We hope you will JOIN US for an exciting weekend of Concerts, Workshops, Socializing, Harp Shopping and for our Therapeutic Harp Gathering!
The International Harp Therapy Program was planning its Introductory Workshop and gathering of Graduates for October only to find out it was the same weekend as the outstanding Harp On Wight Festival. Some quick planning has created a union that is sure not to be missed.
Take a look at the schedule at:
Here is information on Christina Tourin’s course offerings:
Saturday 10th October
15:30-17:30 WORKSHOP: CHRISTINA TOURIN (USA)
“New developments in therapeutic harp and modulating modes in the Celtic circle of music”
Venue: St. Mary’s Church (St. Therese Hall), High Street, Ryde PO33 2RE Tickets: £ 7 /or £ 3.50 for Harp on Wight course students
From: 01983 730930 Booking essential. Limited availability.
Christina Tourin, Director of the International Harp Therapy Programme, will introduce you to the world of harp therapy sharing her 25 years experience in training people how to take harp music into therapeutic settings. (Register with Harp On Wight Registration)
Sunday 11th October
9:00-12:00 WORKSHOP: CHRISTINA TOURIN
Harp on Wight Festival hosts: The International Harp Therapy Programme “Colour My World Training Facilitators Programme” by Christina Tourin
Venue: St. Mary’s Church (St. Therese Hall), High Street, Ryde PO33 2RE Harp on Wight only hosts the workshop, to book please email: ; website:
This workshop will introduce and begin to prepare you to work in therapeutic settings, i.e., senior homes, schools, special needs centres, community support groups, offering harp circles to groups of people. All materials are made available to you with a tried and true programme. The workshop will cover many aspects of working therapeutically with both the harp and the appropriate music for the occasion. You will learn improvisation patterns and modulations.
The “Color My World with Harp” Programme is an extension of the successful 25 year running “Rainbow of Sound” Programme developed for school age children. By taking this workshop, you will be able to be listed as one of the world facilitators and receive developed programs to use in your community group. You will learn how you can create a lucrative income by offering harp circles. Bring a harp or if you haven’t one just come. You will have the opportunity to meet graduates of the International Harp Therapy Programme – UK, to hear about their exciting work.
The cost for this workshop is £10. Space is limited so PLEASE pre-register to secure a spot. You will receive the training to become a Facilitator of the Color My World Harp Program that will teach you how to successfully introduce and administer this program to your own community of beginning harp players. You will receive information on how you can create an income by sharing what you love – playing the harp.
During the evening concert with Christina Tourin, you can be part of an amazing short segment of showing what can happen in harp circles! (Register on the form below.)
Sunday October 11th, Closing Concert
Christina Tourin “Timeless Music From Enchanted Sources”, Ryde Methodist Church, Garfield Road, Ryde 6:30pm.
Tickets £10 To book please telephone 01983 730 930 or book online at
CHRISTINA TOURIN – Christina, author of the respected and comprehensive book, Harp Therapy Manual – a Cradle of Sound, is a second-generation harpist, who began playing harp at the age of four.
She received Music and Education degrees from the University of Vermont and also studied harp at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and at McGill University in Montreal. She received her Music Therapy degree from Arizona State University. As a recording artist with 15 recordings distributed Internationally, she has performed extensively.
With shimmering, mystical chords and transcendent harmonies, her harp playing has been described as ‘liquid gold’. She is an active workshop organizer and has been instrumental in the revival of the folk harp since the early 1970’s.
In 1982 she founded the Scottish Harp Society of America. Seventeen years playing at the Trapp Family Lodge – the home of Sound of Music, 30 years of private (Steiner Schools) and public school teaching, creator of the Rainbow of Sound® program and the World Harp Orchestra®, healing with music and sound vibrations in hospitals and hospices, traveling, composing, teaching, and writing books round out her full life.
She is founder and director of the International Harp Therapy Program, founded in 1994 which has now expanded to the U.K. Canada, Europe, Brazil, Australia and Asia and is an on-line complete At-Home Study Program.
Contact Christina Tourin personally at if you have further questions.
Please fill in the subscription form below for the Sunday workshop. All other workshops and concerts must be made through HarpOnWight Website.The special Sunday workshop is limited in size so please send in your information and intention of attendance even if you need to pay later. You may copy and paste your subscription in an email to:
£10. - Please pre-register in order to secure a place in the workshop.
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