Dear Friends, July was amazing for the Bowls Project with many awesome friends coming to share music, ritual and workshops. And we have many more coming up this month! Charming Hostess invites you to The Bowls Project at YBCA where you can share a secret and listen to the secrets of others during gallery hours. Or, participate in music on Thursdays, ritual on Fridays and hands-on workshops on Sundays. We will be playing music from The Bowls Project to introduce the weeknight programming below, and some weekends too. All events take place at:
Please join us at the dome this summer!
Peace,
Charming Hostess
AUGUST PROGRAMMING:
Sunday 8/1
2PM
One Taste leads a workshop about sacred orgasm
Sunday 8/1
4:30PM
Susan Duhan Felix speaking on contemporary Blessing Bowls: Origins & Present Day Uses
Thursday 8/5
6PM
Rachel Valfer-Sills of Qadim plays Iraqi Jewish music, sacred and secular
Friday 8/6
6PM
Kismat-Mahal Kirtan Ensemble leads ecstatic chant
Sunday 8/8
2PM
Pamela Reitman from Makor Or and Everyday Zen leads Jewish meditation for all
Thursday 8/12
6PM
Susu Pampanin Middle Eastern percussion ensemble
Friday 8/13
6PM
Sharanya (R)evolutionary Shakta Tantra honoring Kali Maa, the Dark Mother
Saturday 8/14
Big Idea Night at YBCA
Screening meditative work by film artist Shezad Dawood in the dome, with ChoHo performances from 11PM to 12AM
Sunday 8/15
noon-6PM
Maggid Jhos Singer teaches chants and songs in the Jewish mystical tradition
Thursday 8/19
6PM
X-Alfonso, Cuban hip-hop star, unplugged!
Friday 8/20
6PM
Sister Sara Femme leads a botanical celebration of labia and plants
Saturday 8/21
6PM
Dan Cantrell and Lily Storm
8PM
Amazing special guest I am not allowed to annunce yet
Sunday 8/22
2PM
Orisha Girls from Satya Yuga: sing the Bowls safely toward its next journey.
JULY PROGRAMMING:
Sunday 7/11
noon-6PM
Jewish Music Festival open dome day!
Thursday 7/15
6PM
InkBoat: Butoh in (and on) the dome
Friday 7/16
6PM
Jewlia: Shamanistic Shabbat
Sunday 7/18
noon-6PM
The Bowls Project CD Release Party (inside YBCA Forum)
Thursday 7/22
6PM
Women of the Real Vocal String Quartet
Strings play medieval madrigals and Malian love songs
Friday 7/23
6PM
Alleluia Panis and the women of Kularts lead a ritual that Balances the Elements
Saturday 7/24
6PM
Cornelius Boots Multi-Reed Shamanistic Extravaganza
Sunday 7/25
2PM
Amy Kassiola leads a workshop on demon-proofing your home with amulets.
Thursday 7/29 (Jewlia's birthday!)
6PM
Faun Fables: Songs about the domestic world
Friday 7/30
6PM
UnLocked: The sacred geometry of the African diaspora in braids
Saturday 7/31
International Body Music Fest preview and fundraiser: Keith Terry, Evie Ladin, Derique McGee, Alex Feng
30 min shows @ 6, 6:45 & 7:30
Suggested Donation $10-25
PS: SECRETS: Don't forget to call our toll-free number and leave us an anonymous secret we can use for the dome: 1-800-420-4459 or http://thebowlsproject.com/.
PPS: DOCENTS: Did you want to be a dome docent but you haven't told us yet? Now's the time.
LINKS:
what's happening next?:
http://www.jewlia.com/email.html
youtube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/thebowlsproject
the secrets blog--share a secret, we'll put it in the dome. it's anonymous:
http://thebowlsproject.com/
the whole thing:
http://www.charminghostess.us/projects.html
the press:
http://habitusmag.com/2010/07/1895/at-home-with-the-unheimlich-a-conversation-with-jewlia-eisenberg/
http://zeek.forward.com/articles/116827/appeals-to-the-outcast-the-bowls-project/
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/03/BARV1E8OJJ.DTL
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