Pure love for sounds and voices

The creative has a good soil here.
Key persons make a huge contribution in bringing the good things together. Thank you so much initiative makers, crew and leaders of this lovely voice festival, Naturstimmen - Klangfestival in Alt St. Johann, Toggenburg.
The pure love for sounds and voices made a great impact on me.
For example:
This house with a black smith on the bottom floor, powered by a water wheel. Water and fire energy steaming up in the rest of the house.
On the other floors in the house it was room after room filled with  music of many kind. Music therapy, music exploring, music to touch and be touched by. Instruments with pentatonic scales so beginners can feel the happiness of being creative with tones. And vibrations.
On the top floor Irmelin had our course every morning, sharing the songs of the north. Thank you participants who signed up to spend four whole days with us. We had a lovely time with you!

Here's Bernhard Betschart performing his pure yodel from Muotathal. Irmelin had the pleasure to perform together with him on the night out at the lake Schwendisee in the Alps of Toggenburg. Nature gave us blessings of rain and it was pure life being there listening to Beny's yodel answering in with our shepherd calls from the north.





“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

After Toggenburg I continued to Hochdorf to work with cellist Annika Dobler, a long time music partner. We were both members of Rosenbergs Sjua and have several tours together all around in many countries.
The magic linden tree in their garden. Perfect for en evening session with music in the garden.

Last concert was performed in a local church in Hochdorf in the morning, Annika and me singing away in a non-picture-only-colors-and-shapes reformert church. It was a cleansing experince and very etheric.
Then finally, time to just relax!
On my last day in Switzerland I had an afternoon & evening free. We took the train to Luzern. Annika and Alain showed me around to their get-away-places of tranquility in the middle of a city.
Seebad in Luzern.

Seebad in Luzern. My friends grandmother used to come here every day.

My first swim for this summer, in Lake Luzern.

Strolling the streets of Luzern on a summer evening.

Have a beautiful day out there!
Eva

8 March International Womens Day

Artist: Malin Bellman

Girls today, women tomorrow.

I'm deeply proud to announce I'm currently working with a girls respect group where we meet on weekly basis in Hjällbo church in Gothenburg.
We have together discussed the goals and ambition of this particular group. It's mainly about getting true friends who support in all situations, who respect you for the person you are, who allow you to be yourself and even push you to become even more yourself. Cheerish the unique of each member.

Among the first things we did was to name the group after an animal and bear was choosen. A perfect choice for courage and strength, and also for the aspect of live your dream.

Right now we are team building through games and fun + discussion, sharing in circle, doing some writing on the topic of getting to know your personality and be accepted for that uniquness.

Today I got an idea. I'll ask the girls if they would like to create a gallery of portraits of courageous women and girls to hang on our own wall of fame. I can name many I wish to see there. I just wonder what suggestions might come from the group.

My heroines, among many others. Enjoy the links to their quotes, or other historic information:

Malala Yousafzai, Shannen Koostachin, Astrid Lindgren, Tove Jansson, Lina Thomsgård Lupita Nyongo, Marie Curie, Miranda July, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Sarah Ogan Gunning, Mother Jones.
Founders of Idle No More: Sheelah McLean, Nina Wilson, Sylvia McAdam, Jessica Gordon.

First nations ban pipeline, Canada

Very similar to the mining situation in Gallok, Sweden. Corporations come in to exploit and then leave the local people with destroyed home and nature.

We have a right to say no!



The people have the final say.

How can we be inspired by Chief Na'moks speach?

Eva

Dynamic work, love my work

Last week was a over dose of administrative work, wich is normal from time to time. Reports, applications, making half year book-work of economy, buying a printer, restoring my broken Sibelius-program.

For the broken Sibelius-program (writing music scores on the computer) successful restoring I owe my thanks to computer wizard Pär Johansson! Feels great to have Sibelius again! I made all music notations for my book Bröllopssånger och Kärleksvisor in Sibelius, and soon after giving away all my material for the making of the book, this Sibelius-program broke down completely. Exhausted program maybe?

So this week starts totally different. To balance up I've made yoga, been singing, prepared for my lovely choir Lei-La tonight. I go out in the sun light and sing for myself, the birds, insects, plants and trees around me.

Yesterday I spend the afternoon walking 3 hours in the forest, in sunshine on magic path systems leading up to a small remote lake. Two women and three dogs having the most lovely time in the fresh air. And this is for free! It's there for us to enjoy.

Today started just great as well. In the morning I had a good time making music with Sara, preparing some ideas of music for Myst.
I also got a phone call wich was very inspiring, on the subject "The mysteries of human voice".

Vill du sjunga i min kör?

Kören Lei-La på nya äventyr!

Nu äntligen har jag höstens alla datum på plats, och det är med största glädje jag hälsar välkomna till en ny termin med kören Lei-La! Vi har ny lokal och den är jättefin!

Är du intresserad att komma med? Det går bra att testa ett par gånger innan man bestämmer sig.

Klockslag: 19-20.45 med en kvarts paus.
Plats: Hammarkullen Folkets Hus. Hammarsalen en trappa upp.

Medtag: vattenflaska och frukt/egen smörgås.

Terminsavgift: 1000 kr inkl moms på faktura.
Ungdomspris 200 kr på faktura.
Arbetssökande: 500 kr på faktura.

Anmälan görs via mail till Eva, på info@evarune.se

Sånger och idé:
Blandad kör, både tjejer och killar, inga inträdesprov. Vi jobbar utan noter, kör på gehör. Det mesta av repertoaren baseras på folkliga sånger. Det kan bli nya influenser från olika håll, mycket utifrån mina olika resor och möten. Vi kommer att sjunga enstämmigt, tvåstämmigt, flerstämmigt, svängigt, roligt, frirytmiskt, experimentiellt. Jag vill gärna dela med mig av några av Gunnar Erikssons tekniker för kör på gehör.

Varje körövning startar med en skön röstuppvärmning. Hela hösten gör vi ett och samma uppvärmningsprogram för att fördjupa oss i vår egen rösthälsa och röst-botten. Känna välbefinnande med vår egen röst, förankrad i kroppen. Samma uppvärmningsprogram hela hösten gör att vi kommer till stadiet då man bara känner och gör, utan att behöva tänka så mycket med huvudet.
Den röst-yogakurs jag nyss gått har gett mig inspiration och jag kommer att ta några väl valda övningar från denna kurs och förmedla vidare till er. Det är kunskap som bygger på sådant jag haft med mig länge så det känns helt ok att införliva detta, trots att jag inte är expert på just röst-yoga.


Ny termin, ny lokal och flera nya medlemmar. Det här ska verkligen bli roligt!

Augusti-hälsningar, Eva

Learned a lot this week

Here are a few things that stood shining out, right in front of me, like if life have to shout sometimes to my stubborn senses.

* You can guide yourself to not be so shy.

* You can guide yourself to feel more secure about making mistakes. It's not so dangerous to make mistakes.

* Be a lion!

Just by dancing balboa this Sunday I got back home so full of energy, so happy, feeling more relaxed and happy about myself than I have done for a long time. Wow, there has been so much good things accomplished at work, and then it's this increadible community of dancers where I can go and meet friends.

Next day, Monday, was a kind of back lash during daytime. Was told by an unknown worker at Försäkringskassan that it looks like I'm not working full time, my income is so small. But I am! I'll tell you, I work so much I can push everything, several weeks are 7 days work days, not a single day off. Gladly learning year by year how to improve my work, my art, my entrepreneurship. And here's someone that put me in a box and think I have to be like everyone else, comparing apples with oranges (comparing employees to self-employees). It made me quite sad, and mad.

Oh, did I tell you, I made 23 concerts in two weeks? And the same day I spoke with this lady at Försäkringskassan I got three new concerts booked!

Well, Monday evening, again, fly high in joy. Because we danced and sang for Idle No More, joining in for the rights of indigenous people and sustainable living on Earth.

Tuesday new talks with the square people who just don't really understand how I can make it. I don't really think it's so way out. I'm doing fine. It's me and my decisions for my little family to live healthy. No one else can sit in another telephone and understanding my ways. Because it's just my ways and it works for me.

Today I heard from another woman, mother, artist, that I have to be a lion. I have to fight more. Next time I talk with those people who want to compare apples and oranges I can just say thank you that you care for me, but I'm doing fine. Sharpen my claws. Don't take the shit.

My friend the artist told me at the end of the phonecall: Good luck to you with your VERY important work!

Eva

Parkour: all you need is a free spirit

Oh youth

in the most extremely different situations

united by the same idea of

a free spirit.

Thinking outside the box. In Gaza, in Oslo, in Johannesburg.

"It's a form of breaking free from the box we are placed in and brainwashed to stay in. We think outside the box and use our environment a little differently than we are programmed to. It's an art form, and a sport. It pushes our mental and physical limits. " (Parkour in South Africa)

Gaza Parkour Team, 14th of November 2012.




Frikar Parkour.
The halling-way to do parkour. Filmed in Oslo.




Parkour in South Africa

All you need is a good pair of shoes and a free spirit.

"You fall and you get up and you learn from your mistakes."



Now, when I think of how the young people in Gaza are locked in there and can't get out, can't find any safe place when the bombs are falling. No force in the world seems to stop their free spirit to work on their art and sport, the parkour. I would guess it's a way of surviving.

Legen Mads Gilbert från Gaza i VG idag:

Derimot fortviler legen over at spesielt barn og kvinner blir hardt rammet av de israelske rakettene.

- Nå har det gått 6 dager. Det er snart 1000 skadde og 110 drepte. Halvparten er kvinner og barn. I Gaza bor det 1,7 millioner mennesker og 1 million av dem er under 18 år. Dette er et barnefengsel og sånn går det når du bomber i et barnefengsel. Dette må ta slutt, sier Gilbert.

Tirsdag sendte Israel ut flyveblader hvor de ba Gaza-beboere evakuere ut av bykjernen. Det kan tyde på at de forbereder en bakkeinvasjon.

- Dette er ikke noe forsvar, dette er et angrep. Det er ikke slik at palestinerne angriper, det er Israel som angriper. De må stoppes av det internasjonale samfunnet. Det kan ikke fortsette sånn, sier han.

Encourage in a box

When the right time comes, and it has come now, I open this box wich is a gift from a friend.
It's encourage in a box.

Each day I get a challenge to experience something. I have no idea of the details. The list of content reveals a little something about the small white packages.

Like small tasks to compleete, experience, sence, connect.

Surprices.

It's a totally rare thing to be given such a piece of creativity. I'm so curious to proceed in the list of revealings here, and everything has to be done in the order of the list.

What a start on my autumn!

For two days I've been hit by so many messages about thinking out of the box. Big and small articles, the documentary of Esa-Pekka Salonen on television. So it's quite funny to open such a box that embodies so much thinking outside the box. What was hidden in this particular box is now going outside the box. Esa-Pekka said: life begins outside the box.

Let's do that!

Eva

Gone singing

Good evening,

have you felt like this? Preparations for a concert (that has been long looked forward to) is going fine, because I've done it with no stress. I've included all the different types of work I like to involve in the process. Like going through the lyrics loud, working with my whole body and balance, meditating on the stories and so on. I've been constantly singing the songs, sometimes with only the song existing in my focus, sometimes singing when I'm cooking or cleaning.

And now my heart is so open that I have difficulties being in crowds of people, on the bus, in the food store etc. As soon as I hear children cry I get totally involved. And the news paper, about the killings in the cinema in Colorado, and tomorrow the year day of Utøya. How is it possible to sing about love without crying? And I feel that love is bigger that all tears, all grieving, but life is so hard to understand and so huge. There must be sorrow without borders for the families who lost their loved ones. And yet, light and love will win, so sure love will win, there's no doubt at all.


I cannot sing just by my own power, not a chance, but if I imagine all the musicians that have carried the songs before me, and other people that carry light to this world, the heroes I know who walked the path of understanding and tolerance, love and light. If I imagine them standing invisible behind me, and I'm the channel they use today to say something of the stories that help us being humans and walk on this earth. Oh, I must encourage my own powers too, I'm after all a woman that have lived for some years to learn a few things, I can be in my own age and not make myself smaller.

Yes, that's how it goes, many thoughts on my mind tonight.

Tomorrows concert has been on my mind so long. It's a great feeling to prepare for a concert, I love that process. But it has many ups and downs, sometimes I feel too small to carry on the task, sometimes I feel so sure about how good it's gonna be. Now it's only the final preparations left, to pack my bag with microphone, clothes, shoes, hair and make up, and bring along some of my favourite dresses. I just have to have a number of dresses to fit different moods :-) Yes, I'm still like the hemul in dresses.

Tears from the sky and a road with sunlight.

 

Rain on peony.

Time to bloom! Eva

Pepp inför möte med KUR

Jag älskar tulpaner. Här på Forum igår.

Härligt trött i benen efter gårdagens dans har jag gått till jobbet en ny dag.

Ja, här sitter jag på Oceanen och förbereder morgondagen. Ett mycket viktigt möte på Kulturrådet i Stockholm. Så jag ägnar mest tid åt allehanda RFoD-dokument och förbereder mig mentalt på att föra genrens talan, både proffs, arrangörer och amatörer. Bl a högläser jag vissa delar av dokument som om det vore förberedelse för konsert. På eftermiddagen ska jag ta en peppnings-kaffe med min gode vän och kollega Mikael Godée. Han har enormt bra inblick i det fria musiklivet. Och det är bra att bolla perspektiv inför ett riktigt bra möte imorgon på KUR. Positiva perspektiv i en spännande bransch som brottas med många svåra frågor kring mångfald och jämlikhet i musiklivet. Alla vill ha konstnärlig utveckling och blomstrande kulturliv på alla plan, men hur når vi dit?



Morgonens bästa:
Vilken glädje att läsa om mirakelräddade gruvarbetare i kinesisk kolgruva! Metro nyheter denna morgon. Den statlige säkerhetschefen Luo Lin sade till Kinas stats-tv CCTV att två mirakel ägt rum: -" Det första är att dessa instängda människor har klarat åtta dagar och nätter - det är ett livets mirakel. För det andra har vår räddningsplan fungerat - det är ett mirakel i Kinas sök- och räddningshistoria.


Ett klipp från Canadensisk tv 1958. Mirakelräddade gruvarbetare i Springhill, Nova Scotia.

http://archives.cbc.ca/economy_business/natural_resources/topics/111/

Detta klipp betyder mycket för mig. Hoppet. Att de instängda aldrig förlorade hoppet. De trodde att någon skulle hinna fram till dem. I Springhill var brytningsnivån 3900 meter under jord.

Önskar er alla en bra dag. Nu återgår jag till dokumenten.
Eva