First Night Akron - Hey Mavis Songwriting Workshops and Performances

http://www.firstnightakron.org/

Here's a description of the Songwriting Workshop:

The Hey Mavis songwriting workshop is an interactive creative experience for both children and their parents.  Recommended for ages 8 and up, each 45-minute workshop will hold 12 children and their parents.  The only things participants need to bring are their voices and imaginations.  The band will teach kids and their parents the chorus of a song written specifically for First Night Akron (and intentionally left unfinished).  Parents and kids are then separated into two groups.  Through the process of brainstorming, each group will work together with Hey Mavis to craft their First Night and Akron memories and experiences into verses for the song.  Hey Mavis and the workshop participants will later perform the First Night Akron song (with workshop written verses) on the children's stage before the children’s fireworks.

Times:  5:00-5:45; 6 -6:45; 7-7:45 p.m.

Date:  December 31, 2009

Hey Mavis will also perform at the Graystone Building from 9:30-11:30