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Music
Together
September 4th-November 13th
Saturday Mornings 10-11
Music
Together is an internationally recognized early childhood music program
for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and the adults who
love them. First offered to the public in 1987, it pioneered the concept
of a research-based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music
curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates adult involvement.
Music Together
classes are based on the recognition that all children are musical. All
children can learn to sing in tune, keep a beat, and participate with confidence in the music of our
culture, provided that their early environment supports such learning.
By emphasizing actual music experiences rather than concepts about
music, Music Together introduces children to the pleasures of making
music instead of passively receiving
it from CDs or TV.
Central to the
Music Together approach is that young children learn best from the
powerful role model of parents/caregivers
who are actively making music. The program brings families together by
providing a rich musical environment in the classroom and by
facilitating family participation in spontaneous musical activity at
home within the context of daily life.
Music Together is
committed to helping families, caregivers, and early childhood
professionals rediscover the
pleasure and educational value of informal music experiences. All our
teachers have successfully completed Music Together's training program.
Music Together applies the latest research in early childhood music development to the program. A
curriculum pioneer since 1987.
Music Together was founded with the goal of
providing the highest quality music and movement experiences to as many
young children as possible, involving their parents, primary caregivers
and early childhood professionals in the educational process. Music
Together is therefore dedicated to the thorough and professional support
of Music Together licensees and teachers and their work with children
and families. This support includes training, business mentoring,
networking services, national and regional promotion, customer
referrals, business , ongoing
research and development, the production of audio, video and print
materials, and the distribution of musical instruments and related
products.
SUMMER
2010 TUITION
Families
enrolled in Spring 2010 may deduct $5 from the total tuition.
One child: $105
Two: $185
Three: $185 (not a misprint)
Four: $280
Siblings under 8 mo at first class: FREE
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Insight Meditation Group
Tuesday evenings 7pm-8:30
beginning August 3, 2010
Sundays mornings 9:45-11:45 am
beginning September 5, 2010
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Taiji Fan Class
Beginning September 23, thru December 9th 2010
Thursday nights 530-630
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Traditional Hawaiian Hula
Wednesday Evenings Sept. 22-Nov. 3
7pm-9pm
Kaleo Wheeler has been
studying, performing and teaching Hawaiian chant and hula throughout the
Eastern US and Canada since 1989. She has studied with
several different Kumu Hula (traditional teachers) both in Hawai’i and
on the mainland. She was a member of dance troupe in
Florida and a halau on Kaua’I Hawai’i. She continues to
perform as a soloist,A’ai ka
hula, waiho ka hilahila I ka hale
Dare to
dance, Leave your embarrassement at home
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Ravenna,
Book Premiere and Signing
Malaprops, September 25th
3pm
Ravenna is a children's book
about a boy and the talking bear he loves, will debut at the Asheville, North
Carolina bookstore Malaprop's on Saturday, September 25 at 3
pm. Writer Stacey Curnow and
illustrator Daniel Nevins – both Asheville residents - will speak about the
book, which explores the joys of love, freedom and friendship. The debut party will also feature a
children’s drama/improv by Chris Martin's Curtain Call Collective, Ravenna temporary tattoos, arts and
crafts and "bear claw" cupcakes.
Author
Stacey Curnow took the inspiration for Ravenna
from the story of Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady, which she came across in
a parenting book while preparing herself for motherhood. “I was a little
dismayed that the story seemed to hang so much on physical beauty and romantic
love,” she says. In Curnow’s retelling, the message is no longer limited
to the age-old (and, let's face it, rather silly) question “what do women
want?” but instead reaches to include all living creatures. Curnow has
beautifully updated the tale, exchanging the wizened woman of the original tale
for a talking bear, Ravenna. The
result is a book that successfully asks (and answers) the non-gender,
non-species specific question, "What do all living beings want?"
Curnow transplants the Celtic legend to the
mountains of Appalachia while maintaining the earthbound and mystical themes
closely woven within the original story. In the tradition of children’s
classics like The Little Prince and The Giving Tree, Ravenna is a children’s book that speaks to the tender and open
heart that dwells in all of us.
“I wanted to tell a story that focused on
friendship and freedom,” says Curnow, a nurse-midwife and life coach. “I shared
this dream with my husband and my dear friend - and extraordinary artist -
Daniel Nevins, who agreed to create the illustrations if I ever managed to get
the story written.” Nevins used a dry brush technique to create the iconic
illustrations that complement Ravenna’s story.
Daniel Nevins has illustrated a number of books
and more than thirty CD jackets, in addition to having his work reproduced in
publications on five continents and shown in galleries across the country. The
images of Ravenna evoke the same spiritual contact from the viewer as his paintings,
and create a sense of welcome and community.
You can learn more about Ravenna - and how to
order various items featuring the illustrations - at www.ravennathebook.com.
Visit Stacey Curnow online at www.midwifeforyourlife.com and Daniel Nevins at www.danielnevins.com.
For
more information, please contact: laurahopegill@me.com or stacey@midwifeforyourlife.com
