Join The CA's Rising Song Facilitator Training!
Let's inspire musical growth in our communities and explore Joey Weisenberg's master class videos together!
Subscribe now to secure your spot in the optional Facilitators Training. Details below.
Presented in partnership with...
The Cantors Assembly and the Rising Song Institute are partnering to offer cantors high-quality resources and training to enrich personal practice, to enhance communal music and to engage their congregations in musical-spiritual exploration.
There are three ways to get involved:
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Subscribe now to Joey's master class library to start learning on your own schedule, at your own pace. (This can be done independently of #2 and #3 below.)
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To learn more about the Facilitator Training, watch the video of "Rising in Song: A Musical Conversation" with Joey and Cantor Joanna Dulkin that took place on Sept. 10. The password is RisingSong
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Join the CA's Rising Song Facilitator Training by checking the corresponding box when you subscribe to Joey’s Master Classes. There is no additional cost.
The Facilitator Training will take place over three months and include three live workshops with Joey, sponsored by the CA, as well as an opportunity to connect more deeply with colleagues in study groups or chevruta while delving into selected material from Joey’s Music, Prayer, Artistry master classes.
Whichever option you choose, this program is a unique opportunity for personal growth and professional development. Cantor-facilitators will be able to empower their communities through song by building spiritual vocabulary, increasing spontaneity and flexibility in our own practice and serving as a resource for our community members who are learning the material.
Preview what we will learn in this training...
Six Collections of Master Classes
A monthly subscription grants each of us access to all six courses of guided study, including hundreds of videos! More about the courses...
Singing Communities
Ten Keys to Unlocking Powerful Spiritual Music in Our Communities
Designed for all members of the community, this series teaches us how to bring people together to build joyous singing communities.
The Art of the Nigun
How to Sing, Lead and Teach Wordless Melodies
This extensive series teaches beautiful Jewish spiritual melodies, and then teaches how explore, lead and teach those melodies in community.
Davening Artistry
How to Lead Deeply Moving Communal Prayer
Joey explains his strategies and concepts for connecting through the medium of traditional Jewish prayer across more than 80 videos.
The Torah of Music
Lessons in the Musical Dreamscape of the Jewish Sages
Drawn from his 2017 National Jewish Book Award winning work, The Torah of Music, Joey tells the story of music in the spiritual practice of Jewish life.
Shabbat and Festivals
Nusach and Nigun
Go in depth and learn the nusach (prayer chant) for Shabbat, Festivals and weekday davening, as well as Joey's favorite melodies and his unique approach to leading each service.
High Holidays
Nusach and Nigun
Featuring 100+ videos, this is an extended series on the traditional prayer chant of Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, with in-depth explorations of the High Holidays liturgy.
Studying, Singing, Socially Distant
The comprehensive resources on this site, paired with the organizing power of local song circles, can inspire dramatic musical-spiritual growth, during COVID and beyond. We hope that music will help us remember how to interact with, lift up and support each other in the most positive ways.
FAQ
Answers to some questions about joining a Rising Song Circle...
The big idea here is for you to build (or continue to build) an enthusiastic singing community at your shul or organization, using your expert leadership. Your people can subscribe individually to Joey’s extensive collection of master class videos, and you will be the fearless leader, helping them every step of the way, both individually and as a group.
We are calling these communities Rising Song Circles. What you do with your circle is only limited by your own imagination and leadership. The CA Rising Song Facilitator Training is designed to help get you off to a strong start -- or, if you’re already experienced leading this kind of group, to take you to the next level.
Music is now more important than ever. Song reminds us of our essential humanity and it will have the power to rekindle communal bonds after so many months spent social distancing.
Trained facilitators can engage their communities using Joey’s master classes, which give cantors inspiring, well-crafted material to explore. The CA and RSI want to “train the trainers” so that cantors can gather local groups of singers and song-lovers in their communities and teach them to sing nigunim and learn nusach using Joey’s resources as a launching pad.
Hazzanim Joanna Dulkin and Mike Weis will organize all get-togethers and/or virtual gatherings using Joey’s master class videos as a resource and curriculum to inspire the group, and Joey will lead a series of private, live workshops for our Rising Song Facilitator Training.
A subscription to Joey's Music. Prayer. Artistry. master classes costs $18 per month and grants a person access to all the videos (more than 500!) on this site.
NOTE: Folks who are already subscribed to Joey’s Master Classes should reach out to [email protected] so Joey's team can add you to the CA's Rising Song Facilitator Training for no extra cost.
Dates are TBD.
The CA and RSI are partnering to offer a facilitator training to learn from Joey how to run Rising Song Circles in your community.
Rising Song Circles are opportunities to study (Jewish) song in depth through extensive master class videos paired with a local master facilitator (i.e. cantor).
Music is now more important than ever. Song reminds us of our essential humanity and it will have the power to rekindle communal bonds after so many months spent social distancing.
Trained facilitators can engage their communities using Joey’s master classes, which give cantors inspiring, well-crafted material to explore. The CA and RSI want to “train the trainers” so that cantors can gather local groups of singers and song-lovers in their communities and teach them to sing nigunim and learn nusach using Joey’s resources as a launching pad.
When you subscribe, you secure your place in the training program and you get an all-access pass to immediately being exploring the courses on this site.
Though it’s difficult and unadvisable to sing close together and make really beautiful music in person during the ongoing pandemic, we view this situation as a great opportunity to study and enjoy Jewish music online, to learn nigunim and sing them in our living rooms, and to study the nusach of Jewish prayer chant so that our spiritual lives do not become stagnant.
The material on this site gives us the tools to create powerful moments of prayer at home with our families or even to lead intimate backyard gatherings with our closest friends.
We believe that taking advantage of this unprecedented time to study (Jewish) music will make it all the more exciting and meaningful when we’re able to gather together in song again.
Part of the mission of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute is to inspire musical growth in the Jewish community worldwide. As founder and co-director of RSI, Joey wants to see that happen. So, in partnership with him, we’re investing our time and energy to make it happen. When we see potential and musical-spiritual organizing power in a community, we want to support it, and that’s the point of this resource.
Music is now more important than ever. Song reminds us of our essential humanity and it will have the power to rekindle communal bonds after so many months spent social distancing.
Join the CA's Rising Song Facilitators Training!
If you are already subscribed to Joeyā€™s Master Classes, please contact [email protected] to be added to the the CA's Rising Song Facilitators Training.
