The ‘Writing 10 Songs In One Day’ Challenge – A Virtual Retreat For Songwriters
- Online Workshops
- Singer/Songwriter
**THIS IS AN ONLINE WORKSHOP**
Good Friends Discount available. Sign up with a friend and you’ll both receive 20% off of this workshop by clicking here!
This virtual, songwriting retreat is designed to open up your creativity, help you to dive into flow state, explore new tools for songwriting, and to create a safe container for you to take risks.
On January 3rd, we will gather for 8 hours to write 10 songs! Led by Naomi Westwater, each song will include a prompt, freewrite, and a form. With a running clock and a group of songwriters as the best accountability buddies, you’ll walk away with 10 new songs for you to develop and flesh out. So you’ll be able to start off the new year with 10 new songs (that’s an album).
This retreat is followed by an in-person open mic on January 11th at Club Passim where participants can share one of their brand new songs.
WE ARE OFFERING SCHOLARSHIPS TO THIS COURSE – Please email Rachel at rachel@passim.org to apply for a scholarship.
This workshop will take place on Zoom from 10:30am-6:30pm ET on January 3rd.
Pre-sales are highly encouraged! Online sale ends 2 hours before the workshop begins. Tickets can be purchased at the door before the workshop begins. If a workshop is cancelled due to low enrollment, you will be notified and receive a full refund.
Naomi Westwater
- Americana
- Singer/Songwriter
Naomi Westwater (they/them/she) is a queer, Black-multiracial singer-songwriter from Massachusetts. Their work combines folk-rock music, poetry, and spirituality. Their hope is that through ritual and storytelling they can aid nature in the end of capitalism and the return to community, creativity, and collective joy.
Naomi holds a Master of Music in Contemporary Performance and Production from Berklee College of Music, and they are a part of The Club Passim Folk Collective, where they produce Re-Imagining Lilith Fair: a tribute to the feminist music scene of the 1990s with an intersectional lens for today.
Naomi was nominated for four Boston Music Awards, and featured in The Boston Globe, Under The Radar, WBUR, GBH, and The Bluegrass Situation. They made the WBUR’s 2024 Makers list, and in November 2024 the musician-in-residence at Château d’Orquevaux in France.
Naomi is also a cultural curator, she leads the Boston Chapter of We Make Noise where she produces We Make Noise Fest and We Make Noise Camp, and has produced shows at The Apollo Theater, The Beacon Theatre, The Bell House, and more. Currently, Naomi is producing a series called Reclaiming Folk: A Celebration of People of Color in Folk Music and has received over 20 grants to tour the series.
Naomi is on faculty at Club Passim and Not Sorry Productions teaching songwriting, spirituality, and poetry. Her latest concept record, Cycle & Change is out everywhere.
