The Roles of the Camp Organisers

 

SAC Roles and Responsibilities 2009/2010

 

Area	Coordinator	Holding Group Link
Treasurer	Maz	Maz
Secretary	Rowan	Rowan
WWG	Rowan	Rowan
Admin/Marketing
Database	Rowan	Rowan
Website	Rachael	Rowan
Marketing and Advertising		Rowan
Ticketing – Punters &	Diane	Chris
Workers	Chris	Chris
Address List		Rowan
Site Crew	Pre camp: Ian On camp: Faye	Mark
Gate / First Aid	Karen and Pia Julia	Jandy
Karma Yoga	Rowan	Rowan
Café	Nick	Jandy
Creativity Children/young teens/Teens/Adults Sports/ storytelling	The Creativity Team	Nomsa
Outreach	The Outreach Team	Chris
DUP Leaders	Amida	Maz
DUP Musicians	Jilani	Rowan
Voice	Sarah	Maz
Circle Dance	Mick	Maz
Women’s Activities	Frances	Nomsa
Men’s Activities
Feedback		Maz
Shop	Rachael and Tom	Maz
Overall programme	Maz and Rowan

  

WWG Members:

Rachael & Tom (website & shop)

Keith & Chrystia (creativity & outreach team)

Frances (women)

Ralph (outreach)

Nick & Michael (cafe)

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Voice Teachers

Voice Teachers 2010

Chrys Blanchard

Chrys is a freelance composer, choir leader and percussionist, whose professional work calls upon the great diversity of skills she has acquired after more than 25 years in the performing arts. She creates and directs projects, training and workshops for theatre, education, the health service and community groups. Chrys has a particular interest in sound healing, and the effects of sound and music in our lives. She runs 2 community choirs in Abergavenny, and various monthly drop-in groups, as well as guesting at other events.

On camp Chrys will be leading Find Your Voice sessions. In these she will create a safe space for people to explore the very root of how we make sound with our voices, finding our optimum resonance and building confidence as we build our voices.

Bruce Knight

Bruce Knight has been running singing workshops since 2000. He is known for his upbeat and energetic style, and his love of songs with simple dances or movement. Bruce runs the 100-strong Songlines community choir in Warwick and Leamington Spa, and is a regular teacher at the Unicorn Natural Voice Camp.

On camp this year Bruce will teach a couple of his favourite songs with the intention of sharing them at the informal “Sacred Arts Cabaret” on the last afternoon.

Su Lewis

I have been singing all my life. I am a member of the Natural Voice Practitioners Network and have been a natural voice teacher for 5 years. I am a regular voice teacher for Island Voices Community Choir on Portland in Dorset. I sing with two choirs and a women’s singing group, and write and arrange songs for small groups and choirs.

At the camp I will be leading some morning wake-up singing sessions. These relaxed and fun sessions are designed to wake the voice and body up gently, ready for the busy day ahead, and we will sing simple rounds and part songs.

Sarah Pennington

I have been singing since 1996 and teaching natural voice since 2001, with both small and large groups. I am a member of the Natural Voice Practitioners Network and co-founded Big Sing Dorset with Gilo.

My intention is always to create a safe space in which everyone can enjoy their voice and experience the magic of harmony singing and the sense of community that it can bring.

At the camp I will be leading some of the morning sessions, working with the Harmonic Temple, a body of harmonised chants written by Nickomo using mantras from various spiritual traditions for affirmation and healing - angelic sounds to summon up warmth and wonder.

Ralph Nimmann

Ralph leads a Taizé harmony singing group in Cambridge and is a member of the Cambridge Georgian choir CHELA. He also led the Berlin Chanting Group for 6 years.
“Ralph is wonderfully patient and takes great care to make sure that everyone feels included. …Ralph could get even the most hardened non-singer to surprise themselves.” (feedback from a Cambridge Taizé singer).
His teaching style could be described as “Sacred Fun”. Ralph especially loves leading peace dances sung in harmonies. Read more: http://www.rainbow-cambridge.org.uk/dances/

Ralph will be leading Taizé singing sessions at the camp.

Habiba Willow

Habiba has been involved with Dances of Universal Peace for over 20 years and leading them for most of that time. She was in at the start of the Peace Through the Arts camp, which subsequently evolved into the Sacred Arts Camp. She has also had a long connection with Sufism and its various practices.

Particularly in the last 8 years or so, the ancient Sanskrit prayers and mantras have inspired her a lot and been a regular part of her practice. Two of Habiba’s primary inspirations are Haidakhan Babaji and Amma, the hugging saint - but she will pick up Bhajans wherever she will!

At the camp Habiba and Buddhenath will offer Bhajan singing, accompanying the sessions on the Indian harmonium. Bhajans are devotional mantras in the Sanskrit language and have a very uplifting effect!

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SAC AGM 2010

We warmly invite SAC participants to our AGM

to be held on

Saturday 26th June 2010 2pm

All welcome, email us for details.
hello@sacredartscamp.org
We will hold a area feedback meeting for area co-ordinators at 10.15am and then the actual AGM will be at 2pm.

AGM AGENDA (draft)

1. Welcome and Apologies

2. Minutes of AGM 2009

3. Matters arising

4. UKNDUP

5. New members joining WWG

6. Preliminary statement of finance

7. Welcome of new Holding Group Members

8. Any Other Business

 

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Daily Programme

Here is a sample of a typical day’s programme. Remember: all workshops are optional!
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Time
Event

07:30-08:30
Sufi Practice

08:15-08:30 Dance of Life
08:30-09:30
Dances of Univeral Peace
Yoga
Voice Workshop

09:30-10:10
Bhajans
10:15-11:15
Camp Gathering

11:15-13:00
Dances of Univeral Peace
Teenager Activies
Childrens Creative Arts

14:00-15:00
Free Sharing Groups
15:00-16:30
DUP: Deepening in the Dance
Voice Workshop
Arts and Crafts for Adults/Teens
Contact Improvisation/Bodywork

16:30-17:30
Planetary Walks
Bhajans
Volleyball/Football/Frisbee
Circle Time*

18:00-19:00
Drumming

19:00-20:00 Story Time
Circle Dance

20:30-22:00
Dances of Universal Peace

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Camp Culture

Camp Life

Our experience of camp begins in our circle of a dozen or so tents. This is our corner of the camp where we can learn new ways of co-operation in cooking together, sharing kids, songs and stories, washing up and chopping wood. From here we go out to the morning meeting, a forum where we discuss the day’s programme, share information and offer our skills.
Dance and song begin and finish the day, which is full of opportunity for arts and crafts, sharing groups, guitar and

drumming classes, story therapy, movement improvisation, yoga, 5-rhythms dancing, kids’ play and expeditions with the children.
The Medina Cafe is open for three meals a day if you want a break from your circle’s cooking, and for hot drinks & snacks throughout the day, making it a focus for meeting new friends from other circles.

The Camp Shop

The shop will be situated in the Gate Circle and, as always, will be open 3 times a day. The opening hours will be available in the Welcoming Dome when you arrive. There will be the usual bread and milk and fresh fruit and vegetables. The shop operates a ‘shopping list’. In this way anyone who needs to go off camp can buy what others also need, thus reducing our carbon footprint. Just come in and put your wanted item on the list (don’t forget to come back in and collect and pay for it) and if you are going off site, please come in and see what you can buy off the list.

Spiritual practices

There is a spiritual understanding behind the camp, non prescriptive and non dogmatic, which encourages compassion and the sharing of such practises as Sufi meditation, the Dance of Life, a Quaker silence, or a Subud Latihan - besides spontaneous expressions of concern, grief, love and healing. There may be a sweat lodge after the dances at night, or a gathering to sing the chants of Taizé around a fire. Your own contribution and experience is encouraged - we only discourage alcohol, drugs and pets.

Women

Throughout the life of the Camps (which have been running for some 20 years) there have been powerful and strong women’s groups led from our hearts and taking many forms. Some years we have seperated from the whole group of women to form maidens, younger women, mothers, creating women, grandmothers groups, and more besides.Each year we celebrate our girls becoming young women in a beautiful ceremony with our grandmothers group holding the wisdom, and our menfolk protecting the outside space by drumming, until invited in.

This year we will be open to all the possibilities, gathering for morning celebrations of the dawn, creating art with nature, celebrating in the sacred women’s  lodge to honour the moon, dance and sing, daily groups/ spaces to connect to ourselves, our visions, dreams and share inspirations, nuture our bodies and souls, hold each other softly in our grief, and joy. Every woman is welcome to call a circle and suggest a gathering at our morning meeting.

Men

This is a good opportunity to experience the brotherhood of a men’s group. This may take the form of a support group or, as in some other years, develop to mentor the young men, by ritual or by sweat lodge.

Morning exercise - Dance of Life and Yoga

Elders

Eldership is explored through stories and shared experience, leading to an awareness of the responsibility of our role in the family and community, to create bridges between age and background.

Cabaret

Show off your talents at the Cabaret!

Ceremonies and Rituals

We celebrate the widest scope of spirituality and celebrate dances and song from many traditions and countries. Our celebration of the Spring with Lada, a Russian goddess, in a spiral dance may contrast with the stillness of a Buddist prayer. We celebrate baby blessings and handfastings, and may have have rituals for the young women and young men.

We begin the camp individually exploring the site, each area of the camp leaping to life. And we end with the closing dance of the camp, hugs and goodbyes.
Some practise the Dance of Life each morning under the open sky, whatever the weather. Some practise Sufi meditation.

We might honor spirit with a sweat lodge, dance the Wave, or free dance and drum under the stars. Some evenings there will be Taizé singing by the fire. And towards the end of the camp, we hold a cabaret - a feast of entertainment. Mid-week we have a market where we share our creativity, and our children celebrate theirs with us.

We especially welcome our adolesents and people in their 20/30’s to join us in making the camp reflect all ages.

Arts & Crafts

The Sacred Arts Camp attracts artists and craftsmen who are keen to share their skills - in textiles such as batik and felting, in painting and drawing, raku pottery, and maybe some green woodwork. Classes are designed for various ages, so all the family will have some handicraft to take home at the close of camp.

 

 

 

 

and don’t forget to keep in touch with other campers at the community website Sacred Arts Community

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