Jason Vance — Musical Doctors – Finding the Pulse

ExplO+re Class: Musical Doctors – Finding the Pulse

Participants are encouraged to bring their own percussion noisemakers – hand drums, tambourines, shakers, etc.

The overview of this class is giving families, musical beginners, and specifically early childhood music learners (4-8yr-olds) the tools to become a Musical Doctor – How to find the Pulse of a song. In order to do that, we first need to know the ingredients that make up the pulse of common time in western music – the magic number 4! Using group games, storytelling, and a mixture of live and recorded music, participants are invited to bring their own drums and percussion instruments to participate in the games, jam along with songs, and ultimately create our own original song together on the theme of “Somewhere” – that magical place of bliss we all imagine in our own way.

https://cce4me.org/brooklyn-music-factory-ages-4-8/

Gilad Paz — The Marketable Musician Conversation

ExplO+re Class: The Marketable Musician Conversation

This is NOT your regular presentation!

I love speaking with musicians at eye level about their real struggles.

Whether it’s working musicians trying to get to the next level in their careers, students fearing coming out of school and going into the real world, or musicians (both professional and amateur) figuring out the multitude of ways to achieve a musical life in the 21st century, these are conversations that we need to have openly and courageously!

The Marketable Musician Conversation is a ~60-minute interactive event that helps musicians and other artists find the confidence and mental strength that will help them lead happy and thriving lives.
Understanding that we are all unique people and artists, are not each others’ competition, and that each of us can follow a different path to a fulfilling artistic life, gives us the permission to be ourselves and to pursue our own idea of success in the music world and beyond.

Hello, I’m Gilad and I’m a bullshit exterminator! I’m also the founder and CEO of The Marketable Musician, where I am a mindset & business coach and consultant, helping artists create the DREAM LIVES they want and deserve!

Being part of the music and entertainment industry, one of my favorite things to do is to 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭 and 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐭. My experience comes from over 20 years of performing professionally as a multi-genre vocalist, including 12 years of being a producer and my own agent, and 11 years of NYC real estate work.

I believe that “a rising tide raises all ships” and this is why I love speaking with musicians, listening to their obstacles, and offering ways in which they can truly achieve the success they are after.

giladpaz.com

Beth Jones, RLP®, AIF®, CeFT® — Financial Wellness

ExplO+re Class: Financial Wellness

An open, engaging and inclusive discussion about life planning, transition planning, giving & sharing, credit & taxes, savings & retirement, aging parents, budgeting, etc. Bring your questions and curiosity.

Beth is a Certified Financial Transitionist® (CeFT®), a Registered Life Planner (RLP®), and an Investment Adviser Representative of Third Eye Associates, Ltd., a Registered Investment Adviser. Beth’s professional credentials include membership in the Financial Planning Association, the Kinder Institute of Life Planning, and the Sudden Money® Institute, where she serves on the advisory board. She has completed the Life Planning curriculum in the Kinder EVOKE® Method and the Mastery program at the Sudden Money® Institute. She has completed the Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF®) curriculum through the Center for Fiduciary Studies, associated with the University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.

thirdeyeassociates.com

Carolyn Silveira – WO+rd

Carolyn Silveira is a writer, poet, and communications professional. She was a founding editor of Lux, an experimental multimedia companion to the literary journal Lumina. A finalist for the Disquiet Literary Prize in Fiction and a repeat resident at the Byrdcliffe Artists Colony in Woodstock, her published writing, reviews, and radio work can be found through her website, carolynsilveira.com. She has worked to make the world better through the written word as a marketing and communications professional for social change organizations like Freelancers Union and Upworthy, within the domestic worker movement, and as an independent consultant.

https://carolynsilveira.com/blog/2021/12/5/12-days-of-haiku-a-holiday-project

Rebecca Kane – WO+rd

Rebecca Kane is a Queens-based playwright, stage manager, and indie theatre producer. Credits include repeated performances at The Tank and Rogue Theater Festival (where she also was a playwright-in-residence), Rising Sun Performance Company, and the Orlando Fringe, among many others. She has received a grant from New York Foundation of the Arts and publications by New Plains Review, Smith & Kraus, Feels Blind Literary, and That Gray Zine.

https://newplayexchange.org/users/16500/rebecca-kane

Zack Fuller

Zack Fuller is a DIY dancer/choreographer who lives in Rockland County NY. In 2019 he co-headlined the Boston Butoh Festival with Yuko Kaseki, with his dance/music collaboration Twisted from Constantly Watching Doves. His practice of dance is developed from a lifetime of wide-ranging experiences as a performing artist including fronting the Washington DC post-punk psychedelic metal band Scythian, participating in workshops and theatrical research with Ryszard Cieslak of Grotowskiʼs Polish Laboratory theatre, and working with dance artists such as Eiko and Koma and Poppo Shiraishi. In 1997 he was cast in Min Tanaka and Susan Sontagʼs Poe Project: Stormy Membrane, and went on to perform and train with Tanaka throughout Japan, Europe and the U.S. His own dance works have been presented at Leimay’s Soak Festival, Movement Research at Judson Church, the Asheville Fringe Festival, the Dance Hakushu Festival, and elsewhere. He currently works as a care giver for the elderly at The Rudolph Steiner Fellowship Community, an activity that constitutes his primary form of dance training. His dance has been described by the Boston Globe as “Cryptic… but characterized by astonishing theatricality,” and “Like an angel coming down Jacob’s ladder to play in the garbage” by the Japanese dance critic Hidenaga Otori.

Shirley Parker-Benjamin and Onaje Benjamin

Onaje Benjamin’s photography reflects a passion for social justice and activism. His images capture urban settings and the cultural and artistic tensions which evolve in these rapidly changing environments. His work ranges from images of street taggers and murals, to portraits of street people and the structural and architectural evolution which symbolizes gentrification and the uprooting of disenfranchised communities.

Shirley Parker-Benjamin is an interdisciplinary artist creating across the genres of sculptural mixed media, assemblage and installation. Her work has been exhibited regionally and internationally. In her work, she explores the intersection between ancestral, spiritual, metaphysical, African/African diasporic traditions and the feminine. Her materials include found objects, natural materials, metal, minerals and beadwork to convey her ideas. Shirley Parker-Benjamin is a high priestess emeritus in the Ministry of Maat. Her studio, Ezili Arts is located in the Cunneen Hackett Arts Center in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Shawnee Miller

Shawnee Miller is a self-taught tattooer, artist, and biologist from Northern California. She is of mixed Native American and Italian heritage. Her work mixes traditional and modern folk art with elements of storytelling and personal narrative. She tattooed in Woodstock from Jauary 2021 until May 2022, and opened her own private tattoo studio in Rosendale in June 2022.

shawneemiller.com

Shannon Kenny

Shannon Kenny was born and raised in Trinidad & Tobago and currently resides in Kingston, NY. She received her BA from the University of Tampa and her MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art. In 2013, she was awarded an artist residency in Giverny, France by the Terra Foundation for American Art. And from 2014 to 2016, she was an artist in residence at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, through Chasmama. She has exhibited in shows both nationally and internationally in the United States and Trinidad. Over her career, Shannon’s work has explored the intersection between figure and landscape, and in a sense, she tries to find a connection between humans and nature.

www.shannonkenny.art