

FluteXpansions
Creativity Intensive
4 February - 6 February, 2022
10:00am-4:00pm CT / 17:00-23:00 CET
3-day live virtual intensive
to holistically empower & explore your personal and artistic voice
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Gain the tools to help you expand your voice into its most powerful version

"No matter what level you're at in your career, there's always room for growth!"
– Camilla Hoitenga
Whether you’re a performer, professor, teacher,
student, composer, or improviser...
this event is perfect for you if you are
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...a CURIOUS EXPLORER who loves digging deep into yourself and your creative practice
...a CREATIVE JUNKIE who loves exploring new corners of your creativity
...ITCHING TO EXPLORE your creativity through an instrument (any instrument!)
...CRAVING a FRIENDLY and SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT to try new things and learn from other artists
...READY TO EXPAND your knowledge and familiarity with creative tools used in contemporary music
...EXCITED TO TRY (or go deeper with) electronics, improvisation, and/or composition as creativity tools
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Full of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style masterclasses and lectures, this jam-packed weekend is sure to allow the space and support for you to expand in any (and every) direction you choose.
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Featuring...


JADE SIMMONS

MELODY CHUA

DR. GILLIAN MORRISSEY

DUSTIN
WHITE

SHANNA PRANAITIS
Artistic Director
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CAMILLA HOITENGA

HILARY ABIGANA

ANNE
LA BERGE
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ERIC LAMB

SUSAN
GEANEY

JANE RIGLER

NANDIN
BAKER

RENATA
KAMBAROVA
SHANNON
LEWIS

MEERENAI
SHIM

JACOB
LABARGE

RODRIGO
FRADE

CARLA REES

MORGANN
DAVIS

KATHLEEN
WEIDENFELLER

JOSEFINE PERSSON

FluteXpansions Creativity Intensive is about more than the flute
It's about more than just contemporary music
Join us if you seek...
Fearless exploration of your whole self
Expanding your flute playing & artistry in 360 degrees
Using curiosity and awareness to illuminate the potential and power within you as an artist and a person
This live intensive is filled with opportunities to go into the depths of exploring your ideas and your voice.
Expand your artistic knowledge and skillsets in areas such as:

...and other surprises!
All while caring for your whole body and mind.
What FluteXpansions offered was way more than just extended flute techniques – It was a way back to myself – finding the joy in composing, creating and making sounds with others who were also eager to do the same. It was the inspiration to be creative again!
Nandin Baker
Meditative Flute Coach

I know how frustrating a "traditional" path can be for musicians.
Sometimes you crave something more expansive and inclusive than what you're currently doing!
Especially when you...
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Feel stalled creatively, and need to find other ways to express or expand your artistic voice (but don’t know where to start)
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Crave community but feel like you are searching for your people
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Feel tapped out by the past couple of years in your current career path (or this pandemic!)
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Desire to be more authentically you and need other ways to include more of who you are into your musical life
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Are curious about composition, but feel like you’re “not allowed to” because you haven’t studied it
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Have students who are pushing into contemporary music, but feel like you need more skills in this area
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Feel fragmented as an artist
Use promo code CREATIVE
for $100 off!

Dustin White
One thing that makes this program special is how my whole personhood was addressed and not just my flute playing skills. Communicating with so many experimental flutists was incredibly validating to me as an artist. I've already told several friends to attend next time as I've never participated in a music program quite like this!

Aliesha Phillips
I am BEYOND excited to say that I took part in a wonderful learning experience given by FluteXpansions! It was extremely beneficial for my growth as a flutist. I learned so much. This is an experience that I will take with me for the rest of my life.

Shannon Lewis
I went away with a massive toolbox and the "yeah I could totally do this" feeling. I also really enjoyed the electronics course, because even though I enjoy exploring technology there is so much that I don't/didn't know was possible, and I'm just more motivated to keep going.

Hi, I'm Shanna.
You may know me as "The Radically Traditional Flutist," or the Artistic Director Flute Expansions! I empower artists to create exceptionally joyful lives and careers as a performer and coach.
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If you're anything like me, whenever you hear someone make a new sound on the flute, you think, "I want to try that!"
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You love exploring sounds - of all kinds! - and want to know what it's like to create new, inventive, interesting pieces in collaboration with other musicians.
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You're craving a community of forward-thinkers, where everyone is treated with kindness and respect that allows for unrestrained exploration.
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Maybe you've found that an "old way" of making a career in flute and music is not serving you. You could be at a crossroads in your career, or looking for a new path. But you don't want to leave your beloved instrument behind! If this sounds like you...

Photo credit: Memoires en Or, Mouna Tahar
I would love to welcome you into the FluteXpansions Creativity Intensive.
Come join the community you crave, and learn new ways to bring the sounds you've been dreaming of (or didn't even know existed!) to fruition.

DAY 1
Welcome –
Creativity Adventure Begins Here!
Jane Rigler: Deeply Playful Listening – Setting the Creator Inside Free!
Creativity Tools
"Speed Dating" Sessions with Jane Rigler, Carla Rees, Eric Lamb, Melody Chua, Anne La Berge, and Shanna Pranaitis!
Choose Your
Own Adventure
Session #1
Please see the FAQ for more information
Day 1 Closeout
& Group Share
DAY 2
Opening Activity
& Meditation
with Morgann Davis
Camilla Hoitenga: Parallel Pieces –
Improv with Art
Special Guest Speaker Jade Simmons:
Creative
Boundary-Breaking
Workshops:
Electronic Sampling
with Anne La Berge
& Quick Composition
with Carla Rees
Hilary Abigana:
Hybrid Arts-ing 101:
There's More to Life Than a Stand & a Chair
...plus so much more!
At the end of every day, you’ll have the opportunity to stay and ask me questions!
Ask anything from that day’s content, next steps, instrument questions, and more!
You only get this opportunity as a participant of FXCI… So what are you waiting for?
Use code CREATIVE
for $100 off!
And don't worry; despite the jam-packed schedule, there will be plenty of breaks to process all this incredible content and take the resting time you need.
Questions? See the FAQs
DAY 3
Opening Activity
& Meditation
with Jane Rigler
Choose Your
Own Adventure
Session #2
Please see the FAQ for more information
Shanna Pranaitis:
New Rules of the Game!
Career Panel:
Q&A with Eric Lamb, Shanna Pranaitis, Matthias Ziegler, Hilary Abigana, Carla Rees, Jane Rigler, Camilla Hoitenga, Melody Chua, and Anne La Berge
Grand Finale:
Intelligent Fearlessness
Here's a sneak-peek of what we'll be covering...
Sessions held from 10:00am - 4:00pm CT / 17:00pm - 23:00pm CET

This experience is designed to give you freedom to choose how you want to explore your creativity in a supportive environment.
You will leave our time together feeling
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Rejuvenated as an artist,
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Invigorated to use your full creative voice and power, and
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Empowered with concrete knowledge of how to take action.
Featuring faculty of FX Sonic Immersion and special guest speakers, including:
Pianist and CEO of Jade Media Global

Named one of the best keynote speakers of 2019, 2020, and 2021, Jade Simmons is a creator of transformational experiences designed to activate audiences into becoming the biggest, boldest versions of themselves possible. The world-class concert artist has been called a “musical force of nature” with an “uncanny ability to connect with the sounds of today.” Jade is CEO of Jade Media global, a revolutionary live experience and global content distribution company specializing in 360 degree personal development and strategic transformation.
Following an artistic epiphany, she pivoted from playing the piano to impress audiences, to using music as the vehicle by which to provide the inspiration, entertainment, and transformation that profoundly moves them instead.
Nicknamed “Classical Music’s #1 Maverick,” her electrifying, genre-bending concert adventures span Rachmaninoff all the way to rap and include virtuoso storytelling, uncommon insights, and boundless inspiration.
Today, Jade’s experiences not only delight concert audiences, but her dazzling, high-impact presentation are fast becoming the go-to fuel for the world’s superlative brands and organizations from financial services, biotech, entertainment, education, energy and beyond. The likes of Dell, Raytheon, NBC Universal, Pfizer, Intuit Quickbooks,Nationwide, Hershey’s and the Royal Bank of Canada are bringing Jade to power up their people.
For FXCI, Jade will be leading a special session,
Creative Boundary-Breaking.
You won't want to miss this!

I feel anything is possible now! There will be road blocks and challenges to overcome, and with perseverance, opportunities will eventually open up. I see a rich creative career for myself as an artist and musician and that I can continue to carve out a path that suits me and my ideas.
Susan Geaney
Flutist, Improviser, composer,
Founder, Creative Being

Featuring Special Guest Speakers...
The "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" Series
These mini-workshops will be happening simultaneously in a variety of topics.
DR. GILLIAN MORRISSEY
MEERENAI
SHIM
JACOB
LABARGE
MORGANN
DAVIS
DUSTIN
WHITE
NANDIN
BAKER
SUSAN
GEANEY
KATHLEEN
WEIDENFELLER
RENATA
KAMBAROVA
SHANNON
LEWIS
RODRIGO
FRADE
JOSEFINE
PERSSON
