Rhythm Alchemy Playshop
May 5-7, 2010
Explore expressive activities through musical ice-breakers, rhythm-play, vocal games, songs and theater improv for community-building fun!
This weekend experiential playshop provides 18-20 hours of rhythmical exploration, practice and fun! Facilitators of all backgrounds and experience levels will gain innovative motivational techniques and inspirational activities suitable for multiple group applications. Learn new approaches to recreational drumming!
Touch, feel, listen, express with drums, whistles, chimes, gongs, bells, wood, metal and more.
The Rhythmical Alchemy Playshop™ is for everyone!
Teachers * Music Educators * Activities Directors * Music Therapists
It is especially recommended for the playfully challenged.
DCFs ready to stretch their rhythm sensibilities are encouraged to attend.
Families have attended together.
Past participants have ranged from ages 4 to 89!
As a performing musician for 30 years, Arthur has studied and worked with many renowned percussionists including Babatunde Olatunji, Hamza El Din, and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead.
A talented rhythmatist and performer with 30 years pioneering the field of rhythmical empowerment, Arthur is recognized as the father of the modern day community drum circle movement. He isa community and corporate trainer, a motivational speaker, experiential keynote presenter and an internationally acclaimed master at facilitating groups of people through a common experience using music and rhythm.
Since 1980 Arthur Hull has used the Village Music Circles metaphor to build team spirit and promote unity in corporations, schools and communities worldwide, inspiring populations as diverse as corporate executives to kids at risk. Arthur has taught Village Music to over 7,000 students at the University of California in Santa Cruz. For over 10 years, Arthur Hull has been offering training seminars to teach rhythm facilitation and leadership skills to individuals and organizations from Omega, Naropa and Esalen to McDonalds, Blue Cross and Silicon Graphics. He has won many awards for his work and he has been featured on the cover of The Wall Street Journal, The Yoga Journal, and in The Economist, Time Magazines and The LA Times. He is the author of the definitive handbook for drum circle facilitation, Drum Circle Spirit, Facilitating Human Potential Through Rhythm.
Continuing Education Credits!
Continuing Education Credits:
Music Therapists:
Earn 15 credit hours of CEUs for weekend trainings. The
Pre-Approved Provider Number for music therapists is: P-062.
This CBMT approved program maintains responsibility for program
quality and adherence to the CBMT Policies and Criteria for
Continuing Music Therapy Education.
Social Workers:
Earn 18 hours of CEUs for weekend trainings.
Semester Units
1 Semester units of graduate credit is available through
Chapman University at $55/unit. Check for transferability.
Teachers:
2 Units Continuing education offered through the
University of California Extension, Santa Cruz, at $65/CEU
Please notify us upon registering.
VMC will add a $25 fee for CEU requests.
The Rhythmical Alchemy Playshop is in the Sunshine State!Call the Cerveny Conference Center for lodging & Meals.
Office:386-364-5250
fax: 386-362-7557
website: http://www.cervenyconference.org/
The Cerveny Conference Center has beautiful rooms available, RV sites, bunk houses and primitive camping. The conference center has a beautiful dining hall that provides professional, well prepared, meals. Each meal is served as a buffet.
A full menu will be posted soon.
Meals are $8.00 per meal.
Schedule
May 5, 2010
8:30 a.m Breakfast
10:00 a.m Introductions / Orientation
12:00 p.m Lunch
1:00 p.m Workshop begins
5:00 p.m Dinner
6:00 p.m Workshop
9:00 p.m Workshops end.
May 6, 2010
8:30 a.m Breakfast
10:00 a.m Introductions / Orientation
12:00 p.m Lunch
1:00 p.m Workshop begins
5:00 p.m Dinner
6:00 p.m Workshop
9:00 p.m Workshops end.
May 7, 2010
8:30 a.m Breakfast
10:00 a.m Workshop
12:00 p.m End of Rhythmical Alchemy Playshop program.
12:00 p.m Lunch
4:00 p.m Paralounge Drum Gathering begins. You must pay a seperate fee to attend this event. Visit Paralounge Drum Gathering section of this website for details and registration for that event.
Price: $300.00 per person.
(Price does not include lodging or meals.)
Send Registration form to:
Village Music Circles
719 Swift St, suite 65
Santa Cruz Ca 95060
Phone: 831 458-1946
Fax: 831 459-7215
email: drum@drumcircle.com
WEB: http://www.drumcircle.com/
If you would like to receive a brochure through the mail please
send us your address and we will send you one!
REGISTRATION FORM
Rhythmical Alchemy Playshop
Date and Location of RAP you wish to attend:___________________
Name:_______________________________________________________
Mailing Address:_____________________________________________
City:_______________________________________________________
State:______________________________________________________
Zip Code:___________________________________________________
Phone:____________________________________________________
Fax:______________________________________________________
Email:____________________________________________________
Profession:_______________________________________________
Ed. Degree:_____________________________________________
Music Therapy credits___________
Social Worker credits___________
Semester Units: ________________
Music Therapist License number: ___________________
Social Worker License number: _____________________
Program fee: __________________
CEU Fees: ___________________________
Total amount Due: __________________
Add $40 for CEUs:____________________
Credit Card#:___________________ Ex Date_______________________
Name on credit Card:______________ Signature_____________________
(Extra fees for credit card use may apply)
What is your purpose for taking this training?
Have you attended other Playshops or trainings? Which Ones?
Do you have special needs?
How did you hear about this playshop?
CANCELLATION POLICY
A refund will be given for cancellations requested 60 days prior
to the event less $50 of the deposit. No refunds will be given
after this date or for no shows on the day of the event.
Registered participants who can not attend may send a substitute
with prior notification or may transfer their deposit to a
future event within a 12 month period if requested in writing 30
days before the event. A $30 service charge will be applied and
any outstanding expenses will be deducted. VMC reserves the
right to cancel or postpone the training due to unforeseen
circumstances or if a minimum registration is not reached 30 days
prior to event. In this unlikely event, all program fees will
be refunded in full. Village Music Circles will not be
responsible for any other expenses incurred by participant.
A service charge of $30 will be applied to all returned checks.
PLEASE BRING:
Please bring any special orchestrational instruments. Please bring at
least one each of the following: shakers, bells, wood blocks. Please
also bring your favorite drum, if possible, as well as any special
instruments you would like to play in the circle such as xylophones,
Tibetan bells, gongs, etc.
Visit www.drumcircle.com for more information on the
Rhythmical Alchemy Playshop.