Upcoming at Rhizome (click on event for more details):
Exhibit runs December 2 - 21
Opening Reception Saturday December 6, 3-5pm * $5 suggested donation * RSVP
Open during all events, or email us to schedule a different time to view
The STEAM Engine features over 20 local artists and their creative approaches combining STEM with art (STEAM). These artworks by full time artists, biomedical researchers, oceanographers and more, portray unique perspectives and stories born from the studies of our vast universe. Join us to learn and be inspired as we celebrate the fusion of STEM and art.
Participating artists: Andrew Taylor / Arantza Garcia Rossi / Benjamin Menchelli / Brenden Modi / Brian Lindgren / Caroline Dinh / Chris Combs / Daniella Kelley / Danielle Heflin / Dot Punderson & Wes Slaughter / Elizabeth Winkelhoff / Erika D. Johnson, Ph.D. / Gibson Scisco / I.E. BILLY / J Jaffery / Jacob Kravetz & Hunter Batchelder / Jill McCarthy Stauffer / Julian Valencia / paint brains / Tara Youngborg / Terence Nicholson
Curated by paint brains & Sasha Perry
CALL TO PARTICIPATE: Fun-A-Day DC 2026
Fun-a-Day starts January 1st! Here’s the idea: Pick a project or activity, do it every day(ish) in January, and (if you want) show your work in the Fun-A-Day Showcase in February.
Fun-A-Day DC exists to help folks embrace creative endeavors, big or small. It’s about starting the year off on a positive, creative note. It’s about growing something beautiful in the dead of winter. Everyone is welcome and you can join at any time in January. Participation is always free, non-juried, and all ages. Stay loose, stay cool. It’s not about the numbers, it’s about the action. It’s about trying to make creativity a part of your daily life.
Your project could be artistic (working on one object/task or creating something new every day/few days.) It could be learning/practicing a new skill (creative, musical, physical.) Or it could be something that brings you joy like reading, writing, exploring, stretching, etc.
If you’d like to participate in DC's Fun-A-Day, you can sign up here! Need a little inspiration for your own project idea? Check out previous year's projects to get some ideas for your own project.
Wednesday December 10 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Church Car is the duo project of Ian Douglas-Moore and Big Daddy Mugglestone, blending minimalist psychedelic trance-rock, spoken texts mediated by machine algorithms, and tunings that alter the listener’s auditory perception. Their guitar and drum interactions move between polyrhythmic goatherd meditations and field recordings, creating an imagined folk tradition glimpsed through a screen of urban life.
Drawn - DC/Philly - memories from an unreliable narrator. Nenet on vocals, Nate Scheible on drums, Layne Garrett on guitar.
Alex Strama / Lucia Shuyu Li / Miki present "Trilateral Communication" - Alex Strama is an American musician raised in the Baltimore Md area. He is a multi-instrumentalist who has played Guitar, Bass, and Drums in dozens of bands since 1997, fusing various forms of experimental music, noise, electronic, ambient, acid folk and psyche rock. Lucia Shuyu Li is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, performance, painting, and sound. Drawing on both her Chinese heritage and her current base in the United States, her work interrogates systems of power, cultural identity, and the fragile boundaries between perception and reality. Her projects often merge philosophy and material experimentation, engaging audiences in encounters that question the ways bodies, cultures, and institutions intersect. Miki - Performance artist / reactionary improviser mixing sound, lighting, and visual arts, focusing on natural, minimalism, and industrial settings and stage designs.
Christopher Griffiths - Tapes and electronics.
Thursday December 11 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $15 / PWYC * TICKETS
Scissortailflycatcher (TX Emoviolence)
https://bozosdistro.bandcamp.com/album/scissortailflycatcher
Life (MD Emocore)
https://life9.bandcamp.com/
Crows Foot (MD Blackened Metal)
https://crowsfootmd.bandcamp.com/album/bleak-years
BattleSet!!!
Aisle 19 (MD Power Violence)
https://aisle19.bandcamp.com/
vs
Emma Wrath (MD Cyber Noise Grind)
https://on.soundcloud.com/O1ZMCnwQslXsmWHzGl
Friday December 12 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $15+ * TICKETS
A concert/fundraiser for Transparent Productions with the Jeff Cosgrove Quintet feat. Jeff Cosgrove (drums), Dave Ballou (trumpet), Darryl Brenzel (alto), John Lee (guitar), and Tom Teasley (percussion). Friday December 12 at Rhizome DC. Doors at 7:00PM, music at 7:30PM. Donations at the door or in advance starting at $15.
Proceeds from the door will go to support Transparent and the music it brings to the DC area.
Transparent Productions was started in 1997 as an informal volunteer cooperative by Larry Applebaum, Bobby Hill, Herb Taylor, Thomas Stanley, and Vince Kargatis to organize concerts of creative improvised music in and around Washington DC. Chris Clouden, Sara Donnelly, and Clay Fink became involved later. We continue today with Bobby, Chris, and Clay. Since our start we have produced over 350 shows and will continue to make it possible for listeners in and around DC to hear this non-commercial, uncompromising music in interesting spaces like Rhizome DC.
Saturday December 13 * 11am - 4pm
Spicy Meow Werks presents a special event to highlight all the wonderful talent of the DC area transgender community! Join us for a celebration of queer joy and resilience highlighting transgender artists, makers, small business owners, and community organizations at Rhizome DC. Do some holiday shopping and come support your local trans folx! Entry is free and everyone who comes respectfully is welcome.
Add your voice (and possibly your face) to the Transgender Flag Statement Empowerment project. We bring the big transgender pride flag, you bring your words! We will have signs you can you use to reclaim or give power, joy, or whatever energy you need or want from the symbol to help uplift yourself and/or those in the community currently being affected by the political changes happening in the country and in DC. You can also make your own sign and take pictures, as well as see images from the project's first stop at the DC Burners DCompression event on Nov 15th.
Are you a Transgender artist, maker, DJ, performer, food vendor, small business owner, or community organization interested in joining us? Fill out this form!https://forms.gle/jsACRd98AMxpR5db7
2nd Saturday of the month * online at 1130am Eastern * to REGISTER, please email rhizomepuppetlab@gmail.com
Rhizome Puppet Lab is committed to the performance side of puppetry. It supports the development of works in progress. You can present work for feedback or direct others in the lab to improvise or puzzle out specific scenes. You may use the group to figure out how your show might work. Anyone may lead a lab about any aspect of performance.
Puppet Lab’s purpose is to be a hub for all those interested in puppet theater who would benefit from: boosting creative power; honing puppet-manipulation skills; cross-pollinating ideas; receiving feedback about works in progress; building puppet community. Types of labs have included shadows, Laban, suspense, metaphor, music, voice, Clown, character development, props, table top, humanette, hand puppets, and much more. Open to all levels of experience.
Saturday December 13 * 7pm * FREE
Come join us for a celebration of Forget Why as we enter our fourth year. Poems will be read, drinks will be drunk, snacks will be et.
Bring a poem to read, a beverage of your choice and/or snacks to share, if you like. All are welcome!
Sunday December 14 * doors at 5:30, music at 6 * $15-35 sliding scale * TICKETS
CATALYTIC SOUND FESTIVAL 2025 - DC EDITION
Silt Remembrance Ensemble + Angelica Sanchez
Luke Stewart – bass
Brian Settles – tenor sax
Daniel Carter – reeds
Jamal Moore – reeds, percussion
Chad Taylor – drums
Angelica Sanchez – piano
Victor Vieira-Branco’s Bark Culture
Victor Vieira-Branco - vibraphone
Joey Sullivan - drums
John Moran - bass
Tashi Dorji - guitar
Alex Hamburger - flute, voice, electronics
Presented by Catalytic Sound, Transparent Productions, DC Jazz Festival, and Rhizome DC.
Catalytic Sound is a music-based co-operative designed to help create economic sustainability for its artists through patron support.
Monday December 15 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
Secret Planet DC presents…
El Mantis is a heavy psychedelic jazz band formed in 2021 in Houston by Danny Kamins (alto saxophone), Andrew Martinez (guitar, vocals) and Angel Garcia (drums, vocals). Influences include King Crimson, John Coltrane, Magma, and The Mars Volta.
Mark Cisneros’ Space-Fire-Truth - led by Chicano/Indigenous-American artist and multi-instrumentalist Mark Cisneros. Des Demonas, Hammered Hulls, Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, The Make-Up, WE WERE HERE BEFORE.
Sarah Hughes is a performing and visual artist. She has 26 years of experience playing the alto saxophone and also doubles on the soprano saxophone, flute, and clarinet. Hughes’ music is intuitive and genre-liberated while displaying an unquestionable command of her instrument and musical vocabulary. Her improvisations and compositions are infused with knowledge of both traditional and contemporary approaches and combine a love for “The Greats” with a drive to innovate.
Tuesday December 16 * 7:30pm * $5-15 suggested * TICKETS
Participants:
SARAH PIEPENBRINK
ANGIE PEÑA
OLIVER J. JONES SMITH
EMI KAWASHIMA
SAFI HARRIOT
LU FERNANDEZ
MEGHANA DESHMANE
ANNIE CHOUDHURY
Fieldwork is a non-directorial feedback method that supports the development of new work without the pressure of producing a finished product. Participants meet weekly to share works-in-progress and exchange objective, artist-to-artist feedback in a studio setting, guided by an experienced peer-facilitator. The session culminates with this opportunity for participants to share work in an informal showing.
Wednesday December 17 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $15-25 * TICKETS
FÖR is a new collaboration between Philadelphia-based percussionist Shakoor Hakeem and Swedish saxophonist Isak Ingvarsson. Rooted in the spirit of Don Cherry’s arrival in Sweden in the mid-1960s, the project bridges Swedish folk traditions with the rhythmic folklore of the Afro-Diaspora—fusing into a deep sonic eruption of energy and expression.
MORE THAN A DRUM PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE/ABASI JOHNSON FEATURING POET BERNARDINE “DINE” WATSON — DC artists Abasi Johnson and Dine Watson return to Rhizome for a set of boundary challenging percussion and poetry.
Thursday December 18 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Oh, Gynander
thisdogllhunt https://thisdogllhunt.bandcamp.com/
Stargazer https://stargazerdc.bandcamp.com/
Friday December 19 * doors at 5:30, noise at 6 * $20 suggested (NOTAFLOF) * TICKETS
ALL DONATIONS TO THE MISS MAJOR ALEXANDER L. LEE TGUP BLACK TRANS CULTURAL CENTER
ALBATROSS (DMV NERVOUS PUNK)
VASTERIAN + BLESS YR HEART (WEIRDO HYPNOSIS TAPE NOISE + VIOLENT EMO FOLK)
RENRIOT (ALT-ROCK/GRUNGE-PUNK)
POTOSI (TRANS SCREAMO BILINGUE)
DRUID STONE (TRANS DOOM METAL)
Saturday December 20 * 10am - 1pm
MOCO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COLLECTIVE PRESENTS
IN COLLABORATION WITH TPSS COMMUNITY SAFETY NETWORK
HOLIDAY MARKET - SOME LIKE IT HOT
'tis the season for solidarity
• VENDORS
• GIFTS
• COCOA BAR & SMORES
• FOOD TRUCK
• KIDS SECRET SHOPPER
• BAKE SALE
• LIVE MUSIC
• FLASH TATTOOS @YOUNGINKAHOLICS
PROCEEDS GO DIRECTLY TO FAMILIES IMPACTED BY ICE
Saturday December 20 * 3pm * $20 * REGISTER
A.R.T. Artists Recovering Together
Expressive painting can help us release stress and gain emotional resilience by uncovering subconscious thoughts and feelings that are difficult to put into words.
In this workshop we will use acrylic inks to create process-based paintings in community with others recovering from addiction. Goals include connection with others, gaining a deeper understanding of our inner worlds, and discovering new ways to use art as a coping mechanism. Facilitated by Kanchan Balsé. Materials included. Email info@rhizomedc.org for scholarships.
Sunday December 21 * 3-5pm * RSVP
Death Cafes are opportunities for people to enjoy refreshments together and discuss the topic of death. The objective is to “increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives.” There are Death Cafes all over the country. What's on your mind about death and dying? Contact Death Cafe Facilitators Margaret Branch at margaret603@gmail.com or Monica Lynch at mlynch19@comcast.net.. Death Cafes are NOT therapy, grief support, or counseling sessions. Cost: Free (small donation for the space encouraged)
Monday December 22 * doors at 6:30, music at 7 * $20-30 * TICKETS
Transparent Productions presents:
Brad Linde’s Bleak Midwinter Ensemble: sad songs and waltzes meet Christmas carols and the Avant-Garde in this seasonal sonic exploration.
Brad Linde - reeds
Simone Baron - accordion
Liz Prince - tuba
Keith Butler, Jr - drums
PLUS
Parker Speirs - guitar
Zoë Jorgenson - vocals/bass
Friday January 2 * doors & art show at 7, music at 8 * $15-30 * TICKETS
Visual art:
Ava MacKaye
Isabella MacKaye
Stella Schwartzman
Lily Schwartzman
Dean Winter
Zane Grant
Owen Basher
KJ Thomas
Tess Kontarinis
Azalea Amaya
Cooper Ellenbogen
Music:
Birthday Girl
Mabel June
Saturday January 3 * 2-10pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
Oh Gynander
Oh Gynander are an emo band fronted by Nora Morse
Chris Violet
Chris Violet is a talented young producer, singer, and rapper from the DMV.
Sievert (703)
Sievert (703) are a punk band hailing from Arlington. Their style ranges from the occasional math-rock riff to hardcore goodness to frenzied noise meltdowns.
Dr. Girlfriend
Trans mystery music from the DMV
Soda Pop
Soda Pop are an Indie/Garage Rock 4-piece.
teaming in chess
teaming in chess is the artistic moniker of Tiago Woodyard, who records music of all experimental varieties. This performance may or may not include a composed piece of music...
Dogs
Digital Punk music by Isaac Burton Perez
Sunday January 4 * 1-5:30pm * Free / donations * RSVP
A pop-up exhibit honoring South Asian genderqueer expression and sisterhood through the metaphor of braids.
This multimedia piece is both a love letter to queer identity and to the long braided tresses that have so long been synonymous with South Asian femininity, with the goddess-- a gilded cage, or a reclaimed adornment? How does femininity transform as it passes through different people's hands?
Riya Devi-Ashby was born in 2001 in Silver Spring, Maryland. In 2023, she received her BA in Studio Art from Wesleyan University with a concentration in painting and mixed media installation. As an emerging artist, Devi-Ashby has already been featured in juried group exhibitions such as “Creative Confluences” at Towson University and “Intricate Layers” at Motor House, and she completed her first solo exhibition ‘Veni, an Unweaving’ in 2023. She is also classically trained in Kuchipudi dance by guru Nilimma Devi, and her extensive performing experience informs her visual art practice.
Tuesday January 6 * doors at 7, show at 7:30 * $15-30 * TICKETS
Under his own name, Joe Westerlund has emerged as an intuitive improviser and composer during the last decade, scoring deep meditative practice over the course of three full-length solo records. After all, Westerlund—a longtime student of Milford Graves—has now spent more than a quarter-century gleaning lessons from folk musicians and avant-garde icons, from close friends and challenging strangers alike. He served as the dynamic backbone of Megafaun, the North Carolina trio that he cofounded, and initiated collaborations with Arnold Dreyblatt, On Fillmore and Justin Vernon. As a session drummer, he has worked as the pulse beneath the plaintive Americana of Watchhouse, Daughter of Swords, and Jake Xerxes Fussell and been a textural anchor for the folk abstraction of Califone. Currently, he tours and records primarily in an improvisational trio, Setting (with Jaime Fennelly and Nathan Bowles), as a duo with trumpeter Trever Hagen, and as a solo artist on Psychic Hotline. His latest release, Curiosities from the Shift, is Westerlund’s definitive statement so far: a playful exploration driven by beats but not bound by them.
Jay Hammond is a guitarist and songwriter from Jackson, TN living between Washington DC and Asheville, NC. He records and performs his original songs under the moniker Trippers & Askers, whose 2021 release, “Acorn” was called a "shimmering homage to nature" by The Guardian. In 2023, he released an album of instrumental music alongside Andy Stack (Wye Oak) entitled "Inter Personal" that was called "gold" by Talkhouse. As a guitarist, he has performed and/or recorded with Psychic Temple, Eamon Fogarty, No Lands, Chessa Rich and Libby Rodenbough.
Wednesday January 7 * doors at 6:30, show at 7:30 * $20-30 * TICKETS
Maria Chávez, Shahzad Ismaily (Arooj Aftab, Ceramic Dog), and Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) came together as a trio for the first time for a show in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in May 2025. That debut performance received a glowing review in The Wire, where writer Vanessa Ague heralded it as “a reminder of [...] the sheer joy of seeing what surprises we can find in sound”.
Each of the players’ inimitable approach to their instruments has earned them vivid, varied and longstanding careers. Now, in this new formation, a fresh breath arrives: combining abstract turntablism, outré drumming and uncanny instrumentation, their sonic searching is as playful as it is profound.
Thursday January 8 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
We are pleased to present an evening of films by Jim Doran, who will be present for a discussion with the audience following the screening.
Jim Doran is a Baltimore artist, musician and filmmaker. He earned a BA in music composition at Washington College, and an MFA in studio art at Towson University. His work has been exhibited/screened in the United States, Europe, and in the American Visionary Art Museum.
Saturday January 10 * doors at 7, show at 7:30 * $15 * TICKETS
Our Wits - NJ Post-Hardcore. Members of Massa Nera.
https://ourwitsnj.bandcamp.com
Mondrary - Baltimore Screamo
https://mondrary.bandcamp.com/album/no-better-than-man
Nesting - Baltimore Post-Hardcore/Indie
https://nestingmd.bandcamp.com/
Denouement - DMV metalcore
https://denouementdmv.bandcamp.com/
Sunday January 11 * doors at 6:30, music at 7 * OFFSITE at Tonal Park * $25-30 * TICKETS
Transparent Productions welcomes Ches Smith’s Clone Row to Tonal Park Studios with Ches Smith: (drums, vibes, electronics), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Liberty Ellman (guitar), and Nick Dunston (bass, electronics).
Tonal Park is at 7014-C Westmoreland Ave, Takoma Park, MD. Enter through the WOWD entrance at 7014-B. Any questions, email Transparent at transparentprods AT gmail DOT com; please don’t contact Tonal Park.
Ches Smith's new release, “Clone Row”, features an adventurous new quartet with guitarists Mary Halvorson and Liberty Ellman and bassist Nick Dunston. Smith finds endless possibilities in this seemingly limited instrumentation, weaving together varied threads from his divergent earlier projects in ways that sound not quite like any of them. “This definitely ain’t your father’s guitar band,” writes no less an expert on six-string subversion than Marc Ribot, who penned the album’s liner notes. “It’s as if I’m hearing a Jim Hall concert in which one of us did a lot of mushrooms, or… some post-punk post-Dave Brubeck post-trip-hop experiment with classical form.”
“One of the wiliest drummers on the experimental scene” --The New York Times
Monday January 12 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
We are pleased to welcome percussionist & composer Bex Burch (Berlin) and friends, debuting a new work in progress piece, "as yet untitled" - a 60 minute piece for structured, improvisatory, messy minimalism, following up on of her critically acclaimed solo album There is only love and fear (International Anthem). Opening set of poems by John-Francis Quiñonez.
Whether combining the rhythmic timbres of wood, metal and audience claps or duetting with the atmospheric and elegiac echoed sounds of water dripping into a metal basin, Bex Burch is a composer, percussionist, instrument maker and improviser who emphasises space, repetition and aspects of chaos. These themes characterise an ongoing approach she describes as “messy minimalism”.
Burch’s critically acclaimed 2023 solo album, 'There is only love and fear' was released via Chicago’s International Anthem and named The Guardian's Contemporary Album of the Month. She runs the label, Vula Viel Records, the domestic music event, Kantine Musik, and has collaborated with influential artists including Thomas Sekgura, Leafcutter John as part of ‘Boing!’, Tamar Osborn, Sarathy Korwar, Al MacSween and Danalogue in ‘Flock’, Peter Zummo, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Ben LaMar Gay, Dan Bitney and Macie Stewart.
2nd & 4th Wednesdays * online at 8pm Eastern * Free / donations appreciated * RSVP
A weekly guided dream-sharing hangout…. Welcome to the theater of your dreams—an inexhaustible source of images and stories that can provide entertainment and insight, and that requires no cable service and no subscription—just attentiveness and an open mind. Participants will share dreams, using a gentle, non-intrusive method for unlocking the metaphors that structure dreams (derived from the long-tested method of Dr. Montague Ullman). We’ll also talk about techniques for recalling and recording dreams, as needed.
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Saturday & Sunday January 17 & 18 * $125 - $225 (scholarships available) * REGISTER (you can also email us to register without paying large processing fees - info at rhizomedc.org)
Rhizome Writers’ Retreat: Calling all writers who need time and space and no distractions! Whether you are just starting a project, thick in the middle of it, or needing to finish it, come spend two full days with other writers at RhizomeDC. You will have your own table and space to throw papers and books on the floor, and lots of quiet. Space will be shared but not tight (if you’ve been to Rhizome, imagine two people in each room, each with their own table). Coffee, tea, snacks, lunch, provided. Wine or beer at the end of the day. The Rhizome Writers Collective knows how hard it is to enter that writerly trance/get sh*t done. We’re here to facilitate the magic! We have space for 8 people.
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Sunday January 18 * doors at 6:30, music at 7 * $12-24 * TICKETS
In Anastasia Coope's world, there is little difference between a confrontation and a welcoming gesture. Listening to her music, one is struck by her gift for vocal harmony and rich personal vision that borrows as much from the light and color of painting as it does from experimental music. The release of Darning Woman in 2024 saw critical acclaim and international success as she pushed the idiom of folk music to its limits. Coope has now responded to the success of Darning Woman by enclosing the space around her voice and casting aside the baggage of her folk forebears. On DOT, her first EP on Bonzo, Coope extends a generous invitation into her inner life, and inside a new musical language built from the gorgeous and the mundane, an everyday sublime. The result is a beauty that is light on its feet and almost abrasive in its clarity, avant-garde and as easy as turning on the radio: What's that song...?
Autobahn is a three piece band from New York: Findlay Fullarton, Liam Barton, and Louisa Tantillo.
Alligator Hands blends alt-rock, rap, and pop into something honest and hard to define. The Baltimore band formed in late 2024 after Brady Scott (vocals/ukulele) brought a binder of lyrics and chords, written over the past five years, to Ryan Fitzgerald (drums) and AJ Lockner (bass).
Friday January 23 * doors at 6:30, music at 7 * $20-30 * TICKETS
Transparent Productions presents Pearring Sound with Jeff Pearring (sax), Jon Elbaz (piano), Evan Palmer (bass), and TBA (drums).
JEFF PEARRING has released four critically endorsed albums under Pearring Sound, and continues to perform under the Pearring Sound moniker with trios, quartets, quintets, and a double trio all formed from thoughtful combinations of world class musicians.
JON ELBAZ is a pianist and composer from New Jersey. His compositional and ensemble approach incorporates interest in the 20th century’s written structures and systems, as well as its many pioneers of improvisation and creative thinking.
EVAN PALMER (they/them) is a bassist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator based in Brooklyn. Through improvisation, composition, and an arsenal of traditional and extended techniques, they are developing a deeply personal artistic language and concept that can be heard across their many different projects, from solo bass performances, to hard-hitting free jazz ensembles, to jazz standards and more.
Monday January 26 * 7pm * $15 * TICKETS
CHEMICAL-X
hardcore punk from North Jersey
https://chemical-x1.bandcamp.com/
SAAFEWAAY
evil grocery store punk music from DC
https://saafewaay.bandcamp.com/
LIMIT BREAK
Super saiyan hardcore from Baltimore
https://limitbreakbchc.bandcamp.com/
2nd & 4th Wednesdays * online at 8pm Eastern * Free / donations appreciated * RSVP
A weekly guided dream-sharing hangout…. Welcome to the theater of your dreams—an inexhaustible source of images and stories that can provide entertainment and insight, and that requires no cable service and no subscription—just attentiveness and an open mind. Participants will share dreams, using a gentle, non-intrusive method for unlocking the metaphors that structure dreams (derived from the long-tested method of Dr. Montague Ullman). We’ll also talk about techniques for recalling and recording dreams, as needed.
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Friday February 6 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * OFFSITE at Tonal Park * $25-35 * TICKETS
Transparent Productions presents pianist Matthew Shipp, solo, at Tonal Park Studios. Tonal Park is at 7014-C Westmoreland Ave, Takoma Park, MD. Enter through the WOWD entrance at 7014-B. Any questions, email Transparent at transparentprods AT gmail DOT com; please don’t contact Tonal Park.
New York City-based pianist, MATTHEW SHIPP, has collaborated with, among others, David S. Ware, William Parker, Joe Morris, Roscoe Mitchell, Matt Maneri, Darius Jones, Michael Bisio, and Gerald Cleaver. Downbeat describes Shipp as “the connection between the past, present and future for jazzheads of all ages” and as “a musician who deserves a place of choice in the jazz piano pantheon.” He is the author of the book “Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings” which was published earlier this year. Shipp’s latest solo piano recording is “The Cosmic Piano” on Cantaloupe Music: https://matthewshipp.bandcamp.com/album/the-cosmic-piano
Friday February 6 * doors at 7, show at 8 * $15 * TICKETS
whitepicketfence - Inspired by the likes of John Cage, Heroin (the band), The Dead C, and DC punk writ large, Chris Lauterbach (Your Majesty) and Katy Otto (Trophy Wife) have combined forces in their new outfit whitepicketfence. A project over fifteen years in the making, this guitar/drums overblown duo writes ear splitting songs of the quiet desperation and seething fury that modern life provokes.
little a - DC punks making their own noise. Previous members of1905, Birds and Wires, Blue Bodies, Body/Cop, Forensics, & Tiny Bombs.
Boat Burning - Founded by Andras Fekete (1956-2018), BOAT BURNING plays "maximum minimalism" -- elemental phrases that create towers of densely stacked harmonics. The resulting sound combines the wide-screen sweep of classical with the physical thrall of punk.
Saturday February 7 * 3pm * $25 / scholarships available * REGISTER
This is an in-person workshop on the basics of vocal feminization: raising your pitch, shifting your resonance, and sustaining your trained voice. It'll be interactive, so come prepared to try the exercises in a judgment-free setting. Instructor: Jessica Austin
Scholarships available - please email info@rhizomedc.org
To find out more about me or schedule private lessons, visit my website: https://thetransjessicaaustin.com/
Saturday February 7 * doors at 7, show at 7:30 * $10 * TICKETS
Suicide Eyes (PA)
https://suicideeyes.bandcamp.com
False Salvation (PA)
https://rebirthrecordsphl.bandcamp.com/album/false-salvation
Flip the Switch (PA)
https://fliptheswitchlv.bandcamp.com/
Monday February 23 * doors at 6:30, music at 7pm sharp * $15-25 * TICKETS
Wrekmeister Harmonies: Pastoral doom, droning metal, sonic maximalism from Kingston, NY. On Thrill Jockey Records
https://wrekmeisterharmonies.bandcamp.com/
Sadness: Shoegazey, emotional black metal
https://sadnessmusic.bandcamp.com/
Oldest Sea: Ethereal heaviness from New Jersey
https://oldestsea1.bandcamp.com
Witch's Mirror: Magic hour doom from Washington, DC
https://witchsmirror.bandcamp.com/
Recent events:
2nd & 4th Wednesdays * online at 8pm Eastern * Free / donation * RSVP
A weekly guided dream-sharing hangout…. Welcome to the theater of your dreams—an inexhaustible source of images and stories that can provide entertainment and insight, and that requires no cable service and no subscription—just attentiveness and an open mind. Participants will share dreams, using a gentle, non-intrusive method for unlocking the metaphors that structure dreams (derived from the long-tested method of Dr. Montague Ullman). We’ll also talk about techniques for recalling and recording dreams, as needed.
Please click through for more details.