Details
Young Adult Friends is hosting a December gathering, and you are invited! Join us at Benzai Bloomstead on Dec 9 for a musical gathering, facilitated by Morgan's dear friend Gareth Dicker. Please RSVP as there are limited spaces for this event.
5pm gather
6pm dinner
7-9:30pm musical offering
Friends are invited to sleep over and enjoy time on the land the following morning.
Musical Offering:
Join us for an evening of group and spirit-led musical exploration/improvisation. We’ll begin in silence and allow rhythms, tones, chords, words... to arise from the silence. Gareth Dicker will facilitate, helping to draw out and orchestrate what's coming through.
We invite Friends to come with a song that they know that is easy to share and teach to a group—we may start with this to get warmed up before settling into silence. You are also invited to bring instruments. Do not worry if you are not musically inclined. All levels are welcome. And, silent listening is a strong and meaningful input for this experience, too.
Whether you are a seasoned musician or someone who simply appreciates the beauty of spontaneous artistry, this Quaker-style musical improvisation event is designed to help us tune in and sing out.
Who is Gareth Dicker?
Gareth is a classically trained and improvisatory violinist, who also plays guitar, piano, and percussion. He has a knack for bringing a group of people of varying musical skills to a meaningful experience and expansion of their sense of self and belonging through singing, harmonizing, improvising, and drawing out the authentic sharings of individual voices and heartfelt songs.
Gareth is also a teacher at Emerson Waldorf School, a leader in the Global Youth Section for Anthroposophy, and a student of esoteric Christianity led by the Sophia Foundation.
He adds: "I have attended one Quaker meeting this past year to connect with the prison outreach programs. I am very much aligned with the practice of finding the spirit in deepening silence. I've led long-form improvisation sessions in this way: beginning and ending songs in silence. I look forward to the opportunity to engage with well-seasoned Quakers in facilitating an event that marries spiritual and musical impulses in an intentional way!"