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Cultivation of Loving-Kindness, or Metta-Bhavana
with Kim L. Sim, Ph.D.
2-4pm
Fee: $55
For more information, please check out: www.OneWithTheSource.org
Registration is needed for this workshop. To register, please email ksim09@yahoo.com

David Thorne Scott, voice; Mark Shilanksy, piano
 
www.davidthornescott.com
 www.myspace.com/markshilansky

Jeffrey Allport (prepared percussion) and Greg Kelley (trumpet)
Ernst Karel (analog electronics)
Ricardo Donoso (percussion, electronics)
Lou Bunk (electronics), Ken Ueno (voice, laptop)
doors open at 7:30; concert at 8pm
Suggested Donation: $7
contact: Lou Bunk 617-650-2065 www.opensound.org

Back by Popular Demand!
CHORO DEMOCRATICO
Brazilian Choro Instrumental Music
$10 General Admission
www.chorodemocratico.com
For more info, email: jasdav@gmail.com

The Boston Guitar Project presents

Erik Puslys, guitar & Ona Jonaityte, flute

Admission: $12 advance, $15 at the door
To purchase tickets in advance:
http://www.linguitar.com/bostonguitarproject/concerts/concerts0708.html

Dennis Moser, electric guitar and synthesizer
Matt Samolis and friends -- drones, cymbals, glass, movement!
Qfwfq duo, Sound and Interactive digital art
doors open at 7:30; concert at 8pm
Suggested Donation: $7
contact: Lou Bunk 617-650-2065 www.opensound.org

A fiery Boston-based 8-piece Balkan Rom (Gypsy) Band!
(Vocals, clarinets, tenor sax, accordion, keyboard, guitar, bass, percussion)
 www.rakiya.com
$10 at the door
 For further info, contact ddeanbrown@comcast.net

CHORO DEMOCRATICO
Brazilian Choro Instrumental Music
$10 General Admission
www.chorodemocratico.com
For more info, email: jasdav@gmail.com

OPENSOUND and The Somerville Arts Council present
SOLO VOICES
Vic Rawlings, circuits
Bhob Rainey, saxophone
Tim Feeney, percussion and circuits
Rane Moore, bass clarinet
(performing "Being and Becoming" by Lou Bunk)
Orlando Cela, flute
(performing "Huayruro" by Maxwell Dulaney
Suggested Donation: $7
contact: Lou Bunk 617-650-2065 http://www.jolc.net/lcpublic/opensound

Boston Guitar Project presents
from Brussels, Belglum!
Boris Gaquere, Guitar
$15 at the door
www.guitare-diffusion.com/2/Portraits/Gaquere/default.lasso

Nathaniel Bartlett
Solo Marimba + three-dimensional, high-definition,
computer-generated sound projection

$12 General, $8 students/seniors
www.nathanielbartlett.com
For more info:
email nathaniel@nathanielbartlett.com or call 608-628-5401

phoenix island productions presents:

a 15 minute video with sound by bill dwyer
been wiser... a bluesy savory solo act with a great voice
truth... bill dwyer performs his rock songs with special guests
harlequin 4... an experimental rock project
streight angular... a charming indie band with fun songs
pile...a dark alternative solo act that really rocks

also, there will be art by Leith MacDonald...woodcuts and blockprints on paper
t-shirts and sweatshirts as well as some block prints by Jess Lawrence

the cover is $5.
For more info: jlawrence@mail.com

LINDY HOP WORKSHOP
with Nina Gilkenson and Mike Faltesek
For more info: 617-216-6656 or email dancewithliz@gmail.com
To register: www.youwanttodance.com

OPENSOUND and The Somerville Arts Council present
Jorrit Dijkstra - alto sax, lyricon, analog synth
with an Improvisation Pool of Wind Players:
Phillip Greenlief - saxophones (Oakland, CA), Jen Baker - trombone (Oakland, CA), Bhob Rainey - soprano saxophone, Katie Young - bassoon, Ted Reichman - accordian, Eric Rosenthal - drums, slide whistle, ...and more!!!
Suggested Donation: $7

OPENSOUND and The Somerville Arts Council present
Kevin Frenette, Forbes Graham, Ryan McGuire and Luther Gray
guitar, bass trumpet, percussion
James Coleman, Ricardo Donoso, Nathan Ahlers, ...and special guest!
theremin, guitar, percussion and special sounds
Doors open at 8 PM / Music at 8:30 PM   Suggested Donation: $7
contact: Lou Bunk 617-650-2065  http://www.jolc.net/lcpublic/opensound/

Willow Flute Ensemble, Orlando Cela, Conductor
Admission: $10 at the door,
$5 Seniors/Students, Children under 12 free
www.willowfluteensemble.com

Taught by Eric Peterson
 
$25.00 per student for the 2 hour class.
 
For more information: ericp37@yahoo.com

Music:
violin & guitar: Paganini, Rodrigo
violin & piano: Brahms
guitar solos: Brouwer, Schubert & Bach
 Admission: $15
www.aaronLc.com     www.emilaltschuler.com
For advance ticket purchase, call 617-947-1330 or email aaron@aaronLc.com

Improve Your Auditioning Skills
with Steve Kleinedler
 
Class size is limited to 10 people.
Fee: $50

To register, email Steve at stevekl@gmail.com

Subtypes:
The Power Behind the 9 Enneagram Points
with Adelaide Smith
 
$75 for both sessions
To register: call 617-764-0056

A fiery Boston-based 8-piece Balkan Rom (Gypsy) Band!
(Vocals, clarinets, tenor sax, accordion, keyboard, guitar, bass, percussion)
 www.rakiya.com
$10 at the door
 For further info, contact ddeanbrown@comcast.net

Kids age 8 and above welcome!

Taught by Alice Heller
with Live Drumming by Allison Stamiris and guests
www.alicehellerdance.com 
Pre-registration required!
To preregister, call Alice @ 617-620-7654, 
e-mail aliceheller@comcast.net
or send check to:
Alice Heller, 22 Corporal Burns Rd., Cambridge MA 02138
 
Cost: In advance-- $13, $24 for 2, $30 for 3;  At the door-- $15 per person

Vocal Jazz with SYNCOPATION

Aubrey Logan, soprano vocal and trombone
Christine Fawson, alto vocal and trumpet
David Thorne Scott, tenor vocal and piano
Tsunenori 'Lee' Abe, bass vocal and piano
Admission $10 at the door
www.jazzsyncopation.com

Opensound and The Somerville Arts Council
 presents:
Bhob Rainey and the BSC
Saxophone, and many other extra special instruments  
 Onda, Ken Ueno, Hillary Zipper, Tim Feeney
Voice, percussion, violin, electronics, feedback and scratchy sounds
Chandan Narayan and Jesse Kudler
Autoharp, guitar, electronics, synthesizer
Doors open at 8 p.m. / music at 8:30 p.m.
$7 donation

Taught by Eric Peterson
 
$25.00 per student for the 2 hour class.
 
For more information: ericp37@yahoo.com

Willow Flute Ensemble, Orlando Cela, Conductor
www.willowfluteensemble.com
$10 regular admission
$5 students and seniors 

Kids age 8 and above welcome!

Taught by Alice Heller
with Live Drumming by Kimani Lumsden, David Hero and guests
www.alicehellerdance.com 
Pre-registration strongly suggested!
To preregister, call Alice @ 617-620-7654, 
e-mail aliceheller@comcast.net
or send check to:
Alice Heller, 22 Corporal Burns Rd., Cambridge MA 02138
 
Cost: In advance-- $13, $24 for 2, $30 for 3;  At the door-- $15 per person

Back by Popular Demand!
Original Jazz Songs
 
Jazz Vocalist/Songwriter Steve Thomas, Rich Greenblatt (vibraphone),
John Funkhouser (bass), Gary Fieldman (drums)
www.stevethomasjazz.com
 
ADMISSION: $10 ($5 students/seniors)

Taught by Alice Heller
with Live Drumming by Kimani Lumsden, Marytha Paffrath, David Hero and guests
www.alicehellerdance.com 
Pre-registration strongly suggested!
To preregister, call Alice @ 617-620-7654, 
e-mail aliceheller@comcast.net
or send check to:
Alice Heller, 22 Corporal Burns Rd., Cambridge MA 02138
 
Cost:  $13 in advance, $24 for 2, $30 for 3

IMAGINARY BEASTS proudly presents…
The TWISTED HEART
Readings from the Wildly Tormented World of Edgar Allan Poe
(www.imaginarybeasts.org)
Directed by Daniel Balkin and Caleb Hammond

Featuring the talents of:
Daniel Balkin, Melissa Barker, Theo Goodell
Eliza Lay, Armen Nercessian, Kenneth L. Roraback
with live musical accompaniment by MyPamplemousse

$10 admission $5.00 seniors and students 

Opensound and the Somerville Arts Council presents:
Metal and Glass
Matt Samolis, Thadd Comstock, Peter Warren, Bill Barclay.
acoustic soundscapes, using bowed cymbals, tuned glasses, and other sounding devices

Jorrit Dijkstra, alto sax, lyricon, analog electronics
Ted Reichman, accordian
+ Special guest  2lous
Lou Bunk, noisy guitar, knife, grunts  
Lou Cohen, laptop with noisy mouse

Boston Guitar Project presents

Steve Lin, Guitar

$15 at the door
click here to purchase tickets

www.linguitar.com
Artist Video (QuickTime)

Melika M. Fitzhugh, Solo Guitar

Theme and Variation
Tunes Ancient and Modern in Settings from the Renaissance, Baroque
and Classical Periods as well as Today

Passacaglias, Almains and more!
 
http://www.urbanmyth.com/SoloGuitar/
Requested donation:$10 at the door

Families can dance and play together!
 
This class is about community fun with traditional African
music and dance steps--a family friendly class!!
 

* Age appropriate movement taught by Alice Heller with live drumming by:
  Kimani Lumsden, David Hero and guests
 
* Time for a dance jam and intro to African musical instruments playing at the end of class too!!
 
* adults with or without kids are welcome- kids please bring an adult! 
 
The workshop will start with a creative movement warm up and integrate traditional African dance steps and movements that are accessible and fun. Dancing will be accompanied by live drumming by talented musicians. 

Alice Heller has been teaching African dance for over 15 years,
and for the past 4 years,teaching creative movement, yoga and gymnastics
to toddlers and preschoolers around the Boston area.
She also is a mom of 2 boys.
Alice integrates movement and rhythm in a unique fun fashion.


* * * * * * * * * * *
African Dance Workshop for Adults
With Live Drumming!!!
     4:15-5:30pm
 
A Mixed Level African Dance Workshop for those who want to experience
West African Dance in its traditional form. Class will include a full body warm up
and an introduction to movement to drumming. You will learn dances and rhythms,
and enjoy a traditional community dance circle at the end.

Opensound and The Somerville Arts Council
 presents:

Walter Wright, Bebe Beard, Joe Burgio Jess Opieand special guests!


Doors open at 8 p.m. / music at 8:30 p.m.
$7 donation

David Thorne Scott, voice; Mark Shilanksy, piano

Admission price: donations gratefully accepted
 
www.davidthornescott.com
 www.myspace.com/markshilansky

A Multimedia Salon of Music, Poetry, and Visual Art
with
Mary Alexandra Agner, Carolyn Jean Smith, and Julia Tenney 

 
Doors open at 6:45pm
Free admission; $10 donation receives a souvenir with visual art, poetry, and a CD

www.pantoum.org  |  www.mit.edu/~cjsmith/carolyn   |    www.tenney.org

A fiery Boston-based 8-piece Balkan Rom (Gypsy) Band!
(Vocals, clarinets, tenor sax, accordion, keyboard, guitar, bass, percussion)
 
www.rakiya.com

$10 at the door
 
For further info, contact ddeanbrown@comcast.net

Boston Guitar Project presents

Ipsalu Tantra Level 1 Retreat, Learning to Live In Bliss
with Antoinette & Richard Asimus

 

For singles and couples and all sexual orientations
 
Play with your inner fire: Discover your inner bliss.

Become more open to receiving love. Experience life as a union of the spiritual and the ecstatic. Generate and transform sexual energy into higher states of awareness. Learn the Cobra Breath technique to safely activate unlimited energy.

Tantra is an age old collection of techniques that fuses sex and spirit, awakening an inner knowledge of beauty and the infinite. Many traditions believe that through Tantra, one may realize the energetic body, and achieve illumination and transcendence. No explicit sexual contact in class. A safe and respectful space is held throughout.

$275 (includes lunch on Saturday and Sunday, a practice CD & follow-up) $100 deposit (holds your place—remainder due by Sept 6) Early registration discount: Pay in full by August 15th for the discounted price of just $250

Antoinette & Richard Asimus are founders of Tantra Heart, Level 4 Ipsalu Tantra Teachers and Senior Teaching Faculty of Tantrika International.

Website: www.newenglandtantra.com/schedule.html
Phone: (401) 935-1399
Email: level1sept07@newenglandtantra.com

2-3:30pm Cost: $25

On Saturday afternoon after VOCO's concert at Third Life Studio, Moira Smiley of VOCO will be offering a workshop that is a truly unique offering of Conservatory training, ethnomusicological grounding and fierce creativity.  A strong teacher, Moira will work with improvisation, vocal technique, rhythmic interplay with the voice and using the body as an instrument.  Moira tailors a workshop to the level of its participants and makes use of Voco's work as an ensemble to break down and share the mechanics of creating music with other people with just the voice and body. 
 
Don't miss this great opportunity to sing with this amazing and inspired singer!
 
Moira Smiley works internationally as a composer-vocalist. Based in Los Angeles, she leads her fiery roots vocal-band, Moira Smiley & VOCO, travels the world as a soloist in early and traditional music and creates new work with dance, theatre and film. Moira was born in Vermont, moved to Indiana to pursue a piano performance degree at IU School of Music, and finished with a degree in Early Music Vocal Performance, having studied voice with Thomas Binkley, Paul Elliott, Paul Hillier and Alan Bennett.  While at Indiana University, Moira toured with her vocal quartet, VIDA, singing a cappella folk song from Eastern Europe and various other vibrant harmony traditions. VIDA was represented by IMG Artists, recorded three CDs of traditional and original songs, and had an exciting seven year career that culminated in concerts at Lincoln Center and other prestigious fine arts and folk venues in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Moira’s mother tongue is probably traditional folk song.  She moved to California to sing with KITKA Eastern European Vocal Ensemble, and continues to work with KITKA – recently premiering the new folk-opera “Rusalka:  Between the Worlds” that was launched in Ukraine and the U.S. with Mariana Sadovska.  Moira continues to study Irish Sean Nós (old-style) singing and Appalachian ballad and dance-song.  She recorded a solo CD, “Rua”, of Irish, Appalachian and her own songs – “rua” means “red” in gaelic.  With VOCO, Moira fuses a new sound with voices, banjo, cello and percussion that is rooted in traditional song – in 2006 VOCO embarks on a project of arranging Bela Bartók’s “Mikrokosmos” piano miniatures for voices – recently premiered at Disney Hall/CalArts’ REDCAT Theater.

Moira’s been writing music since the age of six – focusing on voices-as-instruments, and in harmony.  Her recent commissions have been by choral ensembles, dance and theatre companies.  In Fall, 2006 she will premiere two voice & movement pieces with TripDance Theatre at the venerable Ford Amphitheater in Los Angeles.  A few of her songs are being sung by thousands of high school and college students across the U.S.!  Moira’s soundtracks for St. Louis-based dance-theater company Gash/Voigt and AnnonyArts have produced two lush CDs called “Sacred Ground and “Changing Woman” – the latter written for masked choir and dancers.

Formerly represented by the prestigious IMG Artists (Management Company) in New York, director Moira Smiley is a unique force in the study of voice in culture.  A graduate of Indiana University's School of Music, Moira combines a keen sense of the demands of classical singing with an ongoing study of the traditional singing of several ethnic groups - especially Eastern European, Irish and Appalachian.

Members of Moira Smiley & VOCO have been on faculty, led vocal workshops and residencies at: University of Birmingham (England), California Institute of the Arts, Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, Northwestern University, Scripps College, Warren-Wilson College, Indiana University, Omega Institute, Swannanoah Gathering, California WorldFest, Virginia Arts Festival, Utrecht Early Music Festival, and many others.    

From Los Angeles, joyous, magnificent, hair-raising singing -
music that mourns and dances at the same time. 
 "A truly phenomenal act" -- Folkworks Magazine 
 $15 at the door
Limited seating--doors open at 7:30pm
 www.moirasmiley.com/voco.html
www.myspace.com/vocoinfo || www.sonicbids.com/voco 

Still Mountain T’ai Chi Center
Presents

SWORD FORM
 with Scott M. Rodell

We will study the Kunlun (Old) Taiji Sword Form of the Yang Family. This is a form for the jian, the double-edged, straight sword. We will:
• Be exposed to the rich history of the most revered Chinese weapon, the sword
• Be introduced to the sword form
• Learn how the sword form will bring precision to empty hand form
• Develop fa jin (releasing energy) through sword form practice
 
Bring your own jian (straight sword), which can be found at any martial arts supplier. You will also need either a durable wooden sword or a one inch dowel the length of a jian. We will do some two person work, so bring your own protection. This is your responsibility.
 
Scott M. Rodell has over 20 years taijiquan (tai chi chuan) training in two branches of Yang Taijiquan. He is an internationally recognized expert of Chinese historical swordsmanship & the author of Chinese Swordsmanship, The Yang Family Taiji Jian Tradition.

Saturday, August 4, 9:30-5pm & Sunday August 5, 9:30-12:30pm

Cost: $130, Saturday only $110
STILL MOUNTAIN MEMBERS TAKE 10% OFF
 
To Register: Send your payment made out to Still Mountain T'ai Chi Center to
Still Mountain T'ai Chi Center Office
35 Skehan Street Unit 3
Somerville MA 02143
 
Questions: Call Bede Bidlack at 617-776-0725, see www.stillmountain.net

FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA!
Suggested donation: $15 at the door
www.wisefamilyband.com 

Original Jazz Songs
 
Jazz Vocalist/Songwriter Steve Thomas, Rich Greenblatt (vibraphone),
John Funkhouser (bass), Gary Fieldman (drums)
www.stevethomasjazz.com
 
ADMISSION: $10 ($5 students/seniors)

 
A series of four sessions for participants who are familiar with
the Enneagram and know their Enneagram type **
 

One of the beauties of the Enneagram system of self-discovery is that there is always the opportunity to learn more.  There is no better way to do this than attending groupsled by a facilitator skilled in the time-honored “narrative tradition”: a method in which participants tell their stories from the point of view of their own Enneagram type. You will learn about yourself, the automatic behaviors of others, and ways to shift to more productive means of interacting with the world around you.  Participants will learn from the facilitator and each other through the sharing of stories and practical exercises.
 
This is a unique opportunity to be part of an Enneagram community in the Boston Area. 
Join Adelaide Smith for four evenings of enlightening exploration and discussion.
 
 
When:7:00pm-9:00pm
Sunday, June 10  
Wednesday, June 20
Sunday, July 1
Sunday July 8
            
Cost
$100    Pre-registration all four sessions
$  30    Pre-registration individual sessions
$  35    at the door individual sessions
$120    at the door individual sessions           
 
Registration:
Send a check payable to:
Adelaide Smith, LICSW
2464 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite C220         
Cambridge, MA 0214

For more information call:  617-764-0056
 
About Adelaide Smith, LICSW:
 
Adelaide is a psychotherapist in private practice and at the Marino Center for Progressive Health.  She sees the Enneagram as combining psychology with spirituality.  Adelaide is a skilled group facilitator known for her compassionate insights.  She has studied the Enneagram for over 20 years and has taught the Enneagram in workshops and groups
 
 
** For those who do not meet this requirement but wish to learn more, a series of nine introductory sessions on the Enneagram will be held in the fall of 2007.
 

with Mark H. Rooney of Odaiko New England
FOR KIDS (ages 6-12) and their parents: 2-4pm, $20
 FOR ADULTS: 4-6pm   $25 per student

Come experience the powerful and exhilarating rhythms of Taiko! No experience necessary, drums provided. Wear comfortable clothing, and bring a towel/mat to stretch on, and water to drink.
 
Odaiko New England offers ongoing Taiko drum classes at Third Life Studio. This is a great opportunity to come try it first before committing to an ongoing class!

For more info, or to register, please contact:
Mark H. Rooney at 857-225-2095
or email mhrooney@onetaiko.org | www.onetaiko.org

by Jim Cypher (aka Joey Daytona)

$10 general admission
$5 students and seniors

www.willowfluteensemble.com

An intimate Sol Y Canto Duo performance to benefit
Doctors for Global Health 

$30 (Includes music, a light meal and refreshments!)
www.solycanto.com
www.dghonline.org

The Flute Summit
Carl Dimow, Nicole Rabata, Phil Nyokai James
3 Masters, 3 Traditions
For more info call (207) 899-0488
nyokai@nyokai.com

with Katja Esser and Ricardo Frota
Art, Nature and Spirit unite in this performance
of sound, movement, poetry, costume and mask
For ages 9 to adults!
Adults: $15, Teenagers: $8, Kids under 12 free
Doors open at 7:45pm
www.ritualexpressions.com/re/performance_002.asp
www.ritualexpressions.com/re/ricardoFrota.asp

photo by
Delwood Richardson

Cindy Rivka Marshall
celebrates the release of her new storytelling CD!
With guest musician, Susan Robbins
 
Live performance at 7:30pm
For ages 10 through adult
Reservations Recommended: Please call 617-244-4275
Suggested donation: Adults, $10, Children under 18, $5
(includes one free copy of the CD per family)
www.cindymarshall.com

Charles Curtis, cello
  
The Cape Cod All-Stars:
Bhob Rainey and Dave Gross, saxophones
James Coleman, theremin
Vic Rawlings, circuits
 
With special guests:
Nate Wooley, trumpet Tucker Dulin, trombone

SPRING SING with LIBANA!
1-5pm
Sliding Scale: Adults ($60-$90); Teens, age 12-16 ($40-$60)
Advance tickets to this popular workshop are recommended.
Purchase online at www.libana.com or call 617-628-0916.

Across all cultures, people have gathered to sing, rejoice, and celebrate the turning of the seasons. As spring approaches we invite you to join the women of LIBANA for an afternoon of singing in community. We will teach and sing old Libana favorites as well as newly collected rounds and songs. This workshop is open to women, men and teens (age 12 and up). Singers new to the exploration of their voice as well as seasoned singers are warmly invited. We will sing, dance, laugh, listen and gather to rekindle the joy inherent in making music together.

This workshop is a fundraiser for Libana and the fee is on a sliding scale. All proceeds will go directly to LIBANA'S current cultural musical project Many Paths to the Spirit. Our current research includes Malaysian drum rhythms, Gujurati Garba melodies, West African dance and Balkan Solstice songs. Your singing this April supports our singing all year and we look forward to sharing this spring Sunday with you!!!!!
 
Described as a "choir of the goddess", LIBANA'S memorable concerts convey a deep sense of hope, peace, celebration and universal community. For 28 years, this internationally renowned ensemble has illuminated the spirit of women's experience as expressed through music, song and dance from around the globe. LIBANA'S concerts, numerous recordings (including the acclaimed A Circle is Cast) have inspired the formation of song-circles and performance groups worldwide. 
                                  
Susan Robbins, Libana's Founder and Artistic Director, is also the Director of Third Life Studio.

FUNPLAY INSTITUTE presents
Funplaying with Words!

A Funshop for Adults, with an Introduction to Funplay Dialoguing and Coaching, co-led by Warren Shear and Alexia Lomon.
At this funshop, we will introduce Funplay’s playful, empathetic approach to interactive, verbal dialoguing, coaching and personal problem-solving, as well as moving, sound-making, breathing and touching.
The Funplay Institute has been having a wonderful time in our recent funshops sharing our non-verbal skills, especially in touch, movement and sound. Our discoveries about imitation from our non-verbal play have now created a foundation for funplaying with each other with language.
We have begun ground-breaking experiments funplaying with words and conversation and are finding the same lively, warm connection and understanding that arises from our non-verbal funplay. To our delight, we are finding verbal funplay enhances our intuitive and co-creative impulses and minimizes the pitfalls of misunderstandings in our interactions.March 30, 2007 
7:30-10:00pm
Sliding scale $20-40
Please register for this workshop at www.funplay.org
Contact: Warren Shear, Funplay Institute. 617-876-8999, warren_shear@verizon.net

presents
Dancer/Choreographer:
ELLEN GODENA
Musician: Max Lord

“Small Voices”
 
Liz Tonne, solo voice
 Chandan Narayan, solo prepared autoharp
 Crank Sturgeon, harmless little solo electronics, plastic, and/or alka-seltzer

with Katja Esser and Ricardo Frota
Art, Nature and Spirit unite in this performance
of sound, movement, poetry, costume and mask
For ages 9 to adults!
Doors open at 7:45pm
Adults: $12, Teenagers: $8, Children under 12 Free
www.ritualexpressions.com/re/performance_002.asp
www.ritualexpressions.com/re/ricardoFrota.asp

photo by
Delwood Richardson

  presents
Too Dark to See, Too Bright to See
ALISSA CARDONE
with live music by Jessica Rylan

with Mark H. Rooney of Odaiko New England

co-led by Patrick Crowley and Warren Shear

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Greg Kelley, trumpet Bhob Rainey, saxophone
 
Ouest
Brendan Murray, Howard Stelzer, and Jay Sullivan, electronics
 
Tim Feeney, percussion and electronics
Vic Rawlings, cello and open circuitboards

(Presented In Collaboration with the Somerville Arts Council)
www.timfeeney.com/opensound
Doors open at 8 p.m. / music at 8:30 p.m.
$7 donation

co-led by Patrick Crowley and Warren Shear

presents
Jennifer Hicks

The Boston Butoh Series is bringing together and highlighting, for the first time, Greater Boston's Butoh-influenced artists.  Each artist will have one evening on a bi-montly basis to perform and present their work.  The series was conceptualized with the intent to bring cohesiveness to this diverse community and to educate our audiences about its local experimental arts community.  There will be opportunities to listen to the artists speak about their work and artistic vision as it relates to their training in Butoh. Designed as an event, the audience is invited to partake in refreshments and interaction with the artists, producer, and other audience members after each show.

with Luciana Valle (from Buenos Aires, Argentina!)

Luciana Valle, a member of Gustavo Naveira and Fabian Salas’ “Tango Investigation” group from 1995-1997, has long been a favorite visiting teacher of local tango dancers, beginner through advanced. Luciana is both an expert leader and follower. She teaches with fantastic energy and exuberance, has a wonderful eye for detail, and uses descriptive movement images, making the dance make sense. Her classes emphasize the technique and structure of the dance and are equally as challenging and beneficial for both leaders and followers. Luciana’s teaching is held in high regard across North America, where she regularly tours to share her knowledge and love of tango. This is an opportunity to study with truly one of the best.
 
www.hillaryross.com classes@hillaryross.com 617-877-7625

choreographed and performed by Genevieve with
Guitar Circle New England and Church of Flying Dreams.
genevievedance@yahoo.com www.genevievedance.com

co-led by Patrick Crowley and Warren Shear

A lecture by Dr. Robert C. Neville
presented by Still Mountain T’ai Chi Center

This is the first talk on taiji quan (“t’ai chi”) and Confucianism at Still Mountain T’ai Chi Center. Dr. Neville will explain his long experience of taiji quan training and Confucian cultivation.

Dr. Neville has published numerous articles and critical reviews in philosophy and religious studies. He is the author of Boston Confucianism, The Cosmology of Freedom, Soldier, Sage, Saint, and many others.
 
Professor Neville has been president of the Metaphysical Society of America, the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, and the American Academy of Religion, and has served on the boards of these and other professional societies in philosophy and religion.
 
Dr. Neville teaches graduate courses in metaphysics, American philosophy, continental rationalism, philosophy of religion, and in various topics of theology, especially comparative (Chinese-Christian) theology. He is currently the executive director of the Danielsen Institute “to promote the benefits of a close collaboration between psychology and religion to alleviate human suffering and enhance human growth.”

Questions: Contact Bede Bidlack at bede@stillmountain.net or 617-776-0725
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The Improvisation Pool
(In Collaboration with the Somerville Arts Council)
The Improvisation Pool
Curated by Jorrit Dijkstra, saxophones and lyricon

www.timfeeney.com/opensound

A 3-hour Concert and Sound Healing Experience with IMPROVELOCITY and special guest Joseph Carringer of Ancient Voices Harmonic Therapy
open at 4:45 pm

You are cordially invited to a 3-hour experience of improvised music and harmonic sound healing with Australian Aboriginal-made didgeridoo. Bring blanket and pillow or something comfortable for lying on the floor during the sound healing experience.
Visit: http://ancientvoicesharmonictherapy.com | www.Improvelocity.com |
Call: 617-389-2597

Kate Dean, Deborah Dill, Nancy Knowles, and Patricia Lee Lewis
www.nancyknowles.com | www.writingretreats.org

Ipsalu Tantra Retreat Level 1 Weekend Workshop with Antoinette and Richard Asimus:
For singles and couples of all sexual orientations.

Friday 7:30-10:30, Saturday 9am-7pm, Sunday 9am-6:30pm

Dissolve Limitations. Shed new light on the nature of the self. Become more open to receiving love. Experience life as a union of the spiritual and the ecstatic. Generate and transform sexual energy into higher states of awareness and bliss. Learn the Cobra Breath technique to safely activate unlimited energy.
Tantra awakens sexuality to beauty & the infinite. It is joy beyond words. Many participants leave the workshop immersed in bliss. As the foundation of an ongoing energetic practice, those who wish, will learn to live in this state at all times. In a meditative space, flowing with primal energy, something profound can take place. Ipsalu tantra gives you exquisite time-tested techniques for learning to live in bliss, and for connecting with your greater purpose. Although issues relating to sex and sexual energy will be addressed, the course will not be overtly sexual in nature. A safe and respectful space will be held throughout.

Saturday, 10/14 8pm KITSUNEBUTOH presents: BonesBreathBody

Kitsune (Deborah Butler) with special guest
Phil Nyokai James, Japanese Shakuhachi & Electronics

EKG (San Francisco’s Kyle Bruckmann and Berlin’s Ernst Karel),
Audrey Chen (Baltimore)
Alessandro Bosetti (Berlin)
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with Miki Kashtan (of Oakland, CA).
A day of deepening your practice of speaking with compassion.
www.nvcboston.org

with Bede Bidlack and the Still Mountain Tai Chi Center
a workshop in this two person form of the Yang Family Hidden Tradition.
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with Bellydancers/Teachers Genevieve and Sardis
www.genevievedance.com

With Mark H. Rooney of Odaiko New England
www.onetaiko.org

GCNE (www.guitarcirclenewengland.com) is Victor McSurely (Facilitator), Martin Bradburn, Mary Beth Abel Hughes, Glenn Hughes, and David Kuznick; CoFD is Glenn Hughes (guitar) and Shawn Marquis (drums). "Modern arrangements for acoustic guitar ensemble and drums: delicate, mesmerizing and evocative, balancing the edge and the wash, the angle and the arc, the inner and the outer."

Visual Artists, sketch and display your images inspired by improvised music.
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Poets and authors read your original short work and hear it translated into improvised music.
Andrea Loretz-Frey—vocalist, Maria Pinheiro —vocalist,
Mike Carey —tenor Sax and flute, Joel Cohen —cello,
Lia Davis —keyboard and accordion, Ukumbwa Sauti —percussion
www.improvelocity.com

Ancient and New Music for traditional Japanese Shakuhachi Flute
www.nyokai.com

Kate Dean, Deborah Dill, & Nancy Knowles
www.gyremusic.com

With Mark H. Rooney of Odaiko New England
www.onetaiko.org

Bhob Rainey, Jesse Kudler, Howard Stelzer
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with Guest Percussionist Marytha Paffrath
Michael Cicone-- hammered dulcimer
Susan Robbins-- keyboard, hammered dulcimer, oud, accordion
Marytha Paffrath-- dumbek, frame drum, conga, and other percussion

Andrea Loretz-Frey—vocalist, Maria Pinheiro —vocalist,
Mike Carey —tenor Sax and flute, Joel Cohen —cello,
Lia Davis —keyboard and accordion, Ukumbwa Sauti —Percussion
www.improvelocity.com

With Mark H. Rooney of Odaiko New England
www.onetaiko.org

Matt Weston (percussion), Andy McWain & Daniel Levin (keyboard/cello)
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www.cindykallet.com

Nancy Knowles: mezzo-soprano, poet
Frank Wallace: guitarist/lutenist, baritone, composer
www.duoliveoak.com

Bowed Metal, Light in August, Matthew Ostrowski
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A lecture by Dr. PJ Ivanhoe, in conjunction with Still Mountain T’ai Chi Center
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with Scott M. Rodell
in conjunction with the Still Mountain T’ai Chi Center
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