Friday December 20 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Ella G  (DC, mem. Lud Roes)
Top Music Bands of the Year (ludroes.com)
Instagram: @itsmundyhun
Singer-songwriter with Lud Roes, cinematic doom-laden ethereal powerhouse songs.

A Former Friend (New London)
Home | A Former Friend (justaformerfriend.com)
Instagram: @justaformerfriend
An American troubadour musing on life, labor, and love in the age of the apocalypse.

Broommaker (DC, singer-songwriter)
veilsofteeth.com
Instagram: Broommaker (@broommaker_songs) • Instagram photos and videos
Singer-songwriter, formerly Teething Veils, songs celebratory and funereal alike.

CANCELLED

Saturday December 21 * 11am * in the backyard * $15-25 * REGISTER

Itching to get creative? Come dye with me! This class will cover making and dyeing with indigo, including the basics of shibori (Japanese tie-dye).

You'll learn how to:
-make an indigo vat
-dye with indigo for long-lasting color
-tie up the cloth for a variety of beautiful patterns
-care for your indigo-dyed items

Each participant will receive 1 bandana to dye with. All other materials provided. You may bring a few additional items to dye from home. Small to medium sized items with 50% or more natural fiber content work best. In addition, wear clothing that you don't mind getting stained. Bring an apron if you wish, and rubber gloves if you have them.

Saturday December 21 * doors at 3pm, music at 4 * $15-20 * TICKETS

Nouvelles explorations pour la guitare et la musique expérimentale - Volume 1

Wendy Eisenberg is an improviser and songwriter who uses guitar, pedals, the tenor banjo, the computer, the synthesizer and the voice. Their work spans genres, from jazz to noise to avant-rock to delicate songs; their performances span venues, from international festivals to intimate basements.

more eaze is the long running project of composer/multi instrumentalist mari maurice. her work touches upon myriad genres and often explores themes of gender, identity, perception, and the mundane.

One of the world’s premiere exponents of her instrument,Susan Alcorn has taken the pedal steel guitar far beyond its traditional role in country music. Having first paid her dues in Texas country & western bands, she began to expand the vocabulary of her instrument through her study of 20th century classical music, visionary jazz, and world musics.

Emily Robb is a Philadelphia based musician who has been part of the rock underground and experimental scenes for over a decade. Emily has been a composer, collaborator, and multi-instrumentalist in several bands including Lantern, Louie Louie, Storks, Cold Hands and Astute Palate.

Jeff Barsky, of DC bands Bed Maker and Shadow Riot, among countless other collaborations, moonlights as a meditative guitar improvisor. “…densely layered loops, planes of static standing tall like a gigantic back-scratcher of audio...”

**THIS WEEK IS CANCELLED, SEE YOU JANUARY 5**

every other Sunday * 10am-noon * Free / donations * REGISTER

Rhizome is pleased to announce our Youth Electronic Music Lab, for young people ages 11-18. We meet regularly to share space together while working and to give and receive feedback in a positive and encouraging environment. Our group at this point consists of some beginners and others who have experience making electronic music and are able to work independently on it. We plan to invite guest musicians periodically to share tips, talk music theory / composition, offer feedback, etc. Please bring a laptop and headphones if possible. Bring some of your own music you’re working on or would like to share.

Sunday December 22 * noon-4pm * $5-10 suggested * RSVP

The DC Modular Society is a group focused on learning, teaching, and performing electronic music with modular synths. DCMS meetups are open to all with an interest in electronic music, modular and other hardware synths, and hybrid systems for creating and performing music. We encourage and support building a diverse and inclusive community—if you’re wondering if you belong—the answer is yes! No equipment is necessary to attend meetups, but feel free to bring gear if you like. Mixer and PA system provided. We frequently do informal demos of synths and electronic music techniques.

Thursday January 2 * doors at 7, music 730 * $15 * TICKETS

Massa Nera 
(On Tour from New Jersey)
Massa Nera works to highlight rhythm and other non-traditional elements of hardcore without forgoing aggression. The band takes 90s-inspired screamo as their foundation and updates the style for a modern audience, weaving elements of post rock, mathcore, and even Latin rhythms into their sound.
Balancing vulnerability and fragility with moments of extreme emotional catharsis, the band plays with genres and dynamics to add weight and push the genre forward.

Dim (GA/DC)
Dim from Georgia, USA, knows how to hit where it hurts. Their take on post hardcore is a gut-punch mix of skramz, post-rock, and emo hardcore that digs deep into the soul. With slow, heart-wrenching tempos and raw, emotional intensity, dim creates a sound that’s very close and dear to fans of the genre. 

Expiration Date (DC/MD)
Expiration Date claims DC/MD and plays a distinct style of straight edge screamo

Bodied (NOVA)
Hardcore and skramz by the new crew from NOVA. Bastard Noise by way of Portrayal of Guilt. 

Friday January 3 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS

Rhizome is pleased to welcome back Janel Leppin's Ensemble Volcanic Ash for two live sets to be recorded for potential future release.

EVA's second record To March Is To Love (Cuneiform) was recently named to PopMatters' 18 Best Jazz Records of 2024 among other accolades.

Ensemble Volcanic Ash is Janel Leppin (cello & compositions), Luke Stewart (bass), Anthony Pirog (guitar), Brian Settles (tenor saxophone), and Larry Ferguson (drums).

"Janel Leppin is a picture of versatility. Not only has she been a pillar of Washington, D.C.’s creative music community for the last 20 years, but the cellist, composer, arranger, and singer has made significant marks in other scenes as well. Leppin leans into a jazz-centric vision on the majestic and occasionally abrasive Ensemble Volcanic Ash, which is a puzzle in which jazz, chamber music, contemporary classical, and punk seamlessly coalesce with bracing results." -Jazz Times

First Saturday of the month * 10am-noon * 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 January 4 * 730pm * $10 * TICKETS

Motherfuckers JMB & Co. came together barely one year ago with a desire to create long improvisational soundscapes akin to music by masters like Neu and Xhol Caravan (from which they adapted their name). With Geologist (Brian Weitz) on hurdy gurdy, Marc Minsker on bass, guitar, harmonium, and Jim Thomson on percussion, this instrumental trio is preparing for their upcoming release of a debut album.

Applied Communications is the musical alias of Max Wood. As a teenager, Max created polarizing, experimental pop music—Pitchfork listed their 2005 album Uhhh Sort Of among the worst of the year, while PopMatters called it “hard to stomach, but even harder to turn away from.” Performing in venues like laundromats and laser tag arenas, Max built a small, loyal audience while alienating larger crowds with glitchy, angsty, often intense songs. Eventually, Max stopped making music - transitioning to a more low-key life anchored in parenthood and a career. Nearly twenty years later, TikTok influencer Madeline Pendleton revived interest in Applied Communications. Fans reconstructed the music and story online, inspiring Max’s return to music. This culminated in the release of Applied Communications Has a Midlife Crisis on April 26, 2024.

Overtime ZZZ is the leftfield, guitar pop solo project of PJ Brownlee (Art Sound Language, ex-Plums).

every other Sunday * 10am-noon * Free / donations * REGISTER

Rhizome is pleased to announce our Youth Electronic Music Lab, for young people ages 11-18. We meet regularly to share space together while working and to give and receive feedback in a positive and encouraging environment. Our group at this point consists of some beginners and others who have experience making electronic music and are able to work independently on it. We plan to invite guest musicians periodically to share tips, talk music theory / composition, offer feedback, etc. Please bring a laptop and headphones if possible. Bring some of your own music you’re working on or would like to share.

Sunday January 5 * 7pm * $15 * TICKETS

Qiik (Tape Release)
https://kanakattackrecords.bandcamp.com/album/qiik-demo

Listening Skulls (From Chattanooga)
https://listeningskulls.bandcamp.com/album/minimum-rage-split

D.O.V.E. (From Baltimore)
https://dicipleofaviolententity.bandcamp.com/album/demo-24

Saafewaay (first show)

Monday January 6 * doors at 7pm * $10+ * TICKETS

Please join us to help raise funds for moving expenses for a community member who has made the difficult decision to return to their country of origin due to threats made by the incoming Administration.

Gloom Merchants (RVA)
Requiem (DC)
Alex Harvelle (FXBG)
We’ll get it next time (VA)
Programmed Cell Death (FXBG) 

+ poetry and live painting!

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.

Thursday January 9 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

We are pleased to present an evening of films by O.Funmilayo Makarah, who will be present for a discussion with the audience following the screening.

O.Funmilayo Makarah is an award-winning filmmaker, installation artist, curator, media activist and educator from Los Angeles. She uses experimental and documentary conventions to intertwine social, political, and economic concerns with issues of history, gender, race, and identity. She is a member of the acclaimed LA Rebellion filmmaking movement, worked for the Berlin Film Festival and is the founder and Executive Director of Heritage Film Festival, a Maryland-based festival celebrating its 20th year in 2025.

Friday January 10 * doors at 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

https://cryptidsummer.bandcamp.com (spacey post-punk)

https://thearmors.bandcamp.com/album/ep (rock n roll revival)

https://truthordare.bandcamp.com/track/h-s-b-f (cathartic pop punk)

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 January 11 * 1pm * Free / donations * REGISTER

Are you interested in any of the following: theater, building community, making new friends, board games, tabletop role playing games, improvisation, and/or trying new things? Then you would probably enjoy Live Action Role Play (or LARP)! LARP is an umbrella term for games where you physically embody a character using a huge variety of rules, props, locations, and participants. LARPs can go from as few as 2 to as many as 100s of people, and explore stories ranging from the silly and fluffy to the dark and tragic, but for now we'll be exploring some entry-level LARPS that are great for new players.

For example, this Saturday, January 11, at 1 pm we will be playing Unheroes by Joanna Piancastelli. This simple 2-hour game for 3-9 people is about a group of superheroes who, after failing to save the world, transported themselves into our world and lost their memories and powers in the process. Over the course of play we will slowly recover our memories and powers and eventually answer the question: will we stay in this reality or return to our own?

This is a ticketed event (due to the limited number of spaces), but tickets are free with a suggested donation to Rhizome. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the facilitator, Nico, at jntm42@gmail.com.

Saturday January 11 * doors at 7pm * $10-15 * TICKETS

SEX FACES is Kitty pettin', people hatin' weird punk from Washington DC, featuring Jacky Cougar (Des Demonas, Thee Lolitas) Sal Go (Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb, The NVs) Hana Racecar (Tadzio, Coven Tree) and FiFi Allin (TK Echo, Et At It). Combining the droney madness of Velvet Underground and wordsmith of the Fall, grounded in the punk attack and sense of humor of the Replacements and Ramones, Sexfaces plays full-noise zero-fluff based music for bad people.

Song People formed in December of 2022 by core members of the Philadelphia-based music collective Edible Onion: Shaina Kapeluck, Darian Scatton, and Benjamin Schurr. Having played in each other's bands for over twelve years, they’ve settled into a comfortable songwriting cabal made fruitful by over a decade of collaboration. Kapeluck, the principal lyricist, pieces songs together from her own treasure trove of past and present writings. Between the three of them, previous musical projects found them playing anything from baroque art songs to electronic kosmische pop, industrial post punk to Georgian liturgical polyphony, but their newest project focuses on songwriting, stripped down to guitar, bass, drums and vocals. Shaina began her music life as a ballad singer, drawing from traditions of the British Isles, the US and Maritime Canada. Darian's rhythmic, arpeggiated guitar melodies are informed by his background as a pedal harpist, and Ben has one foot in industrial post punk and the other in Motown. Formed as a trio, the band recorded their first album with drummer Alfred Rosenbluth, who was recently replaced by composer/drummer Drake Tyler.

Ducts is an Alt Indie band. The live band is a group featuring members of Dim Wizard, Halpine, Bottled Up, & Des Demonas 

Sunday January 12 × 1-3pm * 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)

Sunday January 12 * doors at 7 music at 730 * $10-15 * TICKETS

Baltimore Avenue: noise from college park , md

Pro Video is a noise rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Active since summer 2023, they just put out their first release “Come Back, Spider” on the Michi Tapes label in early November 2024. Their sound is comparable to seminal post-hardcore bands such as At the Drive In, Fugazi, & 90 Day Men. Chock full of feedback, the music is bombastic and humming with energy. Make sure to bring your earplugs and your dancing shoes.

clothes is a punk band from Washington, DC. From the project’s inception in 2013 clothes’ mission has been to mend the relationship between young people and the nostalgia they have been alienated from by technocracy. clothes has been quietly gigging in DC and Western Massachusetts, and are now presenting material from their latest full length album ‘Earshot.’

Tuesday January 14 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

ZZZZZZZZZ is a transcendental sound dozing experience, weaving tones including gong baths, theremins, plant synthesizers, cassette loops, poetry, ambient drones, and vinyl DJ sets. Drift into a nap, wrapped in experimental soundscapes. Bring a mat, blanket, and water as you wish. 

ZZZZZZZZZ（ズズズズズズーーー）は、ゴングバス、テルミン、植物シンセサイザー、カセットループ、詩、アンビエントドローン、そしてヴァイナルDJセットなどの音色を織り交ぜた、超越的なサウンドうたた寝体験です。実験的な音の風景に包まれながら、心地よい眠りへと漂いましょう。マット、毛布、水など、必要に応じてお持ちください。

Featuring:
Bao Nguyen (Experimental Vocalist)
Layne Garrett (Experimental Instrumentalist)
Naoco Wowsugi (Experimental Gong Prayer)

Wednesday January 15 * doors at 630, music at 730 * $10-20 * TICKETS

Samskara
smskra.bandcamp.com/album/friendship-fields

Potosi 
https://potosiherndon.bandcamp.com/album/fujimori-is-dead

Post Dog

Friday January 17 * doors at 7, show at 8 * Free / donations * TICKETS

Drag Nite is an open stage drag show celebrating new and upcoming drag artists in the DMV area. Join us for drag performances that celebrate queerness, artistry, and community while supporting local drag! 

For more information on how to sign up for the open stage, message @mo.tart on instagram or email mst0028@outlook.com.

Saturday January 18 * 3:30pm * Sliding Scale / $35 Suggested * REGISTER

Have you ever looked at an old shirt and thought, "I bet I could make something new and cool out of this..." Well now you can! Join Annie and Apryle from Fairy Ring Fibers for a workshop on basic sewing and crochet stitches that you can use to mend and upcycle old, hand-me-down, or thrifted clothes. Bring a pair of socks, an old T-shirt, or other clothes that you want to practice with, and we will teach you how to make and sew patches, crochet borders, and more. Sewing supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring your own if you have it. Payment for the class is pay what you can (recommended 35$ / 2 hours). Nobody will be turned away for lack of payment or supplies. Hope to see you there! 

Fairy Ring Fibers is a collaboration between fiber artist and jack-of-all-trades, Apryle B, and environmental scientist and multimedia artist, Annie O. We create handmade clothing and accessories that we would wear, and share them with the world! For more info on Fairy Ring Fibers, visit us on Instagram at @fairyringfibers. Our DM's are open for collaboration and commission requests.

every other Sunday * 10am-noon * Free / donations * REGISTER

Rhizome is pleased to announce our Youth Electronic Music Lab, for young people ages 11-18. We meet regularly to share space together while working and to give and receive feedback in a positive and encouraging environment. Our group at this point consists of some beginners and others who have experience making electronic music and are able to work independently on it. We plan to invite guest musicians periodically to share tips, talk music theory / composition, offer feedback, etc. Please bring a laptop and headphones if possible. Bring some of your own music you’re working on or would like to share.

Monday January 20 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS

J. D. PARRAN - bass saxophone, alto clarinet, soprano saxophone, flute
ANDREW DRURY - drum set, gongs, pots, mussel shells

J. D. PARRAN has been a valued collaborator with Oliver Lake, Julius Hemphill, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, Amir Elsaffar, Anthony Davis, and others. Parran has collaborated and appeared on recordings with leading musical practitioners including Andrew Hill, Marty Ehrlich, Hamiett Bluiett, Douglas Ewart, James Jabbo Ware, Robert Dick, Ned Rothenberg, Jimmy Owens, George E. Lewis, Don Byron, Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill, Wadada Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins, Stevie Wonder, Lena Horne, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono.

ANDREW DRURY has performed and recorded with Jason Kao Hwang, The Forest (with JD Parran and Warren Smith), Myra Melford, Wadada Leo Smith, Frank Lacy, Annea Lockwood, Ingrid Laubrock, Satoko Fujii, Roswell Rudd, Miya Masaoka, Michel Doneda, Agustí Fernandez, Peter Evans, Wayne Horvitz, John Tchicai, James Brandon Lewis, Tomeka Reid, Mark Dresser, to name a few. Venues include Lincoln Center, Globalquerque, Vision Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, N.O. Jazz Festival (Zagreb), Jazztopad (Poland), Jazzin Tondela (Portugal), Edgefest (Ann Arbor), Vancouver Jazz Festival, and many more. Drury has produced over 200 Soup & Sound concerts, is an educator who has led over 1,500 workshops in communities and in 20 universities across three continents. He is also an organizer and activist behind the scenes supporting many other artists in a variety of ways through the non-profit organization he runs, Continuum Culture & Arts. The Jazz Journalists Association gave him the 2023 Brooklyn Jazz Hero Award.

Thursday January 23 * 7pm * $20 * TICKETS

David Grubbs (Brooklyn, NY) has released fifteen solo albums and appeared on more than 200 commercial releases. His ongoing collaborations include projects with visual artists Anthony McCall and Angela Bulloch and poet Susan Howe. Grubbs was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with many others. He is a recipient of the Berlin Prize and a Grants to Artists award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and directs the Blue Chopsticks record label.

One of the world’s premiere exponents of her instrument, Susan Alcorn has taken the pedal steel guitar far beyond its traditional role in country music. Though known for her solo work, she has collaborated with numerous artists including Pauline Oliveros, Chris Cutler, the London Improvisors Orchestra, the Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra, Joe McPhee, and Ken Vandermark, among others.

The Caribbean (Washington, DC) "They're taking Brill Building songs and writing them in invisible ink, turning jazz standards into Twilight Zone episodes, turning folk songs into clouds of fog." - PopMatters

Friday January 24 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

In 1978 David "The Weatherman" Wills, Richard Lyons, and Mark Hosler formed Negativland, an American experimental music band, which quickly became an absurd and noisy multimedia universe without boundaries, ownership, or privacy. Negativland's complex chaos of “plunderphonics” poses both serious and silly questions about the nature of sound, media, technology, control, propaganda, power, and perception in the global village. Negativland continue to be pioneers of art in the electronic age, and the medium reveals that any message is all in our heads.

Virtual Q&A with the Director to follow.

Wednesday January 29 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Broommaker (DC, folk) began as Teething Veils in 2006 in Washington, DC, playing occasional live shows at places such as the Montgomery College Planetarium and their own living room at 611 Florida Ave, becoming more active about six years later. They have released five LPs and a 7” single through the artist-run DC-and-Santa-Fe-based collective Etxe Records. They have played live for audiences in 48 US states and the District of Columbia, and two Canadian provinces.

Jason Anderon (Canada, folk) is an award-winning indie/folk artist based in eastern Canada. He has collaborated with Mount Eerie, toured with Joyce Manor, and worked with a number of seminal independent labels including K Records and Salinas. His evocative lyrics, anthemic melodies, and cathartic live performances have taken him around the world, making friends and fans one electrifying concert at a time. Personal, passionate, poetic, Anderson's music crackles with life.

Hotel Sewing Kit (DC, singer-songwriter)
https://www.instagram.com/hotelsewingkit/

Friday January 31 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS

Brandon Seabrook is a NYC-based guitarist and banjoist. His music fuses a wide range of traditions: punk rock, jazz, pop, and metal. As a guitarist his work feeds off tactile sensations; rapid tremolo picking, contorted clusters, and extreme physicality. He has released nine albums of original material and has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, and South America.

Janel & Anthony - Hugely influential and appearing nearly everywhere within Washington D.C.'s contemporary music scene as bandleaders and contributing artistic voices, cellist and vocalist Janel Leppin and guitarist Anthony Pirog have long been creative partners as well as life partners. Their Cuneiform Records debut Where is Home (2012) is considered a crucial modern recording from the region. New Moon in the Evil Age (2024, Cuneiform) is their long-awaited follow up to Where is Home and will have immediate appeal to fans of beyond jazz, modern composition and improvisation, indie rock, and of D.C musical culture.

Saturday February 8 * doors at 7pm * $10-15 * TICKETS

Joy Viver; a name whose ancient origins and proper pronunciation can only be guessed, only remembered through story. When you combine something that you love to do with people that you love to be around you may well have discovered Joy Viver. In search of the mystical teachings of Joy Viver each member of the band had long ago embarked on separate quests along dusty roads, through tangled forests, upon snowy mountains. They ended up in the place where so many quests resolve, at the beginning…in a basement…writing songs of chivalry and courtly love. On your journey should you encounter these troubadours, allow your weary bones to take comfort in the healing notes of their trill.

The Crowd Scene - Melancholic pop that acknowledges life’s oblique obstacles and simple wonders.

Devin Ocampo is a Washington DC-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and singer. Perhaps best known as the founder and singer/guitarist of a succession of fiery rock trios (Faraquet, Medications, and The Effects), he was also a member of the Mary Timony Band and is an active musician/arranger in the band Beauty Pill. Ocampo’s current main focus is his experimental, textural, contemplative solo work, which sharply departs from the noted aesthetic he cultivated as a practitioner of the rock trio form.

Sunday February 9 * 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)

Thursday February 13 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS

Composer, flutist, and improviser, Rachel Beetz explores presence through sound and listening. Her works recreate physical atmospheres based on her deep listening adventures in the wild, exploring hidden worlds of nature and machines. Combining experimental field recordings and electronically modified flutes, her works examine community, environmentalism, and women’s work through sound, textiles, and lighting.

Berglind Tómasdóttir is a flutist and interdisciplinary artist living in Reykjavík, Iceland. In her work she frequently explores identity and archetypes, as well as music as a social phenomenon. An advocate of new music, Berglind has worked with composers such as Björk, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Peter Ablinger and Carolyn Chen, and received commissions from Dark Music Days, The National Flute Association, Cycle Music and Art Festival, Reykjavík Arts Festival and Nordic Music Days, to name a few.

Julie Herndon is a composer, performer and sound artist. Her work explores the body’s relationship to sound using musical instruments and technologies. Her compositions and installations, described as “like a signal from another world” (Tages-Anzeiger), have been presented at the MATA Festival and National Sawdust in New York, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, and in Ireland, Mexico, Croatia, Singapore, and Australia.