Jul 4 – Jul 6, 2014 Fri 7:00 PM – Sun 1:00 PM $400.00     Join artist and woodcarver Pat Jarvis for a musical weekend as he instructs you in making your own mini African-style drum, and teaches basic drumming techniques on the African djembe.No experience required! Learn about African drumming and build …
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  May 29 – May 30, 2014 Thu 1:00 PM – Fri 4:00 PM $220.00     ‘When Bryan leads the song, everyone sings along! It’s so much fun!’ “Praise precedes faith. First we sing, then we believe.” – Rabbi Abraham Heschel In this workshop, Bryan Moyer Suderman will share his passion for writing scripturally-based …
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    National Worship Conference July 20-23, 2014 – Edmonton, AB Home The National Worship Conference is a biennial conference sponsored by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada. The Conference welcomes participation by clergy and laity of these two churches as well as clergy and laity from other churches …
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  Price: $360.00 Date: March 14, 2014 Carolyn McDade Mar 14-16, 2014 We sing music of Carolyn McDade, as well as others, and the songs of social movements. We reflect in silence, communal sharing, and simple ritualized moments. Entering the circle as persons, we collectively create  who we are together. Cost $360  includes double occupancy room, …
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  Faith and Art: Allies or Rivals? September 13 and 14, 2013 Erdman Center, School of Christian Vocation and Mission Princeton Theological Seminary Overview A striking feature of modern times is the success of scientific understanding, and the astonishing range of new and hugely beneficial technologies that the scientific approach to the world has produced. …
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  Musical Masterworks of Allure and Transformation Register Online December 28, 2013 – January 1, 2014 Saturday through Wednesday (4 nights)   As the 20th century approached, a hurricane of new movements unmoored the musical forms of Old World Romanticism. Between 1870 and 1920, new styles – Modernism, Impressionism, Orientalism, Primitivism, and Neo-Classicism – altered …
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  Audible Grace: Promise and Challenge in Congregational Song Special Opportunity: May 23-25, 2014 The goal of this retreat is to cultivate an awareness and appreciation of sacramental dimensions in what we sing in worship, especially the ways congregational song awakens memory and hope. Such connections with the past and the future engage us on …
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    Association of Anglican Musicians 2013 Conference   Denver, CO   June 30 – July 4, 2013   2014 Washington, D.C.    

  “God Is Here: Worship in a Wireless World”    2013 Biennial Conference          June 30-July 3, 2013          Valparaiso, Indiana   Register online      Print a Registration Form with plenary speakers Elizabeth Drescher, Craig Mueller, and Benjamin Stewart a hymn festival, with commentary by Susan Cherwien and choral leadership by David …
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    Sunday, March 3rd – 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.      Centre for Spirituality at Work and St. Andrew’s United Church present   Work, Jazz & Spirit:   A Conversation about Working SMARTer with Dr. Brian Fraser, Lead Provocateur, Jazzthink, and The Tom Reynolds Trio   Can the lessons of Jazz help us bring …
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