The Pearl Company

Part of Opus Mundi Festival, the Pearl Company’s annual Multi-Disciplinary Artistic Convergence, with events through May, with performers from many cultures in both the gallery and the theatre.  
May 9: The Bhadra Collective
Afternoon Workshop: 2 to 4 pm, $20 pay at the door.
AN AFTERNOON OF SACRED SOUND With Dennis Gaumond
Evening Performance: 8:30 pm $15 pay at the door
DENNIS GAUMOND and THE BHADRA COLLECTIVE

“Devoted to the infusion of compassionately slinky, divinely gritty and bodaciously sensual vibrations into the planet’s morphogenetic grid.”

The Bhadra Collective is something fresh and new. It uses a fusion of modern world-beat grooves and melodies built around repetitive chants from a variety of cultures to create its unique sound. This results in ‘trippy’, multi-cultural music that is mesmerizing, funky and very danceable.

A Bhadra performance is an interactive event as well as a display of superb musicianship. The nature of chant music is such that everyone has the opportunity to participate – to sing along with the repeated phrases. The difference is that Bhadra music, unlike most chant-based music is built upon punchy, exotic grooves and is immensely danceable.

May 9: Afternoon Workshop: 2 to 4, $20 pay at the door.

AN AFTERNOON OF SACRED SOUND With Dennis Gaumond

The ancients understood that sound has the power to heal and transform. Today more and more people are discovering that the use of sound is a joyful way to affect health, stress levels and mental attitudes. This workshop provides an opportunity for participants to both learn about and experience the transformational power of sound.

Demonstrations and discussion will help us to understand why sound has this power. We will learn to see reality in a new way, understanding it in terms of energy and vibration. From this new perspective, many things will start to make more sense, including the healing process and the power of sound.

We will then experience a sample of several forms of ‘sound healing’, including:
– the soothing tones of the singing crystal bowls
– the power of mantra and chanting from a variety of cultural traditions.
– an introduction to the ancient art of overtone singing
*No previous musical experience is required.

DENNIS GAUMOND is a visionary, researcher, musician, and author of the books ‘Why Is Life?’ and ‘Chant Magic’, and the CD, ‘Attracting Abundance’. He is a founding member of the Canadian Association of Sound Healers. He is also the leader of the Bhadra Collective, a group of singers and musicians who perform chant-based, world-beat music. Dennis is a speaker who has presented workshops across Canada, teaching seminars on the topics in his book and leading ‘sound healing’ events. He is a teacher of the science of mantra and the ancient art of overtone singing, a practice that maximizes the healing potential of the human voice. He leads groups in singing chants from a variety of world traditions, in sound healing circles, shamanic drumming and crystal bowls.

For more info please visit www.whyislife.com

BHADRA VIDEOS:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Czg9fRhYdr8&feature=channel_page