Contact: headwatersschool@yahoo.com | 218.444.5606
When: Friday June 9th, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Where: Headwaters School of Music and the Arts | 519 Minnesota Ave NW, Bemidji, MN 56601
Who: All Ages
Why: The performance features performers who have all drawn on their culture and family traditions to create authentic and meaningful art. The event will shed light on why these songwriters do what they do.

Berit Dybing, Erlend Odnes Kløvning, Caige Jambor and Corey Medina will take the Headwaters Music and Arts stage on June 9th from 6-9pm. Coming Home: Songwriters Cultural Exchange will be a mix of craft talk and performance. The audience will have the opportunity to listen to the four young singer/songwriters give insight into the songwriting process in between performances of their own songs.

Berit Dybing is a free-lance singer-songwriter/ entertainer from Bemidji, MN. She is now circulating around Minnesota and Europe, after spending a year studying Jazz and Vocal Performance in Norway.

Erlend Odnes Kløvning is a free-lance musician and performer, from Hamar, Norway. He has spent the upper half of his life studying jazz music and playing the guitar. After graduating from a music-intensive high school in Stange, he continued his jazz studies at Trøndertun Folkehøgskole in Melhus, Norway.

Berit and Erlend share a band called Bareland. The band bloomed out of the experiences they shared while studying at Folkehøgskole the last year. Their music is inspired heavily by the concept of identity. Berit’s texts and Erland’s melodies circle each other and speak of the relationships people form, and the environment that surrounds them.

Caige Jambor is a touring musician from Bemidji, MN. He comes from a strong musical background. Caige taught himself to play guitar at a young age. Since then he has been exploring different genres and instruments.

Corey Medina is a Native American Blues Artist from Shiprock, NM. Corey currently plays, writes and produces music with the Incepticons while also traveling with his band known and The Brothers. Corey Medina and Brothers set out to spread light to dark, and hope to the hopeless with their raw, soulful, intimate music and stage presence.

This activity was made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Community Arts Education Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Sacred Earth explores the interconnectedness between human emotions and the environments that shape them.  Inspired by the philosophies behind the visual arts of Kolam and Warli painting and the Tamil Sangam literature of India, Sacred Earth is co-Artistic Director’s Ranee and Aparna Ramaswany’s singular vision of the beautiful, fragile relationship between nature and man. 

Headwaters Music and Arts is excited to welcome Ragamala Dance Company to the Bemidji area!  There are three opportunities to experience this talented group. 

7 pm Monday, April 17 Lecture & Demonstration with Reception Headwaters School of Music and the Arts, 519 Minnesota Ave NW, Bemidji.                                                                                                     Ragamala Dance Company introduces participants to Bharatanatyam, providing an overview of the technique, evolution, and development of this South Indian classical dance form and how Ragamala’s Artistic Directors—Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy—use it to express their own contemporary points of view. Examining issues of cultural hybridity and the intersection of history and personal voice, Ragamala sparks discussion about the place of culturally rooted art forms in the 21st century.  No charge to attend.

11 am Tuesday, April 18 Dance Demonstration at Cass Lake High School Gymnasium.                                                                                                 Through the vibrant and expressive dance form of Bharatanatyam, Ragamala Dance Company celebrates the natural world and the interconnectedness between humans emotions and the environments that surround us.  Choreographed by Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy, Sacred Earth embodies their vision of the beautiful, fragile relationship between nature and humanity. 

This performance for young audiences features excerpts from Sacred Earth, accompanied by narration in which the performers provide explanations of the dance form of Bharatanatyam, the traditions and ideas that inspired Sacred Earth, and their relevance to the modern world.Open to the public, no charge to attend.

7:30 pm Wednesday, April 19 Dance Performance                                     BSU Bangsberg Hall Main Stage $5 per adult, free for children (5-18) and College students  with Student ID.  Tickets may be purchased in advance at Headwaters Music and Arts, 218-444-5606 or 519 Minnesota Ave NW, Bemidji.  Unless the performance is sold out, tickets will be available at the door.  

This visit to the Bemidji area is made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board through an appropriation of the Minnesota State Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.  And it is also made possible by the voters of Minnesota, through a grant from the Region 2 Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund

 

 

Generating Truth: The Poet Within & Wild Geography Between Genres
-Ghosts, Figures & Friends

When: Saturday April 8th, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Where: Our home at 519 Minnesota Ave NW, Bemidji, MN 56601

Who: Adult participants with writing experience and the desire to experience unbound language and time: the intersections of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and memoir.

Why: Writer Participants will develop strategies for accessing emergent, new material for their writing (in all genres) and will learn techniques for developing this material into dynamic and authentic language.

A registration form can be found here:

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Details

Carol Ann Russell will teach a writing workshop at Headwaters School of Music and the arts on Saturday April 8th. The day long workshop will begin at 10:00 am and end at 4:00 pm, with a half hour lunch break 12:30. 

The cost to attend is $50 per participant, which includes an evaluation of 6 pages of manuscript. Those who attend will be provided a notebook and folder/

Participating writers will be invited to read and share copies of their work with workshop members during the morning session. In the afternoon, they will be introduced to a series of writing designs which generate dynamic fields between genres which can then be linguistically expended. By identifying crossings and thresholds which link autobiographical threads, traditional “genre” disappears into authentic voice: this transcends “space-time” to realize what is true beyond mere fact.
 

About the Instructor

Carol Ann Russell has an M.F.A in Poetry from the University of Montana, and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She has taught creative writing at universities and colleges in Montana, Missouri, Nebraska, and Connecticut prior to coming to Minnesota in 1988, to teach Creative Writing at Bemidji State University where she is a Full Professor. Russell has four published collections of poetry: The Red Envelope (U Press, FL); Feast (Loonfeather Press, MN); Silver Dollar (West End Press, NM); Gypsy Taxi (Backwaters Press, NE); and a limited edition letterpress edition, Passeggiata, in Italian and English, on handmade Fabriano paper, signed and illustrated by artist Jauneth Skinner, along with a musical score composed by Dr. Paul Brandvik, recorded at University of Minnesota. A recipient of many grants and awards, Russell was a resident in poetry at the Australian Centre, Melbourne University (Australia) and at the American Academy in Rome (Italy).