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Songwriting as a Path to Meaning

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Event Date: 
January 16, 2011 at 03:00 PM
Cost: $229 for 7 class course, 15% discount ($194.65) for S.A.C. members and returning students
Where to buy tickets: email: songpath@gmail.com
Website: http://www.lynoleum.com/LH/SongPath.html
Details:

7 Sunday afternoons from 3 to 5:30 p.m.

Beginning January 16th.

Where does songwriting lead? To outward success, to personal growth...or both?  This innovative 7-week course is designed to deepen the songwriting process and enhance creativity and artistic fulfillment, no matter where you are on the songwriting road.

- Facilitated, confidential discussions in a small group

- Inspiration from wisdom sources old and new

- Weekly songwriting opportunities 

Wk 1: Call and Response

Wk 2: Choices in Songwriting: What Matters?

Wk 3: Creative Spirit, Unseen Hand

Wk 4: Mistakes, Failure and Loss

Wk 5: Recording and Impermanence

Wk 6: Performance: Creating Connection

Wk 7: Success and Affirmation

Click here for more details 

Testimonials from Fall 2010:

"The course helped us dive into deep emotional space, with springboards into joy.  It is a masterful encouragement to feel everything we feel and write songs that enter in and rise out."

"I learned astonishingly new things about music by osmosis...uncountable gems and jewels and insights" 

"An atmosphere free from judgment, reducing performance anxiety" 

" I found this course coaxed me back into songwriting which had gone by the wayside for some time."

Additional Testimonials:

“Constant thoughtful insights around so many aspects of songwriting as it relates to our lives and our creative process. Helped me move through some haze and created the focus and momentum which has assisted my writing process…”

 – Taivi Lobu

“I learned to look and listen for inspiration, to try new approaches to writing…There were so many things of value.”  – Robert Murphy

“A rich and expansive environment of compassionate attention, thoughtfully structured to allow each participant an experience of unique growth.  Gave me an opportunity to recapture all that is pure—dare I say holy—about songwriting.” 

 - Susan Anderson 

Facilitator:  Lynn Harrison is a Toronto-based singer-songwriter who has released four independent CDs, has received recognition for her songwriting from the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals and numerous song competitions, has worked as songwriter-in-residence for a daily current events radio program (CIUT-FM in Toronto, writing and performing a new song each week for two years), received CBC Radio airplay across Canada and performed widely in both Canada and the U.S.  An experienced group facilitator and former writing instructor at the university level (Ryerson), Lynn has a lifelong interest in the intersection of artistic, spiritual and community life.  www.lynnharrison.ca


Venue:Wincester Theatre, 80 Wincester Street - Cabbagetown, Toronto
80 Winchester Street
Toronto Ontario