Spring Equinox
Drum Circle With Katy
Gaughan Friday,
March 19th 7pm-8pm |
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Join us for a Spring Equinox Drum Circle with Katy
Gaughan as we drum in a new season! FREE & Everyone Welcome! Fun for the whole family! |
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The 4th
Annual Women in the Arts Panel: Local
Women Explore Creativity, Identity & Resilience Hosted
by Artist Jackie Hoysted Friday,
March 12th 7pm-8.30pm |
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Radiant
Heart Paintings by Artist Rachel Ann Cross |
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Join us
for our fourth annual Women in the Arts Panel Local Women
Explore Creativity, Identity and Resilience Friday,
March 12th 7pm-9pm virtually on Zoom. This panel
discussion hosted by artist Jackie Hoysted
features local women from across the creative spectrum,
including blues artist Stacy Brooks, artist Rachel Ann
Cross, Poet Catrice Greer, Comic Gigi Modrich,
Jewelry Artist Elaine Robnett Moore and Poet Kaja
Weeks. |
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Throughout
her career Stacy Brooks has graced both local and
international stages as a vocalist of Blues, Jazz and more. She
has performed in the Silver Spring Blues Festival three times, as
well as in an array of other regional events. Her band,
the Stacy Brooks Band is in residency at
Madam's Organ every 1st Sunday of the
month. Stacy has produced & self released two
WAMMIE Award-nominated (WAMA Washington Area Music Association) albums Live
@ The Surf Club and Love, Peace & The Blues. She has
also received four WAMMIE nominations for Female Blues
Vocalist. She has more recently toured Europe on the
European Blues Cruise and held a two month residency in Colombo,
Sri Lanka at a club owned by cricket
star Sanath Jayasuriya. Stacy is currently
working on her new CD titled German Chocolate to be
released in 2020 featuring full songs in German to pay tribute to
her German background. https://www.facebook.com/stacybrooksmusic/ https://www.reverbnation.com/stacybrooks |
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Rachel Ann
Cross is an
artist, musician, and educator who has been working in the DC
area for over 25 years. Her vibrant artistic vision and sense of
social justice are heavily informed by her experiences growing up
in Los Angeles in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. Rachel has had the
distinct pleasure of working with people of all ages and
abilities including at-risk elementary school students, children
and adults with cognitive and intellectual differences, deaf
actors and choreographers, political activists, incarcerated
teenagers, teenagers in mental health facilities, college
students, musicians, dancers, and visual artists from all around
the world, older artists, folk singers, and kindergarteners.
Rachel holds a BFA in fine arts from the Corcoran School of Art.
She also studied in N.Y. and Paris through Parsons School of
Design. Rachel is currently an artist-in-residence for the City
of Greenbelt, MD. Images
below : Clever
Girl (l) Goddess of
Radiant Health (r) Red-Bellied
Woodpecker (lower) |
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Catrice
Greer is a
poet and writer who resides in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a 2020
Pushcart Prize Nominee. In November 2020, Catrice served as a
Cheltenham Poetry Festival
Poet-In-Residence. Catrice’s poetic work explores a
range of topics about the human condition. She has participated
as an artist with mental health organizations such as Pro
Bono counseling and Behavioral Health System Baltimore in her
local area to promote mental health awareness. She currently
performs as a featured poetic artist or via poetry artist
collectives in international virtual open mics. Her recent poems
were published in Icefloe Press, Fevers of the Mind Presents the
Poets of 2020 Anthology, the historic Afro-American newspaper,
Phenomenal Womxn Anthology, Behavioral Health System
Baltimore art gallery, and local newsletters. She is
currently working on acquiring funding and resources to publish
her first chapbook. @cgreer_greer Firebird She
stood on the bridge above dove
high back
arched chin up breasts
etching the air nipples
prickled and pursed soaring double
back curve into a tight
tuck a ball
of light a
fireball luminous harnessing the
speed of light flying
home she
dares to become a new
thing called Free ~Catrice
Greer |
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Gigi
Modrich is a
Washington, DC based comic originally from New Mexico. Since
entering the comedy scene, she has quickly taken off and has
performed at The Funny Bone in Richmond, VA, Flappers in Burbank,
CA, and Broadway in NYC. She was a part of the First Nations Comedy
Experience now available on Amazon Prime, and has performed at
the 2019 DC Comedy Festival, 2019 Charm City Comedy Festival, and
the 2019 DAF Comedy Festival in NYC. She’s sarcastically
optimistic and tells jokes that are thoughtful enough to provoke thought,
but won't prompt a hate crime. IG @gigimodrich |
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Elaine
Robnett Moore is a fourth-generation artist internationally
renown. As a designer she finds inspiration in using beads as a
means of empowering women globally, teaching the art of bead
stringing and the business of art. Elaine’s creativity and artistry
is not a surprise to those who witnessed the evolution of her
passion for beads into her mastery of jewelry design. She is the
author of, ‘The Art of Bead Stringing – Artist to Entrepreneur ‘
a guide to beaded jewelry design now in its second edition. Her
latest book, published in August 2020, ’Dancing Out Loud:
Thoughts on Navigating the Rhythms of Life’ is a memoir on
experiencing and navigating life. ARTIST STATEMENT Combining the
magic of beads, the energy of nature, the influence of my travels
and personal cultural heritage, I create jewelry that captures
the elegance of the beauty surrounding us - wind in the trees,
cascading vines, the colors of sunset, glitter of starlight, a
baby’s laughter -- the style, grace and resilience of today’s contemporary
woman. Each design, made from beads that come from around the
world, evolves from a personal response to those beads as they
arrive with a life and story of their own. My necklaces bracelets
and earrings appeal to the discerning woman who responds to
jewelry based on color, form, texture and history. They are each
pieces of 'wearable art.' ARTIST
CREDO “Do what you love and there will be those who love what you
do." For more
information visit: www.elainerobnettmoore.com Instagram
- Elaine Robnett Moore Design Twitter -
Jewelry_Art Linkedin -
Elaine Robnett Moore |
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Kaja Weeks is a
poet, essayist and classically trained singer whose writing
contemplates music and healing as well as identity through
multiple generations. She is an American born daughter of World
War Two refugees from Estonia, a northern land on the Baltic Sea.
Moved by the pain and beauty of its history, she also loves the
alliterative sounds, mythic lore and world views found in
thousands of runic verses and long preserved by oral
transmission. She weaves these with timeless, universal themes of
ancestors, displacement, migration, longing, and one’s sense of
self and other in her collection of twenty-one poems. Titled Mouth
Quill—Poems with Ancestral Roots, it was published by The
Poetry Box, Portland Oregon in 2020 and nominated for a Pushcart
Prize. Kaja is a
former teacher and Associate Director of Early Childhood Music at
the Levine School of Music in Washington, DC., a large community
music school. For the last eighteen years, she has been a clinic-based
music educator who engages young children with autism to their
earliest communications. Her ideas about early communicative
musicality has been presented in trainings, lectures, keynote
addresses and in scholarly journals in the United States and
Canada. Kaja
Weeks’ literary writing has appeared in The Sugar House Review;
Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities; Under
the Gum Tree; The Sandy River Review and elsewhere. Her author
website is https://lyricovertones.com
Ancestral
Journey—The Milky-Way Over bog
spirits and sacred groves, our songs
will enshrine air. But first,
in the vaults of time and space, I will
begin as the spirit of an egg, carried by
the sea to Iberia. Here, I
will land on a branch of the
daughters of Eve, and their
hunter gatherer men. As the
glacier melts, plants
sprout northward, and we
will move toward the Urals, threading
mountain edges, tundra and
colossal rivers. Through a
thousand summers and winters, some will
be left in river-bends, some
follow the reindeer north. Some will
look heavenward at traces of bird-flight, some walk
a milky star-path westward. Dreams
float through moonlit nights, enter open
windows, land upon
our sleepy brows: Uni tule,
uni tule lapse silma pääle. Metrical
pulses move our language, first
syllables drum the words, forward,
until we reach the sea—Eesti. First
published as a poem in Mouth Quill—Poems with Ancestral
Roots by Kaja Weeks (The Poetry Box®, 2020) |
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Jackie
Hoysted (Host) (b. Dublin, Ireland) based in Montgomery County,
Maryland, is an award winning interdisciplinary artist,
curator and activist. She has had solo exhibitions across the US
and has been featured in the: Washington Post, Washington City
Paper, HuffPost, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Reno
Gazette-Journal. She is the recipient of grants from the DC
Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Vermont Studio Center
and multiple grants from the Arts and Humanities Council of
Montgomery County. She is co-founder of
ArtWatch, a DC artist collective focused on positive political
activism that realized the One House project (2017 & 2018) –
a collaboration of 300 DMV artists standing up for equality and
inclusion. Additionally she is curator for the DC organization
Solas Nua that focuses on presenting contemporary Irish art. Jackie has a degree in
computer science from Trinity College Dublin and a fine arts
degree from the George Washington Corcoran School of the Arts and
Design. |
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