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| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12Events on December 12, 2013 Harambe! Starts: 10:00 am Private Event Starts: 4:00 pm Yoga Share Blooms @ BloomBars Starts: 7:30 pm Description: We're excited to announce a new weekly yoga experience at BloomBars! Meet Yoga Share founders Irina Katz and Nina Jot Prakash Kaur. They will lead a team of rotating guest instructors certified in a variety of yoga disciplines. Vegan snacks and tea will follow the class. Interested in being a guest instructor? Email Irina at: irinakatz@gmail.com. $10 suggested donation
More from Irina and Nina:
We started the Yoga Share DC group to create a space where people could connect authentically during and after a yoga class. In
teaching and practicing yoga, we know that we feel more alive after class. To harness this energy and create a cozy space, we have tea and snacks after class and gather to meet and chat. We also ask those who come if they are certified and would like to teach. Since we started the group we've had about 10 teachers rotate through and teach various types of yoga from Kundalini to Dharma, Vinyasa, Hatha, and others.
Irina Katz
Bio:
Irina Katz first took yoga 16 years ago as part of gym class in Rockville, MD. It wasn't until 2008 that she discovered that her true passion was in the Kundalini style because of its emphasis on subtle energies and the fire element. She completed her Level 1 training with Elizabeth Greathouse of Yoga House Washington and is now a certified RYT-200 Kundalini Yoga Teacher. Her teaching style is practical, down to earth, energizing and empowering. Now Is The Future Of Sound Starts: 9:00 pm Description: A lab for conscious music/sound creators:::
DC ‘s new home for producers, musicians, vocalists and sound-designers.
WHAT:::
• Share ANY music/audio projects (on the PA/projector).
• Discuss ANY music/audio software that you find interesting.
• Network with other local music/audio heads of ALL ages.
WHO:::
• Anyone interested in recording, producing and/or performing ANY type of music or audio.
HOW:::
• Everyone gathers on the last Thursday of the month at BloomBars - DC ‘s new home for producers, musicians, vocalists and sound-designers.
GOALS:::
• To empower the greater DC music/audio community with technical recording, production, and performance skills.
• To nurture the greater DC music/audio community's growth by providing a safe/comfortable space for them to share and try out their ideas.
NOTES:::
1) N.F.S is not specifically oriented around one music/audio production platform: Participants should feel free to discuss their favorite DAW's (Ableton, Audacity, Ad-infinitum), Object-Oriented/Programming Languages (MaxMSP, PureData, VVVV, Super-Collider, Java etc), and even iOS applications.
2) One of the main goals of N.F.S. is to bring together DJ's, LIVE performers, Producers, Instrumentalists, and Vocalists of ALL AGES to grow the current and future DC music/audio scene.
$5-7 Suggested Donation
| 13Events on December 13, 2013 SONGS, STORIES AND PUPPETS (Ages 5 and under) Starts: 10:00 am Description: A variety show for the under 5 crowd, “Songs, Stories & Puppets” is the trifecta that could help form your baby’s first sentence, “Is it Friday?” David Greenfieldboyce is a puppeteer, former teacher, stay-at-home dad who organizes the Mount Pleasant Children's Puppet Hour. Suggested donation: $5. More info: http://www.bloombars.com/youth-programs/songs-stories-and-puppets
| 14Events on December 14, 2013 HARAMBE! (6mos to 6-years old) Starts: 9:30 am Description: In Swahili, Harambe means “All pull together.” It is your little one’s first opportunity to express his or her voice (into a microphone), dance, play a drum or percussion instrument, shout, or sing-along to songs that build character, confidence and community. http://www.bloombars.com/youth-programs/harambe Harambe 2nd Show Starts: 10:30 am Bloom Family Jam Session Starts: 12:00 pm Description: Music brings us together. Led by Artist in Bloom resident, Dante Pope, Family Jam is a multi-generaltional jam session created to expose kids and families to professional musicians in a nurturing environment. ALL AGES WELCOME! $3-$5 dollar donation request.
Check out highlights from the last Bloom Family Jam here: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=FmCdQMJ4QG8&feature=share&list=UUYTk1Wn_vt04zZz_BCIoaCw&index=2
| 15Events on December 15, 2013 On Hiatus: African Drumming w/Kristen & Kweku (Drums Available) Starts: 1:00 pm Description: Ever dream of joining the Malcolm X Park Drum Circle?
Now’s your chance to build some confidence — Every Sunday at 1pm, join Drumlady Kristen Arant and Ghanaian drummer/drum-builder Kweku Owusu for West African drumming classes at BloomBars! Learn techniques and rhythms from Ghana and Guinea, West Africa on djembe, kpanlogo and dun-un drums.
For experienced drummers, get some practice with our expert instructors!
Suggested donation: $15
Learn more: http://www.bloombars.com/category/garden-of-the-arts/music/drumming-class Performetry: Old Poems, New Poems, Your Poems Starts: 3:00 pm Description: Performetry: noun \pə(r)-ˈfȯrm-ə-trē\, also \pə(r)-ˈfȯrm-i-trē\ : The act of giving body to sound and presence to poetry through performance.
This monthly performance series at BloomBars traverses generations of verse, focusing on the theatrical presentation of classical, contemporary, and musical forms of poetry. Each event includes the performance of a classic poem, featured works from a contemporary DC-area poet, an open mic, and live musical interludes. Performetry is sponsored by The Performing Knowledge Project with the generous support of BloomBars, and funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
$10 donation
(includes complimentary homemade refreshments)
This session will feature:
* Interactive percussion by Matt "SwampGuinee" Miller
* Poetry by Writers on the Green Line (Naomi Ayala, Laneta Hill, Deirdre Wright, Mahogany Hope, Anne Pellicciotto, and Tanya Paperny)
* Open mic
About The Performing Knowledge Project
The Sanctuary Theatre’s Performing Knowledge Project nurtures the space where performance and education meet. Founded by DC Writers/Theatre Artists Robert Michael Oliver and Elizabeth Bruce, the project produces a variety of performances and hosts writing, learning, and performance-oriented workshops on different subjects and writing styles. Performing Knowledge’s events seek new possibilities for expression and understanding. From the rhymed brilliance of classic poetry to the sweep of contemporary prose, their performances and workshops are dynamic, multidisciplinary explorations. http://performingknowledge.org/
On Hiatus: String Beings - Lessons and String Sessons - All Ages and Experience Levels Starts: 6:30 pm Description: There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased. With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.~William Cowper
The more we learn about the science of sound and the affects of music in our lives, the more 18th century poets like Cowper sound prophetic. And the more we listen to our hearts beat, the stronger the urge becomes to pick up an instrument and explore our innate affections for tonal syncopations, tribal rhythms and created or recreated melodies. The calling can come at any stage in life. For my almost-two-year old, it started from the womb and grows with every instrument we place in front of her.
That’s just one of the reasons I’m so excited to bring back our weekly String Beings program starting the first Sunday in September (9/2) at 6:30pm. In this incarnation, String Beings will be an almagamous open classroom/jam session where the line between student and teacher gets lost in the mutual sharing and learning of string instruments. It’s basically our version of string theory, but instead of trying to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity, we seek to reconcile the vibration of stringed instruments with the resonance of our very being.
Led by Sitali Syolwe and (Soon to be official Artist in Bloom resident) Ella, we are still seeking folks to help lead violin, bass and cello. There will be a special effort to get young folks and seniors out, but all ages are welcome.
The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. ~Richard Baker
Amen! And thanks to some generous guitar and bass donations (and a Rhodes, wow!), we’re able to provide our new house instruments for use by all. AND WE’RE STILL TAKING DONATIONS!
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16Events on December 16, 2013 Harambe! (6mos to 6-years old) Starts: 9:30 am Description: In Swahili, Harambe means “All pull together.” At BloomBars, Harambe is the practice of hope, possibility and compassion – basically, all the things that happen when we all come together. Think of it as your little one’s first opportunity to express his or her voice (into a microphone), dance, play a drum or percussion instrument, shout, or sing-along to songs that build character, confidence and community.
With more than 10 years of experience in youth development, education and conflict resolution, program instructor Baba Ras D’s “Harambe” is a morning jolt of inspiration for parents, caregivers and children.
Parental consent required. Participation is a $7-10 donation per session or $100 for 12 sessions.
Details: http://www.bloombars.com/youth-programs/harambe Oriental Dance/Belly Dance (bilingue/bilingual) Starts: 6:30 pm Description: Explore the mechanics of dance posture; soft & hard isolations; how movements initiate, flow & culminate; timing & sinking into the movement; listening & improvisation; deep, internal undulations with careful attention to weight shifts; beautiful hands & arms; shimmy drills & combinations.* Oriental & tribal styles, all levels. Bilingual community classes. (1.25 hrs)
Info? Visit http://www.moveyourbelly.com
$10 suggested donation
Learn more: http://www.bloombars.com/garden-of-the-arts/a-dance-class-at-bloombars-is-never-just-a-dance-class
The Garden Open Mic feat. Flo Anito (hosted by Gowri K.) Starts: 8:30 pm Description: Join us for DC's only weekly variety open mic (poetry, music, comedy, storytelling, etc-ing) where the show is appropriate for all ages (please and thank you to performers).
Sign-up list opens at 8:30 pm and the first performer goes on at 9:00 pm!
$7 donation
Featuring: FLO ANITO
Classically trained in voice, piano, and cello, Flo Anito began her singer/songwriter career at age 16 when she got her hands on her first guitar. Songwriting came naturally to this young talent who has quickly proven herself a prolific writer of thought provoking jazzy pop songs in the vein of Fiona Apple, Jewel, Ani Difranco, and Nellie McKay. Since graduating from Wesleyan University with a BA in Music, Flo has made Washington DC her home. Flo heads the local chapter of Just Plain Folks, an international music networking organization, and has performed and sold out of her debut cd in venues across New England and the Mid-Atlantic states.
The last two years have proven to be a whirlwind for Flo. She shot a music video for her song Uh Oh which won the Grand Prize on OurStage.com! The same song was one of 5 finalists in a Cosmo Radio contest, winning her an interview and airplay on Sirius Radio. After a live audition, she was selected for the Artist Roster at the world renowned Strathmore Music Hall where she performed with her band in 2012. Flo was the only DC based musician selected to play Merriweather Post Pavilion as part of the Virgin Mobile Free Fest's Busking Brigade, where she joined an impressive bill: Weezer, Blink 182, the Bravery, and Franz Ferdinand. She was selected for a CMJ showcase in NYC, a GAP campaign in Charlottesville, and a feature video on the website for the National Association of Broadcasting. She has played for the Secretary of the Interior, performed at the National Press Club, and sung the National Anthem at a Washington Freedom game. She was also nominated for two 2012 Wammy Awards - Best Pop/Rock Vocalist and Best Music Video. Flo's new album, "No Dustbunnies", recorded with Chris Keup (O.A.R., Erin McKeown), Stewart Meyers (Lifehouse), and Brian Jones (Dave Matthews Band, Mandy Moore), has been a best seller on both CDbaby and Digstation and is getting radio play in NY, CT, and the DC metro area.
http://www.floanito.com
Hosted by: GOWRI K.
Gowri K. is a Sri Lankan Tamil American poet and lawyer. Her advocacy has addressed animal welfare, the environment, and the rights of prisoners and the criminally accused. She has co-authored two peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and her poetry has been published in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Bourgeon, and Lantern Review. Gowri was a member of the 2010 DC Southern Fried Slam team and has performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. She hosts open mics at Busboys and Poets and BloomBars, where she serves as poetry coordinator, and is the senior poetry editor at Jaggery: A DesiLit Arts and Literature Journal. She is currently at work on her first full-length show, "Yasmeen," which is being co-produced by Palestinian composer and musician Huda Asfour for the Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival early next year. Gowri tweets on-the-spot haiku @gowricurry.
| 17Events on December 17, 2013 BloomScreen and TransAfrica present: This is Nollywood Starts: 7:00 pm Description: Bloombars - 3222 11th St NW - Washington, DC 20010
Tuesday, December 17th at 7:00 pm
This is Nollywood (2007, 56 min), by Franco Sacchi and Robert Caputo - tells the story of Nigeria's home grown film industry, which is gaining recognition as a cultural and cinematic phenomenon. (http://tinyurl.com/nollywd-trailer)
The Nigerian film industry – is a revolution enabling Africans with few resources to tell African stories to African audiences. Despite all odds, Nigerian directors produce between 500 and 1,000 movies a year. The disks sell wildly all over the continent, and Nollywood actors have become stars from Ghana to Zambia.
Our film will be followed by audience discussion moderated by Mwiza Munthali, the Public Outreach Director of TransAfrica.
This film presentation was made possible thanks to our collaboration with TransAfrica – the oldest and largest African American human rights and social justice advocacy organization.
RSVP at: http://tinyurl.com/nollywd-rsvp
Trailer at: http://tinyurl.com/nollywd-trailer
*Suggested Donation: $10. Proceeds will go to support both TransAfrica and BloomBars. Free popcorn and refreshments provided.
BloomScreen Indie Film Night – is a weekly series of independent and foreign films, accompanied by discussions with filmmakers and other experts.
Volunteers wanted! Have a suggestion for a film? Know a local filmmaker who wants to screen their work? Want to lend a hand? Email jonathan@bloombars.com with your ideas.
| 18Events on December 18, 2013 Samba Baby Starts: 10:00 am Description: It’s never too early to learn the infectious dance of the world’s 5th largest country. And there’s no better teacher then Zezeh Zax, a dancer, professional performer of Brazilian samba and founder of the ZEZEH BRAZIL Dance Troupe.
The class will get hearts beating and feet moving to rhythms of Brazil. Parental consent required for youth under 18. Participation is a $10 donation per session or $100 for 12 sessions.
Learn more: http://www.bloombars.com/youth-programs/samba-baby ¡Uno, Dos, Tres, con Andrés! 1st Show Starts: 5:30 pm Description: ¡Uno, Dos, Tres con Andrés! is an interactive children’s show that teaches Spanish language and Latin American culture.
Children sing, shake, and sound out rhythms while trying regional Latin dances and practicing Spanish words – an excellent enrichment opportunity for libraries, schools, summer programs, and a unique birthday party experience. Our little participants will dance to La Bamba, discover the colors in Spanish, and meet friends of all kinds, including an iguana named Juana!
$7 Suggested Donation ¡Uno, Dos, Tres, con Andrés! Starts: 6:30 pm Description: ¡Uno, Dos, Tres con Andrés! is an interactive children’s show that teaches Spanish language and Latin American culture.
Children sing, shake, and sound out rhythms while trying regional Latin dances and practicing Spanish words – an excellent enrichment opportunity for libraries, schools, summer programs, and a unique birthday party experience. Our little participants will dance to La Bamba, discover the colors in Spanish, and meet friends of all kinds, including an iguana named Juana!
$7 Suggested Donation Silent Meditation Wednesdays Starts: 7:00 pm Description: Thirteen years ago, a small group of individuals in California decided to devote a Wednesday evening to the spirit of sharing through meditation and reflection. Over time, the vibrations created during that single evening multiplied and rippled into a weekly gathering as more individuals joined the circle of sharing and created what has become known as “Wednesdays.” Planting seeds of inner transformation, individuals have left their “Wednesday” feeling inspired and renewed.
Now, “Wednesdays” has begun to bloom in the nation’s capitol, in the heart of Columbia Heights at BloomBars.
These gatherings have no teachers, no set agendas or proposed beliefs — simply a space to come together to listen to ourselves and each other.
If you have been interested in meditating but are not sure where to start, peruse these guided meditations from various spiritual teachers.
And the following two blogs are excellent and honest descriptions of the thoughts that go through all of our minds as we try to understand what meditation is all about:
The Whale I Saved, or So I Thought
Grab the Reigns! Training the Mind to Find Happiness
Join us on Wednesday. We will start with an hour of meditation and follow it up with a round-table discussion of “aha” moments from everyday life based on a recent iJourney reading.
There is no required cost to attend (although donations are appreciated!) everything is offered as a humble gift, in the spirit of paying-it-forward. Samba Class Starts: 9:00 pm
| 19Events on December 19, 2013 Harambe! Starts: 10:00 am Singing Lizard (3rd Thursdays!) Starts: 6:30 pm Yoga Share Blooms @ BloomBars Starts: 7:30 pm Description: We're excited to announce a new weekly yoga experience at BloomBars! Meet Yoga Share founders Irina Katz and Nina Jot Prakash Kaur. They will lead a team of rotating guest instructors certified in a variety of yoga disciplines. Vegan snacks and tea will follow the class. Interested in being a guest instructor? Email Irina at: irinakatz@gmail.com. $10 suggested donation
More from Irina and Nina:
We started the Yoga Share DC group to create a space where people could connect authentically during and after a yoga class. In
teaching and practicing yoga, we know that we feel more alive after class. To harness this energy and create a cozy space, we have tea and snacks after class and gather to meet and chat. We also ask those who come if they are certified and would like to teach. Since we started the group we've had about 10 teachers rotate through and teach various types of yoga from Kundalini to Dharma, Vinyasa, Hatha, and others.
Irina Katz
Bio:
Irina Katz first took yoga 16 years ago as part of gym class in Rockville, MD. It wasn't until 2008 that she discovered that her true passion was in the Kundalini style because of its emphasis on subtle energies and the fire element. She completed her Level 1 training with Elizabeth Greathouse of Yoga House Washington and is now a certified RYT-200 Kundalini Yoga Teacher. Her teaching style is practical, down to earth, energizing and empowering.
| 20Events on December 20, 2013 SONGS, STORIES AND PUPPETS (Ages 5 and under) Starts: 10:00 am Description: A variety show for the under 5 crowd, “Songs, Stories & Puppets” is the trifecta that could help form your baby’s first sentence, “Is it Friday?” David Greenfieldboyce is a puppeteer, former teacher, stay-at-home dad who organizes the Mount Pleasant Children's Puppet Hour. Suggested donation: $5. More info: http://www.bloombars.com/youth-programs/songs-stories-and-puppets
| 21Events on December 21, 2013 HARAMBE! (6mos to 6-years old) Starts: 9:30 am Description: In Swahili, Harambe means “All pull together.” It is your little one’s first opportunity to express his or her voice (into a microphone), dance, play a drum or percussion instrument, shout, or sing-along to songs that build character, confidence and community. http://www.bloombars.com/youth-programs/harambe Harambe 2nd Show Starts: 10:30 am (On Hiatus) Kizomba @ BloomBars- Workshop & Dance Social Starts: 4:00 pm Description: Bloombars - 3222 11th St NW - Washington, DC 20010
Third Saturday, each month at 4:00 pm
*** ON HIATUS ***
Dance instruction & fun - every month @ BloomBars!
• No experience necessary
• Registration 4:00pm - 4:30pm
• Dance Class 4:30pm - 6:30pm
• Dance Social 6:30pm - 7:30pm (dance freely!)
• $20
• You do NOT need to bring a partner!
Every Third Saturday of the Month at BloomBars!
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Learn about Angolan and the Afro-Lusophone culture in a fun way!
Interest in Kizomba is growing rapidly! Kizomba is a slow, sensual, fluid dance – a sort of oozing and swaying around the dance floor that can only be described as a pleasure to watch! Originating in Angola in the eighties, Kizomba music is a mixture of Angolan Semba and Zouk from the French West Indies. Kizomba is most popular in Portuguese-speaking, or Lusophone countries, including Angola and Portugal.
| 22Events on December 22, 2013 On Hiatus: African Drumming w/Kristen & Kweku (Drums Available) Starts: 1:00 pm Description: Ever dream of joining the Malcolm X Park Drum Circle?
Now’s your chance to build some confidence — Every Sunday at 1pm, join Drumlady Kristen Arant and Ghanaian drummer/drum-builder Kweku Owusu for West African drumming classes at BloomBars! Learn techniques and rhythms from Ghana and Guinea, West Africa on djembe, kpanlogo and dun-un drums.
For experienced drummers, get some practice with our expert instructors!
Suggested donation: $15
Learn more: http://www.bloombars.com/category/garden-of-the-arts/music/drumming-class Malcolm X Park Drum Circle Winter Home Starts: 3:00 pm Description: Once again, we are so very excited to welcome the Malcolm X Park Drum Circle back to their winter home. Every Sunday from 3-5pm, starting December 22nd, drummers, percussionists, dancers and all the beautifully rhythmic and creative souls who gather on Sundays in the warmer months are invited to BloomBars to keep the spirit alive until the cold passes. Donations are suggested. On Hiatus: String Beings - Lessons and String Sessons - All Ages and Experience Levels Starts: 6:30 pm Description: There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased. With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.~William Cowper
The more we learn about the science of sound and the affects of music in our lives, the more 18th century poets like Cowper sound prophetic. And the more we listen to our hearts beat, the stronger the urge becomes to pick up an instrument and explore our innate affections for tonal syncopations, tribal rhythms and created or recreated melodies. The calling can come at any stage in life. For my almost-two-year old, it started from the womb and grows with every instrument we place in front of her.
That’s just one of the reasons I’m so excited to bring back our weekly String Beings program starting the first Sunday in September (9/2) at 6:30pm. In this incarnation, String Beings will be an almagamous open classroom/jam session where the line between student and teacher gets lost in the mutual sharing and learning of string instruments. It’s basically our version of string theory, but instead of trying to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity, we seek to reconcile the vibration of stringed instruments with the resonance of our very being.
Led by Sitali Syolwe and (Soon to be official Artist in Bloom resident) Ella, we are still seeking folks to help lead violin, bass and cello. There will be a special effort to get young folks and seniors out, but all ages are welcome.
The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. ~Richard Baker
Amen! And thanks to some generous guitar and bass donations (and a Rhodes, wow!), we’re able to provide our new house instruments for use by all. AND WE’RE STILL TAKING DONATIONS!
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23Events on December 23, 2013 Harambe! (6mos to 6-years old) Starts: 9:30 am Description: In Swahili, Harambe means “All pull together.” At BloomBars, Harambe is the practice of hope, possibility and compassion – basically, all the things that happen when we all come together. Think of it as your little one’s first opportunity to express his or her voice (into a microphone), dance, play a drum or percussion instrument, shout, or sing-along to songs that build character, confidence and community.
With more than 10 years of experience in youth development, education and conflict resolution, program instructor Baba Ras D’s “Harambe” is a morning jolt of inspiration for parents, caregivers and children.
Parental consent required. Participation is a $7-10 donation per session or $100 for 12 sessions.
Details: http://www.bloombars.com/youth-programs/harambe Oriental Dance/Belly Dance (bilingue/bilingual) Starts: 6:30 pm Description: Explore the mechanics of dance posture; soft & hard isolations; how movements initiate, flow & culminate; timing & sinking into the movement; listening & improvisation; deep, internal undulations with careful attention to weight shifts; beautiful hands & arms; shimmy drills & combinations.* Oriental & tribal styles, all levels. Bilingual community classes. (1.25 hrs)
Info? Visit http://www.moveyourbelly.com
$10 suggested donation
Learn more: http://www.bloombars.com/garden-of-the-arts/a-dance-class-at-bloombars-is-never-just-a-dance-class
The Garden Open Mic feat. Robert Michael Oliver (guest host: Joseph LMS Green) Starts: 8:30 pm Description: Join us for DC's only weekly variety open mic (poetry, music, comedy, storytelling, etc-ing) where the show is appropriate for all ages (please and thank you to performers).
Sign-up list opens at 8:30 pm and the first performer goes on at 9:00 pm!
$7 donation
Guest host: JOSEPH LMS GREEN
Joseph LMS Green is a performance poet and educator with more than eight years of professional experience. As a solo artist and member of the Intangible Collective, Joseph has performed at venues and schools throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States. For five years, he has coached the Hayfield Secondary School Forensic Speech Team. A four-time qualifier and participant in the National Poetry Slam, he has twice represented the Oneonta Slam team as their Grand Slam Champion, as well as Slam Richmond and DC’s Beltway Poetry Slam Team, which ranked 5th in the nation in 2011. After representing the Beltway Poetry Slam at the 2011 Individual World Poetry Slam, Joseph was the 16th ranked poet in the world. He is also a co-founder of poetryNOW, an afterschool creative writing program in Northern Virginia.
http://www.josephlms.com
| 24Events on December 24, 2013 BloomScreen Indie Film Night Starts: 7:00 pm Description: Bloombars - 3222 11th St NW - Washington, DC 20010
*Suggested Donation: $10. Free popcorn and refreshments provided.
BloomScreen Indie Film Night – is a weekly series of independent and foreign films, accompanied by discussions with filmmakers and other experts.
Volunteers wanted! Have a suggestion for a film? Know a local filmmaker who wants to screen their work? Want to lend a hand? Email jonathan@bloombars.com with your ideas.
| 25Events on December 25, 2013 Samba Baby Starts: 10:00 am Description: It’s never too early to learn the infectious dance of the world’s 5th largest country. And there’s no better teacher then Zezeh Zax, a dancer, professional performer of Brazilian samba and founder of the ZEZEH BRAZIL Dance Troupe.
The class will get hearts beating and feet moving to rhythms of Brazil. Parental consent required for youth under 18. Participation is a $10 donation per session or $100 for 12 sessions.
Learn more: http://www.bloombars.com/youth-programs/samba-baby ¡Uno, Dos, Tres, con Andrés! 1st Show Starts: 5:30 pm Description: ¡Uno, Dos, Tres con Andrés! is an interactive children’s show that teaches Spanish language and Latin American culture.
Children sing, shake, and sound out rhythms while trying regional Latin dances and practicing Spanish words – an excellent enrichment opportunity for libraries, schools, summer programs, and a unique birthday party experience. Our little participants will dance to La Bamba, discover the colors in Spanish, and meet friends of all kinds, including an iguana named Juana!
$7 Suggested Donation ¡Uno, Dos, Tres, con Andrés! Starts: 6:30 pm Description: ¡Uno, Dos, Tres con Andrés! is an interactive children’s show that teaches Spanish language and Latin American culture.
Children sing, shake, and sound out rhythms while trying regional Latin dances and practicing Spanish words – an excellent enrichment opportunity for libraries, schools, summer programs, and a unique birthday party experience. Our little participants will dance to La Bamba, discover the colors in Spanish, and meet friends of all kinds, including an iguana named Juana!
$7 Suggested Donation Silent Meditation Wednesdays Starts: 7:00 pm Description: Thirteen years ago, a small group of individuals in California decided to devote a Wednesday evening to the spirit of sharing through meditation and reflection. Over time, the vibrations created during that single evening multiplied and rippled into a weekly gathering as more individuals joined the circle of sharing and created what has become known as “Wednesdays.” Planting seeds of inner transformation, individuals have left their “Wednesday” feeling inspired and renewed.
Now, “Wednesdays” has begun to bloom in the nation’s capitol, in the heart of Columbia Heights at BloomBars.
These gatherings have no teachers, no set agendas or proposed beliefs — simply a space to come together to listen to ourselves and each other.
If you have been interested in meditating but are not sure where to start, peruse these guided meditations from various spiritual teachers.
And the following two blogs are excellent and honest descriptions of the thoughts that go through all of our minds as we try to understand what meditation is all about:
The Whale I Saved, or So I Thought
Grab the Reigns! Training the Mind to Find Happiness
Join us on Wednesday. We will start with an hour of meditation and follow it up with a round-table discussion of “aha” moments from everyday life based on a recent iJourney reading.
There is no required cost to attend (although donations are appreciated!) everything is offered as a humble gift, in the spirit of paying-it-forward. Samba Class Starts: 9:00 pm
| 26Events on December 26, 2013 Harambe! Starts: 10:00 am Yoga Share Blooms @ BloomBars Starts: 7:30 pm Description: We're excited to announce a new weekly yoga experience at BloomBars! Meet Yoga Share founders Irina Katz and Nina Jot Prakash Kaur. They will lead a team of rotating guest instructors certified in a variety of yoga disciplines. Vegan snacks and tea will follow the class. Interested in being a guest instructor? Email Irina at: irinakatz@gmail.com. $10 suggested donation
More from Irina and Nina:
We started the Yoga Share DC group to create a space where people could connect authentically during and after a yoga class. In
teaching and practicing yoga, we know that we feel more alive after class. To harness this energy and create a cozy space, we have tea and snacks after class and gather to meet and chat. We also ask those who come if they are certified and would like to teach. Since we started the group we've had about 10 teachers rotate through and teach various types of yoga from Kundalini to Dharma, Vinyasa, Hatha, and others.
Irina Katz
Bio:
Irina Katz first took yoga 16 years ago as part of gym class in Rockville, MD. It wasn't until 2008 that she discovered that her true passion was in the Kundalini style because of its emphasis on subtle energies and the fire element. She completed her Level 1 training with Elizabeth Greathouse of Yoga House Washington and is now a certified RYT-200 Kundalini Yoga Teacher. Her teaching style is practical, down to earth, energizing and empowering.
| 27Events on December 27, 2013 SONGS, STORIES AND PUPPETS (Ages 5 and under) Starts: 10:00 am Description: A variety show for the under 5 crowd, “Songs, Stories & Puppets” is the trifecta that could help form your baby’s first sentence, “Is it Friday?” David Greenfieldboyce is a puppeteer, former teacher, stay-at-home dad who organizes the Mount Pleasant Children's Puppet Hour. Suggested donation: $5. More info: http://www.bloombars.com/youth-programs/songs-stories-and-puppets
| 28Events on December 28, 2013 HARAMBE! (6mos to 6-years old) Starts: 9:30 am Description: In Swahili, Harambe means “All pull together.” It is your little one’s first opportunity to express his or her voice (into a microphone), dance, play a drum or percussion instrument, shout, or sing-along to songs that build character, confidence and community. http://www.bloombars.com/youth-programs/harambe Harambe 2nd Show Starts: 10:30 am
| 29Events on December 29, 2013 On Hiatus: African Drumming w/Kristen & Kweku (Drums Available) Starts: 1:00 pm Description: Ever dream of joining the Malcolm X Park Drum Circle?
Now’s your chance to build some confidence — Every Sunday at 1pm, join Drumlady Kristen Arant and Ghanaian drummer/drum-builder Kweku Owusu for West African drumming classes at BloomBars! Learn techniques and rhythms from Ghana and Guinea, West Africa on djembe, kpanlogo and dun-un drums.
For experienced drummers, get some practice with our expert instructors!
Suggested donation: $15
Learn more: http://www.bloombars.com/category/garden-of-the-arts/music/drumming-class Malcolm X Park Drum Circle Winter Home Starts: 3:00 pm Description: Once again, we are so very excited to welcome the Malcolm X Park Drum Circle back to their winter home. Every Sunday from 3-5pm, starting December 22nd, drummers, percussionists, dancers and all the beautifully rhythmic and creative souls who gather on Sundays in the warmer months are invited to BloomBars to keep the spirit alive until the cold passes. Donations are suggested. On Hiatus: String Beings - Lessons and String Sessons - All Ages and Experience Levels Starts: 6:30 pm Description: There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased. With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.~William Cowper
The more we learn about the science of sound and the affects of music in our lives, the more 18th century poets like Cowper sound prophetic. And the more we listen to our hearts beat, the stronger the urge becomes to pick up an instrument and explore our innate affections for tonal syncopations, tribal rhythms and created or recreated melodies. The calling can come at any stage in life. For my almost-two-year old, it started from the womb and grows with every instrument we place in front of her.
That’s just one of the reasons I’m so excited to bring back our weekly String Beings program starting the first Sunday in September (9/2) at 6:30pm. In this incarnation, String Beings will be an almagamous open classroom/jam session where the line between student and teacher gets lost in the mutual sharing and learning of string instruments. It’s basically our version of string theory, but instead of trying to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity, we seek to reconcile the vibration of stringed instruments with the resonance of our very being.
Led by Sitali Syolwe and (Soon to be official Artist in Bloom resident) Ella, we are still seeking folks to help lead violin, bass and cello. There will be a special effort to get young folks and seniors out, but all ages are welcome.
The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. ~Richard Baker
Amen! And thanks to some generous guitar and bass donations (and a Rhodes, wow!), we’re able to provide our new house instruments for use by all. AND WE’RE STILL TAKING DONATIONS!
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30Events on December 30, 2013 Harambe! (6mos to 6-years old) Starts: 9:30 am Description: In Swahili, Harambe means “All pull together.” At BloomBars, Harambe is the practice of hope, possibility and compassion – basically, all the things that happen when we all come together. Think of it as your little one’s first opportunity to express his or her voice (into a microphone), dance, play a drum or percussion instrument, shout, or sing-along to songs that build character, confidence and community.
With more than 10 years of experience in youth development, education and conflict resolution, program instructor Baba Ras D’s “Harambe” is a morning jolt of inspiration for parents, caregivers and children.
Parental consent required. Participation is a $7-10 donation per session or $100 for 12 sessions.
Details: http://www.bloombars.com/youth-programs/harambe Oriental Dance/Belly Dance (bilingue/bilingual) Starts: 6:30 pm Description: Explore the mechanics of dance posture; soft & hard isolations; how movements initiate, flow & culminate; timing & sinking into the movement; listening & improvisation; deep, internal undulations with careful attention to weight shifts; beautiful hands & arms; shimmy drills & combinations.* Oriental & tribal styles, all levels. Bilingual community classes. (1.25 hrs)
Info? Visit http://www.moveyourbelly.com
$10 suggested donation
Learn more: http://www.bloombars.com/garden-of-the-arts/a-dance-class-at-bloombars-is-never-just-a-dance-class
The Garden Open Mic feat. Tara Trinity (guest host: Joseph LMS Green) Starts: 8:30 pm Description: Join us for DC's only weekly variety open mic (poetry, music, comedy, storytelling, etc-ing) where the show is appropriate for all ages (please and thank you to performers).
Sign-up list opens at 8:30 pm and the first performer goes on at 9:00 pm!
$7 donation
Featuring: TARA TRINITY
http://www.taratrinity.com
Guest host: JOSEPH LMS GREEN
Joseph LMS Green is a performance poet and educator with more than eight years of professional experience. As a solo artist and member of the Intangible Collective, Joseph has performed at venues and schools throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States. For five years, he has coached the Hayfield Secondary School Forensic Speech Team. A four-time qualifier and participant in the National Poetry Slam, he has twice represented the Oneonta Slam team as their Grand Slam Champion, as well as Slam Richmond and DC’s Beltway Poetry Slam Team, which ranked 5th in the nation in 2011. After representing the Beltway Poetry Slam at the 2011 Individual World Poetry Slam, Joseph was the 16th ranked poet in the world. He is also a co-founder of poetryNOW, an afterschool creative writing program in Northern Virginia.
http://www.josephlms.com
| 31Events on December 31, 2013 BloomScreen Indie Film Night Starts: 7:00 pm Description: Bloombars - 3222 11th St NW - Washington, DC 20010
*Suggested Donation: $10. Free popcorn and refreshments provided.
BloomScreen Indie Film Night – is a weekly series of independent and foreign films, accompanied by discussions with filmmakers and other experts.
Volunteers wanted! Have a suggestion for a film? Know a local filmmaker who wants to screen their work? Want to lend a hand? Email jonathan@bloombars.com with your ideas.
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BloomBars is located at 3222 11th Street NW in Washington, DC’s historic Columbia Heights neighborhood.
