. Instrumentalists welcome. Bring your guitars, ukes, fiddles. We would love to see some brass instruments! This will be the first of many sessions and over time we hope the group will make some songs together and separately, and learn to play them, and take them to the streets.
About the speaker: Nina Newington and her wife raise sheep and garden on the North Mountain in Kespukwitk . She is a writer, lichen hunter and president of Save Our Old Forests. Over the last 5 years she has spent 18 months camped out on various logging roads, protecting forests.
About the song leader: Kim Barlow is a banjo- and guitarist who lived in Yukon and recorded and toured Canada and internationally for many years before returning to NS. Twice Juno-nominated and currently teaching at Acadia’s School of Music, she is also Director of Music In Communities, bringing many programs and events to rural Nova Scotians.
Pricing & Tickets
Pricing: Free
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| Other Events at Recreation Centre |
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| Sat Dec 13, 10am Create a Solstice Lantern |
| Sun Dec 14, 1pm Climate Song Lab |