Join my Special Guest Paul Vasile, live at the gazebo in the woods at the Center for Belonging!
Paul will host two events on July 12. Come to one or both.
1-4 pm – Song Catching Workshop
4-6:30 pm – on you own for dinner*, hiking, & rest
6:30 pm onward – optional Campfire Singing
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Song Catching Workshop: You’re invited to step into a playful, courageous space where we explore the process of catching/composing short songs. Join Paul Vasile, an inspiring song leader, teacher and composer, for an immersive, three-hour workshop that invites participants to listen for the melodies and musical ideas within and around them. We’ll notice the shape and energy of the melodies we find, improvise with them, then share them with the group, even just as song fragments or seeds.
No musical training is required. Bring your listening ears and your voice and be surprised by the creative capacity we will nurture in each other.
Campfire Singing: you are welcome to register for both the workshop and campfire singing below, or go here to register for only campfire singing.
Registration is on a sliding scale; please pay whatever is both affordable and generous for you. No one turned away for lack of funds; reach out if you need to.
Come to one or both events! Free camping Saturday night.
Register separately for song catching ($25-45) or campfire signing ($15-25), or bundle them together ($40-70).
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Paul Vasile (he/him) is a church musician, teacher, coach, and composer who finds his greatest joy in collaborative and community-centered work. Committed to modeling expansive, imaginative, and hospitable experiences of music making wherever he goes, Paul's leadership builds trust, invites spaces of creativity, vulnerability, and play, and supports practices of reflection and holistic learning.
For the past decade he has offered short- and long-term transitional leadership, consulting services, and creative resources to faith communities in seasons of discernment, challenge, and transformation. From 2016 to 2023, Paul served as the Executive Director of Music that Makes Community, a non-profit that shares "paperless" (oral tradition) leadership practices and songs. He traveled across North America modeling distinctive approaches to communal singing and learning at retreat centers, conferences, denominational gatherings, seminaries, and in congregations of all sizes.
Committed to expressing and exploring faith in new ways, Paul composes music that invites. His music is represented in Glory to God, All Creation Sings, and Voices Together, as well as The Hymn Society’s resource, Songs for the Holy Other: Hymns Affirming The LGBTQIA2S+ Community.
