9:00 Registration and coffee – 9:30 am – 3 pm workshop
Join us as we re-discover God with and in our voices. We will invite deep listening to experience the ways sound touches spirit and learn how sound can enhance well-being, leading us into more fulfilling relationships. Using simple chants, global songs, and the shared creation of sound and silence, we’ll have a day of transformation and big fun. There will be singing, drumming, movement, and group improvisation to provide you with more tools to enhance your spiritual practice and skills for building community—to invite, encourage, and include absolutely everyone in building deeper relationships with God and with one another. A composer/arranger, workshop facilitator, author, and mischief maker, Ana Hernandez works with people to create beautiful liturgies in many different styles. She teaches tunes for times of grace, abundance, joy, as well as times of grief, anger, and dishevelment, helping people all over the church (and beyond) find their voices and use sound as a way to come to a deeper experience of God. Her list of creations includes eight recordings and a book called The Sacred Art of Chant: Preparing to Practice. You can learn more about her work at www.anahernandez.org.
$10 fee includes lunch
Registration Deadline October 17 – contact Val Stelcen at vstelcen@dioceseny.org or 845-338-1086
Generously sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of NY, Region II, but open to absolutely everybody, join us in Kingston for an excellent day of fun and beatiful sounds! Also, if you like the flavors of autumn, you can partake of St. John’s annual Ham Dinner, either by take-out or eat in. Here’s the link with dinner info: sound-as-prayer-w-ham-dinner There’s Apple Crisp a la mode for dessert, so if you do take-out, dessert comes first!
Location: 207 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY