Workshops

 

In addition to being a choral conductor, Natalie is regularly invited as a choral clinician, and teaching artist. She leads enriching workshops for communities, singing groups, and leaders. Natalie bridges vocal ensemble singing with community-engaged art in her leadership. She tackles a myriad of topics and music through art, collaboration, and curiosity. She is committed to decolonization.

  • Privilege and Leadership

    Natalie takes leaders through a compassionate, conversational, and actionable workshop, to discuss how our awareness of privilege can inform our leadership decisions and organizational policies, in effort to create anti-oppressive organizational cultures and arts programs.

  • Community-Engaged Art

    Natalie designs and leads workshops of a community’s desired topic and theme- to gather stories, and create art, by and for the communities she visits. Community members go on a journey of reflecting, sharing, making. Natalie creatively designs fulfilling artistic outcomes for these experiences and workshops. Some topics might include social issues like climate change.

  • Choral

    Natalie leads workshops for singing communities on her compositions and arrangements, as well as traditional Levantine music!

  • Palestine

    A Palestinian woman, Natalie has a deep decolonial understanding and education on Palestinian history, culture, and experiences, prior to, during, and beyond, the Zionist colonization of Historic Palestine. Her workshops gently and compassionately, invite participants to learn, empathize with, and appreciate Palestinian being and culture. Participants have walked away from these workshops feeling more educated, curious, fulfilled, and hopeful to the positive changes that can support Palestinian rights and livelihood.

  • Social Change

    Natalie’s interactive workshops and talks on challenging social topics allow participants tackle difficult subject matters with more ease, through open and compassionate dialogue and relationship. The workshops are rooted in awareness, understanding, and action. Subject matters include mental illness, race, religion, general privilege, gender.