Healing Together!

9:30 -11:00 AM EST (Live Stream)  (Sanctuary)

Melanie DeMore ~ Keynote: Community Singing~Come Sing Along! 

Come raise your voice with power, determination, and energy! Learn songs from various vocal and communal traditions and learn how to sing from and with your whole selves! Melanie's unique and powerful voice coupled with her warm presence will help to revitalize and inspire you to sing from the inside out!  https://melaniedemore.com/   https://www.facebook.com/melanie.demore  melaniedemore@earthlink.net 

11:00-12:40 PM  LUNCH BREAK

A list of local restaurants will be available.

1:00 - 2:30 PM EST (Live Stream) (Sanctuary)

Barbara Gail ~ Ritual Drumming: The Tambourine Path

The tambourine, a jingled frame drum, is a magical, trance-inducing instrument, steeped in ancient herstory. Many Goddesses are portrayed with a frame drum, played by Priestesses and Everyday Women, in the temples and in the streets, in ritual and in reverie. We’ll entrain through embodied rhythm practice, learn to play the drum, and co-create an elemental invocation using our tambourines. Optional: bring an altar item representing either earth, air, fire or water. Beginners welcome, Tambourines provided or BYO.   http://barbaragail.com   https://www.facebook.com/barbara.gail1   https://www.youtube.com/@BarbaraGail_drum_song_dance

1:00 - 2:30 PM EST (Wesley)

Maggie Stevens~Mindfulness: A Path to Presence

This mindfulness session focuses on the classic body scan meditation, which helps develop an embodied presence. The scan leads the listener through the body from head to feet as a method to experience presence and stillness. If you choose to lie down, bring a mat or towel.   http://mettamindfulness.com, @mettatoday on Facebook mindfulness.metta on Instagram, http://insig.ht/mettamaggie

2:40 - 4:00 PM (EST) (Live Stream)  (Sanctuary)

Shelley Graff ~ Women Singing in Sacred Circle

Singing In Sacred Circle is an opportunity for each woman to share voice and spirit through song. While learning short, repetitive women-centered from a wide variety of traditions, power rises from the center of the circle as all voices create an energy that is healing, empowering, and transformative! This opportunity is intended to allow women, regardless of singing experience, to share their voices in a noncompetitive, relaxed, safe space.  The intention of this Singing In Sacred Circle is to acknowledge and share the power rooted in Singing In Sacred Circles in women's lives.  Percussion instruments are welcome! shelleygraffmusic@gmail.com  https://www.facebook.com/shelleygraffmusic   www.shelleyg.com

4:10 - 5:15 PM (EST) (Live Stream) (Sanctuary)

Alberita (Albie) Johnson ~ The Mystical Power of Poetry

A power-filled workshop promising to challenge and inspire. We will courageously shine a light on hot topics of Race, Religion, Politics, and the Erotic in poetry. We will hear short excerpts from late great Power Poets, Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, and Maya Angelou. We will draw from their example to create our own original poems through participation in poetry drills and you will write your own poem that we hope to share during the concert. This is an experiential and educational workshop of sharing ourselves in poetry, with the intent to address topics that directly impact our Democracy and voter participation https://www.alberitajohnson.com/  https://alberitajohnson.com/alberita's-blog        

4:10 - 5:15 PM (EST) (Wesley)

Femina Global and Empowerment for Women and Girls~Dr. Genelle Grant

 In this circle we will discuss menstrual pride and health as it affects women and girls all over the world. Since 2006, Genelle has brought volunteers from SWFL to assist with workshops in Guatemala, and she has worked with women, high school students, teachers, and midwives throughout the Caribbean and Central America since 1986. Dr. Grant and Femina Global provide classes, curricula, and teaching materials in English and Spanish, on Reproductive Health, Menstrual Health, Women's Empowerment, Community Mural Painting, and Teaching Methodologies and Materials.  Last year, the worldwide network originating in India, Maasika Mahatsov, invited Dr. Grant to become the US and Central American contact person for the annual Global Period Festivals. Feminaglobal.com

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM (EST)  Community Center) Community Dinner*

*Included in your SingFest 2023 fee

7:30 PM- 9:00(ish) PM (EST) (Live Stream) (Sanctuary) 

SingFest 2023~Collaborative Concert

with Featured Facilitators and SingFest Participants

9:15 PM -10:45 PM (EST) (Community Center) 

Dance with DJ Shelly Cullen

Dance and play with the lively music curated by DJ Shelly Cullen.

10:00 PM -11:00 PM (EST)

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