class | ZoomDance Winter Session (1/12 – 3/1)

ZoomDance Winter Session
Thursdays, January 12 – March 1

ZoomDance classes at Studio34 are offered at a sliding scale of $90-$110 for the whole 8 weeks, which also gives you unlimited access to all the ZoomDance classes around the city. Or buy a 5-class card for $70, no expiration. For more information, please visit the ZoomDance website at http://www.zoomdance.com/.

10:30am – 11:15am Thursdays, 1.5-3 years
ZoomDance: This is a high energy class of dance, music, story-telling, imagination and fun! Over the course of the session, children will develop agility, coordination, rhythm, and balance through a dynamic range of actions. There is an emphasis on creativity and building confidence through songs, stories, and performance. Each week we’ll read a new story and then explore the movement and adventures of the characters. Kids have the opportunity to show off their favorite moves, invent characters, and try lots of new movement ideas. Grown-ups are encouraged to participate in this class with their small dancers.

4pm – 4:50pm Thursdays, 3-5 years
Intermediate ZoomDance: This class has the same essence as the younger ZoomDance class, with lots of energy and focus on exploring new ideas. We will start to push the edges of dancing the spectrum from wild abandon to careful details. In addition to learning trickier “moves”, we will start thinking of phrases and dances instead of only individual moves, and students will perform for each other in class. When acting out the story, our teachers will encourage students to offer their own ideas too. Grown-ups drop off their dancers for this one, and are invited in on the last day to see what we’ve been working on.


meditation | Open Sit (Thursdays)

Thursdays at Studio34 Yoga | Healing | Arts
6-7pm

We are going to start having open sits again at Studio 34! On Thursdays from 6:00-7:00pm we will sit in the library (AKA the conference room) and share silence together. The hope is that this weekly gathering will serve as a support for practices of mindfulness, compassion and non-violence. The group does not need to be anything in particular, people may be practicing all different styles of meditation. If beginners are interested in sitting, simple guidance on Samatha (shinay/ calm abiding practice for concentration/ resting the mind) and Metta (tonglen/ practice of sharing loving kindness) may be offered. Everyone is welcome to bring some words with them to open or close the session that may provide inspiration and/or discussion. As long as people are quiet entering and exiting you may come and go as you need.


performance | Woodslore and WildWoods Wisdom (11/7)

Woodslore and WildWoods Wisdom: Stories, Songs and Lore Celebrating the Natural World
Sunday, November 7
6:30pm
Suggested donation: $0-$20

Legendary Storyteller and Naturalist Doug Elliott
www.dougelliott.com

Elliott is a naturalist, herbalist, storyteller, basket maker, back-country guide, philosopher, and harmonica wizard. He has performed at festivals, museums and schools from Canada to the Caribbean. He has been a featured storyteller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro, Tennessee and has conducted workshops and programs at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He regularly writes articles for regional and national magazines. He has authored five books and produced a number of award winning recordings of stories and songs.

Whether he’s singing about catfish, pontificating on possums, extolling the virtues of dandelions, cawing with crows, pondering the “nature” in human nature, telling wild snake tales or wailing out a jivey harmonica tune, storyteller Doug Elliott, will take you on an unforgettable, multifaceted cultural tour of North America’s back country. He performs a lively concert of amazing tales, lively tunes, traditional lore, outrageous personal narratives, and fact stranger than fiction. He flavors it all with regional dialects, lively harmonica riffs, and more than a few belly laughs.

Suggested donation for event is $0-$20
For more information or to RSVP contact David at beezsveet@gmail.com or 267-319-2733


performance | Woodslore and WildWoods Wisdom (11/7)

Woodslore and WildWoods Wisdom: Stories, Songs and Lore Celebrating the Natural World
Sunday, November 7
6:30pm
Suggested donation: $0-$20

Legendary Storyteller and Naturalist Doug Elliott
www.dougelliott.com

Elliott is a naturalist, herbalist, storyteller, basket maker, back-country guide, philosopher, and harmonica wizard. He has performed at festivals, museums and schools from Canada to the Caribbean. He has been a featured storyteller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro, Tennessee and has conducted workshops and programs at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He regularly writes articles for regional and national magazines. He has authored five books and produced a number of award winning recordings of stories and songs.

Whether he’s singing about catfish, pontificating on possums, extolling the virtues of dandelions, cawing with crows, pondering the “nature” in human nature, telling wild snake tales or wailing out a jivey harmonica tune, storyteller Doug Elliott, will take you on an unforgettable, multifaceted cultural tour of North America’s back country. He performs a lively concert of amazing tales, lively tunes, traditional lore, outrageous personal narratives, and fact stranger than fiction. He flavors it all with regional dialects, lively harmonica riffs, and more than a few belly laughs.

Suggested donation for event is $0-$20
For more information or to RSVP contact David at beezsveet@gmail.com or 267-319-2733


music | Crossroads Music Fundraising Party and Membership Drive (11/5)

Friday, November 5
8:00 – 11:00 pm
Admission with membership or a $20 donation

For years, Crossroads Music has brought world-class concerts from the four corners of the earth to our own West Philly neighborhood. Now kick up your heels and celebrate the sights and sounds they’ve brought back to us from their musical travels. An evening of brass, jazz, drums, curious tunes, booze and good eats will set the stage for a rollicking party to start off the new season of concerts.

Live music featuring:

Murat Keyder & Gerardo Razumney
Traditional and classical Turkish music

Oubliette Ensemble
“Seriously pretty (though somewhat twisted) folk/classical airs.” – Philadelphia Daily News

Ken Ulansey and Friends
“By inclination, uber-talented Ken Ulansey is a jazz musician. But how do you pin down a saxophonist whose musical range encompasses classical, folk, world beat, Klezmer and rock…? This kind of praise has become routine for Ulansey.” – Frank Quattrone, Montgomery Newspapers More information

Food and drink donated by local restaurants.
Entrance for the evening is free for members or with a $20 contribution. Membership starts at $40, and includes a 25% discount on all concerts for the next year, as well as a free raffle ticket at the event.

Crossroads Music
www.crossroadsconcerts.org


class | Adult & Teen Cupcake Decorating (11/3)

Adult & Teen Cupcake Decorating Class
Wed Nov 3rd
7pm
$15

We’ll be making three buttercream icing (vanilla, chocolate, and one other flavor) together and decorating cupcakes to look like puppy dogs, snow men, pumpkins, catepillars, butterflies, and more.

Class cost is $15. Register by emailing the shop at creamandsugarsweets@yahoo.com, if you register by Nov 1 you’ll receive a $5 gift card for the store along with your decorated cupcakes at the end of the class.


eclectic | RPM Puppet Conspiracy (11/3)

Puppet Uprising presents the RPM Puppet Conspiracy in “The Only Good Corporation is an Un-Dead Coporation”
Plus music from Ms Valentine and the Heartbreak Kid

Wednesday Nov 3rd
8:30pm
Admission: Pay What You Think It’s Worth

RPM Puppet Conspiracy returns to Philadelphia with their timely tale of zombie capitalism, The Only Good Coporation is an Un-Dead Corporation. In RPM’s completely fictional world, Corporate America is alive and endowed with the rights of humanity. But can coporations come down with the flu, chicken pox, or a virus that turns living beings into the living dead? RPM Puppet Conspiracy explores the answers to these and other totally theoretical questions in a show for those of us who haven’t had our fill of zombie madness in this Halloween season.

Joining RPM are New Zealand existential rocker Rosie Langabeer (composer/performer for the recent Beth Nixon/Pig Iron collaboration Cankerblossom)and USA surrealist synth pop extraordinaire Mark McCloughan are joining forces for an evening of (mostly) acoustic sing-song bliss as “Ms Valentine and the Heartbreak Kid.” Rosie and Mark will grace us with some of their own songs as well as favourites from the likes of the Magnetic Fields and the Duchess and the Duke.

For more info, please visit http://puppetuprising.org/upcoming.html

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music | Sweet As Pie (10/28)


Sweet as Pie (After dinner sensory adventure)
Thursday, October 28
9:00pm – 11:00pm
$8 – $10 suggested donation

Have you ever found yourself leafing through old Betty Crocker cookbooks marveling at the desserts that look like space stations and the icings from scratch? Then, did you find yourself wondering if you would ever encounter something like that in real life without taking a time machine back to the 1950′s? Think of this as an opportunity to make some insane dessert from the imagination of your mind or the pages of some random cookbook. So far, I’ve heard folks are bringing sour cream apple pies and blow torches for creme brulees…

After everyone gets a fork or spoon in and finds a big old pillow on the floor and your buds are peakin’, prepare your ears for tweakin’. Come hear the lovely music of Annie and the Beekeepers, and the newest member of Low Anthem, Mat Davidson with his own project Twain while he’s on break from an insane tour schedule, and also the hostess with the mostess, your round the corner West Philly crooner, Birdie Busch.

Birdie Busch
www.birdiebuschmusic.com

Annie and the Beekeepers
www.annieandthebeekeepers.com

Mat Davidson of Twain
www.myspace.com/twain


Mini Seminar | The Pains and Pleasures of Being a Stay at Home Dad (11/4)

Current and prospective Stay-at-home-dads are invited to a mini-seminar to meet other dads on November 4, 7:30 PM, at Studio 34.

The topic will be: The Pains and Pleasures of Being a Stay at Home Dad. The facilitator will be Gerald van Wilgen, who has been an international Stay-at-home-dad for more than 16 years. He published one book about the topic with Vestus, a Danish online publisher.

Van Wilgen is a firm believer in learning by trial and error, but not necessarily strictly one’s own trials and errors. His central message is that raising children is rewarding, but the reward will be received at the end of the process, not so much at the beginning.

Some of the topics covered are: how does your life change as a Stay-at-home-dad, how to deal with expectations of others, traps to avoid, resources you can use, importance of early learning, how to prepare for the later years.

The purpose of the seminar is to share experiences and to explore further activities.

The seminar is free, there will be a small donation requested to cover the costs.

For more information:

Gerald van Wilgen
vanwilgen@mac.com
(856) 261-1673


Music Performance | Crystal Singing Bowl Benefit Show (10/20)


Crystal Singing Bowl Benefit Show for Ban Thor Phan Children’s Home
Wednesday, October 20th
8:30 – 10:30pm

Performance by world renowned crystal singing bowl healer and guru Krishna Kanta (Kampnart Buahombora), the co-founder of Ban Thor Phan Children’s Home.

$20 suggested donation. All proceeds go to support our 55 children and the perpetuation of Ban Thor Phan’s future and our various global efforts for change and reconstruction.

Q&A after the performance. Opening music provided by Darryl Lopez.

For more information, please see the Facebook event page.


Dance class | Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms® (10/16, 11/13, 11/20, 12/4, 12/18)

Dance Classes for Self-Development & Spiritual Connection: Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms®.

SATURDAYS October 16th, November 13th & 20th, and December 4th & 18th
3:00pm – 5:30pm.

Newcomers and old-timers alike are welcome to these 2.5 hr classes in this dynamic, cathartic, joyful, insightful, and wild Spiritual Movement Practice. We have a beautiful group at Studio 34 and we love teaching here. Come & join us!

Cost: $15 – 20 each (as you can afford), $10 students/elders/newcomers.

The 5Rhythms® of Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness form ‘The Wave,’ a simple movement meditation practice that encourages us to find our own dance of embodied feeling and to discover ourselves at our most fluid and creative level, bringing more of ourselves – body, heart, mind & soul – into movement, on the dance floor & out in the world. There are no steps to learn and it can be enjoyed by anyone, regardless of age, fitness, ability, or experience.

For more information, see http://www.meetup.com/dance-5rhythms

Recent feedback:
“a shared and deepened sense of spirit, connection to self and the group.”
” A magical afternoon of connectivity and joy.”

Richard McConnell Jerram has been dancing the 5Rhythms since 1996. He brings heart, humor, and eight years’ experience as an accredited teacher.


monthly party | Feet Active! (10/15)

Feet Active!
The Monthly Yoga-Cupcake-Dance Party
$5 – $10 (sliding scale)

Friday, October 15

9:00PM: Yoga with Julia Horn accompanied by Thomas and Dan on sitar and tabla

10:00PM: DJs Ginkgo and Lina Luv spin house/afrobeat/latin/tropical/bass

Plus vegan cupcakes all night!


Theatre Workshop Series | The Rainbow of Desire (11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/22, 11/29)

The Rainbow of Desire: Theater of the Oppressed workshops
with Morgan Andrews at Studio 34
Mondays in November, 7:30–9pm

Free Intro Workshop: November 1st
4-part series starts November 8th
Tuition: $40 (worktrade available)

To pre-register, call 215-730-0982
or email: tophilly@gmail.com

Come use theater to rehearse reality in this engaging and interactive series of classes. Based on the work of Brazilian director Augusto Boal, The Rainbow of Desire is a group of techniques that takes various desires out of our heads and puts them on stage where we can deal with them properly. Each session begins with fun theatrical games and warm-up exercises that build skills for role-playing stories generated from our common experiences. By putting our heads together and acting out the invisible elements of the situation, participants come up with strategies for confronting oppressors—both those in our daily lives and those inside our own heads. Called “the Boal method of theater and therapy,” The Rainbow of Desire has the power to transform individuals and communities.

No experience necessary. Free intro class, Monday November 1st, 7:30–9pm. Meets weekly on the following 4 Mondays: November 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th. Space is limited—please pre-register by calling 215-730-0982, or send an email to tophilly@gmail.com


Art Workshop | Coloring Inside and Outside the Lines (10/23)

Coloring Inside and Outside the Lines
October Blank Canvas art/creativity circle
Saturday October 23rd
5pm – 7 pm
Studio34 Conference Room
FREE

Remember how when you were a kid you used to color, then when you grew up” you were told you “couldn’t draw” and coloring was too childish? To celebrate Halloween, we will be coloring inside and outside the lines with the help of a big box of 96 crayons in all different colors. Come and draw and color to your heart’s content.

This event is sponsored by The Blank Canvas, an art/creativity circle open to all interested in claiming or reclaiming the title of “artist”.

We believe in creativity as a way of connecting to the Spirit, however you may envision it. We meet in an atmosphere of nonjudgmental acceptance, exploration and fun.

No talent required; only a spirit of adventure!

Contact: Laurie at 610-259-5761 or webpoet1@aol.com


Workshop | Intro to Energy Healing (10/13)

Intro to Energy Healing – A Heart Opening Experiential Workshop
Wednesday, October 13th
7:30-9pm
$10

Never received Reiki or energy healing before? Or perhaps you have, and would like to be guided in sending healing energy yourself? Every single being in this universe is a natural healer, and in our most basic form, we are all energy. In this workshop, we will experience through discussion, guided meditation and energetic experiential “games”, the power of love within each of our hearts to heal ourselves and others. Bring an open mind, and leave with an expanded heart.

Facilitated by:

Emily Wishnick
Reiki & Rising Star Practitioner

Sophia Hoffer-Perkins
Integrative Bodywork & Massage Therapist

Fran Staret
Reiki MasterTeacher & Integrative Energy Therapist Melissa Ameika
Reiki MasterTeacher & Practitioner


Workshop | Somatic Movement (10/11, 10/13)

Monday October 11
5:00pm – 6:30pm
$10

AND

Wednesday October 13
10:30am -12:30pm
$10

Come and learn how Somatic Movement can enhance your life! This workshop focuses on simple and profound approaches to body awareness and gentle movement that support all levels of well-being.

Somatic Movement takes a revolutionary approach to self-empowered wellness. Encouraging attentiveness to inner sensation, it promotes:

* Relaxation and Stress-Reduction
* Increased Body Awareness, Comfort and Groundedness
* Enhanced Vitality
* Heightened Intuition, Clarity, and Focus
* Greater Ease and Range of Movement
* Discovery of Inner Resources for Self-Healing
* Creative Awakening

About The Teacher
A life-long educator and interdisciplinary artist, Lee Fogel has extensive experience teaching the arts, creative movement, and mind-body wellness practices to individuals and groups of all ages. She has taught in colleges, yoga and dance studios, camps, grade schools, women’s shelters, faith communities, and HIV/AIDS wellness organizations. Lee is an insured Body-Mind practitioner with IDEA Fitness and Wellness, and is culminating her MA studies in Dance and Somatic Well-being through the University of Central Lancashire. She studied Reiki at the Reiki Center of New Orleans, and holds a BA in Visual Arts with a concentration in Dance, and a minor in Religion, from Oberlin College.


Workshop | Partner Yoga

Partner Yoga Workshop with Brittany Policastro
Postponed till January


Come join us as we experience the joy and support of practicing yoga with a partner. Partner yoga is a fun and different way to approach your yoga practice. You can learn about your needs and how you respond to the needs of others in relaxed setting. You will try new and different poses allowing you to get deeper in your body through the assistance of a partner. Bring a friend or just come solo and we will pair you up. This workshop is suitable for all levels.


Wellness | Studio34 Wellness Week! (10/9 – 10/17)

Join us at the studio for Wellness Week!

We begin Wellness Week with our “Meet the Wellness Providers” event, on Saturday October 9. Click here for more information about the event, which will include free refreshments, chair massage, raffle tickets for free wellness sessions, and the opportunity to meet our Providers!

From October 9 through October 17, we are offering:

  • Discounted Sessions – Participating providers are offering $40 hour-long sessions for the entire week!
  • Workshops – There are many great workshops going on during the week – check the Studio 34 calendar for a full listing!
  • Wellness Week Passes – These passes are being sold for only $75 and are redeemable for 2 sessions of massage, bodywork, or energy work plus 1 workshop! Family passes are being sold for $100 and are redeemable for 2 sessions and 3 workshops, and can be used by any member of your family! Contact Kathryn Johnston via phone or email: 215.806.5844 | kathrynjohnst@gmail.com

Participating Providers

Massage, Body, and Energy Workers:

Melissa Ameika:
215.906.9441 | melissa.ameika@gmail.com | Reiki

Sarah Carlisle:
443.756.1274 | sarah.carlisle@gmail.com | Thai Massage

Lee Fogel:
610 639 3036 | somaticjourneys@gmail.com | Somatic Movement Education, Reiki

Sophia Hoffer-Perkins:
215.906.3590 | hofferperkins@gmail.com | Massage

Jed McKee, NCTMB:
267.243.3841 | jed_mckee@tmail.com | Massage

Fran Staret:
215.385.0583 | peacepalms@yahoo.com | Reiki

Julia Taylor, NCMTB:
267.207.8361 | juliacht@gmail.com | Massage

Zach Weiss:
610.983.8096 | integral.massage.philly@gmail.com | Massage

Emily Wishnick:
914-629-8199 | Emily.Wishnick@gmail.com | Reiki

Coaches and Psychotherapists:

Lunden Abelson, MA, BC-DMT:
267.257.4338 | www.seedsofpotential.com | Psychotherapy, Dance Therapy

Christine Coward, MSW, PCC:
215.472.1572 | chris@chriscoward.com | Wellness Coach

Kathryn Johnston, MA, ATR:
215.806.5844 | http://katjohnston.yolasite.com | Art Therapy

Nancy Roth: 215.694.7172 | nlroth77@gmail.com | Psychotherapy

Pilates:

Julia Naftalin:
Julia@studio34yoga.com | Pilates


workshop | Philadelphia Massage Meetup: Hot Stone Massage (12/12)

Sunday December 12th
12-2:30pm
Studio 34 Conference room

Philadelphia-Massage Meetup presents Hot Stone Massage. Sliding scale: $5-$20/person. In this meetup, we will rock our way into massage. No, I’m not talking about music. Using river rocks, we will warm the muscles and feel really relaxed. Bring a towel please!

For more information, visit: www.meetup.com/Philadelphia-Massage


workshop | Philadelphia Massage Meetup: Splendid Stretching (11/14)

Sunday November 14th
12-2:30pm
Studio 34 Conference Room

Philadelphia-Massage Meetup presents Splendid Stretching. Sliding scale: $5-$20/person. In this meetup, stretching is supreme. I will teach a few stretches that incorporate the entire body. Some stretching you’ll be able to do yourself, and some you’ll need someone to help you. Learn how to get rid of a neck cramp in just 30 seconds. Remove all types of backs tension from one stretch in just 10 seconds a day. And find how good it feels to be stretched from head to toe.

For more information, visit: www.meetup.com/Philadelphia-Massage