SEPTEMBER 18TH! If you are interested please contact us to sign up: bandbmusicschool@gmail.com 714.430.4875
This is a one day abridged version of a 3 day workshop
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. The first week of this workshop will be a breathwork, sound circle, and guided visualization experience. There's plenty of research about how those things are good for your brain and body. This is not a workshop for why, it 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 workshop will invite the community to be challenged and face risks together through improv theater games. A class 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 day 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 night 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.
The sliding scale prices are listed under tickets, including a scholarship spot, please read the descriptions to know where you land on the sliding scale. We are a 501c3 so your contributions for the workshop are tax deductible. You are welcome to avoid fees and reserve your spot by paying with venmo @bbmusicstudio There are only 10 spots available, you reserve your spot once your tuition is paid. For additional questions please email bandbmusicschool@gmail.com.
Tickets: Minimum of 5 people, 10 people maximum, Sliding scale $20-$80+
scholarship - if you do not work full time or at all, struggle to meet basic needs, have little/no savings, limited or no access to transportation, rent low income or have unstable housing, no access to health care, rarely buy new items, cannot take time off from work without financial burden, unpayable accruing debt
$25 ($10 per hour class time) - stress about basic needs but often meet them, access to transportation, achieve stable work even with stress, limited access to health care, have some debt but chipping away at it, able to buy low cost new/thrifted items, take some time off from work when needed
$55 sliding scale ($22 per hour class time) - meets basic need, might have financial savings, employed, own or lease a car, access to health care, earns sick/vacation hours, can buy items when needed
$80+ ($32 per hour class time) - meets basic needs easily, has some debt but is not a financial burden, has financial savings, owns a car, owns property, access to healthcare, can always buy new items, regularly takes vacations, has expendable income
FAQs:
can I attend only one day?
yes! this the one day version of this workshop!
can I bring my child?
For this event, attendees must be 16+. there will be a condensed version of this workshop specifically for kids in the near future. parents deserve their own healing space with other adults.
why the cost?
Our sliding scale descriptions are located under the ticket descriptions. The cost goes towards the rent of the space and the facilitator. The cost is also a commitment to yourself to show up to each class and participate fully. We do offer a work/study slot for those with financial hardship.
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.
