Saturday 18 February 2012
Sunday 5 February 2012
Ocean of Song - Your Invitation
Dearest Friend
I am absolutely delighted to invite you to
Ocean of Song - March 23rd
Singing together to raise waves of funds and awareness for WaterAid
A truly oceanic collective of choirs and performers sing songs for water
Full details follow below.
I just wanted to share a few of the facts that have compelled me
to take action about water issues and to co-ordinate this event:
*Only 2.75% of the world’s water is drinkable
*Water is being polluted at a devastating rate.
* One child dies every second from water related illnesses.
*It costs only £15 to give one person access to clean water for life.
If you also feel inspired to act you can....
* spread the word by circulating this email or join us on Facebook
*sing
and speak lovingly to water - water crystals have been shown to respond to sound
- so singing in the shower can help too!
:)
* be mindful of your own water footprint this World Water Day
With Sincere Thanks for Your Support
Warmest wishes
Katie Rose
Come and Sing for the Waters of the World
In Celebration of World Water Day
Ocean of Song
Singing to raise waves of funds and awareness for WaterAid
Top choirs and performers will perform specially chosen songs for water, closing in a
truly oceanic collective finale directed by founder of Sing For Water, Helen Chadwick.
Choirs
Croydon Community Choir, Hackney Empire Community Choir,
Hackney Harmony Community Choir, Hackney Voices,
London Lucumi Choir, Song Works & The Wing It Singers.
Performers
Carina Coen, Hackney Choir Leaders Ensemble, Heloise Pilkington,
Jana Rowland & Bramfield Community Choir.
Mike Rowland & The One Feather Project, The Helen Chadwick Group
Singing Together to Transform Lives in Ghana & Malawi
One child dies every second from water related issues.
Help us to support WaterAid’s projects with local communities providing clean water,
safe sanitation and hygiene education in Ghana & Malawi.
Friday 23rd March
St John at Hackney, Lower Clapton Road, London, E5 0PD
Doors Open 7pm for 7.30 start. Close 10pm.
This event be live-streamed by Sounds Orange reaching a live on-line audience.
Tickets: Reservations in advance - £7, £10 on the door.
Sing for Water was initiated by composer Helen Chadwick as a project to raise money for
Registered charity numbers 288701 (England and Wales) and SC039479 (Scotland)
Wednesday 1 February 2012
Fabulous February
♥ Fabulous February
As Valentine's Day approaches, I am reminded that everyday is actually a love letter from the soul and that every moment brings the invitation to listen for the great symphony of love that hums at the core of everything. For everything that appears in our existence, regardless of how it looks, is actually here to help us grow. Love is giving something or someone space and freedom to grow. When we open our hearts and hands we find that the service that we are longing to offer, the gifts we are longing to give, the visions we are longing to embody, the places where we are longing to grow. The energy of sound activates the love that we are, liberating our truth and freeing our flow. As we allow the soundwaves to pass through us, we can feel expanded and connected to all that is, whilst returning to the quiet silence that is nothingness.♥ February Events
Big thanks and shout-outs to all of you who came along to January events at The Green Note, The Garden of Roses with Faye Patton & Caroline Ophis and to all the amazing explorers at the Holistic Healing College who dived deeply in the Sound Healing Module - you're all wonderful!
My New Year of the Dragon started with an extraordinary download of divine love and inspiration from the Barefoot Doctor with Spencer Mac at InSpiral - and I am delighted to say I will be joining the Doc at a hugely exciting event for 12.12.12 - THE BIG OM
I will be celebrating Love in all its glory at The Garden of Roses with Illumina and Rebecca Rainbow on Feb 7th, and at Spiritual Connections with Cate Mackenzie and friends on February 14th.
I am also inviting you to Love Your Voice this month - and will be running a special Singing Workshop on Feb 18th and am offering £5 off plus a 10 minute free gong bath for all Vocal Coaching Sessions booked by Valentines Day.The waves are rising for World Water Day - March 23rd 2012 - The Ocean of Song - in support of Water Aid - I am delighted to annouce that this will now take place at St Johns at Hackney, a church where my ancestors sang, and will feature seven choirs plus ensembles and soloists singing songs to raise funds and awareness for Water Aid. It's going to be truly extraordinary so make sure you reserve your ticket by mailing oceanofsong@gmail.com
Wishing you the liberated sounding of the love that you are - Katie xxx
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing. Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves - Nisargadatta Maharj
As Valentine's Day approaches, I am reminded that everyday is actually a love letter from the soul and that every moment brings the invitation to listen for the great symphony of love that hums at the core of everything. For everything that appears in our existence, regardless of how it looks, is actually here to help us grow. Love is giving something or someone space and freedom to grow. When we open our hearts and hands we find that the service that we are longing to offer, the gifts we are longing to give, the visions we are longing to embody, the places where we are longing to grow. The energy of sound activates the love that we are, liberating our truth and freeing our flow. As we allow the soundwaves to pass through us, we can feel expanded and connected to all that is, whilst returning to the quiet silence that is nothingness.♥ February Events
Big thanks and shout-outs to all of you who came along to January events at The Green Note, The Garden of Roses with Faye Patton & Caroline Ophis and to all the amazing explorers at the Holistic Healing College who dived deeply in the Sound Healing Module - you're all wonderful!
My New Year of the Dragon started with an extraordinary download of divine love and inspiration from the Barefoot Doctor with Spencer Mac at InSpiral - and I am delighted to say I will be joining the Doc at a hugely exciting event for 12.12.12 - THE BIG OM
I will be celebrating Love in all its glory at The Garden of Roses with Illumina and Rebecca Rainbow on Feb 7th, and at Spiritual Connections with Cate Mackenzie and friends on February 14th.
I am also inviting you to Love Your Voice this month - and will be running a special Singing Workshop on Feb 18th and am offering £5 off plus a 10 minute free gong bath for all Vocal Coaching Sessions booked by Valentines Day.The waves are rising for World Water Day - March 23rd 2012 - The Ocean of Song - in support of Water Aid - I am delighted to annouce that this will now take place at St Johns at Hackney, a church where my ancestors sang, and will feature seven choirs plus ensembles and soloists singing songs to raise funds and awareness for Water Aid. It's going to be truly extraordinary so make sure you reserve your ticket by mailing oceanofsong@gmail.com
Wishing you the liberated sounding of the love that you are - Katie xxx
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing. Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves - Nisargadatta Maharj
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January Blog - Love Your Voice in 2012
L♥ve Y♥ur V♥ice in 2012
I have just discovered that the word Free has its roots in the words for Friend, Lover and Beloved. So to free something is to love it. So if we wish to liberate our voices, we need to love them. We must court the voice like a beloved, romance it out of its hiding places and love its eccentricities.
Technique can support the voice, as long as it is an act of love. Like any other part of us, the voice benefits from stretching, moving, dancing, working out. However If we exercise compulsively, as some sort of self-punishment or from a place of judgement where we are trying to make the voice fit with an outside model or image, this is not love. Love is using technique to support the unfolding of the voice in all its glory.
Some of the world’s most beloved singers have the most eccentric voices with the most wonderful textures - and personalities to fit. Think of the gravelly texture of Tom Wait’s voice or the Wuthering Heights of Kate Bush’s magnificent voice. These are artists who have not tried to make their voices pretty but have allowed their voice to be a vessel of expression.
We are each of us unique containers of enigmatic energy and when we love our breaks, wobbles or cracks they can become our redeeming features - personally and vocally. Our depths contain our divinity, and when we are brave enough to dive deeply we discover vast resources of energy and expression.
My invitation to you this New Year is to love and appreciate your voice as your beloved, to realise it is not a separate entity from you to be beaten into conformity, it is your friend, your beloved and it goes forth into the world carrying the feelings of your heart in its tones.
Loving your voice can be saying: Yes, I will allow song to arise out of me every day for five minutes in the shower or when I’m listening to my favourite tunes or every week at choir/singing lesson/kirtan. Yes, I will record my songs and learn how to listen lovingly to my voice and share it with others. Yes, I will have that difficult conversation with my colleague/lover/friend that I’ve been putting off for ages. Yes, I will take a stand and be a voice for the voiceless. Yes, I will join in when small children come up to me singing and shining with their inner sense of voice intact. Yes, I will meet and love my resistance and the voices of shame, rage and fear as they arise. Yes, I will allow my joy, inspiration, ecstasy and exuberance to overflow in cascading melodies. Yes, I will start singing my own song rather than that of my parent/teacher/sibling/partner because no one else in this world can sing my song. Yes, I will dissolve my personal song in the Universal Song that sings in the whisper of the wind and the rustle of the leaves.
How will you love your voice in 2012???
xxx
Please join me to celebrate and liberate the beloved that you are at the following Valentine’s Celebrations:
♥ 7th February - The Garden of Roses - Victorious Valentines - featuring Illumina and Rebecca Rainbow - 7.30-10.30pm - Inspiral Lounge, 250 Camden High Street, London. NW1 8QS - Free♥ 14th February - Valentine’s Celebration at Spiritual Connections with Heather Andrews-Dobbs, Cate Mackenzie, Andrew Marstrand, Katie Rose, Sabi Hilmi & Laurence Morland, The Spectator (downstairs), 6 Little Britain, EC1A 7BX. £20 - Bookings: Heather - 07773 127178♥ 18th February - Love Your Voice - A Workshop in Free Singing - Katie Rose in collaboration with C.R.I.S.P - 3-5pm, South Norwood, SE25, £20/£10 early bird by 1st Feb, £25/£12.50 after 1st Feb, bursaries available - Bookings: Catherine Pestano - catherine@naturalvoice.net
I am also offering £5 off plus an additional free 10 minute gong bath for any Vocal Coaching Session booked by February 14th.
Please email therosewindow@gmail.com for more details.
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