March 2014 »
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| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7Events on March 7, 2014 Songs, Stories & Puppets Starts: 10:00 am Songs, Stories & Puppets Starts: 10:00 am Nous Bloomon en Francais Starts: 5:30 pm
| 8Events on March 8, 2014 Harambee Starts: 10:30 am Harambee Starts: 11:30 am In These Boxes Starts: 8:00 pm Description: Someone died and now you have their things. Or maybe just one thing. It might not even be valuable. An old spoon or a glove. But you can’t bring yourself to throw it out. You can leave it here. Post your photos to Instagram with the hash-tag #InTheseBoxes. Or send to Dudley@dudleysaunders.com
Visiting musician- artist Dudley Saunders asks us to reach out locally in DC for photos of the objects people have inherited from loved ones and can’t let go of. This performance incorporate images collected from the local community.
Message from Dudley - In the fall of 1991, my two ex-lovers died of AIDS within two months of each other. What made it worse was realizing that nobody who remembered us together was still alive. The hidden meaning in ordinary objects haunted me.
Your personal contributions –gathered from our communities- will be incorporated into video art for Dudley’s DC performance of IN THESE BOXES at BloomBars; a combination of video, song and stories that imagines the lives of lost people through the objects they left behind.
More here: http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/dudley-saunders-in-these-boxes.html
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10Events on March 10, 2014 Harambee Starts: 9:30 am The Garden Open Mic feat. Terrence Cunningham (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
Show starts at 9:00 pm
$7 donation
Featuring: TERRENCE CUNNINGHAM
Terrence Cunningham is far from timid in the company of a piano, and a microphone. A Maryland native, and a descendent of a long line of musicians, including his great aunt, the late blues legend Etta Baker, Terrence Cunningham's music can best be described as alternative soul. Steeped in the natural velvet of black music, the pain and drama from the sweaty pulpit is peppered with heavy guitar, and slow buildups to swelling musical climaxes. Think Coldplay if Chris Martin was raised in the black church, or U2, if Bono was a child of the delta. Terrence Cunningham is of a different breed. He chooses to push the envelope in search of new musical interpretations. His songs pull from life in a vulnerably honest way, and his overtly distinct voice compliments the sincerity of his work. He is a trained musician, and though rooted in theory, creates and performs mostly from instinct and sheer musical chops. And to think, it all began at the age of three when he mimicked his father and tapped out Prince's, "Little Red Corvette" on the piano. Who knew that moment would be the cornerstone of a life devoted to music, and the early makings of a mold-breaker.
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. Gowri tweets on-the-spot haiku @gowricurry.
| 11 | 12Events on March 12, 2014 Awaken Silent Meditation Starts: 7:00 pm Samba Class Starts: 9:00 pm
| 13Events on March 13, 2014 Harambe Starts: 10:00 am Theatrical Journeys Project Starts: 4:00 pm 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
| 14Events on March 14, 2014 Songs, Stories & Puppets Starts: 10:00 am Songs, Stories & Puppets Starts: 10:00 am Nous Bloomon en Francais Starts: 5:30 pm
| 15Events on March 15, 2014 Harambee Starts: 10:30 am Harambee Starts: 11:30 am
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| 17 | 18 | 19Events on March 19, 2014 Awaken Silent Meditation Starts: 7:00 pm Samba Class Starts: 9:00 pm
| 20 | 21Events on March 21, 2014 Songs, Stories & Puppets Starts: 10:00 am Songs, Stories & Puppets Starts: 10:00 am Nous Bloomon en Francais Starts: 5:30 pm
| 22 | 23Events on March 23, 2014 Street Harassment 101 w/ Collective Action for Safe Spaces Starts: 1:00 pm Description: Building a Safe City: How to Empower Your Community and Yourself to End Street Harassment
$10 donation
If you’re woman or LGBTQ-identifying in DC, you're probably familiar with the behaviors that qualify as street harassment -- lewd gestures, sexual comments, following, and unwanted touching, ranging from the humiliating to the threatening. As much as we wish they didn’t, these behaviors can have a very real effect on the way we move around in the city we call home.
This workshop will explore the emotional reality of street harassment and introduce prevention and empowerment strategies that can be used by people who experience sexual harassment in public. Focusing on tactics that build community rather than divide it, we'll give you some tools to respond assertively to harassers, and discuss ideas for mobilizing your friends, family, and community to change the culture and end public sexual harassment and assault.
http://www.collectiveactiondc.org
Sign up for the CASS mailing list at:
http://tinyurl.com/cass-mailing-list One Love Collective Event Starts: 6:00 pm
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| 30Events on March 30, 2014 Poetry Workshop w/ Denise Jolly Starts: 3:00 pm Description: Denise Jolly will be facilitating a multimedia writing workshop that telescopes the intersection of body and identity. The workshop will engage a singular writing process as well as a collaborative sculptural process. Come prepared to write and share with a willingness to try something you may have never done before.
*As with all BloomBars events, all ages and gender representations are welcome and encouraged to join us.*
$10 donation
DENISE JOLLY is the creator of the Be Beautiful Project. She is a Writer, Performer and Artist Educator. She is the former Executive Director of Seattle Youth Speaks, and Vice President of Stronghold Productions. Denise’s work stands at the intersection of gender, class, sexuality, and body. She has taught and performed at colleges, universities, community centers, and public and private schools all over the United States, Canada and parts of Europe, working with student populations in elementary through college and beyond. She likes doing great things with amazing people and being moved by art, community and how the two work together.
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BloomBars is located at 3222 11th Street NW in Washington, DC’s historic Columbia Heights neighborhood.
