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.


art/party | 8th Annual Bike Part Art Show (12/3)


Party, silent auction and craft boutique
Friday, December 3
7:00pm – 10:00pm
$5 suggested donation

ART!
CRAFTS!
MUSIC!
SNACKS!
RAFFLE!

Few events have as many exciting components as Neighborhood Bike Works’ annual Bike Part Art Show. The Art Show is a fantastic celebration of cycling as a green and healthy mode of transportation, local arts and artists, and innovative reuse of waste materials, all for the benefit of NBW’s free after-school programs and scholarships for our summer camps.

Every year since 2003, Neighborhood Bike Works has invited local artists to dig through our old parts bins for bits with artistic potential as the basis for works of art, or to create works otherwise celebrating bike culture. Then we put on a show of the amazing results, which are sold in a silent auction to fund our free youth cycling programs and summer camp scholarships. It doubles as a great party!

Want to get involved? Volunteer, be a bike part artist, or sponsor the show in 2010! Email artshow@neighborhoodbikeworks.org


monthly party | feet active (1/21)

Friday, January 21
9pm

Feet Active! 9pm yoga class, 10pm dance party with DJs Gingko and Lina Luv. Plus vegan cupcakes galore!


music series | Sweet Sound of Music (12/4)

Studio 34 Presents: Sweet Sound of Music
Saturday, December 4
7:30pm
$10 suggested donation ~ special-brewed sweet teas and hot cider on us!

Step out of the crisp air and bustling December days for an all Philly serenade. Set your timepiece to slow, grab a cushion or a spot on the sofa, cozy up to a friend or warm cup of cider, and settle in. The music is going to be something special, and you’ll not want to be anywhere else.

Sean Hoots
Sean Hoots plays music with a hundred different bands. You may be familiar with one of them, the perennially touring Hoots & Hellmouth. The other 99 bands generally reside squarely within the boundaries of his own head, but lately things have been getting kinda cramped in there. So, Sean’s gonna start letting them out. Acoustic r&b, programmed beats, country blues, mesmerizing soundscapes…all this and more can be expected from a Hoots solo show. Come on out and get to know all the voices in his head.

video: Hoots & Hellmouth – Off to Sea I Go

Hezekiah Jones
Hezekiah Jones is the musical nom de plume for Raphael Cutrufello and a band of like-minded musicians crafting alternative folk music. His catalog of songs sometimes sounds like a post-apocalyptic White Album, as covered by Sufjan Stevens. The biting, sometimes campy vibe only serves to intensify the blow of his sucker-punch ballads. Songs are filled with outlandish characters, imagined landscapes, ringing harmonies, and baroque instrumental flourishes, but never disconnect from the tangible feelings at their center. -Peter Marinari(CBS Local)

Barbara Gettes
(of The Spinning Leaves)


music | Benefit for S. Weir Mitchell Elementary School (12/18)

Scott McMicken, Andrew Gray, Corey Duncan
Saturday, December 18
7:00pm
$10

These three Philadelphian musicians will be playing solo acoustic sets to raise money for after school arts and music programs at S. Weir Mitchell Elementary school.


class | Forrest Yoga Ceremony & Black Mesa Benefit (11/25)

Forrest Yoga Ceremony & Black Mesa Benefit
Thursday, November 25th
7:00 a.m. – 9:30.a.m.
Donations accepted for Black Mesa Indigenous Support

Join us in the warmth of Studio B for a special benefit Thanksgiving event as we expand our regular Thursday morning yoga class into an extended Forrest Yoga Ceremony. Through silent and guided meditation, pranayama and asana, this will be an opportunity for you to go deeper into your practice. All are welcome to attend. Admission is pay-what-you-can with proceeds going to benefit Black Mesa Indigenous Support, a grassroots all-volunteer collective working with the indigenous people of Arizona targeted by large-scale coal mining operations and forced relocation policies of the US government. For more info, please visit: http://blackmesais.org/


class | Gratitude Flow (11/25)

Gratitude Flow Class
Thanksgiving Morning
Thursday, November 25
10:00am – 11:30am
to benefit Imuma: Orphanage and Center for Vulnerable Children

Thanksgiving morning! While the parades are fun to watch I am pretty sure you will get much more out of coming to this class, sharing all the things you are grateful for and moving in a fluid celebration of life, love and each other. Last year’s class was so very speical and I know this year’s will be just as wonderful. Cookies and tea to follow.

Donation: Please bring a monetary donation of your choosing AS WELL AS a few canned items.

The food we collect will be donated and the money collected will go Imuma which is an amazing orphanage I connected with while in Tanzania. Please check out their blog spot for more info. It is an amazing cause.

http://imumakids.blogspot.com


music | 8static (2nd Saturdays)

8static
2nd Saturdays at Studio34:

November 13
December 11
January 8
March 12
April 9
May 14

7:00pm
$8/$5 with RSVP (on website)

8static is Philly’s only all-ages monthly chip music event. Each lineup features music and video artists from around the world, with pre-show events and workshops, as well as monthly open mic for up and coming musicians! For full lineup info, check out: http://8static.com

Cover is $8/$5 with RSVP (on website)


community | Cedar Park Education Night (11/10)

Cedar Park Education Night
for Pre-K and Daycare
Wed. Nov. 10
7:30 pm

Everywhere you go in Cedar Park these days, you see parents and caregivers pushing little ones in strollers. The crowded and noisy new playground at Cedar Park testifies to the community’s dedication to our littlest neighbors as well as the growing number of small children. To support families often overwhelmed by the number of choices and the lack of information, Cedar Park Neighbors is hosting a series of Education Nights.

Meet Parents and School Representatives

We have invited pre-k schools and daycare centers located in and around Cedar Park to present their school to the community. The representatives from these programs have prepared a brief outline of their program along with a description of their philosophy of early childhood education. We will also provide attendees with an information packet detailing the pre-k options in the community. While making the choice about where to send your child to preschool remains daunting, we hope that this event will help make the decision less complicated by providing clear information about many of the early childhood education options here in Cedar Park.


monthly party | Feet Active (11/19)

Friday, November 19
9pm

Feet Active! 9pm yoga class, 10pm dance party with DJs Gingko and Lina Luv. Plus vegan cupcakes galore!


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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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


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.


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


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


class series | Beginning Hoop Dancing (10/26-11/30)

Beginning Hoop Dancing | 6-Week Class Series
Tuesdays 6-7pm, 10/26-11/30
FREE intro class 10/19, 6-7pm
$70 at first class

Spin your way to improved health and happiness with hoop dance! Jen Web will teach you the fundamentals of hoop dance as well as a few mesmerizing tricks that you can incorporate into your own dance style. Strengthen your body as you learn to spin the hoop around your waist, neck, hands and legs. Meditate and relieve stress as you discover your inner rhythm. Hoop dance is the perfect mind/body exercise for those who want to get fit and have fun!

* Hoops provided for class use and for sale on site!
* Bring lots of water!
* Please wear fitted, comfortable clothing and sneakers.