Guitar Friends Studio

Poetry performance workshop & reading hosted by poet-educator Elizabeth Marino and guitar friend Willa Moore, Singer/ Songwriter.

Saturday April 6
1:00 - 3:00pm
Uptown Branch Library
929 W Buena Ave Chicago IL
312-744-8400

The guitar fretboard is a two-dimensional playground
- Howard Roberts*

In learning experiences with students, collaborators and friends, I’ve come to realize how important spatial thinking is to guitar playing and to all learning.

“Spatial thinking must be recognized as a fundamental part of K–12 education and as an integrator and a facilitator for problem solving across the curriculum.” -Learning to Think Spatially

*(Howard was quoting someone else when he said this, but I don’t know who)

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https://www.nap.edu/catalog/11019/learning-to-think-spatially

Penn Researchers’ Theory: Brain’s Location-tracking Cells Use Transcendental Number System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXl # #

“Every artist is part of the building blocks of our social creative consciousness. With every note we play with honest intention, we tear down a part of the injustices in the world. Love and music are indeed one.”
-Van Gordon Martin

Van started his musical journey at the age of seven, learning to play, and polishing and stringing guitars in a music shop. Not so many years later, Bernie Worrell, legendary Parliament Funkadelic and Talking Heads keyboardist, discovered and mentored Van, setting him on a new path in his musical journey..

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Van Gordon Martin: Rock House One Shot Van Gordon Martin - The Ghost Rock House One Shot Filmed by Michelle Learson at the Rock House in Boston, MA Recorded and Mixed by Steve Learson. Van Gordon ...