For I So Love This World I Walk With You . . .

Carolyn McDade is a lover of language and sound ~ a songwriter committed to the power of singing in personal and social transformation. Her songs, sung widely in the United States and Canada, weave together personal integrity, social vision, and planetary wholeness. For three decades she has gathered circles of women to sing and reflect on life. Carolyn brings the resources of her long story, her recorded music, the written word, and her intense exploration of that which matters.

January

Carolyn is on retreat during the month of January

30 ~ A Day of Music and Reflection with Carolyn McDade ~ Plainville, MA

• Saturday, Jan 30, 9:30 am - 3 pm(Includes lunch)
  
  LOCATION: Crystal Spring Earth Learning Center,
  76 Everett Skinner Road,
  Plainville, MA 02762
  COST: $55 (includes lunch)
• We come with song and reflection. We sing to blow upon the embers of a vast and emerging creation within and around us, stirring the powers of imagination and courage essential to recreating ourselves as new and wiser humanity.
Cost: $55 (Includes lunch) *Pre-registration required.
• ContactCrystal Spring Phone: 508-699-7167

  February

  

19,20 ~ SACRED EMERGING ~ Los Angeles

• FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 7:00 - 9:00 PM (tea and "songbook-making" beginning at 6:00 PM)
  SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 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...

ContactJoanie McClellan, 805-241-8855 or Dawn Waring

March



5,6 and 12,13 ~ SINGING THE LONGINGS ~ Edmonton, and Canmore Alberta ~ GATHERINGS 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.
• Edmonton: March 5,6
  Southminster Steinhauer United Church
  10740 - 19th Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta
• Canmore: March 12,13
  St. Michael's Anglican Church
  709 - 7th Street, Canmore, Alberta
  
• Click here soon for Singing the Longings Registration form
  
• For registration and information, email: Nancy Steeves or Marion Perrin
  or phone Marion at 780-486-2283




19-21 ~ A Woman's Singing Circle ~ Bangor, PA

• March 19-21, Kirkridge Retreat Center
• A crescent moon waxes, night and day meet level-eyed and we gather to sing on the mountain. Wind whistles on branch and stone, sap lifts a promise of green dreams, and we marvel and sing, sounding the path of love's long uprising. . .returning and shifting, remembering and imagining, longing and dreaming. . . we sing anew our universe, freshening our world, our song in a widening embrace.
  
  In a circle we sing music of Carolyn McDade, as well as others and social movements. We reflect in silence and communal sharing, and simple ritualized moments. Entering the circle as persons, we collectively create who we are together.
  
  Saturday night is community night. Participants bring songs, poetry, stories, dance to share.
  Sunday is a time of gratitude and purpose. . .continuing on deepened, afresh.
  
  Carolyn McDade, for four decades, has gathered women to sing music that affirms, nurtures, and sustains our deeply personal as well as communal lives. Songs interweave integrity, social vision, and planetary wholeness. Hundreds of women have participated in these programs. Thirteen taping projects have brought women together to sing the mystical that rattles our bones and stirs our hearts. . .to sing our vision for a just, peaceful, and sustainable world.The latest, My Heart is Moved (2007)honors the vision of The Earth Charter and calls us to live this vision, created by people around the globe.
• Register Online at Kirkridgeor phone for information 610-588-1793,

For more information: Contact Registrar (610) 599-4602

April



May



13th ~ Carolyn McDade - If I Could Say How Much I Love The Earth

• Thursday May 13th , 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
• 10 Trinity Square, Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto (Behind the Eaton Centre)
• Tickets $20 Light supper available at 6:30 pm
• For more information see Gaia Centre Website



June



4,5,6 ~ A Widening Embrace ~ Belcourt Centre, South Rustico, PEI

• June 4(7-9pm), June 5(9-4, 7-9) June 6(9-11am) Includes accommodation Fri/Sat and meals Sat/Sun(breakfast)
  Cost: $175
• Sing our way home into this time - into this place
  
  sing with the cries
  and yearnings
  of plants, insects, animals,
  sky, stars, soil and seasons. . .
  
  a widening embrace
  widening embrace,
  widening, widening, embrace
  
• Click here for more info and registration form
  
• Email Jan Devineor phone 902 892-1871

July

August

September

October

1-4 Deep the Love that Calls Us On ~ Bethlehem Retreat Center ~ Nanaimo BC

• Friday Oct 1, 7pm to Monday October 4 (after lunch)
  2371 Arbot Rd., Nanaimo, BC
• 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.
  
  We sing to blow upon the embers of a vast and emerging creation within and around us, stirring the powers of imagination and courage, essential to recreating ourselves as a new and wiser humanity in the interdependence of planet and cosmic community. As we gather in the promise of circle,opening ourselves into singing, simple ritual, reflection, sound and silence ~ we move into a more intimate knowing of the love that moves within all ~ love daring us to deepen.
• Live-in weekend $400.00
  Space is Limited for this retreat
  Registration deadline: September 1, 2010


Contact Bethlehem Retreat Centre for more information or phone: (250)754-3254

November

December

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