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“What a talent!  This woman is inside of the music, and she can speak it in our language.  She's vibrant, a great talent and teacher, and can inspire some kinda light even in the darkest of places.   Work with her!  She shines, and you will too.”

                                           -Kate Thompson, Seattle

2 GREAT VOICE WORKSHOPS with Kumani Gantt, Virginia Schenck, Emile Hassan, Rebekka Goldsmith To Sign Up, email rebekka@rebekkagoldsmith.com Don’t miss this rare opportunity to participate in 2 improv-based music workshops with 4 seasoned vocal improvisation teachers! Here, as part of a performance of The Gift at Seattle’s ACT Theatre, Atlanta-based Virginia and Los Angeles-based Emile will join Rebekka and Kumani to offer the co-facilitated workshops described below: Vocal Improvisation Sunday, June 26th, 2011; 1:00pm-5:00pm Seattle Area Location, TBD $45 Dive in and explore the pleasure of making spontaneous music. Through group singing and other playful exercises we will use melody, harmony, rhythm, spoken word and songs to discover what is vocally possible. This workshop is open to anyone seeking to expand his or her creative potential. Come with your curiosity, and a love for music and community! Circle Singing Monday, June 27th, 2011; 7:00pm-9:00pm Seattle Area Location, TBD $10-$20 sliding scale “Circle Singing can be described lots of ways: vocal improvisation, vocal "jamming", add-a-part/change-a-part, vocal orchestra, "voicestra” as created by Bobby McFerrin, a "drum circle" for singers, or just plain "make it up" singing. It's done all over the world in countless different ways and it dates back to the earliest forms of human singing.” - SoVoSo website Song Circles engage everyone singing, in an improvised choral style where every voice matters and every voice is heard. Come sing! Together, we will create music that is of the moment! Here’s a taste of us circle singing at a 2008 Montreal Concert led by the incomparable Rhiannon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDAKqj0Q1to&feature=related $50 Special if you sign up by June 20th for both workshops! Emile Hassan: www.emilehassan.com Virginia Schenck:www.airborneecstasy.com The Gift: http://www.acttheatre.org/Shows/Onstage/TheGift PERFORMANCES Here/Now: Installment 9 w/Rebekka Goldsmith and 15 other musicians and dancers Saturday, June 18th, 2011 Open Flight Studio (OFS) / 4205 University Way NE / 98105 8:00-9:45pm $8 suggested donation http://www.herenowonline.blogspot.com HERE/NOW is a quarterly Dance and Music improvisation-based performance program, recently celebrating its 2-year anniversary in March. Each installment features eight Dancers and eight Musicians randomly paired via audience participation and given eight minutes to improvise a duet. The Gift by Kumani Gantt Featuring Emile Hassan, Virginia Schenck and Rebekka Goldsmith June 30, 7:30pm ACT Theatre, Bullitt Cabaret Tickets $10 http://www.acttheatre.org/Shows/Onstage/TheGift Five black women from the United States' past, present - and possible future - search their collective memory and America's changing landscape for a semblance of home. A play with music, The Gift ponders the lingering effects of U.S. slavery on a country and its people. We meet Ayofemi, a young Yoruba woman who dives off of a slave ship in 1789; Rebekka, a slave living in Georgia, 1852; Sophia, a free, mixed-raced woman living in Virginia, circa 1865; Cassiopeia, a middle-aged psychic from the early 21st century, and her granddaughter Itzy born in 2040. mailto:rebekka@rebekkagoldsmith.comhttp://www.acttheatre.org/Shows/Onstage/TheGifthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDAKqj0Q1to&feature=relatedhttp://www.emilehassan.comhttp://www.airborneecstasy.comhttp://www.acttheatre.org/Shows/Onstage/TheGifthttp://www.herenowonline.blogspot.comhttp://www.acttheatre.org/Shows/Onstage/TheGiftshapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2shapeimage_3_link_3shapeimage_3_link_4shapeimage_3_link_5shapeimage_3_link_6shapeimage_3_link_7

June  2011