Sunday, December 27, 11 – 2 p.m.
Join us for another Vegan Bruncheonette, and stuff yourself silly with over 10 delicious vegan dishes. Food is yummy, company is good. We have plates, utensils, and cups. Bring $5-10, or a dish to share.
art opening | Christiana Kugel (12/6)
Saturday, December 5, 7 – 11 p.m.
Solo exhibit of works by Christiana Kugel.
kids series | ZoomDance: Action Adventure Story-Telling Dance Classes (begins 12/10)
Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.; Runs 8 weeks starting December 10.
A unique class is happening at Studio 34 for kids 1.5 – 4 years old.ZoomDance is a high-energy class of dance, music, story-telling, imagination and fun! There is an emphasis on creative play and building confidence through songs, stories, and performance. Each week we’ll read a new book 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.
8-Week Session begins December 10th with a FREE TRIAL. Pre-register or pay on the first day for only $75, after that it is $85 for the whole session.
Find more information about the ZoomDance class, Sarah the teacher, other locations, and birthday parties at: www.zoomdance.com.
Pre-register for the Trial or the Session: info@zoomdance.org, 610-937-2032.
free class | Movement For Every Body (11/29, 12/20, 2/14, 2/21)
Sundays, November 29, December 20, February 14, and February 21, 12:15 – 2:30 p.m.
Come and experience a FREE* new monthly movement class at Studio 34. Facilitated by Fatima Adamu, this class will explore using movement in its many manifestations to create a vehicle for healing, self-exploration and release. It will be guided by African Dance, Meditation & Breath, Yoga, Music and Contact Improvisation.
*donations in any amount will be accepted.
art therapy workshop | Letting Go Of… (12/13)
With Kat Johnson
Sunday, December 13, 11 – 1 p.m.
Create, explore, play…. Join us for creative artistic expression focused on emotional well-being, exploration of inner thoughts and dynamics, releasing worry, stress, and everyday life troubles. Variety of media will be used including drawing, collage, painting, and other themed projects with close guidance from the Art therapist. Participants will be encouraged to share, listen, relate and explore with each other as much as they feel comfortable doing in this supportive and nurturing group environment. Topics that may be explored include but are not limited to relationships, balance of life and priorities, hopes/fears, dreams and much more. Art therapy offers a unique opportunity for the use of nonverbal symbols and metaphors that are able to communicate ideas and feelings difficult to put into words. Visual images are capable of working on many level, and of expressing seemingly contradictory ideas and feelings simultaneously. Many find expressing themselves in this way to be freeing and a cathartic release.
Therapeutic art inevitably leads to fresh insights and provides concrete reinforcement for awareness. Most importantly you do not have to be an artist to participate in art therapy. In fact, creative self-expression is satisfying for individuals without art training because their inner selves are successfully, articulately communicated regardless of skill level or intention. Art making, as a healing process, has been shown to be effective in that it promotes a sense of joy, peace and relaxation.
Learn more about art therapy at Kat’s website.
Cost: $25
To register contact Kat Johnston at (215)806- 5844 or kathrynjohnst@gmail.com.
workshop | Reveal Your Inner Warrior (12/5)
With Brittany Policastro
Saturday, December 5, 1 – 4 p.m.
Join Brittany as she guides you through a fun and challenging workshop designed to tap you into your strength, courage and patience. This practice will include Warrior sequences, inversions and backbends, followed by deep restoratives. We will go through that which challenges us and come out with a greater appreciation for our ability to persevere while being reminded of the importance of surrender. You will leave feeling empowered, powerful and humbled.
music | 3 of Philly’s Finest Folk Singers: Andrew Gray, Steph Hayes, Andrew Lipke (12/12)
Saturday, December 12, 8 p.m
Join us for an evening of incredible solo performances by 3 seasoned and beloved Philly artists, each offering a rich and unique sound, together a shared commonality of pure talent and gracious hospitality.
Andrew Gray
of Hoots and Hellmouth
After a long stint of touring with Philadelphia’s Hoots and Hellmouth, Andrew Gray will be making a rare solo performance featuring songs of his own as well as from friends he met through his years of traveling with the band. Stripped down and simple, his voice creaks like embers in a fire of wood and steel, embracing songs in their purest form.
Steph Hayes
of Steph Hayes and the Good Problems, Slo-Mo, Stargazer Lily
Steph Hayes is a singer and songwriter who spent several years in pop/rock group Stargazer Lily. She signed with Arista Records in 2000, has written with Billy Steinberg (Madonna, Roy Orbison), John Shanks (Ashlee Simpson, Melissa Etheridge) and Shelley Peiken (Meredith Brooks) and many other top industry songwriters. She has also recorded with Nelly Furtado, The John Lennon REMIX project, and Ben Arnold.
After the break-up of Stargazer Lily in 2005, Hayes formed The Good Problems, an “urban folk” group including other local musicians and songwriters. They released Dirty Beauty in the fall of 2006. Songs from the record have been featured on the teen T.V. drama South Of Nowhere. Touring followed, and in 2008, Hayes released a live solo record of travel inspired songs. Mostly True Stories is an account of life on the road told by a D.I.Y. folksinger.
Steph is currently recording a new record with local legend Mike Pfeiffer (of The Asscoiates) and current proprietor of the newly inspired Hopetown Records. The working title is Made To Change and it will be a double-E.P; one side rock, one side folk. It’s literal interpretation of the term “folk-rock” and an exploration of Hayes’ duality. With no functional band set up in place, Hayes and Pfeiffer did most of the tracking themselves, stretching their combined creativity to play all of the instruments. The result is a totally unique sound that draws on the influences of Hayes and Pfeiffer’s shared idols: Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes, The White Stripes, Wilco, Neil Young and most importatly Wyld Stallions. “If people get half as much of a rush listening to this record as Mike and I got from recording it, it’ll be successful.”
With no release date set, Hayes continues to play solo and in a variety of Philly bands including hip-hop/dance band Slo-Mo.
Andrew Lipke
Andrew Lipke has been making music in Philadelphia for over eleven years now and has kept himself very busy: From leading the rock band Metagroove to local, national, and critical acclaim, to composing music for original and innovative Philadelphia theater productions. From writing, performing, and producing his first full length solo record, to producing several records for up and coming regional artists. This broad range of experience gives Andrew’s lyrics a sense of subtlety and meaning that is refreshing and engaging, and his powerful voice has drawn comparisons to Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright and Elvis Costello – to name a few. This unmistakable voice and the beautiful and often haunting melodies of his songs continue to garner him new fans and praise from across the nation.
suggested contribution: $8 ($5 – $10 will get you through the door)
oh yeah! AND everyone will have a chance to WIN FREE STUFF:
yoga/pilates classes, CDs, and surprise contributions by the artists!
dance classes | Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms® Dance (11/7, 11/21, 12/5, 12/19)
Saturdays, November 7 & 21, and December 5 & 19, 3:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
These 2 hour classes will take us deeper into this cathartic, joyful, insightful, and wild Spiritual Movement Practice. The classes will form a series, but can be taken on their own. They will build on the Tasters we have held, but Newcomers are very welcome!
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.
Cost: $15 each, $10 students/elders, but no one turned away (Class card will buy 4 for cost of 3).
Please contact Richard with questions at waves.philly@gmail.com.
Richard McConnell Jerram has been dancing the 5Rhythms since 1996. He brings heart, humor, and eight years’ experience as an accredited teacher.
eclectic | StudioSeries (12/19)
Saturday, December 19, 8 p.m.
Emily Wexler – dance
Zornitsa Stoyanova – dance
Dan Blackberg/Nick Millevoi – trombone, guitar, projections
(Megan Bridge/Peter Price) – music, dance
Moving Parts/megfoley – dance
React/Dance (Kristin Shahverdian/Jacelyn Biondo) – dance
Tim Albro – electronics
The StudioSeries is a monthly, informal series featuring performance in all media by some of the Philly’s most exciting artists (with some fabulous out of town guests). The StudioSeries is cozy, informal and fun! Come check out their work while it’s raw, and in the works. It’s a rare and thrilling opportunity to get a window into the artist’s creative process. Feel free to hang afterwards, meet the artists and chat with them about their performances.
kids class | Music Together (10/17, 11/7, 12/5, 12/12)
Free Demonstration Classes!
Saturdays, October, 17, November 7, December 5 & 12, 8:25 to 9:15 a.m.
Music Together® is an internationally recognized early childhood music program for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergardeners, and the adults who love them. First offered to the public in 1987, it pioneered the concept of a research-based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates adult involvement.
Music Together classes are based on the recognition that all children are musical. All children can learn to sing in tune, keep a beat, and participate in the music of our culture, provided that their early environment supports such learning.
A ten-week semester (of which there are three per year) begins in January 9, 2010.
Music Together classes are offered by The Philadelphia Suzuki Piano Academy. For registration and other information, and to RSVP for demonstration classes, please contact icanplay@philasuzukipiano.com or 267.251.0429.
Tuition includes:
- Ten weekly 45-minute classes
- A beautifully illustrated songbook with activity suggestions for parents.
- Two copies of a professionally recorded CD which includes songs, rhythm chants, “play-along” music, and tonal and rhythm patterns — a different song collection for each semester, rotated over three years.
- A Parent Guide DVD for new families called: “Music Together at Home: Helping Your Child Grow Musically.”
- An ongoing parent education program throughout the semester to help parents learn how children develop musically, and how to assess their child’s rhythm and tonal development.
Music Together art & logo design © 1992-2010 Music Together LLC. Music Together is a registered Trademark. The Philadelphia Suzuki Piano Academy, LLC is licensed by Music Together LLC. For more locations: www.musictogether.com, (800)728.2692
workshop | Theatre of the Oppressed (10/24, 11/14, 12/12)
Saturdays, October 24, November 14, & December 12, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Philadelphia Theatre of the Oppressed is hosting monthly workshops at Studio 34. Here’s the lineup for this autumn:
• October 24: Games for Actors and Non-Actors. Come learn and play over 30 games that loosen the boundaries of our senses and work to get us thinking and moving outside of our usual routines. A useful tool for performers, as well as teachers, organizers, activists and anyone who works with groups. This workshop will end at 2 p.m., at which point everyone is invited to Clark Park where Spiral Q Puppet Theater’s Peoplehood Parade commences. Sliding scale: $5-15.
• November 14: Image Theatre on Gentrification. By sharpening our ability to “speak” with the body, we can communicate things that are often lost in the language of words. This workshop will build movement, sound and dialogue on the issue of gentrification, leading to action steps on what we can do as a community to move forward without trampling others underfoot.
• December 12: The Rainbow of Desire. A technique aimed at disarming our most intimate oppressors—those inside our own heads. The Rainbow of Desire takes some of these oppressors out of our heads and puts them onstage where the group can tackle them together.
Get details at http://tophiladelphia.blogspot.com . To register for one, two, or all three workshops, please email tophilly@gmail.com or call 215-730-0982.
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