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Song Writing to Change the World
31 May @ 3:00 pm - 6 June @ 9:00 am
Singing together
Explore how singing together shapes faith, heals brokenness, transforms lives, and renews peace. This unique and inspirational week will be led by The Hymn Society in the US and Canada.
This is a creative songwriting week for beginner or intermediate level folks.
Develop skills
- Develop your craft as text writers, tune composers, or both.
- Be guided by a dynamic team of experts including Adam Tice, Sally Ann Morris, Brian Hehn and others.
- Join in and contribute to morning and evening worship each day at Iona Abbey.
Folks who simply love to sing or listen are also welcome on this week.
We believe that the holy act of singing together shapes faith, heals brokenness, transforms lives, and renews peace.
Programme leaders
Adam M. L. Tice is a widely-published hymn writer. He served as text editor for the 2020 USA/Canada Mennonite hymnal, Voices Together, and works for GIA Publications as Editor for Congregational Song. He curates GIA’s “Unbound” service, offering an ever-growing selection of new hymns and songs for individual download. In 2024, Adam was named a Fellow of The Hymn Society in the US and Canada, and also received Goshen College’s Culture for Service award. In his free time Adam enjoys rock climbing: a pursuit severely limited by living in the midwest state of Indiana–-so he mostly climbs on plastic rocks indoors.
Gillian Warson is a freelance writer, educator and musician who plays the viola in several ensembles. She directs Immanuel’s Ground, a West Gallery quire in Warwick, UK and is Chair of the West Gallery Music Association. She has written numerous books on hymnody and hymn singing, and has given papers and led workshops all over the world. Gillian is currently researching a biography of Ann Mounsey Bartholomew.
Sally Ann Morris is a composer of over 200 published hymn and congregational song tunes. Some of these are found in denominational hymnals in the United States, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, and Japan, including the Church of Scotland Church Hymnary and supplement God Welcomes All. Sally’s musical styles range from classically traditional influences to lyric melodies, jazz, folk, pop, and short form chant. In 2021, Sally was named a Fellow of The Hymn Society in the US and Canada in recognition of her contributions to new congregational song as a composer and as a worship leader, song enlivener, and mentor to emerging writers.
Costs
6 Nights: £846.00 per adult, £423.00 for reduced rate – see our programme page for more information.
USA North East