Upcoming events.
Modern African Dance with Mekbul J Tahir
The technique Acogny is the only recognized contemporary dance technique created in Africa. It’s created by Germaine Acogny, the mother of African contemporary dance. It is based on traditional African dance (specially Senegal and Benin) and Western dance techniques (classical ballet, release- and Graham technique). Students can expect the joy of being yourself and experiencing a culture from a different part of the world.
Nothing Lasts Forever: Russian Punks in Georgia film premiere
In September 2022, six months into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia ordered a partial mobilization of reservists. As a result, many members of Russia’s punk scene, who received mobilization orders, fled the country to the Republic of Georgia. Leaving their families, venues, gear, and bands behind, they resettled in the capital city, Tbilisi. Once there, they founded new venues, new bands, and entered into the existing scene as a path toward acclimation and readjustment. Nothing Lasts Forever: Russian Punks in Georgia, is a full-length documentary film about that story. The film premiere will be followed by a brief Q and A and open discussion with the director, Alexander Herbert.
Underground Madness V2
Following the huge success of their March 23rd "Underground Madness" show in Framingham Massachusetts, Madness Presents is bringing the best New England Underground Rappers to AS220!
Doors Open @ 7:30pm
Show Starts @ 8:00pm
Featuring:
Seba
Gloccie Otto & Friends
Sxint
Exitallure
Gryz
9Geek
Raidurr
Acetana
Rocket
Chooch
TB
Ignacia
1of1Solider
Sounds by TWOHVNS
Brown University Students Free Entry
Powered by OneDayWonders
Madness Presents
Gentle Morning Yoga with Steven
Gentle Morning Yoga with Steven from The Haus of Glitter
Building the Sensational Body with Olase Freeman
Building the Sensational Body is based in Black postmodernism (reclaimed modern dance). Students can expect a merging of the technical body with the sensational body. The development of articulate spines expressing their fullest Range Of Motion on the way towards a fully-inhabited kinesphere.
Stretch with Jay
90-minute class breaking down the practice of stretching with a meditative approach in order to calm the nervous system and allow deeper range to be accessed.
ALL ARE WELCOME
no dance experience needed
Heels Technique with Jay
90-minute class intended to broaden and enrich the understanding of what heels encompasses, laying down technical foundation to ensure bodily safety, and diving into sensuality and the range of ways it can be
Lego Letterpress for ALL AGES with Andre Lee Bassuet
This class is for adults and children BUT children ages 8-18 MUST be accompanied by an adult caregiver.
Come out and play with LEGOs and letterpress! In this fun, hands-on workshop, use LEGO tile bricks and a printing press to create and edition your own 8-bit letterpress work of art to share with others. We’ll provide the bricks, press and paper! No experience necessary.
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese
NOTE: The class is for an Advanced Beginner, meaning they have taken a few classes before! In this class we will focus on learning and understanding the rudiments of ballet - line and placement, while also learning musical phrasing of the ballet combinations that are given in class. I always strive to give a class that is relaxed and open, yet always with a focus to learn. The class is open to all ages and I am always supportive and encouraging with teaching this beautiful art form.
Burlesque 101 with Belle Gunz
Unleash your inner diva and explore the art of seductive and empowering movement in this six-week intro to burlesque class. Whether you're a seasoned dancer or a curious babe plucked from the audience, this course is designed to help you discover the world of burlesque, one of the most captivating and confidence-boosting dance styles in existence. Each week we will dig into a different element of this rich art form! All bodies and genders welcome. 18+. Scholarships available: sam@thirdhouseevents.com.
Contemporary with Haley Andrews
The emphasis of this class will be directed toward learning and developing both technical skills, and aesthetic sensibilities at a beginner level. The fundamentals of contemporary dance technique will be stressed along with rhythmic proficiency, and artistry. Movement quality, energy, and rhythm will be explored while also working toward increased strength and flexibility.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmers Huych
This class combines traditional, rigorous ballet practice with a focus on inclusion & community, anatomy & safe alignment, and the use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to strong Intermediate and Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please wear whatever makes you comfortable for moving; ballet slippers are recommended. (Pointe shoes are welcome for those with experience.)
Open Contemporary with Dri
Come as you are and roll on the floor in Open Contemporary! This is a medium-paced, medium-intensity class grounded in contemporary release technique, contemporary ballet, countertechnique, and modern. We'll focus on making movement feel good for the body while taking on technical challenges on the floor and on our feet. Judgement-free, inclusive, and safe space.
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
A welcoming, non-competitive class for adult & teen dancers with basic knowledge of barre and center movements (about a year of ballet experience) who are looking to add more challenge & artistry, learn new vocabulary, and progress toward the intermediate level. This class follows the traditional format of dancing at the barre, in the center, and across the floor, while emphasizing safe alignment and the joy of moving in an inclusive community. Modifications are offered.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
Lunchtime Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
Finish your work week (or start your weekend!) with a gentle mid-day ballet class that will leave you stretched, strengthened, and refreshed! Beginners can follow along with the instructor the whole time, with safe alignment as a priority, more experienced dancers can increase the level of challenge and intensity with speed, turns, and jumps. ALL are invited to dance in this welcoming community ballet class! (from total beginners & low-impact dancers to experienced dancers & those who want a workout!).
Modern African Dance with Mekbul J Tahir
The technique Acogny is the only recognized contemporary dance technique created in Africa. It’s created by Germaine Acogny, the mother of African contemporary dance. It is based on traditional African dance (specially Senegal and Benin) and Western dance techniques (classical ballet, release- and Graham technique). Students can expect the joy of being yourself and experiencing a culture from a different part of the world.
Face Shopping: Kolya Shields FFS Fundraiser
Kolya Shields FFS Fundraiser
Featuring special guest DJs
NOTAFLOF, Free w/ Brown ID
madison moore
mk ultra (b2b)
special guest dj
Building the Sensational Body with Olase Freeman
Building the Sensational Body is based in Black postmodernism (reclaimed modern dance). Students can expect a merging of the technical body with the sensational body. The development of articulate spines expressing their fullest Range Of Motion on the way towards a fully-inhabited kinesphere.
Stretch with Jay
90-minute class breaking down the practice of stretching with a meditative approach in order to calm the nervous system and allow deeper range to be accessed.
ALL ARE WELCOME
no dance experience needed
BE NORMAL! A Fest in Providence, RI
The World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die
Nuvolascura
Malevich
Hundreds of AU
Aseethe
Frail Body
New Forms
sevenbasicplots
Doom Beach
Burr
Heels Technique with Jay
90-minute class intended to broaden and enrich the understanding of what heels encompasses, laying down technical foundation to ensure bodily safety, and diving into sensuality and the range of ways it can be
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese
NOTE: The class is for an Advanced Beginner, meaning they have taken a few classes before! In this class we will focus on learning and understanding the rudiments of ballet - line and placement, while also learning musical phrasing of the ballet combinations that are given in class. I always strive to give a class that is relaxed and open, yet always with a focus to learn. The class is open to all ages and I am always supportive and encouraging with teaching this beautiful art form.
Burlesque 101 with Belle Gunz
Unleash your inner diva and explore the art of seductive and empowering movement in this six-week intro to burlesque class. Whether you're a seasoned dancer or a curious babe plucked from the audience, this course is designed to help you discover the world of burlesque, one of the most captivating and confidence-boosting dance styles in existence. Each week we will dig into a different element of this rich art form! All bodies and genders welcome. 18+. Scholarships available: sam@thirdhouseevents.com.
Contemporary with Haley Andrews
The emphasis of this class will be directed toward learning and developing both technical skills, and aesthetic sensibilities at a beginner level. The fundamentals of contemporary dance technique will be stressed along with rhythmic proficiency, and artistry. Movement quality, energy, and rhythm will be explored while also working toward increased strength and flexibility.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmers Huych
This class combines traditional, rigorous ballet practice with a focus on inclusion & community, anatomy & safe alignment, and the use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to strong Intermediate and Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please wear whatever makes you comfortable for moving; ballet slippers are recommended. (Pointe shoes are welcome for those with experience.)
Open Contemporary with Dri
Come as you are and roll on the floor in Open Contemporary! This is a medium-paced, medium-intensity class grounded in contemporary release technique, contemporary ballet, countertechnique, and modern. We'll focus on making movement feel good for the body while taking on technical challenges on the floor and on our feet. Judgement-free, inclusive, and safe space.
The Dreaded Laramie, Cinema Stare, Plastyc Peachez
The Dreaded Laramie is a power pop band based in Nashville, TN. They recorded their forthcoming debut LP with producer/mixer/engineer Dave Schiffman (PUP, NOBRO, Olivia Rodrigo). The new record comes on the tail of their 2022 EP, “Everything A Girl Could Ask” (produced and co-written by Rozwell Kid’s Adam Meisterhans), which Punk News described as “gender bending … marbled with sickly sweet, hyper feminine vocals encapsulated by indie rock tinged boppy pogo punk and sprinkled with sudden moments of very macho displays of musicianship.” In 2023, The Dreaded Laramie conquered a 60-city tour across North America, joining festival lineups from Gainesville’s Fest to Montreal’s Pouzza Fest, and sharing stages with the likes of Soccer Mommy, Bad Moves, Rozwell Kid, and Tsunami Bomb.
RIYL: Weezer, No Doubt, The Darkness, Charly Bliss, Frankie Cosmos
Israelism - Film screening and Q&A
Two young American Jews - Simone Zimmerman and Eitan - are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs. Eitan joins the Israeli military. Simone supports Israel on ‘the other battlefield:’ America’s college campuses. When they witness Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people with their own eyes, they are horrified and heartbroken – the Jewish institutions that raised them not only lied, but built their Jewish identity around that lie.
They join the movement of young American Jews battling the old guard over Israel’s centrality in American Judaism, and demanding freedom for the Palestinian people. Their stories reveal a generational divide in the American Jewish community as more young Jews question the narratives their synagogues and Hebrew school teachers taught them as children.
The film also features voices like Jacqui, a Jewish educator who believes “Judaism is Israel and Israel is Judaism”, and former Anti-Defamation League President Abe Foxman, who claims voices like Simone and Eitan’s represent a small minority. Thought leaders like Peter Beinart, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Noura Erakat, Cornel West and Noam Chomsky also weigh in.
Directed by two first-time Jewish filmmakers who share a similar story to the film’s protagonists, Israelism is produced by Peabody-winner and 4-time Emmy-nominee Daniel J. Chalfen (Bad Axe, Boycott), as well as Palestinian-American producer Nadia Saah, who has led strategy on films such as the Oscar Nominated Omar and 5 Broken Cameras. Israelism is also executive Produced by 2-time Emmy-winner Brian A. Kates (Marvelous Ms. Maisel, Succession) and edited by Emmy-winner Tony Hale (The Story of Plastic), Israelism uniquely explores how Jewish attitudes towards Israel are changing dramatically, with massive consequences for the region and for Judaism itself.
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
A welcoming, non-competitive class for adult & teen dancers with basic knowledge of barre and center movements (about a year of ballet experience) who are looking to add more challenge & artistry, learn new vocabulary, and progress toward the intermediate level. This class follows the traditional format of dancing at the barre, in the center, and across the floor, while emphasizing safe alignment and the joy of moving in an inclusive community. Modifications are offered.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
Lunchtime Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
Finish your work week (or start your weekend!) with a gentle mid-day ballet class that will leave you stretched, strengthened, and refreshed! Beginners can follow along with the instructor the whole time, with safe alignment as a priority, more experienced dancers can increase the level of challenge and intensity with speed, turns, and jumps. ALL are invited to dance in this welcoming community ballet class! (from total beginners & low-impact dancers to experienced dancers & those who want a workout!).
Modern African Dance with Mekbul J Tahir
The technique Acogny is the only recognized contemporary dance technique created in Africa. It’s created by Germaine Acogny, the mother of African contemporary dance. It is based on traditional African dance (specially Senegal and Benin) and Western dance techniques (classical ballet, release- and Graham technique). Students can expect the joy of being yourself and experiencing a culture from a different part of the world.
Building the Sensational Body with Olase Freeman
Building the Sensational Body is based in Black postmodernism (reclaimed modern dance). Students can expect a merging of the technical body with the sensational body. The development of articulate spines expressing their fullest Range Of Motion on the way towards a fully-inhabited kinesphere.
An Evening of Dark Arts III
"An Evening of Dark Arts III" is the third installment gathering of dark arts and music. Artists will have space to display and sell their original artwork along side of some the best heavy live acts New England has to offer.**Please note that any artwork hanging on the walls at the venue is not part of the show. This is a one night only event**
BANDS:
Falls Of Rauros
https://fallsofrauros.bandcamp.com
1476
Obsidian Tongue
https://obsidiantongue.bandcamp.com
Plagues
Dysthymia
https://dysthymiaband.bandcamp.com
ARTISTS:
Ben Fortier
https://www.benjaminfortier.com
Jeffrey Blvcklung
https://blackbarncollective.co
ARTmuffin
https://artmuffin.myportfolio.com
https://artmuffin.storenvy.com
Strega Serpente
https://www.instagram.com/strega.serpente
Additional artists TBA
Cyanotype with Andre Lee Bassuet
Chase the winter blues away by making your own cyanotypes. Cyanotype is a photographic printing technique used by artists, botanists and architects for almost 200 years. Learn all the steps from the preparation of the solution to the creation of images on transparent media using both digital photographic and hand-drawn negatives, to exposing to light and fixating color. Discover how to apply your prints onto different surfaces such as paper, fabric, and wood using photos, plants, flowers, and other objects!
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese
NOTE: The class is for an Advanced Beginner, meaning they have taken a few classes before! In this class we will focus on learning and understanding the rudiments of ballet - line and placement, while also learning musical phrasing of the ballet combinations that are given in class. I always strive to give a class that is relaxed and open, yet always with a focus to learn. The class is open to all ages and I am always supportive and encouraging with teaching this beautiful art form.
Bookbinding: Clamshell Box with Caleb Getto
In this workshop, students will learn how to make cloth wrapped clamshell boxes. These boxes are a great way to store and protect prints, photographs, drawing, or anything else you may want to keep in a box. We will go over materials, measurements, wrapping techniques, and design possibilities. At the end of the workshop each student will have a completed clamshell box and an understanding of how to continue making clamshell boxes on their own.
Intro to Laser & Vinyl Cutting with Larry Zagorsky
Get certified to laser-cut wood, plastics, papers or textiles on the Epilog Mini AND learn how to use the vinyl cutter to make stickers and signs! This class will cover the basics of using the laser and vinyl cutter safely, techniques for working with different materials, and software tools for preparing work for the cutters. After taking the workshop, you will have a solid understanding of what the machine can do and how to design a project and will be certified to use the Labs' laser cutter.
Intro to Screenprinting: Start to Finish with Shannon Kennelly
"Intro to Screenprinting: Start to Finish" is an introduction to screen printing for artists who want to learn the full process from emulsion coating to screen cleaning and go home with their finished prints. Class screens are provided but you are invited to bring your own if you'd like to continue printing at home!
Beginner Burlesque Feather Fan Dancing with Lopez La Lopez
Step into the world of glamour with this introductory burlesque fan dancing workshop! Join Lopez La Lopez for an evening of feathered flair and seductive moves as you explore the artistry behind this timeless performance style. Learn the history behind fan dancing, how to hold feather fans, different beginner techniques, and fun choreography. This class is for those who are curious about fan dancing and want to learn the basics. Fans will be provided.
Introduction to 4x8 ShopBot CNC Operations with Ryan Alexander
This workshop will give you the skills to create Computer Aided Designs (CAD) for CNC milling applications. Create furniture, signage, manufacturing jigs, artwork, and much more. The course includes an overview of the history and capabilities of modern manufacturing, CAD design principles and practices, and CNC operation and safety protocol. Once the course is complete, students will be authorized to use the 4'x8' shopbot cnc independently.
Intro to Screenprinting: Shirts & Totes with Sin Seven
In the Intro to Screenprinting class you will learn every process needed to screenprint. This would be from start to finish from a blank screen to a finished product and back to a blank screen again. You will also be able to walk out with items of your own that can be printed on!
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmers Huych
This class combines traditional, rigorous ballet practice with a focus on inclusion & community, anatomy & safe alignment, and the use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to strong Intermediate and Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please wear whatever makes you comfortable for moving; ballet slippers are recommended. (Pointe shoes are welcome for those with experience.)
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
A welcoming, non-competitive class for adult & teen dancers with basic knowledge of barre and center movements (about a year of ballet experience) who are looking to add more challenge & artistry, learn new vocabulary, and progress toward the intermediate level. This class follows the traditional format of dancing at the barre, in the center, and across the floor, while emphasizing safe alignment and the joy of moving in an inclusive community. Modifications are offered.
Kai Lance & Nadav Brenner Duo w/ Ryan Kowal Trio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybgV1SOAIeA
Join us for a special night of duets with guitarists, Kai Lance & Nadav Brenner. Kai & Nadav both study at the New England Conservatory, and share a deep love for the jazz tradition, folk music, and improvisation, etc. The music will cover lots of ground including interpretations of their favorite tunes, some original compositions, and open improvisation.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
Lunchtime Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
Finish your work week (or start your weekend!) with a gentle mid-day ballet class that will leave you stretched, strengthened, and refreshed! Beginners can follow along with the instructor the whole time, with safe alignment as a priority, more experienced dancers can increase the level of challenge and intensity with speed, turns, and jumps. ALL are invited to dance in this welcoming community ballet class! (from total beginners & low-impact dancers to experienced dancers & those who want a workout!).
Restorative Evening Yoga with Daisha
Every Friday from 5-6pm delve into gentle poses, soothing breathwork, and guided meditation to wind down your week and nourish your body, mind, and spirit.
Modern African Dance with Mekbul J Tahir
The technique Acogny is the only recognized contemporary dance technique created in Africa. It’s created by Germaine Acogny, the mother of African contemporary dance. It is based on traditional African dance (specially Senegal and Benin) and Western dance techniques (classical ballet, release- and Graham technique). Students can expect the joy of being yourself and experiencing a culture from a different part of the world.
Building the Sensational Body with Olase Freeman
Building the Sensational Body is based in Black postmodernism (reclaimed modern dance). Students can expect a merging of the technical body with the sensational body. The development of articulate spines expressing their fullest Range Of Motion on the way towards a fully-inhabited kinesphere.
The Dirty Birds & Friends
The Dirty Bird & Friends Show” features the Adult Comedy Puppet act that has taken the New England comedy scene by storm!
This show includes a cast of comedians/actors, the DBS Band, singers, dancers, as well as a cast of hilarious puppets and costume characters throughout the show!
The Dirty Birds are the work of comedy duo and identical twin brothers who voice and puppeteer the main antagonists: “DVS and Will Bace”. Their hilarious banter between each other and the crowd makes for a memorable experience that is unlike anything else around!
See what all the cawing is about! Don't miss this one of kind experience with the Dirty Birds & Friends!
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese
NOTE: The class is for an Advanced Beginner, meaning they have taken a few classes before! In this class we will focus on learning and understanding the rudiments of ballet - line and placement, while also learning musical phrasing of the ballet combinations that are given in class. I always strive to give a class that is relaxed and open, yet always with a focus to learn. The class is open to all ages and I am always supportive and encouraging with teaching this beautiful art form.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmers Huych
This class combines traditional, rigorous ballet practice with a focus on inclusion & community, anatomy & safe alignment, and the use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to strong Intermediate and Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please wear whatever makes you comfortable for moving; ballet slippers are recommended. (Pointe shoes are welcome for those with experience.)
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
A welcoming, non-competitive class for adult & teen dancers with basic knowledge of barre and center movements (about a year of ballet experience) who are looking to add more challenge & artistry, learn new vocabulary, and progress toward the intermediate level. This class follows the traditional format of dancing at the barre, in the center, and across the floor, while emphasizing safe alignment and the joy of moving in an inclusive community. Modifications are offered.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
Lunchtime Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
Finish your work week (or start your weekend!) with a gentle mid-day ballet class that will leave you stretched, strengthened, and refreshed! Beginners can follow along with the instructor the whole time, with safe alignment as a priority, more experienced dancers can increase the level of challenge and intensity with speed, turns, and jumps. ALL are invited to dance in this welcoming community ballet class! (from total beginners & low-impact dancers to experienced dancers & those who want a workout!).
Restorative Evening Yoga with Daisha
Every Friday from 5-6pm delve into gentle poses, soothing breathwork, and guided meditation to wind down your week and nourish your body, mind, and spirit.
Modern African Dance with Mekbul J Tahir
The technique Acogny is the only recognized contemporary dance technique created in Africa. It’s created by Germaine Acogny, the mother of African contemporary dance. It is based on traditional African dance (specially Senegal and Benin) and Western dance techniques (classical ballet, release- and Graham technique). Students can expect the joy of being yourself and experiencing a culture from a different part of the world.
Dan Pomfret, Marina Murray, Olivia Dolphin
Dan Pomfret
Dan Pomfret is a rapper/singer/songwriter from Providence RI whose mission is to infiltrate the minds of beautiful people and plant seeds of melodic motivation. The co-founder of Providence Party Hip Hop band Toad and the Stooligans and Providence prog rock outfit The Morgana Phase, Dan skittishly drifts between lanes of genre like a neurodivergent race car.
Dan Pomfret music: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/danpomfret/new-game/
Toad and the Stooligans: https://open.spotify.com/track/535FTgdQ5ueVoX6h3fMoFa?si=fKV9o5i5QhqTmRkB4vzUVA
The Morgana Phase: https://open.spotify.com/track/4AoAOwHRMlyBC7DO9YGzW8?si=yQXpK6T9SZWmhuP3VkcBCg
Marina Murray
Marina Murray aka “Rina” is a singer/ songwriter/ looper originally from Rhode Island, currently living in Upstate New York. With her keys and her loop pedal, Rina creates eclectic tunes with genuine lyrics, soulful beats, and rich vocal harmonies. She excitedly anticipates the release of her second EP “Rare Form” this summer.
Bandcamp: https://thatrinamusic.bandcamp.com/album/truest-form-ep
Olivia Dolphin
Driven by lyrics, Olivia Dolphin is a singer-songwriter from Providence, Rhode Island. Her use of lyrical poetry tells stories we can all relate to. With a touch of magic, her music centers on finding community, self-love, and a way to move on even when you don't want to. Supported by her full band, there’s an effortless ability to craft up such unique sound within the realms of indie pop and alternative rock you won’t want to miss.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lividol
Bandcamp: https://pitchandprose.bandcamp.com/album/lion-hearted-blood
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lividol
Building the Sensational Body with Olase Freeman
Building the Sensational Body is based in Black postmodernism (reclaimed modern dance). Students can expect a merging of the technical body with the sensational body. The development of articulate spines expressing their fullest Range Of Motion on the way towards a fully-inhabited kinesphere.
Marisa Anderson w/ Footings & EDT
Marisa Anderson channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her deeply original work applies elements of minimalism, electronic music, drone and 20th century classical music to compositions based on blues, jazz, gospel and country music, re-imagining the landscape of American music. The New Yorker calls Anderson ‘one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation’, while NPR refers to her as among ‘this era’s most powerful players’ . Her work has been featured in Billboard, Rolling Stone, NPR, SPIN, Pitchfork, the BBC and The Wire. Festival appearances include Big Ears, Pitchfork Midwinter, Le Guess Who and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival.
In addition to her solo work, Anderson is sought after as a collaborator and composer. Swallowtail, her second record in duo with drummer Jim White will be released May 10 on Thrill Jockey Records. 2024 also sees the release of the feature film score ‘ A Perfect Day For Caribou’, as well as appearances on records by Charlie Parr, Myriam Gendron and Big|Brave. Past projects include 2021’s Lost Futures with guitarist William Tyler, and contributions to recordings by Matmos, Tara Jane O’Neil, Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten and Circuit Des Yeux, among others.
Classically trained, Anderson honed her skills playing in country, jazz and circus bands. and currently tours extensively throughout Europe and North America.
‘One of the best emotional mediums in the field of solo guitar, Anderson is a master of lovely melancholy.’ - Pitchfork
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese
NOTE: The class is for an Advanced Beginner, meaning they have taken a few classes before! In this class we will focus on learning and understanding the rudiments of ballet - line and placement, while also learning musical phrasing of the ballet combinations that are given in class. I always strive to give a class that is relaxed and open, yet always with a focus to learn. The class is open to all ages and I am always supportive and encouraging with teaching this beautiful art form.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmers Huych
This class combines traditional, rigorous ballet practice with a focus on inclusion & community, anatomy & safe alignment, and the use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to strong Intermediate and Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please wear whatever makes you comfortable for moving; ballet slippers are recommended. (Pointe shoes are welcome for those with experience.)
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
A welcoming, non-competitive class for adult & teen dancers with basic knowledge of barre and center movements (about a year of ballet experience) who are looking to add more challenge & artistry, learn new vocabulary, and progress toward the intermediate level. This class follows the traditional format of dancing at the barre, in the center, and across the floor, while emphasizing safe alignment and the joy of moving in an inclusive community. Modifications are offered.
New Edge Sessions: Live Ambient Electronic Music
New Edge Sessions presents ambient electronic performers in collaboration with acoustic improvisors. While there are a number of electronic music shows happening throughout New England, our hope is that by pairing some of these performers with players from Jazz and other improvisational traditions, we can provide audiences with a unique listening experience.
For the show at AS220 on June 5, embee (Michael Bierylo) will perform on modular synthesizer along with Bob Familiar on synthesizers. We’ll be joined by Kari Juusela on cello.
Kari Juusela is a composer and cellist who is a fixture on the Providence music scene, equally at home playing with an orchestra or with world fusion group Afrimanding. A master improviser, he draws from a rich musical vocabulary.
Bob Familiar is a performer, composer and producer of minimalist electronic, ambient, and orchestral compositions.
https://bobfamiliar.bandcamp.com/
Michael Bierylo is an electronic musician based in Boston
Massachusetts who performs under the name eMBee. He has performed throughout the United States as a member of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. As a solo electronic artist he has performed with laptop computer and modular synthesizers in the US, Berlin, Shanghai, and Krakow. https://embee.live/
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
Lunchtime Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
Finish your work week (or start your weekend!) with a gentle mid-day ballet class that will leave you stretched, strengthened, and refreshed! Beginners can follow along with the instructor the whole time, with safe alignment as a priority, more experienced dancers can increase the level of challenge and intensity with speed, turns, and jumps. ALL are invited to dance in this welcoming community ballet class! (from total beginners & low-impact dancers to experienced dancers & those who want a workout!).
Restorative Evening Yoga with Daisha
Every Friday from 5-6pm delve into gentle poses, soothing breathwork, and guided meditation to wind down your week and nourish your body, mind, and spirit.
Modern African Dance with Mekbul J Tahir
The technique Acogny is the only recognized contemporary dance technique created in Africa. It’s created by Germaine Acogny, the mother of African contemporary dance. It is based on traditional African dance (specially Senegal and Benin) and Western dance techniques (classical ballet, release- and Graham technique). Students can expect the joy of being yourself and experiencing a culture from a different part of the world.
Building the Sensational Body with Olase Freeman
Building the Sensational Body is based in Black postmodernism (reclaimed modern dance). Students can expect a merging of the technical body with the sensational body. The development of articulate spines expressing their fullest Range Of Motion on the way towards a fully-inhabited kinesphere.
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese
NOTE: The class is for an Advanced Beginner, meaning they have taken a few classes before! In this class we will focus on learning and understanding the rudiments of ballet - line and placement, while also learning musical phrasing of the ballet combinations that are given in class. I always strive to give a class that is relaxed and open, yet always with a focus to learn. The class is open to all ages and I am always supportive and encouraging with teaching this beautiful art form.
Matthew Ryals + Stella Silbert + Nat Baldwin, Bonnie Han, Jones Marie Carroll + Caleb Walker
Join us at the AS220 Black Box on June 9th for an evening of free music organized by Brooklyn-based synthesist, improviser, and curator, Matthew Ryals. The line up features an array of improvisers working across the northeast.
Trio:
Matthew Ryals (modular synthesizer)
Stella Silbert (turntables)
Nat Baldwin (double bass)
Duo:
Marie Carroll (koto)
Caleb Walker (trumpet, electronics)
Solo:
Bonnie Han Jones (electronics)
Artist Bios:
Matthew Ryals (he, him) is a synthesist, composer, improviser, & educator based in Brooklyn, NY. His music encompasses improvisation, generative composition, chance, cybernetics, and unfixed forms & release formats. His uniquely tactile approach to the modular synthesizer embraces unusual & extended techniques. Recent accolades include receiving a '22-'23 New Music USA Award & '21 IEA Electronic Media Residency. He has released on Oxtail Recordings, sound as language, SØVN, 3OP, dingn\dents, & others.
Stella Mori Silbert is a sound artist, improviser, curator, cook, and organizer of multi-disciplinary gatherings in Western Massachusetts.
Nat Baldwin is a double bassist, composer, improviser, and songwriter from Maine, currently living in Western Mass. He's released several solo and collaborative works and runs the experimental music label Tripticks Tapes. His recordings have been featured on labels such as Confront, Dinzu Artefacts, Traced Objects, Shinkoyo, Dear Life, Western Vinyl, 577, and Industrial Coast, among others. A former member of Dirty Projectors, Baldwin has most recently performed and collaborated with Stella Silbert, E. Jason Gibbs, Anna Webber, Webb Crawford, Weston Olencki, and 23 Ensemble.
Bonnie Han Jones is a Korean-American improvising musician, poet, and performer working with electronic sound and text. She performs solo and in numerous collaborative music, film, and visual art projects. Bonnie was a founding member of the Transmodern Festival and CHELA Gallery and is currently a member of the High Zero Festival collective. In 2010, along with Suzanne Thorpe she co-founded TECHNE, an organization that develops anti-racist, feminist workshops that center on technology-focused art making, improvisation, and community collaboration. She has received commissions from the London ICA and Walters Art Museum and has presented her work extensively at institutions in the US, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Bonnie was a 2018 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.
Marie Carroll is an American composer-improviser, electroacoustic musician, and koto player. Her work is influenced by natural phenomena and explores themes of liminality and transience. She enjoys using analog synthesizers and effects units.
Caleb Walker (they/them) is an experimental composer, conductor, performer, and improviser. Focused on the cross-roads of music composition and improvisation with environmental advocacy, ecological processes, research of the natural world, and queer studies, Caleb strives for intrinsic organicism in their work.
Artist Links:
Matthew Ryals - website, instagram
Stella Silbert - website, instagram
Nat Baldwin - website, instagram
Marie Carroll - website, instagram
Caleb Walker - website, instagram
Bonnie Han Jones - website, instagram
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmers Huych
This class combines traditional, rigorous ballet practice with a focus on inclusion & community, anatomy & safe alignment, and the use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to strong Intermediate and Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please wear whatever makes you comfortable for moving; ballet slippers are recommended. (Pointe shoes are welcome for those with experience.)
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
A welcoming, non-competitive class for adult & teen dancers with basic knowledge of barre and center movements (about a year of ballet experience) who are looking to add more challenge & artistry, learn new vocabulary, and progress toward the intermediate level. This class follows the traditional format of dancing at the barre, in the center, and across the floor, while emphasizing safe alignment and the joy of moving in an inclusive community. Modifications are offered.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
Lunchtime Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
Finish your work week (or start your weekend!) with a gentle mid-day ballet class that will leave you stretched, strengthened, and refreshed! Beginners can follow along with the instructor the whole time, with safe alignment as a priority, more experienced dancers can increase the level of challenge and intensity with speed, turns, and jumps. ALL are invited to dance in this welcoming community ballet class! (from total beginners & low-impact dancers to experienced dancers & those who want a workout!).
Restorative Evening Yoga with Daisha
Every Friday from 5-6pm delve into gentle poses, soothing breathwork, and guided meditation to wind down your week and nourish your body, mind, and spirit.
Modern African Dance with Mekbul J Tahir
The technique Acogny is the only recognized contemporary dance technique created in Africa. It’s created by Germaine Acogny, the mother of African contemporary dance. It is based on traditional African dance (specially Senegal and Benin) and Western dance techniques (classical ballet, release- and Graham technique). Students can expect the joy of being yourself and experiencing a culture from a different part of the world.
Building the Sensational Body with Olase Freeman
Building the Sensational Body is based in Black postmodernism (reclaimed modern dance). Students can expect a merging of the technical body with the sensational body. The development of articulate spines expressing their fullest Range Of Motion on the way towards a fully-inhabited kinesphere.
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese
NOTE: The class is for an Advanced Beginner, meaning they have taken a few classes before! In this class we will focus on learning and understanding the rudiments of ballet - line and placement, while also learning musical phrasing of the ballet combinations that are given in class. I always strive to give a class that is relaxed and open, yet always with a focus to learn. The class is open to all ages and I am always supportive and encouraging with teaching this beautiful art form.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmers Huych
This class combines traditional, rigorous ballet practice with a focus on inclusion & community, anatomy & safe alignment, and the use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to strong Intermediate and Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please wear whatever makes you comfortable for moving; ballet slippers are recommended. (Pointe shoes are welcome for those with experience.)
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
A welcoming, non-competitive class for adult & teen dancers with basic knowledge of barre and center movements (about a year of ballet experience) who are looking to add more challenge & artistry, learn new vocabulary, and progress toward the intermediate level. This class follows the traditional format of dancing at the barre, in the center, and across the floor, while emphasizing safe alignment and the joy of moving in an inclusive community. Modifications are offered.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
Lunchtime Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
Finish your work week (or start your weekend!) with a gentle mid-day ballet class that will leave you stretched, strengthened, and refreshed! Beginners can follow along with the instructor the whole time, with safe alignment as a priority, more experienced dancers can increase the level of challenge and intensity with speed, turns, and jumps. ALL are invited to dance in this welcoming community ballet class! (from total beginners & low-impact dancers to experienced dancers & those who want a workout!).
Restorative Evening Yoga with Daisha
Every Friday from 5-6pm delve into gentle poses, soothing breathwork, and guided meditation to wind down your week and nourish your body, mind, and spirit.
Modern African Dance with Mekbul J Tahir
The technique Acogny is the only recognized contemporary dance technique created in Africa. It’s created by Germaine Acogny, the mother of African contemporary dance. It is based on traditional African dance (specially Senegal and Benin) and Western dance techniques (classical ballet, release- and Graham technique). Students can expect the joy of being yourself and experiencing a culture from a different part of the world.
Building the Sensational Body with Olase Freeman
Building the Sensational Body is based in Black postmodernism (reclaimed modern dance). Students can expect a merging of the technical body with the sensational body. The development of articulate spines expressing their fullest Range Of Motion on the way towards a fully-inhabited kinesphere.
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese
NOTE: The class is for an Advanced Beginner, meaning they have taken a few classes before! In this class we will focus on learning and understanding the rudiments of ballet - line and placement, while also learning musical phrasing of the ballet combinations that are given in class. I always strive to give a class that is relaxed and open, yet always with a focus to learn. The class is open to all ages and I am always supportive and encouraging with teaching this beautiful art form.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmers Huych
This class combines traditional, rigorous ballet practice with a focus on inclusion & community, anatomy & safe alignment, and the use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to strong Intermediate and Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please wear whatever makes you comfortable for moving; ballet slippers are recommended. (Pointe shoes are welcome for those with experience.)
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
A welcoming, non-competitive class for adult & teen dancers with basic knowledge of barre and center movements (about a year of ballet experience) who are looking to add more challenge & artistry, learn new vocabulary, and progress toward the intermediate level. This class follows the traditional format of dancing at the barre, in the center, and across the floor, while emphasizing safe alignment and the joy of moving in an inclusive community. Modifications are offered.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
Lunchtime Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
Finish your work week (or start your weekend!) with a gentle mid-day ballet class that will leave you stretched, strengthened, and refreshed! Beginners can follow along with the instructor the whole time, with safe alignment as a priority, more experienced dancers can increase the level of challenge and intensity with speed, turns, and jumps. ALL are invited to dance in this welcoming community ballet class! (from total beginners & low-impact dancers to experienced dancers & those who want a workout!).
Restorative Evening Yoga with Daisha
Every Friday from 5-6pm delve into gentle poses, soothing breathwork, and guided meditation to wind down your week and nourish your body, mind, and spirit.
Modern African Dance with Mekbul J Tahir
The technique Acogny is the only recognized contemporary dance technique created in Africa. It’s created by Germaine Acogny, the mother of African contemporary dance. It is based on traditional African dance (specially Senegal and Benin) and Western dance techniques (classical ballet, release- and Graham technique). Students can expect the joy of being yourself and experiencing a culture from a different part of the world.
Chris Cohen
BIO:
Chris Cohen was always a quiet kid. In fact, this introversion was one reason he began playing music as a toddler—to communicate without speaking, to identify with others without the direct representation of words. It has worked, too, with Cohen’s terrific stint in the mighty Deerhoof and his own captivating art-rock act The Curtains preceding production and session work for the likes of Weyes Blood, Kurt Vile, Le Ren, and Marina Allen. Somewhere along that long way, Cohen started writing lyrics. He found that, though it didn’t come naturally, the process offered a new sense of self-discovery and reckoning, a way to see himself and the world from unexpected angles. His three twilit albums of casually complicated pop during the last decade radiated these epiphanies: handling family strife, navigating advancing age, and understanding social woes.
But Cohen has never had as much to sing so directly as he does on Paint a Room, his first album in five years and his debut for Hardly Art. If Cohen’s meanings have previously lurked inside the tessellated musical layers he built alone, they are newly clear and resonant here, animated and underscored for the first time by a band playing in real time. There is the endless miasma of state violence on the subversively melodious opener “Damage,” the existential exhaustion of modernity on the horn-traced jangle “Laughing”: this is Cohen communicating with friends not only through his deep understanding of groove, harmony, and hook but also with his listeners through songs that croon of our uneasy little era.
In the past, Cohen made records in spells of isolation, phases when, as he puts it, he would “try to make my world a lot smaller.” He would play any of a dozen or so instruments until he stumbled upon something interesting, then slowly build upward and outward upon the idea. The method was solitary and stepwise, an act of accretion and deletion.
Cohen, though, has been playing live with bassist Davin Givhan, drummer Josh da Costa, and keyboardist Jay Israelson in some fashion for the better part of a decade. This time around, then, he built demos in the dusty garage of the suburban Altadena rental that smelled like old wood and gasoline and tried something new—he took the songs on tour with that crew, yielding total control by letting them fill in or flourish their own parts as they saw fit. They came back home and began recording as a band.
Cohen even called in a few friends to help, with Jeff Parker contributing the fluttering horn arrangement on “Damage,” and Parker collaborator Josh Johnson (who produced Meshell Ndegeocello’s Grammy-Award-winning album The Omnichord Real Book) supplying flute, sax, and clarinet arrangements throughout the record. It felt a little bit like producing someone else’s records, with Cohen given the chance to step back and evaluate others’ contributions to his own songs rather than scrutinize every little bit he made himself. This was a longtime ambition realized, another way of relating to others openly through sound.
Cohen, really, has never sounded so assured on a solo album, gliding above or sinking into this band that boasts a preternatural sense of feel. On “Damage,” as he surveys the way we lord power over people with less of it in most every walk of life, his voice lifts above Johnson’s horns like he’s looking for a way out. Cohen wrote “Sunever” for a transgender child in his life, while considering the violence that hard-and-fast categories can create. This song reminds us that we are “always in between,” that transitions are just a part of life. With the hook, he sweetly sings his vow: “You’re gonna find a way.” Cohen is tender and vulnerable in the lead, his voice cracking with feeling as the tune presses forward toward a better future. Written by cutting and pasting phrases from the unemployment form he filled out at the pandemic’s start, the frolicking “Physical Address” considers what it is we all want for our lives, how we untether ourselves from the past in the present. On Paint a Room, Cohen’s music feels like a warm spring breeze, easy to love and gentle to feel. But it’s often carrying something heavy, as if blowing in from some unseen storm cloud.
Cohen had another hobby as a kid: transcendental meditation, a practice his parents taught him when he was six. It’s still part of his life, a window into observing his thought processes, habits, and relationship to the rest of the world. Making music—and, turns out, writing lyrics for it—works in a similar way for Cohen, as he’s able to understand and then articulate notions that wouldn’t be so easy with the absolutism of mere words. Paint a Room both reckons with reality and conjures an alternate one, where nighttime walks and a neighbor’s wind chimes offer endless escapes for the imagination, space for the mind to roam. Sublime and sunlit, these 10 songs consider dreamy new ways out of old predicaments, clearly stating the problem and dancing and singing their way somewhere new.
Lunchtime Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
Finish your work week (or start your weekend!) with a gentle mid-day ballet class that will leave you stretched, strengthened, and refreshed! Beginners can follow along with the instructor the whole time, with safe alignment as a priority, more experienced dancers can increase the level of challenge and intensity with speed, turns, and jumps. ALL are invited to dance in this welcoming community ballet class! (from total beginners & low-impact dancers to experienced dancers & those who want a workout!).
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
A welcoming, non-competitive class for adult & teen dancers with basic knowledge of barre and center movements (about a year of ballet experience) who are looking to add more challenge & artistry, learn new vocabulary, and progress toward the intermediate level. This class follows the traditional format of dancing at the barre, in the center, and across the floor, while emphasizing safe alignment and the joy of moving in an inclusive community. Modifications are offered.
Providence Movie Club presents: Moulin Rouge
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return..................and also to go to Movie Club! We're doing another screening at AS220 Black Box, and this time it's the poppy, maximalist musical Moulin Rouge! Directed by Baz Luhrmann, it follows an English poet, Christian (Ewan McGregor), who falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge, cabaret actress and courtesan, Satine (Nicole Kidman).
Join us on Wednesday, May 1st for a 7:00pm screening of Moulin Rouge at the AS220 Black Box theater. Arrive inside at 6:45pm, and we'll start the movie around 7:00ish. For anyone interested, we can go to the AS220 bar afterwards to keep hanging out. For more info on the group, visit meetup.com/providence-movie-club.
Tickets: $10
Also follow us on Instagram: @pvdmovieclub
Open Contemporary with Dri
Come as you are and roll on the floor in Open Contemporary! This is a medium-paced, medium-intensity class grounded in contemporary release technique, contemporary ballet, countertechnique, and modern. We'll focus on making movement feel good for the body while taking on technical challenges on the floor and on our feet. Judgement-free, inclusive, and safe space.
Intro to Letterpress: Polymer Plates with Jacques Bidon
Design your own images for letterpress using a light–sensitive polymer plate and to use the Vandercook press! This workshop will cover the old and new uses of the letterpress using light-sensitive polymer plate to be printed on our Vandercook press. Students will get a basic foundation for Letterpress printing by focusing on the production and printing of the polymer plate. You will leave this workshop with a working knowledge of press operation.
Contemporary with Haley Andrews
The emphasis of this class will be directed toward learning and developing both technical skills, and aesthetic sensibilities at a beginner level. The fundamentals of contemporary dance technique will be stressed along with rhythmic proficiency, and artistry. Movement quality, energy, and rhythm will be explored while also working toward increased strength and flexibility.
The David Liebe Hart Experience, with IONEYE
David Nkrumah Liebe Unger Hart, also credited as D. L. Hart, (born April 19, 1957) is an American musician, painter, puppeteer and actor. He is best known for his appearances on Adult Swim's Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, performing bizarre puppetry and singing in a variety of voice characterizations.[1] He is also known in the Los Angeles area for his role as a puppeteer on The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Program, a local public-access television cable TV program, and for performing with his puppet "Doug the Dog" just outside the Hollywood Bowl and Los Angeles Music Center after shows, where he is known to many concert goers simply as the "puppet man". He has also been known at times as David Hart, David Lieber Mintz,[2] David Unger Hart, David King Liebe Hart and DL Hart.[3]
Moss Kissing, Abdu Mongo Ali, Kamari Carter, Jake SG
Moss Kissing is a musician, performer and an audiographic researcher based in Lisboa. His live shows draw from a diverse range of sources; dubstep and techno form the basis of his sound and performance art and underground metal infuse his stage presence. Primarily, his work aims to stimulate dancing and movement, acting as a conduit back to the feelings he has experienced in queer spaces, raves and festivals. Self-described as Scott Walker with Breakbeats, there is an element of tongue in cheek in his work, yet he is completely serious. As for production, Moss uses an audiographic approach. Using sounds from his environment and from the people who populate his life, to create ruminated textures that combine with complex rhythms and throbbing bass.
Abdu Ali is a Baltimore based music artist, producer, poet, and multidisciplinary artist who works in sound, video, social practice and performance. Their work often interrogates ideas of race, gender, and sexuality that manifests as poetic inquiries of identity, promoting liberation from oppressive ideologies and encouraging self-determination. Their work also centers promoting authentic Black queer legacies and narratives as our histories are often subjected to distortion and erasure. Performing across the United States and Europe, through their energetic visceral live shows, spiritualizing audiences, they have been anointed as a cosmic, punk, and soulful tempest on stage.
Kamari Carter is a New York-based artist primarily working with sound, video, installation, and performance. His practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. Driven by the probative nature of perception and the concept of conversation and social science, he seeks to expand narrative structures through sonic stillness.
Jake Sokolov-Gonzalez likes to make it nice. He plays big big beats. Sometimes he goes too fast, but usually pretty slow. He likes it when things come together. He’s very attached to stuff but he’s working on it. He plays the cello and the computer and writes words. Mostly, he’s a lucky boy. jakesokolovgonzalez.com
Burlesque 101 with Belle Gunz
Unleash your inner diva and explore the art of seductive and empowering movement in this six-week intro to burlesque class. Whether you're a seasoned dancer or a curious babe plucked from the audience, this course is designed to help you discover the world of burlesque, one of the most captivating and confidence-boosting dance styles in existence. Each week we will dig into a different element of this rich art form! All bodies and genders welcome. 18+. Scholarships available: sam@thirdhouseevents.com.
Intro to Screenprinting: Get Printing with Shannon Kennelly
Intro to Silkscreen "Get Printing" provides a comprehensive introduction to screen printing set up, techniques, registration, and troubleshooting for you to get your design printed! Participants will prepare a stencil of their digital or hand drawn two-color designs of a maximum dimension of 8" x 10" each and practice printing with silkscreens to get their projects printed.
Building the Sensational Body with Olase Freeman
Building the Sensational Body is based in Black postmodernism (reclaimed modern dance). Students can expect a merging of the technical body with the sensational body. The development of articulate spines expressing their fullest Range Of Motion on the way towards a fully-inhabited kinesphere.
Oneida, There, more TBA
Sometimes even the longest journey ends close to where you started. Throughout the teens, Oneida pushed further and further into abstract, atmospheric sounds, recording long haunting compositions that couldn’t have been more different than the pulsing, hammering anthems of their past. But now they return with Success, their most guitar-centric, rock album in decades. It kicks off with “Beat Me to the Punch,” a song that is minimal like the best Ramones songs are minimal, pared back to beat and melody and a limited number of guitar chords. It’s an uncomplicated pleasure from the get-go, and if it’s ripped in half later by a corrosive guitar solo, well, what did you expect? This is Oneida.
Oneida has long straddled gray-area boundaries between the NYC punk/psych/rock world and the art/experimental world, playing at gritty rock clubs and elevated cultural institutions, including the Guggenheim, MoMA PS1, ICA London, MassMOCA and the Knoxville Museum of Art. The band has been known for extended live improvisational performances, collaborating onstage with Mike Watt, members of Flaming Lips, Portishead, Boredoms, Yo La Tengo, Dead C, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and many others. Oneida’s members juggle a wide variety of other music projects. Drummer Kid Millions has played with Spiritualized, Royal Trux and Boredoms and releases solo compositions under his own name and as Man Forever. Shahin Motia founded noise-punk’s Ex Models and currently plays in Knyfe Hyts. Kid and Fat Bobby perform and release music as People of the North, and Bobby has a band called New Pope (postpunk/minimalist duo/trio) releasing a second full-length this year (Shinkoyo).
“We've been in the woods for a long time, doing very challenging, fucked up and psychotic things and sharing them with the world and expecting people to keep up,” said Kid Millions. “We honestly did not try to make something more straight ahead but it came out that way.”
To understand how Oneida got here, you have to consider the pandemic, which beat them down first, then set them up for a joyous, triumphant return. The band had booked studio time to record the first of these songs in March 2020, but as the lockdown intensified, they canceled those dates and spent the next 15 months kicking themselves for missing their window. It would end up being the longest break in playing together since Fat Bobby and Kid Millions started messing around in bands in their junior year of high school. Oneida’s five members hunkered down in their various locations—Bobby in Boston, Kid Millions, Shahin Motia, Hanoi Jane and Barry London scattered across Greater New York City—and wrote material. “We had this large and growing collection of songs,” Bobby remembered. “Like everyone who works in some productive, creative way, you get used to the fact that sometimes the faucet is open. Sometimes the faucet is closed. This time faucet was wide open.”
As the pandemic eased, Oneida got back together again in May of 2021, renting a studio in Rockaway Queens so they could play and record together for the first time in over a year. There were no songs and no agenda. The idea was just to improvise together for two days to see what came out. No one in the band knew whether they’d still be able to play together in the same way, with the same intensity after so long apart. But the magic was still there. “That was a really powerful experience for us,” said Bobby. “There was something very productive about oscillating between that freeform experience and the new set of songs that are honed down and as minimal as we can get.”
With that session under their belts, Oneida reconvened at Spaceman Sound in Greenpoint Brooklyn in September 2021, working with engineer Tom Tierney to capture the new songs in the stripped-down rock and roll sound they seemed to demand. “We wanted to play very, very simply in our own idioms and own vocabularies,” said Bobby. “But it’s funny. It’s a record of rock songs. Some of which have two chords. Some only one.”
No band is an island, so of course there are influences—the fuzzy clangor of the Velvet Underground, the keyboard-stabbing exhilaration of the Clean, the paranoiac lyricism of Suicide, the giddy wallop of the Modern Lovers’ “Roadrunner,” the time-bending open-ended-ness of Can. Still, the main factor in Oneida’s sound is Oneida, specifically the band’s willingness to go where the music takes them, without too much calculation or premeditation.
“One thing that’s important to me about our band is we really believe in following impulse and instinct,” said Bobby. “That doesn’t mean we can’t be conceptual. We’ll often have ideas and pursue ideas. We just have a lot of faith in the process of moving forward with some blindness and to try and like remain open to whatever chaos directs us. I think it’s funny and awesome that it seems to have resulted in an accessible bunch of music that sort of sounds like you’re at a rock show.”
Moving forward has always been important to the members of Oneida, but if you keep moving forward long enough, it might just bring you home. At Oneida’s first post-pandemic show in July 2021, the band played its landmark, single-note-hammering classic “Sheets of Easter,” then launched into all new material. The connection between the new songs and the old one was palpable, in the banging rhythms, the blasts of keyboards, the motorik motion that can go on forever or stop on a dime. Sometimes the journey takes the shape of a perfect O.
Modern African Dance with Mekbul J Tahir
The technique Acogny is the only recognized contemporary dance technique created in Africa. It’s created by Germaine Acogny, the mother of African contemporary dance. It is based on traditional African dance (specially Senegal and Benin) and Western dance techniques (classical ballet, release- and Graham technique). Students can expect the joy of being yourself and experiencing a culture from a different part of the world.
Interlace Teaching Artist Grant Application Support Session
The Teaching Artist Grant (TAG) provides financial support to artists who have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically Indigenous and African heritage teaching artists. This grant fund is co-administered by The Interlace Grant Fund and AS220, with funding support provided by City of Providence Department of Art, Culture, and Tourism. This is the second of two rounds of TAG funding.
There will be application support sessions held at AS220 on Fridays April 12, 19, and 26 from 1 - 3PM at our Main Stage and Gallery - 115 Empire Street.
Applications are due on May 1st, more information here.
Lunchtime Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
Finish your work week (or start your weekend!) with a gentle mid-day ballet class that will leave you stretched, strengthened, and refreshed! Beginners can follow along with the instructor the whole time, with safe alignment as a priority, more experienced dancers can increase the level of challenge and intensity with speed, turns, and jumps. ALL are invited to dance in this welcoming community ballet class! (from total beginners & low-impact dancers to experienced dancers & those who want a workout!).
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
Screenprinting: Alternative Materials with Minoo Emami
In this workshop, we use screen print techniques to print your designs on diverse materials like metal, glass, acrylic, bisque tiles, and wood. You will create one-of-a-kind art pieces as gifts or mementos or print production for the market.
Open Contemporary with Dri
Come as you are and roll on the floor in Open Contemporary! This is a medium-paced, medium-intensity class grounded in contemporary release technique, contemporary ballet, countertechnique, and modern. We'll focus on making movement feel good for the body while taking on technical challenges on the floor and on our feet. Judgement-free, inclusive, and safe space.
AS220 Youth Open Mic - Mic Madness
Youth Open Mic is back and in full effects at AS220! Pull up on February 28, 2024 to AS220’s Main Stage and peep some of the most talented young people in the city do their thing on the stage! And yes, you can sign up to perform too - as long as your between the ages of 14-21! Tell a friend to tell a friend!
Providence Tourism Council Grant Info Session & Reception
Join us for a grant funding info session and networking reception for community partners, leaders and grantees.
We'll provide an overview of the PTC's offerings, walk through the grant application process and discuss review criteria.
Our partners from the Arts, Culture, and Tourism Department will also share info about resources provided by the city for event programming and City Services.
Connect with others working to promote our Creative Capital and increase the impact of your programs in partnership with the PTC.
Time for networking over beverages and light bites will be provided.
Free registration here.
Book tour: Richard Becker - Palestine, Israel & US Empire
Author & organizer Richard Becker discusses the crucial connections between the history of Palestine, its occupation by Israel, and the role of U.S. imperialism and its motivations. Understanding the relationship between our fight for Palestine and the struggles we wage here in the heart of the empire is crucial to sustaining our commitment to working-class liberation everywhere.
Contemporary with Haley Andrews
The emphasis of this class will be directed toward learning and developing both technical skills, and aesthetic sensibilities at a beginner level. The fundamentals of contemporary dance technique will be stressed along with rhythmic proficiency, and artistry. Movement quality, energy, and rhythm will be explored while also working toward increased strength and flexibility.