Family & Friends
July 30 - August 6, 2022
July 30 - August 6, 2022
Description
Workshops
Conference Leadership
Pricing
Description
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Family and Friends has provided a safe and nurturing community for people of all ages, from all walks of life, since 1979 at Ferry Beach! We come together in community to grow, explore, learn, and build strong and lasting relationships! Family and Friends is the perfect vacation whether you come as a couple, an individual, a young adult, with your extended family, grandparents, or any combination of these. There will be something for everyone, with morning workshops and activities for adults, young adults and children. Multigenerational activities are plentiful in the afternoons and evenings.
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No one has to cook or clean up on this vacation! Come off the beach in the late afternoon, join friends for social hour, then join everyone in the DeWolfe Dining Hall, where we have a variety of choices for all kinds of palates.
So this summer, bring your spirit to the sea, stand upon the shore, and know you are home! Join us at Family & Friends, and discover or rediscover the magic that happens in the Ferry Beach community!
So this summer, bring your spirit to the sea, stand upon the shore, and know you are home! Join us at Family & Friends, and discover or rediscover the magic that happens in the Ferry Beach community!
Morning Adult Workshops
Each morning there are a variety of workshops for adults to participate In while youth and children are in their own programs. The adult workshop selection is located in the "Workshops" tab above.
Each morning there are a variety of workshops for adults to participate In while youth and children are in their own programs. The adult workshop selection is located in the "Workshops" tab above.
Family and Friends Youth Groups
During the week while the parents are in their morning workshops the children get to have their own workshop with their peers. The groups are broken down by age: 3-5 year olds (need to be potty trained), 6-7 year olds, 8-9 year olds, 10-12 year olds and Jr/Sr teens. The group age cutoffs can shift based on enrollment. The groups are led by at least 2 adults attending Family and Friends who have completed a background check. During the week you can expect to build a Covenant for the week, play games, create art and music, and learn about local ecology. The Jr/Sr teens typically will do a day trip.
During the week while the parents are in their morning workshops the children get to have their own workshop with their peers. The groups are broken down by age: 3-5 year olds (need to be potty trained), 6-7 year olds, 8-9 year olds, 10-12 year olds and Jr/Sr teens. The group age cutoffs can shift based on enrollment. The groups are led by at least 2 adults attending Family and Friends who have completed a background check. During the week you can expect to build a Covenant for the week, play games, create art and music, and learn about local ecology. The Jr/Sr teens typically will do a day trip.
Family and Friends Intergen Activities
Each evening and some afternoons there are scheduled interngen activites the whole family can take part in. Examples of some of our favorite activites during the week include:
Each evening and some afternoons there are scheduled interngen activites the whole family can take part in. Examples of some of our favorite activites during the week include:
- Trivia
- Sing down
- Ice cream social
- Masked ball
- Sandcastle contest
- UUlympics
- Talent No Talent Night
- Parade, closing circle & s'mores
Workshops
Cycling with Michael Scott
Michael will be leading a group of cyclists as we explore the sights near Ferry Beach. Possible destinations include Ferry Beach State Park, Old Orchard, the Eastern Trail, Scarborough Marsh, Pine Point, Prout's Neck, and (with a modest initial car ride) Biddeford Pool, Crescent Beach, Cape Elizabeth, and the Portland Head Light. The group can consider embarking on a full-day excursion to Peaks Island, accessible by ferry from downtown Portland. Michael is happy to share his knowledge of the art of bicycle maintenance with those who are interested.
Participants will need to bring (or find a place to rent) their own bicycle and will need to be comfortable riding 10-15 miles at a time. Helmets are required. Medium-to-wide tires are preferred: narrow road tires will limit our access to some lovely gravel paths.
Participants will need to bring (or find a place to rent) their own bicycle and will need to be comfortable riding 10-15 miles at a time. Helmets are required. Medium-to-wide tires are preferred: narrow road tires will limit our access to some lovely gravel paths.
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Michael Scott is a third-generation Ferry Beacher and lifelong cyclist. As he nears retirement he's slowing down a bit, but still loves the sense of freedom he feels on two wheels. He and Elaine Pratt offered this workshop in 2010 and 2011, following up on Elaine's solo offering in 2009. In his day job, Michael chairs the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester and is active in Rochester's First Universalist Church. He and his wife, Kelly, have two daughters who are also avid Ferry Beachers: Shannon is studying to become a zookeeper; Erin is studying for the UU ministry.
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Punch Needle Rug Hooking with Kelly Scott
Are you:
- enticed by exploring with color, design, patterns?
- drawn to the tactile satisfaction of fiber arts projects?
- up for having FUN?
Then join the Punch Needle Rug Hooking group, a gender-inclusive creative workshop open to those of self-perceived artistic abilities both great and small.
This will be a Beginnings workshop that, later in the week, will be opened up to those with more experience looking for a refresher or further exploration.
In the Beginnings class, you will make an 12” ‘coaster’ or wall hanging, and in so doing, will learn all (yes, all) the skills necessary for making larger rugs. Choose from several patterns offered or draw your own. The #14 and/or #10 Oxford Punch Needles will be used, along with a palette of beautiful and interesting acrylic yarns.
The only things you really *need* are a note pad, pen, & small scissors.
If you have the following, then feel free to bring:
- small lap frame
- size #14 & #10 Oxford punch needle
- worsted weight yarn (wool, if one has it, is just fine)
- bent handled or curved-tip scissors (regular scissors work, too)
- a simple design you already has in mind
- enticed by exploring with color, design, patterns?
- drawn to the tactile satisfaction of fiber arts projects?
- up for having FUN?
Then join the Punch Needle Rug Hooking group, a gender-inclusive creative workshop open to those of self-perceived artistic abilities both great and small.
This will be a Beginnings workshop that, later in the week, will be opened up to those with more experience looking for a refresher or further exploration.
In the Beginnings class, you will make an 12” ‘coaster’ or wall hanging, and in so doing, will learn all (yes, all) the skills necessary for making larger rugs. Choose from several patterns offered or draw your own. The #14 and/or #10 Oxford Punch Needles will be used, along with a palette of beautiful and interesting acrylic yarns.
The only things you really *need* are a note pad, pen, & small scissors.
If you have the following, then feel free to bring:
- small lap frame
- size #14 & #10 Oxford punch needle
- worsted weight yarn (wool, if one has it, is just fine)
- bent handled or curved-tip scissors (regular scissors work, too)
- a simple design you already has in mind
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Kelly Scott is a Certified Oxford Punch Needle Rug Hooking Instructor. Her love of the punch needle style of rug hooking started at Family & Friends week at Ferry Beach. Her love of the craft took off quickly -- Kelly made 22 rugs in her first two years. Twenty of those were her own design. Her rugs have been featured in Green Mtn. Rug Hooking Guild’s Exhibition in Vermont and Wisconsin Valley Artist Assoc Annual Art Exhibition in Wausau, Wisconsin. Kelly Scott’s studio, in Rochester, New York, provides mobile hands-on classes and training for all levels of expertise in punch needle rug hooking.
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JP's Jazz Jam with John "JP" Pearson
JP'S JAZZ JAM will again be offered as a fully scheduled and official workshop! Participants will enjoy creating community as they share their INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL musical skills.
As usual, all levels of musical ability are welcome as long as you come with your own instrument (even those you may not think of as traditional "Jazz" instruments - we'll make it work and make you happy!). Make certain to pack a desire to explore, expand, and create new abilities among supportive friends.
We expect our afternoon "scheduled" meeting time to again provide a better opportunity to address and nurture individual needs and preferences along with providing more time for small group and ensemble projects. In addition to greater active participation, we will also be able to spend some meaningful moments listening to recordings of Jazz masters as examples and inspiration for developing styles and ideas for improvisation and performance.
Several participants have discovered and highly recommend that bringing a personal recording device (cell phone/tablet/??) and a music manuscript notebook very helpful for individual practice purposes outside of our sessions. You might want to bring a folding music stand and any sheet music you might like to work with.
As in the past we will be developing a total group performance piece for Thursday's "INTER-GENERATIONAL TNT SHOW". We are all so very much looking forward to seeing and playing with as many new and old Family & Friends musicians from years gone by!
COME ON - SING OUR SONG - FAMILY & FRIENDS AT FERRY BEACH
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
FAMILY AND FRIENDS AT FERRY BEACH - COME ON!!!
As usual, all levels of musical ability are welcome as long as you come with your own instrument (even those you may not think of as traditional "Jazz" instruments - we'll make it work and make you happy!). Make certain to pack a desire to explore, expand, and create new abilities among supportive friends.
We expect our afternoon "scheduled" meeting time to again provide a better opportunity to address and nurture individual needs and preferences along with providing more time for small group and ensemble projects. In addition to greater active participation, we will also be able to spend some meaningful moments listening to recordings of Jazz masters as examples and inspiration for developing styles and ideas for improvisation and performance.
Several participants have discovered and highly recommend that bringing a personal recording device (cell phone/tablet/??) and a music manuscript notebook very helpful for individual practice purposes outside of our sessions. You might want to bring a folding music stand and any sheet music you might like to work with.
As in the past we will be developing a total group performance piece for Thursday's "INTER-GENERATIONAL TNT SHOW". We are all so very much looking forward to seeing and playing with as many new and old Family & Friends musicians from years gone by!
COME ON - SING OUR SONG - FAMILY & FRIENDS AT FERRY BEACH
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
FAMILY AND FRIENDS AT FERRY BEACH - COME ON!!!
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Mr. Pearson retired after 35 years of teaching music in the Bridgeport, Connecticut, public schools, 29 of which he served as Band Director and Music Department Coordinator at Bassick High School. He has been a music educator serving private- and college-level students for more than 40 years. He enjoys a legacy of former students who have become world-class performers, educators, and active music industry participants of note. He now focuses on improving his own music skills and expanding his performance opportunities. He was introduced to the trumpet in fourth grade, began private instruction with Victor Salvo in White Plains, New York, and continued to study the trumpet through graduate school, studying with James Maxwell of the Tonight Show Band in New York City. Mr. Pearson has been a member of such musical groups as The Bridgeport Downtown Cabaret Theatre Orchestra, The Penfield Pavilion Concert Band, The Connecticut Symphonic Band, The American Festival Concert Band, The Jazz-Haven Big Band and The New Haven Jazz Orchestra, The Organizers and Classics wedding combos, The (U.U.) Revelation Jazz Ensemble, The John Pearson Jazz Quartet, The Alumni Swing Band, The New Additions Jazz Orchestra and freelances with numerous other groups. Mr. Pearson has also been fortunate enough to perform with such notables as trumpeter Clark Terry, saxophonists Jimmy Heath and Marion Meadows, and pianist Billy Taylor. His prolific musical experience is complemented with both a B.S. and M.S. in Music Education.
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Song Writing with Nick Bloom
The songwriting workshop returns! During this time we learn some of the classic forms and genres of (mostly American) popular music, and we listen to songs that embody these forms, discussing and breaking them down together. Doing so we demystify the songwriting process, and we gain some useful tools for writing our own songs. We then spend the majority of our time writing songs, collaborating on songs together, and sharing our songs with one another.
This workshop is for songwriters of all abilities. Whether you are a veteran singer-songwriter, a professional musician, or you have never written a song and do not have any musical background, you are welcome. If you play a musical instrument, you are highly encouraged to bring it with you to accompany yourself and to collaborate with others. However, an instrument is not necessary to participate in the workshop.
This workshop is for songwriters of all abilities. Whether you are a veteran singer-songwriter, a professional musician, or you have never written a song and do not have any musical background, you are welcome. If you play a musical instrument, you are highly encouraged to bring it with you to accompany yourself and to collaborate with others. However, an instrument is not necessary to participate in the workshop.
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Nick Bloom is a songwriter, singer, strummer, and lover of many forms of song. He has written and performed his own music for more than a decade in many parts of the country, though his favorite place to write and perform has always been the Rose Pavilion at Ferry Beach. Nick has released two albums of his own music with his New York City-based band, Bold Forbes, and regularly performs country-folk music in his current home city, Austin, Texas. Nick cannot wait to once again lead this songwriting workshop at Family & Friends, one of the most creatively fertile, soulful places on earth.
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Writing with Sharon O'Brien
Have you ever thought that you’d like to write your own life story, or invent one you give to a fictional character? Have you ever wanted to share writing with a supportive group and receive ideas and insights? “Everyone has a story that only he or she can tell,” writer Susan Monsky once said. In this writing workshop you will discover, explore, and shape a story (or stories). You will learn how to make your stories reach readers by drawing on the material of life and transforming it into a shaped narrative. Whether you are working in creative nonfiction, memoir, fiction or poetry you will find the workshop a place to explore your creativity. Because this is a workshop, the instructor will guide the class by giving writing prompts, although everyone is also free to develop their own. Writers will be encouraged to read their work aloud and will receive useful feedback and encouragement from the other writers. Everyone will have at least one individual appointment with the instructor, and there will be the opportunity to participate in a reading. No writing experience is necessary.
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Sharon O’Brien is a teacher, writer, and reader who has taught creative writing at Dickinson College for more than 20 years. She began her own writing life as a biographer of the American novelist Willa Cather, and soon realized that biography is a form of story-telling. She took creative writing classes at Harvard Summer School and later taught creative nonfiction there. In 2004 she published her own memoir (U Chicago Press), The Family Silver, where she explored the ways in which history and culture can shape people’s lives. In addition to teaching memoir and personal essay to undergraduates, she teaches writing workshops and courses in the community. She fell in love with Ferry Beach the first time she came here, and is honored to be part of the long, vibrant tradition of writing workshop leaders in this community. She believes that writing carries spiritual and emotional weight and has the power to create empathy.
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Yoga with Megan Cullinane
Our morning gatherings will include a flexible schedule of yin yoga, power vinyasa, restorative yoga, meditation, inquiry, and reflection. In yin practice we will focus on the connective tissue in the body and flow slowly, holding each pose for 3-5 minutes. Power flows will move through many poses at a faster pace. Participants should bring a journal, mat, blanket, and pillows of all varieties.
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Megan (she/they) loves leading yoga on zoom and in various other places in real life! They fell into the community at Grace and Glory Yoga where they completed hundreds of hours of transformative practice, a Yin Yoga 60 Hour Certification program, and a 200 Hour Teacher Leader Development Program. Megan went on to further their knowledge at a Level One Aerial Yoga Teacher Certification with Vata Asana. She believes inclusion is the heart of yoga.
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Conference Leadership
Please call 207-282-4489 x1 or email info@ferrybeach.org for questions related to the programing or to get in touch with the conference coordinators.
Pricing
Pricing per Person |
Adult: $448.00 (Includes Conference Fees + Meals) Youth: $329.00 (Includes Conference Fees + Meals) Off-Site Daily Fee: $64.00 Adult / $47.00 Youth (Includes all Meals) On-Site Daily Fee: $19.00 (Staying On Campus and Not Registered for Programming. Does not include Meals. Note: A minimum of one adult per party must be enrolled in programming.) |
Lodging |
Lodging Prices Vary. See our Lodging Page for pricing information. |
Membership |
Membership must be paid to attend any Ferry Beach program and is due annually. Individual Membership: $35.00 Family Membership: $60.00 See our Membership Page to learn more and to purchase or renew a membership. |
Call 207-282-4489 x1 to Register by Phone
