Common Ground on the Hill

Week 2

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Special Gatherings Dulcimers
Distinctive Lecture Harmonica & WInd Instruments
Music and Composition Piano
Guitar Band Workshops & Recording

Banjo
Singing, Songs, Songwriting
Mandolin Dance & Movement
 
Bass
Percussion 
 Fiddle Human Arts 
Autoharp World Village 
Visual Arts  
                                                                     

 

 

   


SPECIAL GATHERINGS

The Search for Common Ground Period 5 ~ 4 - 5:30 PM, Daily
 

Interracial Gospel Choir & Orchestra - 6:30-7:45 PM, Daily

 

DISTINCTIVE LECTURE - PRESENTATIONS

Keynote Lecture:

Artists Are Superheroes Who Save the World!

Joyce Scott, Monday July 9th, 8 pm

 

1st Period
9:00 - 10:15
2nd Period
10:30 - 11:45
3rd Period
1:00 - 2:15
4th Period
2:30 - 3:45
5th Period
4:00 - 5:30

DISTINCTIVE LECTURE - CLASSES
Passing It On

  Native American Flute


Contempory Native American Philosophy and Religion in the Southeast

 

The Sacred Circle

 The Dugout Canoe Lecture

 

Mountaintop Removal 

Music and Healing: Body, Mind and Soul 


 
Native American Culture and Art   

 

Fieldwork Talking Across the Lines  
  
MUSIC AND COMPOSITION
  Write Your Own Tunes Demystifying the Modes  

 

INSTRUMENTS
   
Guitar and Ukelele
Beginning Guitar

Bluegrass Guitar II

 

Beyond Beginning Guitar

 
Open Tuned Celtic Guitar Acoustic Blues Guitar and Song   

 

Bluegrass Guitar I
 
Blues and the Electric Guitar     Fingerstyle Guitar  
Beginning Ukelele     Celtic Guitar and Bouzouki  
      Swing Guitar  
    
BANJO

Oldtime Clawhammer Banjo II

Bluegrass Banjo II

Oldtime Clawhammer Banjo I

Bluegrass Banjo I  
  Irish Tenor Banjo (and Mandolin)      
  Old-time Banjo Symposium Gourd Banjo Construction Gourd Banjo Construction continued  
  Tenor Banjo (and Mandolin)      
1st Period
9:00 - 10:15
2nd Period
10:30 - 11:45
3rd Period
1:00 - 2:15
4th Period
2:30 - 3:45
5th Period
4:00 - 5:30

MANDOLIN 

Bluegrass Mandolin II

 Tenor Banjo (and Mandolin)

 

 

Bluegrass Mandolin I

 
  Celtic Mandolin     Celtic Guitar and Bouzouki  
BASS
  Bluegrass Bass II   Bluegrass Bass I  
FIDDLE
  Beginning Fiddle/Violin  Bluegrass Fiddle II Irish Fiddle I Bluegrass Fiddle I  
Old-time Fiddle I      Oldtime Fiddle II  
Old-time Fiddle III         
      Swedish Fiddle    
   
AUTOHARP
 

Autoharp I

 

   
    
DULCIMERS
  Building & Playing Mountain Dulcimer  

 

Mountain Dulcimer: Songs of the Old Mountain World

Mountain Dulcimer I

Beautiful Old Ballads for the Dulcimer 

 
    
HARMONICA and WIND INSTRUMENTS
Blues Harmonica II

Blues Harmonica I

Pan Flute Playing

 

 Pan Flute  -Building
Native American Flute Playing   Tin Whistle II  Traditional Irish Flute  
Tin Whistle I        
PIANO
      Blues Piano Workshop  

BAND WORKSHOPS & RECORDING
1st Period
9:00 - 10:15
2nd Period
10:30 - 11:45
3rd Period
1:00 - 2:15
4th Period
2:30 - 3:45
5th Period
4:00 - 5:30

 

So You Wanna Make  CD?

 Bluegrass Slow Jam

Recording Your Music

Recording Your Music continued

    I Can Hear Those Banjos Ringing    Bluegrass Slow Jam
    Bluegrass Jam   Bluegrass Jam
    The Berea Archives   Super Slow-Mo Old-Time Jam
        Old-Time Jam
        Beginning Steel Drum
        Juke Joint Blues
        Celtic Session
SINGING, SONGS, SONGWRITING
 
Rise Up Singing Singing for the Shy Vocal Technique Gaelic, Irish and Scottish Song Big Song Swap
Songwriting- Old Forms, New Words Singing Traditional Songs For Teachers! The Musical Mind   Make a Joyful Noise 
Songs of the Carter Family  Old-Time Song Repertory   Women and the Blues    Ubuntu Community Choir
         
DANCE & MOVEMENT
     Scandinavian Music and Dance   Clog - A - Thon
        Folk Dance
PERCUSSION
Bodhran   Bones   Drumpath Rhythms
 Drum Circle   Drum for Joy!    
DRAMA, SPOKEN WORD, LITERARY ARTS
Stories Told Around the Stove Storytelling Finding Common Ground  Voices From the Margins Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Playback Theater
  Truth Be Told     Grinders, Glowworms and Gumbands Poetry and Prose of the Black Arts Movement 
HUMAN ARTS

Morning Yoga, 7:00 AM

  Acupressue and Self Care   Late Afternoon Yoga 
WORLD VILLAGE
WORLD VILLAGE  WORLD VILLAGE  WORLD VILLAGE  WORLD VILLAGE   
  
VISUAL ARTS
Note: Most visual arts courses are TWO periods long.
Period 1 (9:00 am-10:15 am) and Period 2 (10:30 am- 11:45 am) Period 3 (1:00 pm- 2:15 pm) and Period 4 (2:30 pm- 3:45 pm)

Period 5 (4:00 pm- 5:30 pm)

Manga Painting in the Imperial Method Pan Flute Building
Pastels Digital Collage  
Nurturing Your Photographic Voice Gourd Banjo 101

 

Native American Flute Construction Drawing - Anyone Can Draw!   
Chinese Jump Rope Necklace Silk Painting  
Fingerweaving Building and Playing a Mountain Dulcimer  
Funky Junque Jewelry Panamanian Molawork with Bead Stitchery  
Adventures in Glass Beadmaking I
Weaving
 
Blacksmithing 101 Joyfully Connecting with Native Clay  
Pottery: Tewa Pueblo Traditional Blackware Reticulation: Torch and Hammer  
Early American Vinegar Graining Seat Weaving with Shaker Tape  
 The Dugout Canoe Project The Dugout Canoe Project The Dugout Canoe Project 

 

(click here for Week I schedule)