22,23 ~ SACRED EMERGING ~ Los Angeles

• FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 7:00 - 9:00 PM (tea and "songbook-making" beginning at 6:00 PM)
  SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM (bagels, coffee and juice at 8:15 AM)
  LOCATION: United Church of Christ, 370 Royal Avenue, Simi Valley
• This is an opportunity for women to come together and create a holy space...
  Through song, reflection, and simple ritual, in community with other women...
  We honor our own lives and the sacred that is ever emerging within us and around us...
  This is an invitation to gather for inspiration, sustenance, and celebration...
  In times of turbulence and promise, we sing of grief and hope...
  We open to the stirrings within that call us to deeper attentiveness, resonance, awe and a widening embrace...

Registration form coming soon to print

ContactJoanie McClellan, 805-241-8855 or Dawn Waring

March

7 - 9 ~ SINGING THE WICK OF DESIRE ~ Asheville, NC

• March 7-9, at Jubilee Community, Wall Street, downtown Asheville

Friday, 6:45 - 9:15 pm and Saturday, 9 am - 4:30 pm
• Songwriter Carolyn McDade will lead us in singing songs that connect with ourselves and creation. Her songs, widely sung in the United States and Canada, weave together personal integrity, social vision and planetary wholeness.
  
  Cost: $85 (includes Saturday lunch).

For more information email:Holy Ground or phone: 828-236-0222

• Holy Ground Website

28-30 ~ A Woman's Singing Circle ~ Bangor, PA

• March 28-30, Kirkridge Retreat Center
• A long time favorite workshop, this weekend will call on music written by Carolyn and others, to come to an experience of song, poetry, art and ritual to sing a new dream of hope into being. Carolyn McDade is a songwriter committed to the power of singing in personal and social transformation.
• Register OnlineKirkridgeor phone for information 610-588-1793,

Cost: $310 (includes registration, accommodation and meals)

April

25,26 ~ SINGING THE LONGINGS ~ Edmonton, Alberta ~ A GATHERING FOR WOMEN WITH CAROLYN MCDADE

• A Time to Circle and Sing Our Lives and Our Times. . .
  A Time to Touch What Matters. . .
  A Time to Heal our Planet. . .
  
  This is an opportunity for women to come together and create a holy space. . . As days lengthen in this time of spreading green, we gather for inspiration, sustenance, and celebration. . . In gratitude we sing, deepening our experience of living as planetary and cosmic beings in the long story of the universe in creation.
• Friday April 25, 7-9pm, Saturday April 26 9am-4pm,
  Southminster Steinhauer United Church
  
• CLICK HERE for registration form
  
• For registration and information, email: Nancy Steeves or Marion Perrin
  or phone the church office at 780-435-2028

May

30-31 ~ DARING TO DEEPEN - A Gathering of women seeking inspiration, sustenance, celebration ~ Ottawa, Ontario

• As days lengthen, life fills with green. Our sun , the star we know best, engages with its generous outpouring of light of light. In this relationship we enter the long cosmic story...generations of stars passing forth the flame of beginnings ...the oldest spark becoming the hear of each life-be it warbler, leaf, person, stone...all connecting in a wondrous unbroken journey, known and unknown. A dream ignites and we yearn to create a new human/earth relationship of reverence and reciprocity. We yearn to create rightness in all the ways we relate with ourselves and with others and the larger whole. As we gather in the promise of circle, opening ourselves into singing, simple ritual, and reflection, we move into more intimate knowing of the love that moves with all - love daring us to deepen
  
• Fri. May 30 (7-9 pm) -registration 6:30 and Saturday May 31 (9-4:30pm)- coffee at 8:30
  St Patrick's Home Auditorium 2865 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, ON
  
• Non-refundable registration fee of $45 by May 2.(Limited Number of Spaces Available) Please bring a bag lunch
• This event is hosted by: Kairos Spirituality-for-Social Justice Centre.
  For information, email:Kairos or phone (613) 236-6557
  

June

13,14,15 ~ Centre Goeland, Cap Egmont, PEI

• June 13(7-9pm), June 14(9-4, 7-9) June 15(9-11am) Includes accommodation Fri/Sat and meals Sat/Sun(breakfast)
  Cost: $175-200
• As green enlivens the Island, we gather in gratitude to sing. Amidst life which has come a long way slowly ~ leaf and water, forest and stone, we open to the ways life tugs, calling us to deeper attentiveness, resonance and awe, a widening embrace.
  
  In these times of turbulence and pain, we come together for inspiration, sustenance, and celebration, yearning to deepen into the meanings of love and promise. As we live into the vision of being Earth citizens, we seek fresh and limber ways to continue our commitment to right relationship, justice and peace.
• CLICK HERE for registration form
  
• Email Jan Devineor phone 902 892-1871

27, 28, 29, 30 ~ Glenairley Centre for Earth and Spirit ~ Sooke BC

• June 27, 6pm to June 30, 1pm (begins with dinner, ends with lunch)
  
  Cost: $350-$395, Commuter: $265
• LEARNING OUR WAY DOWN THROUGH THE TREES... a women's retreat in song and beauty
• Go to Glenairley Websiteto register or Email:Glenairley
Phone: 250-642-3546. For more information, contact Janet Silman or by phone 250-655-9676.

July

August

September

26, 27, 28th ~ Winnipeg ~ Manitoba

• Friday September 26th to Sunday September 28th
  Check back soon for cost and other info
• ... a women's retreat in song and beauty
• to register email:Barbara Barnett
or Phone: (204) 261-9713 for for more information.

October

3, 4, 5 ~ Calling Lakes Centre ~ Ft. Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan

• Friday October 3rd to Sunday October 5th
  Check back soon for cost and other info
• ... a women's retreat in song and beauty
• to register email:Barbara Mader
or Phone: (306) 731-3607 for for more information.

24,25 ~ Singing the Earth ~ St. John's ~ NF

• A Gathering for Women with Carolyn McDade
• Oct 24, 7pm -9pm and Oct 25 9am-4pm
  84 Crosbie Drive, Virginia Waters ( beautiful space and grounds)
  Cost: $85
• Gather with women for a weekend of singing, sharing and ritual.
  We will learn and sing new music, reflect on and celebrate our planet and strengthen our ability to transform our lives and communities.
• to register email:Helen Murphy
or Phone: 709-739-9612 for for more information.
Only those who pre- register will be assured of a reserved space at the workshop, as space is limited.

31, Nov 1,2 ~ WOMEN'S MUSIC / WOMEN'S JOURNEYS ~ Tatatmagouche, NS

• Friday October 31, 6-9pm, Saturday November 1 9am-4pm, Sunday November 2 9-1pm,
  Tatamagouche Center
  
• Information on this programme upcoming
• For registration and information, email: Tatamagouche Centre
  or phone Tatamagouche Centre at 902 657-2231

November

31, Nov 1,2 ~ WOMEN'S MUSIC / WOMEN'S JOURNEYS ~ Tatatmagouche, NS

• Friday October 31, 6-9pm, Saturday November 1 9am-4pm, Sunday November 2 9-1pm,
  Tatamagouche Center
  
• Information on this programme upcoming
• For registration and information, email: Tatamagouche Centre
  or phone Tatamagouche Centre at 902 657-2231

14,15 ~ TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED ~ Springbank, SC

• Friday November 14 7-9pm, Saturday November 15 9am-4pm,
• Springbank Spirituality Center
  1345 Springbank Road
  Kingstree, SC 29556
• For registration and information, email: Springbank
  or check their Websitelater in the year

December

For more information on particular programs please email/phone the contact name listed.
For information on Carolyn McDade resources please contact Jan Devine.