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Community Concert
april 2024
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An Open House awaits you on April 25th. Come and check it out! Sing for a special cause during the Fundraiser Session, with
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An Open House awaits you on April 25th. Come and check it out! Sing for a special cause during the Fundraiser Session, with the Fundraising Concert Date to be announced, featuring special musical guests.
Session 2
When: Every Thursday from 6:30pm-8pm, April 25th – June 20th
Where: Lila Music Centre, 3228a Gibbins Rd, Duncan
First-timer? Connect with Cari for directions and assistance, or take a look at our map here (map link to be upgraded soon).
Lost? Text Cari at 250-710-4174 (keep it secure).
Cost:
- $20 per class
- $200 for 10 weeks
- $180 for 9 weeks
- $25 drop-in
Special Offer: Bring a friend to the Open House, and both of you can attend for just $10 each! Join us in creating a harmonious community.
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April 25 (Thursday) 6:30 pm – June 20 (Thursday) 8:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Location
Lila Music Centre
3228A Gibbins rd, Duncan BC
Organizer
may 2024
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An Open House awaits you on April 25th. Come and check it out! Sing for a special cause during the Fundraiser Session, with
Event Details
An Open House awaits you on April 25th. Come and check it out! Sing for a special cause during the Fundraiser Session, with the Fundraising Concert Date to be announced, featuring special musical guests.
Session 2
When: Every Thursday from 6:30pm-8pm, April 25th – June 20th
Where: Lila Music Centre, 3228a Gibbins Rd, Duncan
First-timer? Connect with Cari for directions and assistance, or take a look at our map here (map link to be upgraded soon).
Lost? Text Cari at 250-710-4174 (keep it secure).
Cost:
- $20 per class
- $200 for 10 weeks
- $180 for 9 weeks
- $25 drop-in
Special Offer: Bring a friend to the Open House, and both of you can attend for just $10 each! Join us in creating a harmonious community.
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April 25 (Thursday) 6:30 pm – June 20 (Thursday) 8:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Location
Lila Music Centre
3228A Gibbins rd, Duncan BC
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with Qwiyahwultuhw / Robert George, Quwut’sun Elder, & Thuitsiye / Pamela Bourque Join Elders Qwiyahwultu-hw / Robert George,
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with Qwiyahwultuhw / Robert George, Quwut’sun Elder, & Thuitsiye / Pamela Bourque
Join Elders Qwiyahwultu-hw / Robert George, Quw’utsun’ Elder & Thuitsiye / Pamela Bourque for an afternoon of Story, Drumming, Talking Circle Sharing and Bannock.
We will gather around the fire at Qwiyahwultu-hw / Robert George’s backyard in
‘George Town’ (5632 Khowhemun Rd, Duncan).
Thuitsiye / Pamela Bourque and Robert George will share cultural teachings through storytelling using head masks, felted birds and animal puppets. Thuitsiye / Pamela will bring her passion for creating beauty by offering a workshop in making a decorated and painted, personal worry bag. We will also work with little sticks that will be decorated with feathers, beads and paint. These sticks will be put inside the worry bag.
As a treat we will cook bannock around the fire and enjoy eating it. We will learn cultural teachings and share Coast Salish songs with drums around the central hearth.
Dress for gathering outdoors around a fire, and bring something warm to sit on. You are welcome to bring your own food to enjoy – we will make bannock to share.
All ages, all skill sets, all backgrounds encouraged.
Register early – space is limited to 30 participants.
Each workshop is unique and has different costs according to materials needed.
See below for more information and registration.
No one is turned away for lack of funds. If you would like to request a different amount, please contact sandraspcowichan@gmail.com from Social Planning Cowichan.
Organizers: The Backyard Sessions are organized by Lila Music Centre with support from BC Arts Council. We are working in partnerships with Sacred Cedar Centre and Quw’utsun’ Cultural Connections Society/Social Planning Cowichan to allow us to provide honoraria to Elders who have made special time to lead each of our sessions.
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(Sunday) 11:00 am – 3:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Location
5632 Khowhemun Rd (Private Residence)
5632 Khowhemun Rd
15may7:00 pm9:00 pmRekindling the HearthScottish Storytelling with Dougie Mackay
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Step into the Celtic dreamtime and enjoy an evening of supernatural tales from Scotland. You may have heard of the Loch Ness
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Step into the Celtic dreamtime and enjoy an evening of supernatural tales from Scotland.
You may have heard of the Loch Ness Monster, but what of the shapeshifting Kelpies or Selkie folk?
The Scottish faery are quite different from anything found in Disney, and not to be underestimated. Clan chiefs dance with the devil, wise women offer counsel and druid-poets sit by a pool courting the salmon of wisdom. An ancient crone goddess wades through the ocean before the land is created…
Stories create a light around which we can gather. They offer warmth and inspiration. In old Scotland the hearth was the fireplace, the gathering place in the centre of the home. The place to circle around, draw nourishment and share your gifts. In Scotland, this ‘hearthside’ tradition of storytelling still echoes through contemporary story performance.
Dougie curates an evening of myths, legends and folktales, in the traditional spirit of spontaneity, showcasing a range of the cultural, natural and supernatural delights of Scottish story. Cultural Q&A to follow.
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(Wednesday) 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Location
Lila Music Centre
3228A Gibbins rd, Duncan BC
june 2024
Event Details
An Open House awaits you on April 25th. Come and check it out! Sing for a special cause during the Fundraiser Session, with
Event Details
An Open House awaits you on April 25th. Come and check it out! Sing for a special cause during the Fundraiser Session, with the Fundraising Concert Date to be announced, featuring special musical guests.
Session 2
When: Every Thursday from 6:30pm-8pm, April 25th – June 20th
Where: Lila Music Centre, 3228a Gibbins Rd, Duncan
First-timer? Connect with Cari for directions and assistance, or take a look at our map here (map link to be upgraded soon).
Lost? Text Cari at 250-710-4174 (keep it secure).
Cost:
- $20 per class
- $200 for 10 weeks
- $180 for 9 weeks
- $25 drop-in
Special Offer: Bring a friend to the Open House, and both of you can attend for just $10 each! Join us in creating a harmonious community.
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Time
April 25 (Thursday) 6:30 pm – June 20 (Thursday) 8:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Location
Lila Music Centre
3228A Gibbins rd, Duncan BC
Event Details
with Tlithl’Kawi / Rupert Scow – Kwakwaka’wakw Artist Join Elder Tlithl’Kawi / Rupert Scow, Kwakwaka’wakw artist and wood
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with Tlithl’Kawi / Rupert Scow – Kwakwaka’wakw Artist
Join Elder Tlithl’Kawi / Rupert Scow, Kwakwaka’wakw artist and wood carver for a day of wood carving, traditional practices.
Open to everyone, these sessions are a place to join art, nature connection, exploration, sharing, song and stories together while learning new skills.
We will gather around the fire at Sunrise Waldorf School, 2148 Lakeside Rd, Duncan, where Tlithl’Kawi / Rupert Scow has his workshop set up for carving a large canoe. We will be able to see the canoe in the final stages of the carving process, of being soon released into the waters this summer. Rupert Scow will be teaching about carving a canoe. He will be talking about the traditions of the canoe and the big role they played in cultures up and down the coast. He will also show the students how to sharpen the straight knives that are used to carve. After learning about the large canoes, each student will carve a mini canoe out of pine or basswood.
Dress for gathering outdoors around a fire, and bring something warm to sit on. You are welcome to bring your own food to enjoy.
All ages, all skill sets, all backgrounds encouraged. Young children will need to be accompanied by adults for this workshop, as we will be using knives at the discrepancy of the guardian.
Register early – space is limited to 30 participants.
Each workshop is unique and has different costs according to materials needed.
See below for more information and registration.
No one is turned away for lack of funds. If you would like to request a different amount, please contact sandraspcowichan@gmail.com from Social Planning Cowichan.
Registration for each event will open as the dates approach.
Organizers: The Backyard Sessions are organized by Lila Music Centre with support from BC Arts Council. We are working in partnerships with Sacred Cedar Centre and Quw’utsun’ Cultural Connections Society/Social Planning Cowichan to allow us to provide honoraria to Elders who have made special time to lead each of our sessions.
This event is part of the Quwut’sun’ Elders Series: Backyard Sessions running from May 2024 to July 2025. Join us each month for nature and art-based community discovery and traditional cultural practices led by Knowledge Keepers.
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(Sunday) 10:00 am – 2:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Location
Sunrise Waldorf School
2148 Lakeside Road
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Are you yearning to steep in the wisdom traditions of Europe? Take a deep dive into the mythopoetic ancestral waters of Scottish storytelling culture with Dougie Mackay.
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Are you yearning to steep in the wisdom traditions of Europe? Take a deep dive into the mythopoetic ancestral waters of Scottish storytelling culture with Dougie Mackay.
This retreat offers a four day immersive experience into Celtic myth and Scottish storytelling culture. Combining many years of storytelling experience, group-work facilitation, and mentoring from some of Scotland’s finest ‘seanachies’, Dougie will offer a potent space for gleaning the medicine of ancient tales to support us in the turbulence of the modern world.
This is a rare opportunity to work with Dougie on the West Coast of Canada before he returns to Scotland.
Hosted and supported by Tad Hargrave.
In this retreat, we will:
- Delve into the living storytelling traditions of Scotland
- Access ancestral cultures through the power of myth, story and living folk culture
- Experience mythopoetics with a distinctly Celtic flavour
- Learn to tune your ear for the cultural gold, buried in myth
- Activities to foster enriching relationship with stories
- Use story as a mirror for your own life
- Be guided by professional storytellers, group work facilitators, and cultural activists
- Learn about cultural cornerstones of Scottish culture and wisdom traditions
- Participate in mighty craic and Saturday night ceilidh
- Work with facilitators who have been mentored and inspired by cultural leaders such as Seoras MacPherson, David Campbell, Jess Smith, Jon Young, Martin Shaw, and Jan Blake
This could be for you if:
- You want to learn about the wisdom traditions of old Europe and are curious about Celtic culture
- You love story, myth, and symbolic language
- You want to connect with and celebrate Scottish culture, heritage, traditions, and ancestry
- You love storytelling, folk culture, nature connection, and mythopoetics
- You recognize story as a powerful tool for transformation and regeneration
- You are an aspiring storyteller, facilitator, cultural practitioner
- You value wonder, awe, and magnificence
What is involved?
We will embark upon an immersive journey through a whole cycle of Celtic tales! Each day, we will focus on a significant Celtic myth and dive deep. We will touch on important cultural cornerstones, and weaving a holistic ‘story arc’ or medicine wheel through the weekend. Cultural context for each tale will be offered.
Although guided by facilitators, the retreat will encourage active participation and group sharing as well as reflective exercises to facilitate a deeper personal journey with the story.
Collectively we will pan for the ‘cultural gold’ hidden within the stories, drawing upon the facilitators’ own insights and experience, while also making fresh discoveries each time.
Practical, nature connected activities will be offered as a way to embody the story, and cornerstones of Scottish and Celtic folk culture will be shared.
We will bathe in these old tales, learn to work with them in a meaningful way, gain both ancestral and cultural understanding, tune our ears for the mythic medicine of story, and develop a mythopoetic practice that can be carried into our lives beyond the retreat.
Cornerstones of Scottish-Celtic Culture Covered:
- The Cailleach and creation
- The Fianna and the golden age of the Gaelic hunter-gatherer, warrior poets
- Druids and early saints
- Faery lore and reciprocity with nature
- The power of words and poetics
- Wise women, darks arts, and the persecution of witches
- Selkies, kelpies, and supernatural creatures
- Clan Culture, Culloden, and the clearances
- Seanachies, travelling folk, hospitality, and the spirit of the ceilidh
Registration & Accommodations:
Pre-registration is required. Register via Ticket Tailor ($150 deposit secures your place) here: https://app.tickettailor.com/events/dougiemackaystoryteller/1210714
PWYC (Pay What You Can) upon completion (suggested $750-$1,350 CAD).
Camping options available upon inquiry (spots are limited). Please reach out to info@storyconnection.org if you have any questions!
About Dougie:
Dougie is a contemporary Scottish storyteller, steeped in the cultural traditions of Scotland and the Celtic isles. Trained by seanachies and tradition bearers, yet with a finger on the pulse of contemporary storytelling, modern complexity and mythopoetics, Dougie is at the forefront of a movement in Scotland tracking codes of the old culture through story that can sustain us and guide us through the turbulence of modern life.
Rooted in Community development practice and nature education programs, facilitation is core to Dougie’s story practice. He has curated storytelling shows for performances at the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Festival at the Edge (England’s oldest storytelling festival), as well as international performances in Germany, Norway, Lithuania, Ireland and the Kingdom of Jordan. This will be his first storytelling venture across the Atlantic.
Learn more about his work at: https://storyconnection.org/
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6 (Thursday) 12:30 pm – 9 (Sunday) 4:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Location
Lila Music Centre
3228A Gibbins rd, Duncan BC
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Connecting to Breath and our ability to soar as Eagle. Initial weekend to meet, connect, set intentions, build containers, create a craft that will be sent
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Connecting to Breath and our ability to soar as Eagle. Initial weekend to meet, connect, set intentions, build containers, create a craft that will be sent off with you on a mission, offerings of prayers and feeding our reciprocity. With a focus on air, we will sing, share stories, connect to our inner fire and unfold our intuitive myth making ways. We will embody and claim our power at this time in our lives with our voice, our prayers, while keeping an eagle eye on the sacred within.
June 29th – Sun 30th: 10 am – 4pm
In the Wild, Camping on Vancouver Island
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29 (Saturday) 10:00 am – 30 (Sunday) 4:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Location
In the Wild (Camping)
july 2024
10jul(jul 10)10:00 am14(jul 14)4:00 pmMarketing For HippiesMarketing For Hippies (with Tad Hargrave)
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10 (Wednesday) 10:00 am – 14 (Sunday) 4:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Location
Lila Music Centre
3228A Gibbins rd, Duncan BC
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Honoring the earth, where all life comes from, we lay beside her and seek plant allies for support in medicine making. What songs and myths are
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Honoring the earth, where all life comes from, we lay beside her and seek plant allies for support in medicine making. What songs and myths are alive in the mossy forest floor? How does the earth hold us in this time of transformation to the elder and aging self?
Sat July 27th: 10am – 4pm
Lila Music and Nature Centre Yurt, Duncan BC
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(Saturday) 10:00 am – 4:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Location
Lila Music Centre
3228A Gibbins rd, Duncan BC
august 2024
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Diving deep into the water allies and medicine of the sacred salmon, who swims away and returns home again. What lessons can we learn and where
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Diving deep into the water allies and medicine of the sacred salmon, who swims away and returns home again. What lessons can we learn and where is our home in our body, heart, spirit, soul in this time as women? What skins are we shedding and what are we transforming into? Who are we now? Who are we becoming? What are we releasing? How does the water hold us and change us? What messages are we receiving from the waters as we grow into our crone years.
Sat August 17th: 10am – 4pm
Lila Music and Nature Centre Yurt, Duncan BC
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(Saturday) 10:00 am – 4:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Location
Lila Music Centre
3228A Gibbins rd, Duncan BC
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Join Cari in the Yurt to learn basic singing techniques to improve your breathing, toning, pitch, listening, posture, etc.. Playful, movement and voice exercises
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Join Cari in the Yurt to learn basic singing techniques to improve your breathing, toning, pitch, listening, posture, etc.. Playful, movement and voice exercises with partners & in large group format. No experience necessary, only a desire to improve your singing voice.
Perfect class for choir singers, karaoke singers and those wanting to improve their voice while singing in the car or singing with their children!!
Attend both morning and afternoon workshops, for a Full day of Voice Expression.
$20 – $80 (sliding scale)
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(Sunday) 10:00 am – 3:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Location
Lila Music Centre
3228A Gibbins rd, Duncan BC
september 2024
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The fire lives within us all, what is burning and wanting to become ash and coal? As a wild animal, how can we embrace and embody
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The fire lives within us all, what is burning and wanting to become ash and coal? As a wild animal, how can we embrace and embody the sensual crawl of the bear? What lives inside the magic and beauty of copper? Fire as medicine is potent and life giving, giving answers to our scared questions. Working with alchemy copper may invite us into the realms of magic and transformation.
Sat Sept 14th 10am – 4pm
Lila Music and Nature Centre Yurt, Duncan BC
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(Saturday) 10:00 am – 4:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Location
Lila Music Centre
3228A Gibbins rd, Duncan BC
october 2024
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Weaving and Bringing it together in an embodied and ceremonial space, we will stand at our threshold of the questions we seek answers to and go
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Weaving and Bringing it together in an embodied and ceremonial space, we will stand at our threshold of the questions we seek answers to and go into the wild for a solo quest, bringing with us the previous sessions crafts, animal and plant allies and go into deep listening on the land.
Returning to a sacred holding and witnessing of each participant in celebration of the becoming, the accepting, the surrendering, the awakening, the letting go, the renewal, the mystery, the magic.
Friday Oct 18th 10am – Sunday Oct 20th, 4pm
In the Wild, Camping on Vancouver Island
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18 (Friday) 10:00 am – 20 (Sunday) 4:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Location
In the Wild (Camping)
Featured Event
Winter Solstice Music
Celebrate the 8th Annual Winter Solstice Music Show with us on December 16th at Sylvan United Church and on December 17th at the Church of Truth in Victoria!
Secure your tickets now – available in person at Ten Old Books or conveniently online via EventBrite.
Event Details:
- Sylvan United Church: December 16th, 2pm & 7pm
- Church of Truth in Victoria: December 17th, 7 pm
Immerse yourself in the soulful sounds of folk, fiddle, piano, and stand-up bass, complemented by heartfelt singing featuring solos, duets, and a delightful choir. Experience the warmth of music during these dark times and join us in commemorating the return of light at Solstice.
See you there!
Spread the joy by sharing and inviting your friends and family to join you. This event also makes a perfect winter gift for your loved ones.
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