Community Circle

July 6th at Wakeham Park
July 13th at Tewinkle Park
July 20th at Fairview Park
July 27th at Diego Sepulveda Adobe

Feel free to attend any and all days!

If you are interested please contact us to sign up: bandbmusicschool@gmail.com 714.430.4875

Purpose: to provide a space for community building practices through self expression, play, and connection.

Reason: many people crave community but it is hard to find and build alone, many need practice creating authentic connections.

First, a community needs a shared experience. Something positive, something expected, and safe. Think of a concert, a class, work, grocery stores; these are collective experiences. We begin with breathwork, sound circle, and guided imagination experience. There's plenty of research about how those things are good for your brain and body. This is a place to be held accountable in practicing it. This will give attendees breathing, chanting, and visualizing techniques they can use at home for their own benefit. Sharing this experience together will be the basis for the following weeks of community building

Second, communities sprout and bond when they face risk together. Think surviving any hardship, think corporate project, think starting a band, having kids at the same time. This will invite the community to be challenged and face risks together through improv theater games. Games to get your brain thinking in new ways, use your body for new expressions, feel fear, face it, laugh, play pretend, be in joy. We will also incorporate some singing, to add to the vulnerability of it all. This vulnerability and support of each other helps communities bond.

Finally, communities grow and root through connection, truth, and closure. The final part of this community circle will provide space for meaningful connections and in depth conversations. Building a sense of closeness like staying up all night around the fire while camping, like kids at a sleepover. This will be a moment of sharing through thought prompts and conversation games, in partners and in a group.

Through these practices attendees can walk away with a renewed sense of human connectivity.

This community circle is free to the public with sponsorship from The City of Costa Mesa. We are a 501c3 so donations are welcome and tax deductible. You are welcome to donate to our venmo @bbmusicstudio There are only 10 spots available, to reserve your spot text or email us 714.430.4875 bandbmusicschool@gmail.com.

Minimum of 6 people, 10 people maximum

FAQs:
can I attend only one day?
yes! feel free to attend one or all four days in July!

can I bring my child?
since this is 2 hours of focused time, it is best for attendees 16+. If you are a large group with many kids, please contact for which you date you'll attend and we may be able to provide childcare since all circles will be in Costa Mesa parks!

is this LGBTQ friendly?
yes! or at least we work to make it so; the facilitator of this workshop is queer, and many of other events prioritize the queer community. we welcome all people except those who wish to engage in hate towards marginalized people.

is this a black and indigenous safe space?
this is our hope despite current colonial conditions. the studio resides on occupied tongva land, we collaborate and promote local BIPOC in most of our events. this workshop facilitator is a white-passing mixed person; their experience informs how they navigate the world. we welcome feedback.

is this culturally appropiate?
we recognize that many known spiritual/community concepts are stolen from eastern indigenous practices. we do not claim to be inventors or masters of these philosophies. we honor the similarities between many first nations practices. it is human to receive power from within and community.