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• Celebrating Island Music

• Coffee/pod

• The Power of Love, Loss and Opening Your Heart Aga …

• Meditation Isn’t for Everybody (but it should be) …

• Bring Sally Up Challenge

• Get Those Greens In 🥬

• Protein Treat

• In ❤️ with this shade

• Roses Are Red

 Mr. Rain by Joce Reyome is nominated for The City of Charlottetown R&B/Soul Recording of the Year at the PEI Music Awards.  🎶 🎤.

Joce Reyome is a talented singer-songwriter from PEI, known for their soulful voice and heartfelt lyrics that mix indie, folk, and alt-pop. Their music is emotionally powerful, exploring themes of self, love, and vulnerability with a raw, honest sound.

Celebrating Island Music

Major Music PEI annual events include Music PEI Week, Showcase PEI, and The Canadian Song Conference. Music PEI Week is a celebration of Island music culminating with the Music PEI Awards. Showcase PEI is a live performance conference that recruits music industry delegates and presenters from around the world to create performance opportunities. The Canadian Song conference focuses on songwriting and creating multiple revenue streams from songs and recordings.

For a detailed list of performances during MUSIC PEI WEEK visit MUSIC PEI.

Coffee/pod

Coffee Talk

February—Black History Month.

When I first started teaching, I had no idea this would become my favorite time of year as a music teacher. There’s something so fulfilling about this month, especially getting to explore one of the most important chapters in history, told so beautifully through lyrics and song.

Yes, I may go a bit too far….but do I?

I take the kids on a musical journey back in time to African American Spirituals and why they were so incredibly important. Not only did these songs provide hope, encouragement, and spiritual support, but they also provided coded messages regarding escape routes and the Underground Railrooad to Canada.

In this part of the unit, I pull up a map of the U.S. to ‘walk through’ Harriet Tubman’s journey—how her courage and faith led her to escape and then return 17 times to free others — 300 to be exact.

It’s easy to feel discouraged sometimes—whether it’s society, a lack of empathy, or the feeling that "kids just don’t care." But trust me, they do. When 25 kids walk into class and ask, “Ok Miss Mooney, where were we in the story, and can we do the Harriet Tubman song again?” and then sing “Stand Up” celebrating a women whose become their hero, it’s truly moving.

These kids, with their big words, small bodies, and pure hearts, sing with more emotion and conviction than you could ever imagine. It gets me every time.

The Power of Love, Loss and Opening
Your Heart Again with Stephanie Knickle

I'm sure some of you know what I'm talking about. 

The breakdown of a relationship or marriage for one. The loss of safety. Of trust. Of loyalty. We becomes Me. 

Someone asked a friend of mine last month "why has she been alone for so long?"....

Seriously?!? 

My first thought was whoa, why does she think I don't want to be alone in the first place?!  We certainly have to make that more normalized...and less a topic for people to gossip about. 

My second thought was if she only knew how much the loss of things that were sacred to me HAD on me...and that I would do what I could to protect myself from ever feeling those things again.

BUT here's the flip side.  I've been told recently that I'm being really selfish ...See, when you protect yourself by never letting anyone in your life again, you are also LIMITING THE LOVE YOU HAVE TO GIVE AND THAT OTHERS CAN EXPERIENCE ...it's like I have this big bag of warm hugs, and if I'm keeping it all to myself and no-one ever gets to experience a hug from me (which are the best hugs, I must say), then in all reality, I AM BEING SELFISH! 

So, as I wade into the uncomfortable world of opening myself up again to share my hugs, may you too, also never forget how much love you have to give, including to yourself!

Stephanie

Manager, Campus and Community Recreation
UPEI Department of Athletics and Recreation

Meditation Isn’t for Everybody
(but it should be) 🧘🏻‍♂️

The Dalia Lama once said, “If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.”

Bring Sally Up Challenge

Get Those Greens In 🥬

Protein Treat

In ❤️ with this shade

Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue
Valentine’s Ideas Just For You

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