Greetings (firstname,fallback=Bloomers),
I want to thank you all for supporting BloomBars and all of the resident artists being nurtured in its garden. The BloomBars’ Artist In Bloom residency has afforded me unprecedented opportunities to pursue artistic excellence on the world stage. It has brought to life the familiar adage, “Think globally. Act locally.”
Lions, Fires & Squares EP, which I am releasing on July 30th, is a colorful call-to-awareness for  women to recognize strength in beauty and beauty in strength. End to end, my music is the soundtrack to a Smart Chick’s busy day.
Smart Chicks is an organization I founded to bring visibility and leadership opportunities for women in the arts. I want my music to inspire other women and young girls to be creative, to demand and attain more from life, to understand the true meaning of love and compassion for self and community. The music is imaginative and potent. I’m excited for the world to fall in love with it.
I want to use my BloomBars residency to get young women curious about the creative process and to bring more SmartChicks into the BloomBars community to help cultivate that curiosity. I’ve said that I want to win a Grammy. I do. This is the motivation for that. For me, greater exposure to resources of the world means access to those resources for the aspiring artists in my community.
Be part of this electric moment! Support BloomBars.
Until soon, keep blooming,
Carolyn Malachi
Artist in Bloom Resident Fellow
Founder, Smart Chicks
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This Week at BloomBars:
Salsa — Samba — Improv — ‘A Honduran Coup’ Release Party — Handsome Pilgrims — Yoga & Pilates — Capoeira — Quotables — Poetry in the Morning & Poetry Writing — Oriental Dance — The Garden: Open Mic — Film: Black Gold
Blooming Soon
Harriett’s Girls Benefit Show — Massage by Mozart — Return of Mind Power — Upcoming Film Screenings at BloomBars
Bloom For Thought
Our weekly thought-provoking article or video about art, music, and creativity.
Bloom TV
One of the most recent videos from our artists or performers.
Bloom News
Terrence Cunningham Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary at BloomBars — Artist in Bloom HHP’s Walk — Call for Volunteers: Translators — Book Drive Continues On! — Don’t Forget Your BloomBucks
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About BloomBars
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 Samba Class:
Thursdays at 7:00 pm
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 Learn Capoeira:
Saturdays at 11:00 pm
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 Oriental Dancing:
Mondays at 6:45 pm
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 The Garden Open Mic:
w/ Allantra Lewis
Monday at 8:30 pm
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Learn to Salsa!
Classes Every Wednesday!
Every Wednesday from 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm, come enjoy one of the most entertaining and social styles of dancing.
Rueda de Casino salsa was born in Cuba, transferred through Miami and is now growing everywhere. Unlike other dances, rueda is danced both as a group to universal calls and in couples allowing for various levels of interaction among the dancers.
Classes start at the basic level allowing everyone, including those without experience, the chance to learn and enjoy this art form. As the class progresses, intermediate, advanced, and master level moves will be introduced. Emphasis is placed on leading, following, learning calls and hand signals, and simply enjoying oneself.
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Celebrate comedy with Third Beat Improv, every Thursday!
Have A Laugh Every Thursday!
Third Beat Improv, Thursdays at 8:15 pm
Third Beat Improv is dedicated to celebrating the funny things that happen when people show humanity on stage.
At our performances, you might see Disney characters on break, our version of Nordstrom hell, or a father and son on a fishing trip.
Third Beat Improv’s commitment is to bring the sum total of our experiences to our presence on the stage. We want you to leave more inspired, to connect to more parts of yourself, and to an ever wider “audience” in your own life.
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A Honduran Coup: A Graphic History
Honduran Coup: A Graphic History Fundraiser
Friday, July 23rd from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Join us for a fundraiser supporting the release of “A Honduran Coup: A Graphic History”.
On June 28th, 2009, the day Honduran President Manuel Zelaya had proposed to hold a non-binding public poll on a popular assembly, he was arrested by the armed forces and forcibly exiled to Costa Rica.
This comic follows Zelaya’s story from June 28th until his forced departure on Jan 27th, 2010, with a particular focus on the United States’ role in events. It also provides a graphic history of U.S. intervention in Central America over the past century, highlighting the link between U.S. military academies such as the School of the Americas and human rights abuses.
There will be graphic novels for purchase in both English and Spanish for $5.
- Date: Friday, July 23rd, 2010
- Time: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
- Cost: $10 Donation
- RSVP on Facebook!
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Handsome Pilgrims
Friday, July 23rd from 10:00 pm – 12:00 am
Jim Osborn is an independent songwriter based out of Poughkeepsie, New York. Jim learned to perform, sing, and write while playing with rock trio, The Nuclear Suite, for several years, opening for such acts as Badfish and Joshua James, the latter of which would have a profound impact on future songwriting .
In the summer of 2008, with the Suite disbanded by necessity, Jim recorded his first full-length solo album, Always Toward the Sunlight. This predominantly acoustic recording (featuring three tracks with Elizabeth Knapp on piano and Justin Varuzzo on drums) introduced notable country and folk influences with a fresh balance between candid humor and cathartic poetry.
Though still performing solo, Jim can often now be seen with The Handsome Pilgrims, joined by Kristofer Giordano on percussion, Kevin Costigan on banjo/slide guitar/bass, and Shea Ratynski on accordion/melodica/bells/eccentricities. This group will be featured on most future recordings and tours, including all dates for Summer 2010.
- Date: Friday, July 23rd, 2010
- Time: 10:00 pm – 12:00 am
- Cost: $10 Suggested Donation
- RSVP On Facebook
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Yoga and Pilates with Kethia Clairvoyant
Saturdays and Sundays at 10:00 am
Looking for a way to start your morning off right and get in better shape?
BloomBars offers Yoga and Pilates classes every weekend. The best part? You don’t have to sign up for a gym membership and you still get small, personal classes with a certified expert!
Kethia Clairvoyant, BloomBars’ Certified Pilates and Yoga Instructor, is originally from Haiti and came to D.C. in 1996 to attend Georgetown University.
An ashtanga yoga practitioner since 2003, she developed an appreciation for mind-body-centered fitness. She then also became a regular Pilates student and enthusiast in 2004, thus leading her to becoming an instructor of both disciplines in 2006 through pHi Pilates and YogaFit.
She highly praises Pilates for its emphasis on functional movement and strengthening of the entire torso with intense concentration on the lower, intrinsic abdominal muscles.
By teaching and sharing yoga with others, Kethia sees and feels students, both novice and experienced, slowly begin to focus not only on the challenging postures but on initiating their movements with their breath. They begin to rediscover how to be centered and present, and reap some of yoga’s endless mental and physical therapeutic benefits.
- Yoga: Every Saturday at 10:00 am
- Pilates: Every Sunday at 10:00 am
- Suggested Donation: $10
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Quotables: A Live & Surreal Art Show
Saturday, July 24th at 6:00 pm
For the lovers of quotes and art, this is for you.
We’ll be taking some of the most amazing, random quotes on the planet – famous and obscure – and challenging really talented artists to do live, visual interpretations for an audience that hopefully includes you.
There’ll be local bands performing and a whole lot of colorful paint. Come out July 24th and experience “Quotables: A Live & Surreal Art Show” #2.
Quote Junkies & Art Monkeys Unite!
- Date: Saturday, July 24th, 2010
- Time: 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
- Cost: $7 Suggested Donation
- RSVP on Facebook
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Let your poems bloom, the fourth Monday of every month!
“Poet-Tree In Bloom” Writing Group
Monday, July 26th at 6:30 pm
Join us every fourth Monday of the month for Poet-Tree in Bloom, our new monthly poetry writing group.
We will plant the seeds for new poetry by free-writing using writing prompts, sharing our work, and getting some practice reading aloud.
BloomBars is a safe and encouraging space so don’t be shy, give it a try!
Please bring paper and pen!
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Join us to view and discuss “Black Gold”
BloomScreen Indie Film Night: “Black Gold”
Tuesday, July 27th at 6:30 pm
Black Gold tells the complex story behind an attempt to make globalization work for the producers of the second most valuable traded commodity for developing countries in the world: coffee.
Nowhere is the disparity of the coffee industry more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela manages the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, representing more than 74,000 coffee farmers. The union buys coffee from 101 individual cooperatives, spread across southern Ethiopia.
Black Gold follows Meskela on his mission to save struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his union’s farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Meskela travels the world to find buyers willing to pay a fair price — a better price than the one set by the international commodities exchange.
Please join us for a screening of “Black Gold” and a discussion afterwords with Sandra Taylor, CEO of Sustainable Business International.
A pioneer in the field of corporate social responsibility, Sandra Taylor has developed groundbreaking strategies and initiatives as a corporate executive for major global brands, including Starbucks. Taylor will be able to speak on her experience with Starbucks and its sustainability and fair trade record.
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See Allantra Lewis at The Garden on Monday Night!
The Garden: Open Mic featuring Allantra Lewis
Monday, July 26th at 9:00 pm
Join us on Monday to take the stage, show love from the audience, and hear our featured performer Allantra Lewis!
Allantra Lewis has graduated from Duke Ellington School of The Arts where she majored in Literary Media and Communications. She is attending the University of NC-Greensboro in the fall where she will major in English and minor in philosophy.
After winning the Horowitz Playerighting competition, her love of playwrighting was confirmed and she later wants to become a playwright.
Allantra has been featured at The Department of Justice’s Black History Month Poetry Event, Howard University’s ”DC Best Artists” event, National Aids Awarness “For the Love of You Event”, G.L.U Feature. Allantra dedicates everything that she has accomplished to her mother who taught her strength and independence as well as her father who is the smartest man she has ever known in her life.
- Date: Monday, July 26th, 2010
- Time: 8:30 pm – Signup list opens; 9:00 pm – Show Starts
- Cost: $5 Suggested Donation
- RSVP on Facebook
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