Recording artist Carrie Newcomer to lead human connections-focused retreat
National recording artist, podcast host and author Carrie Newcomer has emerged as a national voice for finding how people still connect at the heart of the human story. She will make a special September appearance at Hanover College to lead a unique retreat focused on human connections.
“What We Need Is Here: The Living Possibility Within Us and Between Us,” is an interactive workshop created to explore our connections to the world around us. Newcomer will use music, poetry, story and reflection to lead participants through a series of experiences designed to affirm who we are, who we are becoming and the power of daily actions to create positive change.
“What We Need Is Here: The Living Possibility Within Us and Between Us” will begin at 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 12, at Fitzgibbon Recital Hall, Lynn Center for Fine Arts. The event is open to the public, free of charge. Seating is limited and advanced registration is strongly encouraged.
Newcomer has released 20 albums, including “A Great Wild Mercy,” “Until Now,” “The Point of Arrival” and “The Beautiful Not Yet.” Her song, “I Should’ve Known Better,” appeared on Nickel Creeks’ Grammy-winning gold album “This Side.” She earned an Emmy Award for her PBS special “An Evening with Carrie Newcomer.”
She is the author of three books of poetry and essays: “A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays,” “The Beautiful Not Yet: Poems and Essays & Lyrics,” and “Until Now: New Poems by Carrie Newcomer.” She has also become one of Substack’s most popular music writers with her weekly offerings of topical reflections, videos, poetry and songs.
Newcomer has joined author Parker J. Palmer on multiple projects, including “The Growing Edge” podcast, which explores meeting new personal, vocational and political challenges. In 2018, “Spirituality & Health” magazine recognized Newcomer and Palmer on its list of the top 10 spiritual leaders for the next 20 years.
In 2009 and 2011, the American Embassy of India invited Newcomer to be a cultural ambassador, resulting in her interfaith benefit album “Everything is Everywhere” with Amjad Ali Kh. In 2013, she traveled to Kenya and the Middle East, performing in schools, spiritual communities and hospitals assisting AIDS patients. She has also presented workshops with ServiceSpace.org, an interfaith community for creating positive change through personal and collective service experiences.
Newcomer received The Shalem Institute’s Contemplative Voices Award in 2019. She was awarded an honorary degree in Music for Social Change from Goshen College in 2016.
Newcomer’s appearance is made possible through grants and donations that support Hanover’s Social Justice Leadership program.
