WORKSHOP LISTINGS-
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Music, Rhythm and Movement Creativity
Workshops and Facilitator Training Workshops
MRM FACILITATOR Training Program: 2 Day
(Santa Cruz, CA)
"Music for
People" MRM - Music, Rhythm and Movement Creativity Facilitator
Training - Learn to Facilitate Groups in Creative Music, Rhythm, and Movement
Play!
with Mary Knysh - Music for People (www.musicforpeople.org)
Date: Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013 and Sunday, Jan.
20, 2013
Time: Saturday, Jan. 19th: 10am - 5pm Sunday, Jan. 20th: 11am - 6pm
Location: NEW LOCATION!! 3709 Portola Drive, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 (in the El Rancho Shopping Center)
Cost: Facilitator Training $125 MfP
member, Music Together Teacher, Orff teacher and DCF discount ($115)
One Day Option: $65
*Music Therapists, MfP member, Music Together
Teacher, Orff teacher and DCF discount ($60)
**CE credits (7
hours) are available for these courses for an additional fee-please contact
Mary for more info (570.204.9783) or email maryknysh@gmail.com
Music, Rhythm and Movement Creativity Workshops -Mini Workshop (Santa Cruz, CA)
"Music for People" MRM - Music, Rhythm and Movement Play
with Mary Knysh - Music for People (www.musicforpeople.org)
Date: Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013
Time: 2:00-4:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Music Together, 239 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Cost: Single: $25 Family of 2: $30 Family of 3: $35 Family of 4: $40
FACILITATOR Training
Program: One Day in Los Angeles, CA
"Music for People" MRM -
Music, Rhythm and Movement Creativity Facilitator Training in LA, CA
Learn to Facilitate Groups in Creative Music, Rhythm, and Movement Play!
with Mary Knysh - Music for People (www.musicforpeople.org) and John Fitzgerald- DCF, Manager, Recreational Music Activities, Remo Inc.
Date: Sunday,
Jan. 13th, 2013
Time: 10am
- 6pm
Location: Remo
Recreational Music Center, 7308 Coldwater Canyon, North Hollywood, CA
Cost: $85
*MfP member, Music Together Teacher, Orff teacher and DCF discount ($75)
**CE credits (7 hours) are available for these courses for
an additional fee-please contact Mary for more info (570.204.9783) or
maryknysh@gmail.com
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More Information About MRM Workshops and Facilitator Trainings:
MRM: Music, Rhythm and Movement Improvisation Facilitator Training Programs
This training program will provide hands on facilitation experiences designed to give participants the self-confidence, skills and desire to facilitate others on their own! Our goal is to provide an inspirational and supportive environment in which each participant has the chance to discover, explore and express themselves while creating and transforming community through interactive improvisational music, rhythm and movement play. In the Los Angeles facilitator training Mary Knysh is joined by John Fitzgerald.
What will you learn?
- Basic group facilitation skills for leading groups of percussion and all instruments
- Methods for bringing a group of any size into expressive vocal and rhythmic song
- Great ice-breaker activities designed to get participants relaxed and interacting immediately
- Accessible and fun ensemble games and structures that can include all levels of experience
- How to faciltate movement as a form of “intentional listening”
- Use of rhythm and music for non-verbal communication and story telling
- Simple and fun brain-based strategies of engagement activities for use with all ages
This Facilitator training is especially good for:
- Music Together teachers interested in learning new and simple creative ideas for their groups
- Drum facilitators looking for new ideas for facilitation that involve voice and all other instruments
- Music educators (Orff teachers love these tools!) wanting to explore accessible, fun and interactive tools for music improvisation with their students!
- Anyone longing to bring more self expressive music into their community and/or workplace in an interactive and fun way!
- Musicians (all genres) who want to develop or improve their improvisation skills
- Teachers of all subjects and levels as inspiration for group work, team building and fun ideas for bringing rhythm and music into all curricular areas
- Music, Art and Movement therapists and Occupational therapists as new ways of engaging groups
Music for People: Mary Knysh
MRM: Music, Rhythm and Movement Improvisation Workshops
Enliven Creativity and Create Community Through Spontaneous Music, Rhythm and Movement Exploration and Play
The goal of this workshop is to provide an inspirational and supportive environment in which each participant has a chance to discover, explore and express their own unique creativity through spontaneous “in the moment” musical play. The games and structures are simple enough to successfully grasp immediately yet profound enough to explore for a lifetime! Return to child, that is the natural, spontaneous and creative way to playfully explore music, rhythm and movement. Mary Knysh shares a wide variety of simple and accessible activities that will have all making music together quickly and easily! Participants are provided with not only an exciting day of discovery and self expression but also an outline of techniques that can be explored at home alone or with a group of friends so that skills gained during the workshop can be explored long after the workshop. Anyone interested in discovering and developing their own improvisational skills, musical self-confidence and joy of music making have come to the right place. Bring your own instrument or enjoy one of ours!
A workshop designed especially to:
- Bring music into your life in a fun and interactive way
- Develop/Enhance improvisation skills for all levels of musicians
- Inspire all subjects & teacher levels for group work and team building
- Provide educators with exciting and accessible Brain-Based Engagement Strategies and Activities for classroom use
- Expand and Enliven Drum Circle Facilitation by including Voice and all instruments!
- Equip music educators with a myriad of new tools for fun, easy and interactive music improvisation (great for Orff instruments!)
- Music Together teachers interested in learning new and simple creative ideas for their groups
- Introduce group engagment and non-verbal communication ideas for Music, Art and Movement therapists and Occupational therapists
This workshop is terrific for:
- Drum Circle Facilitators
- Music Together Teachers and Parents
- Music Educators
- Classroom Educators
- Musicians (all levels)
- Music, Art, Movement and Occupational Therapists
In these workshops and training sessions Mary shares and integrates several bodies of work that she has trained in and taught for many years including the music improvisation work of Music for People (www.musicforpeople.org), ethnic drumming styles and drum circle facilitation work, and the expressive movement form of NIA (www.nianow.com).
About the Facilitator/Trainers:
Mary E. Knysh: Music for People Organization (www.musicforpeople.org) Mary Knysh is a professional musician, multi instrumentalist, recording artist, innovative workshop facilitator and educator as well as an endorsee drum circle facilitator for REMO drum corporation. Mary has worked with cellist David Darling and the Music for People organization for the past twenty years and serves as both a facilitator, professional development specialist and trainer within the organization both in the US and Switzerland. She travels throughout the United States and Internationally offering performances, workshops, and artist in residencies Mary is an Orff Schulwerk clinician and has presented at Orff conferences throughout the United States and Australia. She is an artist on the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts roster, Young Audiences of New Jersey, New York BOCES. Over the past nine years, Mary’s drumming facilitation and work has been featured in NYC’s “Community Drumming” summer events held in Wagner Park, Battery Park City, every July and August. Mary is the author of the book, "BoomDoPA" that serves as a guidebook for facilitating music improvisation activities with groups of any age and experience. Over the past twenty five years Mary has worked with a wide range of communities including educational, health care, and varied community groups.
John
Fitzgerald is the Manager of Recreational Music Activities for Remo Inc, a
freelance percussionist, and trained drum circle facilitator. Creating valuable
partnerships with individuals and organization who share the common vision of
music as a tool for wellness, education, and a better life is central Remo
Inc.’s mission and a primary aspect of all of John’s work.
Facilitator Training and Workshop Participant Quotes
- “Very quickly into the workshop Mary established a collaborative, safe, and supportive environment in which I felt free to play, able to experiment, and ready to grow.” Princeton Workshop participant
- “ I was effortlessly led by Mary Knysh to make music with a group of people at a higher level than I thought possible. We sang, moved and played instruments forming a true community of sound. And finally, I felt like a Music Together Teacher, filled with the joy of making music, excited to go back and share that with my families and hopefully help awaken their own joy at making music themselves.” - Music Together Teacher
- “I am excited to use your ideas for more verbalizing to connect musicality into body movement. I loved integrating the movement, rhythm, body and the way we connected to rhythm in our bodies and transitioned that to movement.”
- “I leave this training with renewed energy for my mission to find affordable places to drum and to sing with my community!”
- “I will use the call and response, simple “say what you play” tools and musical conversation games with my younger students. For my older students I want to use more vocal body percussion to encourage them to relax and be completely present in their music and sound.”
- “I loved the simple and clear facilitation signals. I plan to do much more with the voice, echos, and drones when I return to my classroom. I was struck by the idea that drums and instruments can speak and provide us with new forms of non-verbal communication.”
- “The next time I walk into my drum class, I will begin without drums and open with voice and body and then add drums later on. I had never thought about beginning rhythmic work on the body and in voice, this was great!”
- “I am excited to start using my voice, up until today that was a very scary thought to me. I can’t wait to come up with more vocal sounds and body percussion ideas to share with my groups!”
- “Bundt pans rock! I loved the “found sounds” instruments and will encourage my students to explore this fascinating world of new sounds in everyday objects.”
- “I teach Music Together and I am excited to use your call and response with the bell idea as well as the call and response moving from voice to instruments during our “jam session” time. I also loved the drone with the voice and plan to use this as well.”
- “I have two choirs and several drum groups and I am inspired to go back and encourage more vocal and tonal improvisation with the drum groups and with the choirs I can’t wait to add more rhythmic singing, body drumming and drums to their music! Also the vocal drones will be a wonderful addition to both groups.”
- “I really appreciated the non-verbal drum facilitation skills, the simple call and response activities and the spontaneous rhythmic vocal structures will be perfect for introducing my students to part singing in a fun and engaging way, thanks so much for the great new ideas, I can’t wait to try them out in my classroom!”
- “I am a Drum Circle Facilitator and I am looking forward to adding more vocal and tonal activities into my drum circles, this was such fun and I leave with so many new ideas to try. Thanks so very much.”
DISCOVER
THE
HIDDEN MUSICIAN WITHIN YOU
WORKSHOP
ON MUSICAL IMPROVISATION
For all
those who play and sing, from age 0-99
Coming in April 2013
To be held
at the Villaggio del Fanciullo, via Scipione dal Ferro 4 on the 2nd
floor in the aula teatro.
Most
people are inhibited, at times even blocked, if you ask them to express
themselves musically. This unique workshop introduces the participants
to
musical improvisation. It has been designed for people with wide-ranging
professional backgrounds and musical abilities who wish to nourish their
love
for music and develop their own expressive skills in music. Going back
to a
childish state – this is the natural, spontaneous, and creative path to
learning improvisation in a playful way and in a constructive, mutually
supportive atmosphere. Mary Knysh, instructor in the organization Music
for
People (www.musicforpeople.org),
offers a wide variety of fun, accessible techniques and activities which
will
help everyone make music together in a stimulating, encouraging,
relaxing way,
quickly and easily! The workshop is especially recommended for:
· Musicians who want to develop the technique
of improvisation (including
classical musicians)
· Music teachers in search of inspiration for
work with their own students
· School teachers in search of inspiration
for facilitating group work
· Music- , art- , and movement-therapists
· Music lovers aiming to improve the
spontaneity of their access to music.
To
register, please call (+39) 334.173.8162 or write info@musictogether.it
SCOPRI IL TUO
MUSICISTA NASCOSTO
WORKSHOP DI
IMPROVVISAZIONE MUSICALE
per tutti
quelli che suonano o cantano dai 0-99 anni
April 2013
presso il villaggio
del fanciullo, v. scipione dal ferro 4, 2p aula teatro
La maggior parte delle
persone e’ inibita, perfino bloccata se gli si chiede di esprimersi
musicalmente. Questo workshop
unico introduce i partecipanti all’improvvisazione
musicale ed e’ pensato
per persone di diversi background professionali e abilita’ musicali
che vogliono sviluppare
il proprio amore per la musica e la propria capacita’ espressiva
musicale. Ritornare
allo stadio del bambino – questo e’ il modo naturale, spontaneo e
creativo per imparare
l’improvvisazione in maniera giocosa e in un’atmosfera costruttiva e
di supporto reciproco.
Mary Knysh istruttrice dell’organizzazione Music for People
www.musicforpeople.org
condivide una grande varieta’ di tecniche divertenti e accessibili
e di attivita’ che
aiuteranno tutti a fare musica insieme in maniera stimolante,
incoraggiante,
rilassante, velocemente e facilmente! E’ spcialmente consigliato per:
• Musicisti che
vogliono sviluppare la tecnica d’improvvisazione (anche musicisti
classici)
• Insegnanti di musica
che cercano ispirazione per il lavoro con i propri studenti
• Insegnanti delle
scuole che cercando inspirazione per facilitare il lavoro di gruppo
• Musico-terapisti,
Arte-terapisti e Terapisti del movimento
• Amanti della musica
per migliorare il loro accesso spontaneo alla musica
per
iscriversi 334.173.8162 -- info@musictogether.it
