The 26th Annual Latern Parade, Sunday October 25
Rain date November 1
Mark your calendars: Sunday, October 25th at 6pm
We need your help in so many ways..........
Volunteer
We need all the help we can get over the next 4 weeks with Lantern production to reach our goal of 1000!! (Lanterns are then sold at the Parade to support Spontaneous Celebrations).
We also need help on the day of the parade!
Contact: Maaak 857 498 2438 maaak@spontaneouscelebrations.org
Throw a Lantern Making House Party!!
Invite your friends and or neighbors to a lantern making party in your home and ask them to become members of Spontaneous Celebrations! We provide supplies and artistic guidance. You provide your house full of neighbors and friends!
Contact Alison: alisonlink@gmail.com
Lantern Making Kits for Schools & Youth Programs
Group kits (minimum of 25 lanterns) are available for afterschool programs, art classes, youth groups, etc. $2 per lantern. Spontaneous Celebrations can can also provide a facilitator to run a Lantern making workshop for your group. Workshop price varies due to group age, size, etc.
maaak@spontaneouscelebrations.org
Attend Lantern Making Workshops @ Spontaneous Celebrations $5
Oct Wednesdays 6-9 pm
Oct Sundays 12-2 pm
Oct 19-23 4-9 pm
Sat Oct 24 10am-4pm
Starving Artists Nights
A way for local artists with modest means to support Spontaneous Celebrations and get a free meal! Come to our Wednesday eve workshops and make some lanterns for us to sell and enjoy some spaghetti and various potluck surprises!
Introduction to Belly Dance Sundays 1-2PM May 17-June 28
Let’s celebrate and empower the Inner Goddess and have lots of fun in the process!! This 6 week class is designed for all body types and levels of dance experience who care brand new to this art form. We will learn and explore the fundamentals of this ancient and Goddess-based dance including (but not limited to!!) isolations that form the foundation of belly dance, travelling steps, and basic zills (veil and finger cymbals). We’ll stretch, shimmy, and undulate our cares away !! Cost is $54.00 for the 6 weeks. If you bring an additional Goddess (friend, family member, etc) you both get $10.00 off!! (Sorry, no drop-ins at this time)
Dress code is something loose and comfortable, preferably that bares the midriff, or at least is form fitting in the waist and hips, a fringed scarf to wear around the hips or a coin belt (contact instructor for purchase information), and bare feet. Also, bring a yoga mat or small towel or blanket for stretching.
(class recommended for age 13 and over)
Instructor: Sonja
Contact Info: ohmygoddess256@yahoo.com Phone : 617 202 8650
Nia Classes Thursdays 7:30-8:30
Nia is a meditative dance that is practiced in bare feet. It fuses elements of modern dance, jazz, and Duncan with the martial arts, yoga and the healing arts. There are no technical skills or dance background required. Nia classes are a celebration of the joy of movement and all are welcome! We will be dancing to an eclectic mix of world music, new age, fun indie-rock and dance music. $11 per class $40 for 4
Contact: Liz 973 479 2012
Abada Capoeira Tues 6:30-8:00pm Sun 4:00pm-5:30pm
Jennifer Walsh "Instutora Sereia" is a student of ABADA-Capoeira's legendary top female capoeirista Mestranda Marcia "Cigarra". She has been a practicing athlete for over 20 years, and has studied capoeira for 14 years. Recently she made history becoming the top ranked non-Brazilion capoeirista in ABADA-Capoeria worldwide. $12 per class / FREE for teens (14-19)
Contact: Sereia 617 553 0111 sereia@abada.org
Street Beat Saturdays 11:00am - 12:30pm Free
Seeking focused youth 8-14 to join performance drum troupe. Currently learning rhythms of the Caribbean to perform at the Wake Up the Earth Festival.
Contact: Cornell 617 298 1790
Capoeira Angola
Contact: Manhoso
Phone: (617) 438-5081
Schedule: Mondays & Wednesdays, 6-7pm
Learn the traditional martial arts, dance, singing, and percussion born in Africa and perfected in Bahia, a Northern state of Brazil. Capoeira Angola demands respect for tradition and above all, for the wisdom and profound knowledge of its masters. Capoeira reaches out to everyone. Whether you are old, young, shy, inactive or inexperienced, Capoeira welcomes your involvement.
Contemporary Dance
Soul of Movement
Learn class etiquette, dance language, enjoy challenging yourself, explore creativity, have fun and make new friends.
1. Technical warm-up using cross-over language to many dance styles
2. Across/around the floor
3. combination/choreography/improvisation/creative games
4. stretching.
Each class varies but there is always fun to be had! Students are exposed to technical dance language, class etiquette, creativity, play and performance. The most important element is to learn and enjoy a moving experience. Some dance experience helpful but not necessary,
Bring a mind to learn and explore
Ages 11-up Mondays 7-8pm
Curious about Adult classes?
4-6 year old class beginning January 28!
Contact: Shari
Phone:617-784-1611
Email:srepasz@comcast.net
Schedule: Mondays 7-9pm
Website: http://gravityarts.org/ga_dance.html
Food Not Bombs
Schedule: Fridays, 10am-1pm
Food Not Bombs is an energetic grassroots movement organizing for peace and justice while sharing free vegetarian food with hungry people around the world. Each group recovers food that would otherwise be thrown out and makes fresh hot vegetarian meals that are served outside in public spaces to anyone without restriction. Since the first group was formed in Cambridge, MA over 25 years ago, Food Not Bombs groups around the country have worked to end hunger and supportactions to stop the globalization of the economy, restrictions to the movements of people, end exploitation and the destruction of the earth.
Food Not Bombs is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to nonviolent social change. Food Not Bombs Boston/ Cambridge cooks at Spontaneous Celebrations Friday mornings and then serves from 4-6pm at the Boston Commons (park street stop of green line).
Jeff Reinhardt
781-492-3009
wordup@riseup.net
Gender Crash Open Mic
Contact: Gunner
Email: gendercrash@gmail.com
Website: www.gendercrash.com
Schedule: 2nd Thursdays, 7:30-10pm
Gender Crash is a spoken word and performance event for poets/spoken wordsters/literary geeks/journal writers/queers/transgender/gender queers.
Yes, it's true - Gender Crash is the longest running open mic for queer/transgender/gender queer folks in Boston as well as the country's first spoken word event to be hosted by a transgender person and to feature transgender poets/spoken word performers. An open mic that is famous for being a welcoming place for people to try out material, and is a favorite venue of first-time performers. Gender Crash is open to all, and is queer postive, dyke positive, bi-positive, and trans-positive.
Come read with go-go gender queers with words of action, erotic writing lesbian soccer moms, sweet trans boys with agendas, bears who bake and write about it, poet inspiring truck driving gay boys, devilish dykes, awe inducing poetic transwomen, princess riot grrls with diaries, transmen with type written essays, queer daddies with bedtime stories, beautiful bisexuals speaking sonnets, butches whispering love poems to femmes, and yes, you!!! Be a Rock Star ... for at least 3 minutes
Schedule: Saturdays, 9:15-10am (5-7 year olds); 10-11am (8-11 year olds)
Contact: Bobby
Phone: 617-461-8475
Email: thegojugroup@msn.com
This popular martial art isn't just about learning how to punch and kick. Kids also develop self esteem, poise, and patience - and have fun while doing it!
Salsa Class Sundays 2pm
Contact: Jonathan
Phone: 617-816-1369
Email: jzsalsa09@gmail.com
All levels of experience welcome-- $10 per class. Please call Jonathan for more information.
Come learn the basics in salsa.
In this class you will work on the beginning of;
Foot work
Leading
Following
Spinning
Partnership dancing
Individual dancing
You will also work on integrating all this techniques to other partner dances.
Queer/LGBT Argentine Tango
Contact: Violet or Duro
Phone: 310.929.7023
Website: http://tango.duroyvio.com
Schedule: Sundays 7-10pm
7-8: Absolute Beginner series starts March 30
8-10: Instruction for Continuing Beginners & All Levels Practica (Practice)
*Note: The first Sunday of the month, we meet ONLY from 9-10 for the Practica.
Duro y Vio teach social close-embrace tango, the dance of the neighborhood community centers of Buenos Aires. This is the most connected dance. It’s not flashy, but it sure feels good. The follower listens with their body. The leader waits in the embrace until inspired by the music. Leaders may dance to the rhythm, the melody, or the decorative elements of the music – or change back and forth between them. As the leader expresses the music, the attentive follower is ready to go in any direction at every moment, so they are able to move as one, although every step is improvised. Our classes and practicas are queer space, which means that we encourage gender complexity and exploration.
Spontaneous Stilts Sundays Noon-2
Stilt classes for ages 8 and up $5.
Graduates are welcome to join us in the Wake Up The Earth Parade May 2nd!
Contact Maaak 857 498 2438
Families Creating Together Saturdays 10:00am-12:00pm
Families Creating Together (FCT) is a free inclusive creative arts program for all children/youth, sibilings, and caregivers. FCT provides visual art and storytelling workshops for participants of all abilities, in a wheelchair accessible seeting. Presented in spanish, english and american sign language, workshops are March 21, March 28, and April 4.
All workshops are held at Nate Smith House, 155 Lamatine St, JP. Please conact Ed Pazzanese for more information or to pre-register. 617 524 6373 or ed@spontaneouscelebrations.org
Want to teach a class at Spontaneous Celebrations?
Contact: Will
email: spontaneouscelebrations@gmail.com
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