Four Winds News - May 2005
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Four Winds News: 16 May 2005 (updated 2 June 2005)
Please note: the May 16th Bardic Circle was cancelled due to family pressures. The June Bardic is being rescheduled, Director Kurt Talking Stone's younger son is graduating Elementary School on the 16th. Did I mention family pressures?
OPEN BARDIC CIRCLE, THURSDAY, JUNE 23 (Rescheduled!)
7:00-9:00pm, The home of Elsbeth & Mrs. Jean Free,
251 West 92nd Street, Apt #9A, NYC (near Bway.), 212 873-0619All Members, Visitors and Guests welcome. Open Bardic Circle in the "Pick, Play or Pass" or other informal format. We'll be singing whatever the heck we feel like. Bring your faves, bring your noisemakers! All styles and traditions welcome. Songs, chants, music, poetry, prose.
Bring your Summer Solstice prose and songs!
First timers please call the above number to let us know to expect you,
Donation towards Chorus expenses requested.View the April 17th News Page.
FOUR WINDS: MOVING FORWARD?A Note from the Director:
The future of the Chorus is, despite the bittersweet pleasure in recent events, in some flux. Despite the two recent well run and well performed events, I sense enthusiasm for the Chorus waning as recruitment has dwindled to a trickle, events are poorly attended, and Members are one by one overtaken by "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune", or in other words, our busy busy lives.I, of course, am no exception. Career, an essentially struggling home business since my post-9/11 dismissal from corporate art & design, and the escalating demands of family life, have me constantly reconsidering how much time and effort I can devote to the Chorus. I do know that for the Chorus to succeed in a more robust fashion, it requires more work than I have been able to spare the past two years. And I am rather loath to turn over the reigns to anyone less enthusiastic than me and absolutely on the same page as me on the spiritual vision I have for this organization that has been so close to my heart for so many years of joyous noise. And quite frankly, I have received as much criticism, some of it rather negative and at times hostile, of the Chorus and my leadership, as I have good reviews in the past few years, against a background of family crisis.
The fact that there has been very limited interest or follow through on the question of either celebrating or ceremonially marking our just passed 11th Year Anniversary is somewhat telling. As last year, all plans for a 10th Year Project evaporated utterly under the pressure of worldly concerns.
Obviously, I shall have to do personal ceremony on this question. But no fear for the moment, I have made no decisions for the present time. But the topic shall be meditated on, prayed with, reviewed and revisited in the days and weeks to come. But as ever, I offer my heartfelt thanks to every Member, past and present, active or retired, and all our friends, fans, allies, hosts, and supporters for their many many and very sacred contributions over the years.
Pilamaye.
Mitakuye Oyasin * Blessed Be * Ashe * Shalom * A Salaam * Amen * Om
Kurt Griffith/Talking Stone
Choral Director
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