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Live in-person from the stunning Ripley Chapel at FCCW. Jane Ring Frank, certified SoulCollage® facilitator, will offer an introduction workshop to this deep, spiritual practice. SoulCollage® is a collage process for accessing your intuitive wisdom. Even though this is an “art project,” it is accessible, and anyone can do it. You don’t need to be an artist to create beautiful SoulCollage® cards with rich meaning and messages for your life. The practice was created by Seena Frost, M. Div., M.A in the late 1990’s as she was working with clients in California. All materials and direction are included to inspire your creative journey. Using scissors, glue, images, photos, and 8” X 5” mat board, you will be led on a path of self-discovery. We are all born creative and spend our adult lives separating ourselves from that natural spark. No art experience necessary. “The image is a midwife that allows inner experience to be birthed into conscious expression.” (Matthew Fox)

Family-to-Family Course September 9th to November 4th, 2023 Saturdays from 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM at the First Congressional Church Winchester 21 Church Street, Winchester MA The course provides family caretakers with education about mental health conditions, skills workshops, and information about available resources. The NAMI Family-to-Family curriculum includes: Information about mental health conditions and treatments Coping skills, handling crisis and relapse, local and national resources Listening and communication techniques Problem solving, limit setting, self-care Most importantly, the course offers family members the invaluable opportunity of open conversation and mutual support in a stigma-free environment. Course participants, now more than 400,000 people nationwide, find that the Family-to-Family experience empowers them to understand and pursue paths toward healthy recovery for their loved ones, their families, and themselves.

Join us next weekend for our first Collections Exhibit curated by Nancy Schrock. Included are artifacts related to some of our programs from the last couple years, such as the Pressey paintings, New Hope Baptist Church, as well as comprehensive Winchester firefighting collection.

Registration deadline: October 30. This workshop is for high school students trying out for the MMEA Senior District and All-State Festivals. The workshop will provide a wealth of information about the audition process including how to prepare, manage nerves, and develop presentation skills. Students will perform for adjudicators and receive constructive feedback on their solos, scales, and sight-reading. Open to all instrumentalists and singers; you do not have to be a WCMS student to participate. $25 per participant; register by October 30. Held at Winchester Community Music School, 407 Highland Avenue, Winchester. Call 781-721-2950 or visit www.winchestermusic.org for more information or to reserve a space.

Creativity takes many forms. Performing artists use their bodies, writers elucidate thoughts and put them on paper, and visual artists take their tools to a blank canvas or light sensitive paper. Artists, passionate about their craft are compelled to create exposing the invisible and engaging us in thought, emotion and narrative. We celebrate the tools artists surround themselves with as we create a studio visit through the works of two photographic artists, Chris Rauschenberg and Meggan Gould. Join us at the Griffin for an opening reception for the two artists highlighted in Leaving Their Mark. Saturday November 4th from 6 to 8pm