MUSIC IS MEDICINE: Sacred Singing, Healing Harmonies.

Please consider registering for this unique experience with Don Hill.

$225 dollars (GST included); early bird $150 (before 30 June 2009).
The workshop enrollment is limited to twelve participants.
Advance registration required with annehill@telus.net


MUSIC IS MEDICINE: Sacred Singing, Healing Harmonies.

Modern neuroscience is affirming what vocalists and shamans have known
for years: Singing is healthy for you; and specific vocal styles that
play on 'harmonic overtones' stimulate the sense of well-being.

Harmonic overtones are embedded within sacred choral music performed
worldwide.

In this introductory workshop, you will hear and learn how Tibetan
monks, Gregorian chanters and Mongolian overtone singers create the
powerful healing and meditative qualities associated with ritual
chanting and overtone harmonics.

A complementary instructional DVD is bundled with the workshop.

Don Hill is a former host of Tapestry on CBC Radio One. His one-hour
television documentary, Chants Encounter profiled harmonic overtone
singers from around the world.

The two-day course has been taught to clinical therapists, hospital
and palliative care workers, musicians and contemplatives of every sort.

"Excellent instructor, a fountain of knowledge," wrote one evaluator.
"Don Hill is top notch!" Course participants have also written, "he
delivers the content clearly and in a stimulating fashion.” Overall
the course is “very inspiring."

The introductory workshop will be held in MONTREAL: Friday 10 JULY
(beginning at 7 PM) and all day Saturday 11 JULY at 5706 Queen Mary
Road (Hampstead). Six positions still open.

In EDMONTON: Friday 21 AUGUST (beginning at 7 PM) and all day
Saturday 22 AUGUST at the Westwood Unitarian Congregation church at
11135 - 65 Avenue (close to the Parkallen community centre). Four
positions remain open.

$225 dollars (GST included); early bird $150 (before 30 June 2009).
The workshop enrollment is limited to twelve participants.

Advance registration required with annehill@telus.net

High Stress Treatment... May be helpful for Artists & Designers

I'm trying this product to see if I am more productive in my artistic and designer activities.
In the first few days I have noticed that I have more energy, and seem to be able to sustain longer artistic and designer activities. I will post throughout the summer on this.

Phyto Greens provides a high potency, broad spectrum, caffeine-free formula high in antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber and digestive enzymes needed for proper detoxification and optimum nutritional status. Research shows that environmental pollutants, lack of exercise and inadequate nutrition lead to increased instances to allergies, and parasitic and bacterial infections. Phyto Greens is recommended to ensure optimal nutritional status during periods of high stress, and is indicated for symptoms associated with fatigue, nervousness, irritability, colitis, Crohn?s disease, irritable bowel syndrome, hypoglycemia, diabetes, stomach and duodenal ulcers, and intracellular toxic overload. Product ideal for vegans. Phyto Greens is manufactured in a nut-free environment.
Ingredients:

Each Tablespoon (9.16 g) Contains

Wheat Grass Juice 400 mg
Barley Grass Juice 400 mg
Alfalfa Grass Juice 400 mg
Green Papaya Juice 400 mg
Red Beet Juice 200 mg
Acerola Berry Juice 25 mg
Spirulina 1000 mg
Chlorella 600 mg
Broccoli 600 mg
Cauliflower 600 mg
Lecithin 2000 mg
Phosphatidylcholine 480 mg
Wheat Sprout 400 mg
Octacosanol 250 mg
Spinach 250 mg
Dunaliella salina 50 mg
Taraxacum officinale (Dandelion) 50 mg
Chelidonium majus (Celandine) 50 mg
Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgo 50:1 conc. Standardized Extract)
24% ginkgoflavoglycosides & 6% terpene lactones 40 mg
Ginkgoflavoglycosides, no less than 9600 mcg
Terpene Lactones, no less than 2400 mcg
Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry)
Standardized Extract 25% 40 mg
Anthocyanins, no less than 10 mg
Grape Seed Standardized Extract 85% 40 mg
Proanthocyanidins, no less than (OPC) 34 mg
Fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) 1000 mg
Apple Pectin 25 mg
Bromelain (Pineapple) 25 mg
Petroselinum sativum (Parsley) 25 mg
Apium graveolens (Celery) 25 mg
Nasturtium officinale (Watercress) 25 mg
Papain (Papaya) 25 mg
Bee Pollen (Entomophilous) 200 mg

Dosage:
Adults: One to two tablespoons, one to two times daily with water or juice.Prenatal, Lactating mothers: One tablespoon, one to two times daily with water or juice.Children under 12: Two teaspoons daily with water or juice.

WARNINGS:

Contraindications: Pregnancy due to parsley. Hypertensive and anticoagulant medications due to ginkgo.

Alone with the Alone

BE HERE: Demystifying the Creative City June 18th

Fuse Magazine and Creative Class Struggle presents:
Town Hall: Demystifying the Creative City

The Town Hall will be followed with Dj’s, Dancing and the Launch Party for Fuse Magazine’s newest issue, Goliath vs Goliath

Toronto Free Gallery
1277 Bloor Street West
Thursday June 18, 2009
Doors Open at 6:30 pm
Panel Begins at 7pm to 8:30
Party from - 9pm to 1am


Fuse Magazine and activists collective Creative Class Struggle are holding a Town Hall to talk about the real effects of the Creative City model currently produced in planning trends in communities across the city and globally. This conversation is intended to demystify this celebration and use of “creativity” in economic development, land use planning, arts programming and community development. We are responding to these recent trends, popularized by urban researchers like Richard Florida.

The Creative City logic, advertises places of innovation, style and interactivity as places that will attract both business and the “creative class” – urban professionals and culture workers. This perspective, critiqued by some academics and policy makers for its vagueness and others for privileging certain types of jobs, neighbourhoods and lifestyles at the expense of others is increasingly controversial. In this Town Hall, artists, activist, community workers, teachers and professors will be brought together to examine the realities of living under this policy paradigm. We will ask: what are the effects of these policies on the livelihoods of ordinary people? Who benefits from creative city planning that is meant to build money making cities in a time of cuts to vital services such as schools and important social spaces for “ordinary” people such as community centres, and pools. What happens to the “non-creative” workers in this script?

The panel’s goal is to address topics of race, class and gender, within the framework of the 'creative class’, exploring how these policies celebrate a select group of glorified yet precarious professions and how cities are being re-structured and re-branded as money-makers, rather than places that offer secure livelihoods for their residents.

After the panel, we will bring together activists, academics, artists and workers for a Town Hall to discuss the increasing dominance of creative city ideas and policies. Through discussion we aim to demystify the politics concealed in the Creative Class ideology.

We have invited groups from across the city to contribute critiques and concerns based on their political organizing and/or personal experience. We plan to record this discussion and create a document that is intended to provide a thoughtful critique of the creative class script.
The panel includes the following speakers:

Liette Gilbert - associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Her work focuses on policies, practices and ideologies of immigration, multiculturalism and citizenship.

Uzma Shakir - community-based researcher, advocate, activist and the past Executive Director of Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA) and the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (SALCO). Her work focuses on issues of race, erosion of civil liberties and critical multiculturalism.

Pamila Matharu - a Toronto-based artist, educator and cultural organizer/ producer. Pamila’s work currently focuses on youth, contemporary art, pedagogy and the "inner-city experience" in Parkdale.

For inquiries contact: Heather McLean hmclean@yorku.ca or Izida Zorde Izida@fusemagazine.org
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Marquee Effect with AE

Having a bit of fun with AE today... trying out some ideas for a lesson.
This example includes some rotoscoping, 3D, masking and text animation.

Challenge. Create. Change. Contest

Visit Youtube.com/converseonestar to enter the contest.

In a short, creative video, show us how you're changing your world for a chance to win $10,000 + a $1,000 Converse One Star Wardrobe.

Additional Prizes:
2nd Finalist: $5,000 cash + $500 Converse One Star Wardrobe
3rd Finalist: $2,000 cash + $500 Converse One Star Wardrobe

The three finalists will all receive a trip for two to the Wanderlust Festival in Lake Tahoe, California, where one finalist will be announced as the Grand Prize Winner.

Submit your video by June 28. Go to YouTube.com/converseonestar to submit and for more information

Saturday, June 6, 2pm Register 4pm Play at Dundas Square

HELPLESS
NEIL YOUNG (1969)

see http://www.luminato.com/My%20Files/non-event%20images/GCT%20-%20Helpless%20lyrics%20and%20chords.pdf for the chords and lyrics.

Canadian Interactive Industry Profile Released!!!

Nearly half - 46 per cent - of industry revenue is generated through two task categories: Game Design and Development, and Website Design and Development


















Download the report: http://www.ciaic.ca/

"The 2008 Canadian Interactive Industry Profile clearly shows the future potential of this fast-growing segment of the knowledge economy," said Ian Kelso, President of the CIAIC and President and CEO of Interactive Ontario. "We believe that the story of Canada's interactive digital media and its contribution to our country's GDP, employment base and global competitiveness has only just begun to be told."

Companies participating in the 2008 edition of the CIIP, which is at present the only national study of Canada's interactive media industry, reported that revenue from interactive digital media work grew a remarkable 50.9 per cent between 2006 and 2008, and a respectable 17.4 per cent rate of growth in revenue from all sources over the same period.

Other national-level statistics of note from the 2008 CIIP include:

1. The vast majority - 85 per cent - of companies are wholly Canadian-owned;
2. 60 to 70 per cent of interactive media projects are based on original intellectual property;
3. Nearly half - 46 per cent - of industry revenue is generated through two task categories: Game Design and Development, and Website Design and Development;
4. A full third of respondents said they performed work in five or more interactive digital media task categories.

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JAM CANCELLED: NO JAM THIS THURSDAY!

I just found out today that IWB is having the year end show this Thursday and will be using all the rooms...
So, no jam this week.

Get on the Wave this year!!!

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