Comments on: Writing our own Songs

By: Hester

Hester — Fri, 27 May 2011 22:46:26 +0000

The forum is a bgrhtier place thanks to your posts. Thanks!

By: The White Horse Bridge from UK to Canada AoM

The White Horse Bridge from UK to Canada AoM — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:25:57 +0000

[...] Writing our own songs from the land, this is the high bar. This song was written in the UK during the first UK Art of Mentoring, July 2010 and performed by the first Ontario Art of Mentoring, August 2010. [...]

By: Terri Shaffer

Terri Shaffer — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:35:46 +0000

It only takes a little modeling for young children to make a song out of and for everything. They learn things more quickly if a song is attached.

By: Josh Lane

Josh Lane — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:41:03 +0000

Great blog, Mark!
Glad to see the music being featured so prominently.
“Rhythm is life”, yeah?

Josh

By: Paul Tobin

Paul Tobin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:38:13 +0000

Sumac Sun Tea
Sumac, Sumac, Sun tea It’s good for you and It’s good for me
What do it look like don’t be afraid, those those little red berries
Taste like lemonade
Hum, Hum, Hum
Put in the water put it in the Sun, tomorrow morning were gonna have fun
Hum, Hum, Hum

Part of a cultural map we are building were going to add bark and leaf and where to find it.
I’ll send you the finished version

By: markmorey

markmorey — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:17:21 +0000

I have no doubt that you can bring the raw fully alive feeling to your poetry and performance night. When I was in art school I created a coffeehouse in my 3rd floor living room apartment (10x15ft)
We called it the Coffee Clamp. Each week we had a featured performer, a street musician, who played a couple of tunes. We made postcard art and sent it out to our budding mailing list. We served
fresh coffee and baked goods. Every week the ethic was brand new people can sign up to perform for the very first time. We mixed it up with chocolate chip cookie contests, Haiku fests, and make your
own surf band competition. Prizes and everything.

By: Devin Slavin

Devin Slavin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:39:58 +0000

Mark, I love your opening statement of this post. It reinforces my recent choice to start a regular a poetry and performance night at my place in Santa Cruz – at the fire pit we created during our recent Grow Food Party.

All of the most powerful periods of my life seem to be when I’m regularly around the fire with music and stories. Surprisingly, the most reliably raw, creative, and fresh expression I’ve experienced came from a poetry-slam in a suburban backyard gathering in Ventura – through which the Grow Food Party Crew was first shared and born! It was unfiltered expression from teens to elders.

Which leaves me with the question: How can I recreate a space like that at my place? How can I make it inviting for both the young and old and have that raw, full self expression?

Cheers from Santa Cruz,
Devin