Celebrating a 4th Anniversary at Studio 34
University City Review, Wed May 23, 2012.
photo: JJ Tiziou

By the way, here's our class schedule for May 2012

Benefit Concert
Friday, June 1
8pm
pay-what-you will

Join us for a special benefit concert on Friday June 1st.

Enjoy a slideshow of images from JJ’s most recent trip volunteering with Mercy Ships in Togo, West Africa, celebrate with special dance performances by Fatima Adamu and Melissa Diane (Jacelyn Biondo and Kristen Shahverdian), and some fantastic music by The David Wax Museum.

Sliding scale contributions will help support JJ Tiziou Photography‘s community projects, continuing to prove that everyone is photogenic.

Please RSVP here

By the way, here's our class schedule for May 2012

Buddhism 101
Buddhist Meditation Classes
Mondays 7:00-8:00pm
June 4th-25th
Cost $8
Studio 34 Conference Room

Join us for a weekly beginners’ meditation class on Monday evenings. We will be examining the Buddhist approach to making our lives less stressful and more manageable through utilizing the power of meditation. Each class begins with a relaxation meditation, a brief teaching on Buddhist topics, and ends with another energizing meditation. The topic of each class will be:

June 4th – Buddha’s first teaching: The Four Noble Truths
June 11th -Taking the Essence of our Human Life
June 18th – Death and Impermanence
June 25th - Action and Effects: Understanding the Law of Karma

This 4-week series of classes is being offered by Amitayus Kadampa Buddhist Center at Yoga Studio 34 and will be taught by Salena Alberti, a meditation teacher who has over 10 years’ experience in practicing and studying Buddhism.

By the way, here's our class schedule for May 2012

Queer & Trans Yoga
with guest teacher Jacoby Ballard
Friday, June 1st
5:30–7:00 p.m.
$10

Come join trans yoga instructor Jacoby Ballard for a special Queer and Trans Yoga class during the Trans Health Conference. This class is open to people of all genders to attend, with any level of yoga experience. This is a special opportunity to be invited into your body and heart in a space shared with other queer and trans people.

About the Instructor:

Jacoby Ballard has been teaching yoga for 13 years. He received his 200-hour training at Kashi Atlanta Ashram, and his 500-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. His yoga practice continues to help him come into his full self, and helped him transition into a trans identity. Jacoby is interested in practices that open up the heart as well as the body, allowing us to embody happiness, wholeness, and love.

By the way, here's our class schedule for May 2012

Six and Four Articulations
June 15th
7pm
suggested donation: $5

Six and Four Articulations is a fresh and playful performance collective, made up of seven artists who include dancers, costume designers, contemporary performance artists, and writers. They have come together to collaborate and create contemporary work. They will be sharing their work across the nation on a seven-week tour this summer 2012. Their show will feature performances that employ the devices of costumes, props, and theater to create intellectually engaging works that sculpturally carves out the performance space in a series of solos, duets and troupe performances.

Here are our Website and Tumblr Addresses!

www.CargoCollective.com/SixandFourTOUR

www.sixandfourtour.tumblr.com/

By the way, here's our class schedule for May 2012

SOJO GROOVE NIGHT!
Brazilian percussion, funky cello/vocals, and more!
Friday, June 8
7:30-10:00pm
Suggested donation: $10-25, or pay what you can.
We will also have a RAFFLE of items from local businesses.

Please join us on Friday, June 8, from 7:30-10:00pm, as talented Philly musicians perform to benefit Camp Sojourner, Girls’ Leadership Camp.

Featuring:
Monica McIntyre, Cellist and vocalist
Ladies of Elegance, Temple University Step Team
Unidos da Filadelfia, Brazilian percussion group

Come get your groove on to support Philly girls! All proceeds go directly towards helping us bring 50 girls to camp this summer for a life-changing camp experience. Please visit our website for more details about our program and to watch the camp video. We offer our program on a sliding scale so that all girls can come to camp regardless of their family economic circumstance.

We hope to see you on Friday, June 8!

By the way, here's our class schedule for May 2012

Bon Voyage Party Class ‘n Potluck
Sunday, May 13
class from 6:15-7:15
$10
Potluck and live music to follow!

Julia is leaving for the summer – to dance her way through India with the Fiddlehead Project and then to be in North Carolina with her family. Come out for a lil’ farwell shin-dig and a hang before she ventures off.

By the way, here's our class schedule for May 2012

Folkadelphia Presents: Honey Watts and Johnny Miles with special guest Rayvon Browne (from Brooklyn)
Saturday, May 19th
8 PM
$8

Please join us on Saturday, May 19th as we welcome home Honey Watts and Johnny Miles after their spring tour together. Joining the Philly musicians for the night are our new Brooklyn-based friends in Rayvon Browne. It will prove to be a memorable show of tender and gorgeous songs, weaved together by these musicians. It’s all happening at the intimate and extremely comfortable Studio 34 space in West Philadelphia and presented by Folkadelphia.

Honey Watts:
Raised in Mexico and California, Liz Fullerton has fronted the trip-hop outfit Dutch and contributed to Jedi Mind Tricks records. But in Honey Watts she strikes out to give her folk and country roots their fair due, sharing stories of love lost and adventures sought. And while she shares a biographical intensity with Neil Young and Leonard Cohen, Liz sings with the passionate desperation and whimsical playfulness of Nina Simone, Patsy Cline and Minnie Riperton. At times straight-forward in content and elsewhere masked in pastoral allegory, it’s the delivery of her lyrics that penetrates even the most passive listener. Carl Cheeseman is a New Jersey-born composer and musician, performing and recording with The Minor Arcana, Johnny Miles & the Waywards, Dawn Hiatt, and Birdie Busch, among others. His proficiency in electric guitar and lap steel, and passion for dulcimer and sitar, have made Carl an in-demand studio session player, as well as collaborator with poets, storytellers, theater companies and filmmakers.
Their self-titled album, released in April 2011, sets Liz’s songs into a musical fabric of muted tones and soft noises; some are given a simple acoustic presentation, but the record is also by turns ambient and electric, gently orchestrated and even experimental. Adventurous elements found on records by Nina Nastasia, Laura Gibson, Devon Sproule and Sharon Van Etten are identifiable upon multiple listens to Honey Watts. The duo is currently writing new material for their follow-up record.

Johnny Miles:
Drawing deeply from the classic America traditions of country, folk, blues and rock & roll, filtered through his own unique sensibilities, Johnny Miles creates contemporary 21st century snapshots of life, love, and loss that are at once familiar and yet altogether fresh, new, and exciting. Johnny is currently on tour in support of his third full-length (and 2nd with his group, the Waywards) entitled Lost Treasure Found, released April 2012 on the artist’s own independent label Tree Records. This latest release features perhaps his most beautiful work to date: upright bass, pedal steel, and strings swirl around harmonies, waltzes, and pristine ambience. With a relentless pace and work ethic, Miles gives the impression that he’s only just begun, but if there is one thing we’ve learned from his songwriting and performances thus far, it’s to expect the unexpected!

Rayvon Browne:
On the brink of releasing Companion, their second 8-song cassette (complete with complimentary digital download), NYC psych-folk band Rayvon Browne is a collaboration between Morgan Heringer (“ukulele virtuoso,” The New York Times) and Cal Folger Day (whose “vocal control and onstage presence command attention,” The New Yorker) with Joel Kruzic on the upright bass. Together they present a diverse set of original tunes & compositions, and also some remix’d classics, featuring tight vocal harmonies and swapping around on keyboards, uke, guitar, mandolin, melodica, and more. This night sees them off to a month-long tour in England, Ireland, and Germany.

Folkadelphia:
The folk music organization and weekly XPN2 radio show created by Fred Knittel. Through Folkadelphia, Fred hopes to introduce people to exciting new musicians and, with luck, change the way they perceive modern folk music. Folkadelphia radio is broadcast on XPN2 on WXPN Sundays from 3-5 PM and Tuesdays 6-8 PM. Upcoming in-studio guests include Kath Bloom, Sea of Bees, Psalmships, and more.

Also, catch Honey Watts and Johnny Miles performing and interviewing live and in the studio on Folkadelphia radio after the concert on Sunday, May 20th from 3-5 PM on XPN2.

Press photos and more information available on request
Contact: Fred Knittel at fred@xpn2.org

By the way, here's our class schedule for May 2012

Second Saturday Series – 3rd Installment
Art Opening: Above & Below
with potluck dinner, music, and celebration!

Also, the Studio 34 Community 4th Birthday Celebration!

“Above and Below” is an art opening featuring potluck dinner and two live musical acts! The evening begins at 6:30 p.m. with the potluck dinner. Then we will look at some art and maybe have some reactions to works on paper (squiggly lines) by sculptor and Studio 34 co-founder James Peniston and photos (of the sky) by painter and Midwives Collective founder Christiana Kugel. They both worked on art really hard for a bunch of years (art’s so hard!). This show isn’t about that. This show is about finding ease in the finding of beauty-every day. Emotions recollected in tranquility.

Also, we can’t tell you why, but if you like David Bowie, please don’t miss this show. Also, if you like really big or really small things, please come (we could tell you why but won’t right here). Food, art show and super music by Studio 34 friends Gina Fontana, Jessica Marcus and Andrea Saylor! More music, you say? How about Dan Blacksburg and Evan Levine performing deranged ragtime, or “tin pan alley” music? Not enough?

Well, okay. That night Studio 34 will also be celebrating its 4th birthday!! So there might be cake!! Maybe vegan cupcakes! Probably dancing!

The Studio 34 community will be celebrating its 4th Birthday like we do. Food, art, music, dance and good feelings. Bring some food and a friend. Admission is FREE!!!!

By the way, here's our class schedule for May 2012

Wind Horse: A Forrest Yoga Conference

Where: Snow Mountain Ranch, the YMCA of the Rockies in Winter Park, Colorado

When: August 17-20, 2012

More Information and Registration: http://www.forrestyoga.com/windhorse/ (early registration ends May 31!)

For the first time ever, Forrest Yoga will gather together an amazing community of yoga enthusiasts and the entire Forrest Yoga tribe in a weekend long retreat in the sacred natural beauty of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. We welcome yoga lovers young and old, beginner or advanced to come celebrate their practice and renew their Spirits with 3 days of exclusive Master Classes with Ana Forrest and a wide variety of specialized yoga classes with Forrest Yoga Guardians.

Reconnect with old friends and meet new friends from around the world with a weekend of music, ceremony, fire pits, dancing and organic, healthy food. Celebrate the power of community, and bring your entire family (yogis and non-yogis alike) to retreat with you at beautiful Snow Mountain Ranch in Winter Park, Colorado. Snow Mountain Ranch’s wide variety of outdoor activities, ranging from horseback riding to canoeing to hiking and fishing ensure that every member of the family will find a weekend filled with activities that delight their Spirit.

The 1st Annual Wind Horse Forrest Yoga Conference is a powerful opportunity for the practitioners of all traditions to bond into a global tribe of strength and beauty, celebrating the power of going deeper into the sacredness of practice and the joys of communing with family and friends in a beautiful natural setting.

Celebration. Community. Ceremony.

By the way, here's our class schedule for May 2012