Common Ground on the Hill

Week 1

 Master Schedule 

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Band Workshops  
Harp & Autoharp
Banjo   
Human Arts
Dance, Movement & Percussion  
Instrument Building
Distinctive Lectures   
Mandolin
Drama, Spoken Word & Literary Arts
Piano &
English Concertina
Dulcimers 
Search for the
Right Instrument

Fiddle, Bass, Cello 
Singing
Flute, Whistle, Recorder 
Special Gatherings
Good Listening, Radio Broadcasting & Production 
Ukulele
Guitar 
Visual Arts
Harmonica
 Youth Programs
                                                                     

 


Special Gatherings

The Search for Common Ground
5th period, 4:00-5:30 Monday - Friday

9th Annual Nonviolence Institute
- a guided enrollment through four Common Ground courses

Growing Up Common Ground
- Waiting on the World to Change 5th period, 4:00-5:30 Monday - Friday

Interracial Gospel Choir & Orchestra
-  after dinner 6:45 - 7:45 p.m. Monday - Thursday

Distinctive Lecture Series - Presentations
 


 
Maryland Playback Ensemble, Monday, July 5 at 9:00 p.m.
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 Series- Classes
Passing It On

World Music & World Instruments  

World Music Cultures and Humanity

Samaritans at the Border, Immigrants Among Us

 

 

Hearts & Minds Film


Voices from the Margins Ex;loring an Appalachian Perspective
Appalshop films
 
 
  Understanding Islam
Shared Sacred  Personalities
in the Torah, New Testament and the Koran
Learning Arabic

 

   


Gateway for Teachers


 
    
BAND WORKSHOPS

Troubadour Music Style of the American Southwest

Jug Band

 

Music of the Big Easy


Archie's Barbershop Acoustic Blues Jam

 

Scottish Strings Ensemble Workshop

 

Celtic Session 


  Latino Band
Workshop

Scandinavian
Session


   
Music of the Band
   
BANJO


Clawhammer Banjo

     
    
DULCIMERS

Beginning
Hammered Dulcimer

Hammered Dulcimer
Expressive Playing

 

Hammered Dulcimer 
Rudiments and Rhythm

Repertoire
Hammered Dulcimer II

 

Mountain Dulcimers in the Classroom


Mountain Dulcimer I

Mountain Dulcimer II


Bowed Dulcimer

 
 
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

FIDDLE, BASS CELLO

Beginning Fiddle

Swedish Fiddle


Nyckelharpa

Nyckelharpa  cont

 

Bass

Traditional Cello

 Scottish Strings Ensemble Workshop    
   
FLUTE, WHISTLE, RECORDER

Tin Whisle 1 Tin Whisle 2 Recorder
folk style
Pan Flute
building & playing
 

Ney

   


Didgeridoo

       

 Highland Bagpipe

    
GUITAR

Beginning Guitar


Blues: Give Me Your Right Hand

Basic Slide Guitar

Beginning Guitar  

Acoustic Blues Guitar & Song

Latin Guitar

Gypsy Jazz Guitar

Harmonica & Guitar - Rack & Box

 
Understanding the Fret Board  

Blues and the Electric Guitar

Oud

 

Jazz Guitar


Open D
Guitar Tuning


   
Brasilian Guitar & Song (bassa Nova)
       

HARMONICA
Harmonica - Blues Harmonica - Straight Harp  

Harmonica & Guitar - Rack & Box

 
Harp & Autoharp
Introduction to
Celtic harp
Autoharp 1   Autoharp 2
 
    
MANDOLIN


Mandolin Pickin’ - Technique

 
 

Blues Mandolin

Beginning Mandolin

Jazz Mandolin

 

PIANO & ENGLISH CONCERTINA


Piano I - Blues, Rock & Folk

Piano II - Blues, Rock & Folk

Piano III - Blues & Ragtime

English Cncertina  
Search for the Right Instrument
Search for the
Right Instrumen
t
       
 
UKULELE

A Beginners Guide to Ukulele

       

Singing Classes
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

Rise Up Singing

 

Scottish Song, Robert Burns Scottish Session

 

Songs of the Movement

 

Afro-Cuban Song:

Big Song Swap

Brasilian Guitar & Song

 

Vietnamese Songs
of Peace

   

Gospel Singing

 
 

Becoming a Professional Musician

Songwriting
in Your Genes

 

19th Century Americana Music

 
     

Women & the Blues

 
     

Singer-Songwriter Workshop

 
  
Visual Arts

 

Ancestral Masking

Sculpting the Spirit of the Stone

 

Native American Pottery and Craft for Kids of All Ages

Drawing - Anyone Can Draw!

 

Painting - Silk

 
 

Blacksmithing Introduction

Watercolor

 

Photography - Digital, What A Dump!

Jewelry - Cold Forging, Riveting and Piercing

 

Designing Your Dream Garden

 

Mosaics

 

Millinery - The Fine Craft of Hatmaking

Collage

 

Pottery
Tewa Pueblo Traditional Blackware

 

Rug Hooking
Traditional

 

Recycled Sculpture - Animals

Beading - Cabs Gone Wild

 

Art Textiles - Shibori & Surface Design

Digital Photography 101

 

Baskets - Split Woven

 

Woodturning - Basic, Let the Chips Fly

 
 

 

Concrete Slab Stepstones

 

Basic Traditional Dinê (Navajo) Weaving
 
 

Dance, Movement & Percussion 
There is a community dance every evening from 10 - 11:30 p.m 

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
Dance & Music of the Middle East  African Dance Latin dance  Mexican Folkloric Dance  
African Drumming  Roots & Rhythm
with Footworks
Brasilian Percussion Ensemble Workshop  

Balinese Gamelan

 
Bodhran
Irish Frame Drum
Riqq Bones    
Drama, Spoken Word and Literary Arts
Wordcraft Circle & Poetry of the Blues  Writing of Wrongs - How to write to Make Things Better The Spoken Word  

Journal to the Center

Playback Theatre Workshop

  
Human Arts
Yoga - 7 a.m.  BEFORE  breakfast!
  Qigong Zone   Feldenkrais YogaRhythmics
        Bicycling
       

Juggling: the Art


Good Listening & Radio Broadcasting & Production
   Blues with a Feeling


Listening In - an American Sampler

  Radio Production & Broadcasting Workshop
     
Youth Programs
World Village  World Village World Village  World Village World Village