Upcoming at Rhizome (click on event for more details):
Exhibit runs December 2 - 21
Opening Reception Saturday December 6, 3-5pm * $5 suggested donation * RSVP
Open during all events, or email us to schedule a different time to view
The STEAM Engine features over 20 local artists and their creative approaches combining STEM with art (STEAM). These artworks by full time artists, biomedical researchers, oceanographers and more, portray unique perspectives and stories born from the studies of our vast universe. Join us to learn and be inspired as we celebrate the fusion of STEM and art.
Thursday December 4 * 7:30pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Rhizome’s microcinema presents: 20 Years of Heritage Film Festival
The Heritage Film Festival is a community-based, volunteer-driven DMV event that brings together short films and videos of all subjects and genres to celebrate independent media. The short films are from novice and seasoned filmmakers alike, who come from the US, Canada, Asia, Europe, Africa and beyond.
Festival founder and director, O.Funmilayo Makarah, will be here in person to present a selection of films screened throughout the 20 year history of the Festival. Heritage encourages viewers to bring canned goods which will be donated to people in need.
Friday December 5 * doors at 7, music at 730 * $15-20 * TICKETS
In support of her newest album Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark, Gwenifer Raymond returns to Rhizome during her winter tour of the States. The album is Raymond’s first since 2020’s Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain, which drew widespread acclaim for its repurposing of Mississippi blues and John Fahey’s intricate Americana to embody Raymond’s roots in rural South Wales and her interests in folk horror and the avant garde, a new form dubbed Welsh Primitive. Now, on her forthcoming album, Raymond finds herself conjuring the work of pioneering rocket scientists, the words of fictional hobo prophets and the concepts of mathematical infinity.
Christo Graham began writing his first songs when he was just 13. His effective minimalism is evident in his 2020 album 'Turnin'', whose 12 songs were inspired by a four-track recorder belonging to his grandmother and containing two songs recorded by herself at some point. His latest album “Music For Horses”, released by We Are Busy Bodies in October 2024 was also created on a similarly mystical recorder. Recorded in a 115-year-old classroom, with reduced percussion and restrained guitar, these new songs by Christo Graham emanate an almost meditative contemplation.
Insect Factory is the music of Jeff Barsky (and collaborators) and is a meditative project focused on deconstructing the possibilities of guitar to create detailed, hypnotic compositions. “…densely layered loops, planes of static standing tall like a gigantic back-scratcher of audio, improvised melodies clamoring over drones like they’re peaks in a mountain range…monolithic, moving, fluid and entirely lovely.” – Tiny Mix Tapes
Saturday December 6 * 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.
On Saturday, December 6 from 1-2:30, we'll be playing Gods of Nothings by Shing Yin Khor, a game about insignificant gods trying to solve minor problems for mortal supplicants. In this game, 4-8 players will become an assembly of small and insignificant gods doing their best to help people. You'll come up with their domain (like worker ants, exhalations, or sea urchins, for instance) and try to figure out how to use your powers to address problems completely unrelated to them. There is also a crafting component to this LARP, as you'll make and alter a mask to hide your god's identity over the course of the game.
Sunday December 7 * 11am * $15 suggested * REGISTER
This month we will be learning the basics of making stuffies by working on Attic24's Little Birdie pattern! This is a beginner level pattern that will introduce crocheters to the half-double crochet and double crochet stitch. Supplies provided! It's recommended that you know how to do a single crochet stitch, but no worries if you don't. Pay what you can, recommended $15. Facilitated by Swamp Rose Studio
Sunday December 7 * 3pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Kora Meditation began during the COVID-19 pandemic as a virtual space created by Amadou Kouyate, offering live Kora performances to foster connection, reflection, and calm through sound. Now, with renewed energy and purpose, the series is being revived as an in-person experience. Amadou, in collaboration with fellow musician Kelebogile Motsumi, is expanding the concept to include a wider range of African sounds and expressions, aiming to create a deeply therapeutic and immersive sonic journey.
Amadou Kouyate, a 150th-generation Manding Diali (West African oral historian/musician) and the first born of his father’s lineage in America, is a master of the 21-string Kora, Djembe, and Koutiro drums. His repertoire spans from 13th-century traditional songs to original works blending blues and jazz. Trained in Mali, Senegal, Guinea, and The Gambia under masters like Djimo Kouyate and Toumani Diabate, Amadou has taught at the University of Maryland, Montgomery College, American University, Goucher College, and UMBC, and served as an artist-in-residence at Strathmore and Wolftrap.
Kelebogile Motsumi is a vocalist and indigenous African instrumentalist from South Africa. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Pretoria, where she was trained in jazz vocals and piano. Driven by a deep desire to reconnect with the music of her roots, she explored Xhosa traditional music and developed proficiency in indigenous instruments such as the umrhubhe, uhadi, and umngqokolo. Kelebogile's musical practice blends jazz with the sonic textures of Xhosa traditional music.
Sunday December 7 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $15-25 * TICKETS
BeepHonk
Dave Ballou trumpet
Anthony Pirog guitar
Adam Hopkins double bass
Mike Kuhl drums
Red Sunflower is a DC-based instrumental trio formed by brothers Kiyan Saifi (guitar) and Teymour Saifi (bass), with Jaden Shahin on drums. The band explores noise, textural improvisation, and experimental rock. Drawing on the energy of punk and free music, Red Sunflower favors intensity and unpredictability over convention.
Monday December 8 * doors at 6:30. show at 7 * $15-20 * TICKETS
Weirs is a Durham, NC based collective who blend traditional tunes, ballads, hymns, and instruments with an interest in drone, tape music, and long-form improvisation. They are inspired by and aspire to be counted among those practitioners that don't keep 'traditional music' behind museum glass, but get it out and use it—even if it might get dinged up. Their new album, Diamond Grove, is out through Dear Life Records.
Philadelphia-based guitarist guitarist and composer Matt Geary has been exploring the frontiers of American Primitive, folk, drone, and ambient music since embarking on his solo journey in 2018.
Kutay Sezginel's music explores the intertwined nature of tradition and innovation. Rooted in the rich heritage of Anatolian folk music and inspired by psychedelic rock, dark ambient, and krautrock, he creates cosmic soundscapes layered with microtonal cultural motifs and odd time signatures. With neo-ethnic instruments like the çağlama and the electric cümbüş as his narrators, he creates stories of imaginative realms with memories of the past. His work is always evolving and reshaping itself through the spontaneity and energy of live performances.
Wednesday December 10 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Church Car is the duo project of Ian Douglas-Moore and Big Daddy Mugglestone, blending minimalist psychedelic trance-rock, spoken texts mediated by machine algorithms, and tunings that alter the listener’s auditory perception. Their guitar and drum interactions move between polyrhythmic goatherd meditations and field recordings, creating an imagined folk tradition glimpsed through a screen of urban life.
Drawn - DC/Philly - memories from an unreliable narrator. Nenet on vocals, Nate Scheible on drums, Layne Garrett on guitar.
Alex Strama / Lucia Shuyu Li / Miki present "Trilateral Communication" - Alex Strama is an American musician raised in the Baltimore Md area. He is a multi-instrumentalist who has played Guitar, Bass, and Drums in dozens of bands since 1997, fusing various forms of experimental music, noise, electronic, ambient, acid folk and psyche rock. Lucia Shuyu Li is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, performance, painting, and sound. Drawing on both her Chinese heritage and her current base in the United States, her work interrogates systems of power, cultural identity, and the fragile boundaries between perception and reality. Her projects often merge philosophy and material experimentation, engaging audiences in encounters that question the ways bodies, cultures, and institutions intersect. Miki - Performance artist / reactionary improviser mixing sound, lighting, and visual arts, focusing on natural, minimalism, and industrial settings and stage designs.
Christopher Griffiths - Tapes and electronics.
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 December 11 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $15 / PWYC * TICKETS
Scissortailflycatcher (TX Emoviolence)
https://bozosdistro.bandcamp.com/album/scissortailflycatcher
Life (MD Emocore)
https://life9.bandcamp.com/
Crows Foot (MD Blackened Metal)
https://crowsfootmd.bandcamp.com/album/bleak-years
BattleSet!!!
Aisle 19 (MD Power Violence)
https://aisle19.bandcamp.com/
vs
Emma Wrath (MD Cyber Noise Grind)
https://on.soundcloud.com/O1ZMCnwQslXsmWHzGl
Friday December 12 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $15+ * TICKETS
A concert/fundraiser for Transparent Productions with the Jeff Cosgrove Quintet feat. Jeff Cosgrove (drums), Dave Ballou (trumpet), Darryl Brenzel (alto), John Lee (guitar), and Tom Teasley (percussion). Friday December 12 at Rhizome DC. Doors at 7:00PM, music at 7:30PM. Donations at the door or in advance starting at $15.
Proceeds from the door will go to support Transparent and the music it brings to the DC area.
Transparent Productions was started in 1997 as an informal volunteer cooperative by Larry Applebaum, Bobby Hill, Herb Taylor, Thomas Stanley, and Vince Kargatis to organize concerts of creative improvised music in and around Washington DC. Chris Clouden, Sara Donnelly, and Clay Fink became involved later. We continue today with Bobby, Chris, and Clay. Since our start we have produced over 350 shows and will continue to make it possible for listeners in and around DC to hear this non-commercial, uncompromising music in interesting spaces like Rhizome DC.
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.
Sunday December 14 * doors at 5:30, music at 6 * $15-35 sliding scale * TICKETS
CATALYTIC SOUND FESTIVAL 2025 - DC EDITION
Silt Remembrance Ensemble + Angelica Sanchez
Victor Vieira-Branco’s Bark Culture
Tashi Dorji
Alex Hamburger
Presented by Catalytic Sound, Transparent Productions, DC Jazz Festival, and Rhizome DC.
Catalytic Sound is a music-based co-operative designed to help create economic sustainability for its artists through patron support.
Monday December 15 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
Secret Planet DC presents…
El Mantis is a heavy psychedelic jazz band formed in 2021 in Houston by Danny Kamins (alto saxophone), Andrew Martinez (guitar, vocals) and Angel Garcia (drums, vocals). Influences include King Crimson, John Coltrane, Magma, and The Mars Volta.
Mark Cisneros’ Space-Fire-Truth - led by Chicano/Indigenous-American artist and multi-instrumentalist Mark Cisneros. Des Demonas, Hammered Hulls, Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, The Make-Up, WE WERE HERE BEFORE.
Sarah Hughes is a performing and visual artist. She has 26 years of experience playing the alto saxophone and also doubles on the soprano saxophone, flute, and clarinet. Hughes’ music is intuitive and genre-liberated while displaying an unquestionable command of her instrument and musical vocabulary. Her improvisations and compositions are infused with knowledge of both traditional and contemporary approaches and combine a love for “The Greats” with a drive to innovate.
Wednesday December 17 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $15-25 * TICKETS
FÖR is a new collaboration between Philadelphia-based percussionist Shakoor Hakeem and Swedish saxophonist Isak Ingvarsson. Rooted in the spirit of Don Cherry’s arrival in Sweden in the mid-1960s, the project bridges Swedish folk traditions with the rhythmic folklore of the Afro-Diaspora—fusing into a deep sonic eruption of energy and expression.
MORE THAN A DRUM PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE/ABASI JOHNSON FEATURING POET BERNARDINE “DINE” WATSON — DC artists Abasi Johnson and Dine Watson return to Rhizome for a set of boundary challenging percussion and poetry.
Thursday December 18 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Oh, Gynander
thisdogllhunt https://thisdogllhunt.bandcamp.com/
Stargazer https://stargazerdc.bandcamp.com/
Friday December 19 * doors at 5:30, noise at 6 * $20 suggested (NOTAFLOF) * TICKETS
ALL DONATIONS TO THE MISS MAJOR ALEXANDER L. LEE TGUP BLACK TRANS CULTURAL CENTER
ALBATROSS (DMV NERVOUS PUNK)
VASTERIAN + BLESS YR HEART (WEIRDO HYPNOSIS TAPE NOISE + VIOLENT EMO FOLK)
RENRIOT (ALT-ROCK/GRUNGE-PUNK)
POTOSI (TRANS SCREAMO BILINGUE)
DRUID STONE (TRANS DOOM METAL)
Saturday December 20 * 3pm * $20 * REGISTER
A.R.T. Artists Recovering Together
Expressive painting can help us release stress and gain emotional resilience by uncovering subconscious thoughts and feelings that are difficult to put into words.
In this workshop we will use acrylic inks to create process-based paintings in community with others recovering from addiction. Goals include connection with others, gaining a deeper understanding of our inner worlds, and discovering new ways to use art as a coping mechanism. Facilitated by Kanchan Balsé. Materials included. Email info@rhizomedc.org for scholarships.
Saturday December 20 * 7pm * $20-25 * TICKETS
Transparent Productions welcomes back Jason Kao Hwang Critical Response.
Jason Kao Hwang - electric violin
Anders Nilsson - electric guitar
Michael T.A. Thompson - drums
“Book of Stories is arresting, captivating, and, at times, massively thrilling. Jason Kao Hwang’s trio with electric guitarist Anders Nilsson and drummer Michael T.A. Thompson dives into an adventurous fusion session where the musical influences never sit still…” — Dave Sumner, Bandcamp
The music of Jason Kao Hwang (composer/violin/viola) explores the vibrations and language of his history. His compositions are often narrative landscapes through which sonic beings embark upon extemporaneous, transformational journeys. As violinist, he has worked with Karl Berger, Anthony Braxton, William Parker, Butch Morris, Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Pauline Oliveros, Patrick Brennan, Tomeka Reid and many others.
Sunday December 21 * 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)
Monday December 22 * doors at 6:30, music at 7 * $20-30 * TICKETS
Transparent Productions presents:
Brad Linde’s Bleak Midwinter Ensemble: sad songs and waltzes meet Christmas carols and the Avant-Garde in this seasonal sonic exploration.
Brad Linde - reeds
Simone Baron - accordion
Liz Prince - tuba
Keith Butler, Jr - drums
PLUS
Parker Speirs - guitar
Zoë Jorgenson - vocals/bass
Friday January 2 * doors & art show at 7, music at 8 * $15-30 * TICKETS
Visual art:
Ava MacKaye
Isabella MacKaye
Stella Schwartzman
Lily Schwartzman
Dean Winter
Zane Grant
Owen Basher
KJ Thomas
Tess Kontarinis
Azalea Amaya
Cooper Ellenbogen
Music:
Birthday Girl
Mabel June
Saturday January 3 * 2-10pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
Oh Gynander
Oh Gynander are an emo band fronted by Nora Morse
Chris Violet
Chris Violet is a talented young producer, singer, and rapper from the DMV.
Sievert (703)
Sievert (703) are a punk band hailing from Arlington. Their style ranges from the occasional math-rock riff to hardcore goodness to frenzied noise meltdowns.
Dr. Girlfriend
Trans mystery music from the DMV
Soda Pop
Soda Pop are an Indie/Garage Rock 4-piece.
teaming in chess
teaming in chess is the artistic moniker of Tiago Woodyard, who records music of all experimental varieties. This performance may or may not include a composed piece of music...
Dogs
Digital Punk music by Isaac Burton Perez
Tuesday January 6 * doors at 7, show at 7:30 * $15-30 * TICKETS
Under his own name, Joe Westerlund has emerged as an intuitive improviser and composer during the last decade, scoring deep meditative practice over the course of three full-length solo records. After all, Westerlund—a longtime student of Milford Graves—has now spent more than a quarter-century gleaning lessons from folk musicians and avant-garde icons, from close friends and challenging strangers alike. He served as the dynamic backbone of Megafaun, the North Carolina trio that he cofounded, and initiated collaborations with Arnold Dreyblatt, On Fillmore and Justin Vernon. As a session drummer, he has worked as the pulse beneath the plaintive Americana of Watchhouse, Daughter of Swords, and Jake Xerxes Fussell and been a textural anchor for the folk abstraction of Califone. Currently, he tours and records primarily in an improvisational trio, Setting (with Jaime Fennelly and Nathan Bowles), as a duo with trumpeter Trever Hagen, and as a solo artist on Psychic Hotline. His latest release, Curiosities from the Shift, is Westerlund’s definitive statement so far: a playful exploration driven by beats but not bound by them.
Jay Hammond is a guitarist and songwriter from Jackson, TN living between Washington DC and Asheville, NC. He records and performs his original songs under the moniker Trippers & Askers, whose 2021 release, “Acorn” was called a "shimmering homage to nature" by The Guardian. In 2023, he released an album of instrumental music alongside Andy Stack (Wye Oak) entitled "Inter Personal" that was called "gold" by Talkhouse. As a guitarist, he has performed and/or recorded with Psychic Temple, Eamon Fogarty, No Lands, Chessa Rich and Libby Rodenbough.
Wednesday January 7 * doors at 6:30, show at 7:30 * $20-30 * TICKETS
Maria Chávez, Shahzad Ismaily (Arooj Aftab, Ceramic Dog), and Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) came together as a trio for the first time for a show in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in May 2025. That debut performance received a glowing review in The Wire, where writer Vanessa Ague heralded it as “a reminder of [...] the sheer joy of seeing what surprises we can find in sound”.
Each of the players’ inimitable approach to their instruments has earned them vivid, varied and longstanding careers. Now, in this new formation, a fresh breath arrives: combining abstract turntablism, outré drumming and uncanny instrumentation, their sonic searching is as playful as it is profound.
Sunday January 11 * doors at 6:30, music at 7 * OFFSITE at Tonal Park * $25-30 * TICKETS
Transparent Productions welcomes Ches Smith’s Clone Row to Tonal Park Studios with Ches Smith: (drums, vibes, electronics), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Liberty Ellman (guitar), and Nick Dunston (bass, electronics).
Tonal Park is at 7014-C Westmoreland Ave, Takoma Park, MD. Enter through the WOWD entrance at 7014-B. Any questions, email Transparent at transparentprods AT gmail DOT com; please don’t contact Tonal Park.
Ches Smith's new release, “Clone Row”, features an adventurous new quartet with guitarists Mary Halvorson and Liberty Ellman and bassist Nick Dunston. Smith finds endless possibilities in this seemingly limited instrumentation, weaving together varied threads from his divergent earlier projects in ways that sound not quite like any of them. “This definitely ain’t your father’s guitar band,” writes no less an expert on six-string subversion than Marc Ribot, who penned the album’s liner notes. “It’s as if I’m hearing a Jim Hall concert in which one of us did a lot of mushrooms, or… some post-punk post-Dave Brubeck post-trip-hop experiment with classical form.”
“One of the wiliest drummers on the experimental scene” --The New York Times
Monday January 12 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
We are pleased to welcome percussionist & composer Bex Burch (Berlin) and friends, debuting a new work in progress piece, "as yet untitled" - a 60 minute piece for structured, improvisatory, messy minimalism, following up on of her critically acclaimed solo album There is only love and fear (International Anthem). Opening set of poems by John-Francis Quiñonez.
Whether combining the rhythmic timbres of wood, metal and audience claps or duetting with the atmospheric and elegiac echoed sounds of water dripping into a metal basin, Bex Burch is a composer, percussionist, instrument maker and improviser who emphasises space, repetition and aspects of chaos. These themes characterise an ongoing approach she describes as “messy minimalism”.
Burch’s critically acclaimed 2023 solo album, 'There is only love and fear' was released via Chicago’s International Anthem and named The Guardian's Contemporary Album of the Month. She runs the label, Vula Viel Records, the domestic music event, Kantine Musik, and has collaborated with influential artists including Thomas Sekgura, Leafcutter John as part of ‘Boing!’, Tamar Osborn, Sarathy Korwar, Al MacSween and Danalogue in ‘Flock’, Peter Zummo, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Ben LaMar Gay, Dan Bitney and Macie Stewart.
2nd & 4th Wednesdays * online at 8pm Eastern * Free / donations appreciated * 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.
Sunday January 18 * doors at 6:30, music at 7 * $12-24 * TICKETS
In Anastasia Coope's world, there is little difference between a confrontation and a welcoming gesture. Listening to her music, one is struck by her gift for vocal harmony and rich personal vision that borrows as much from the light and color of painting as it does from experimental music. The release of Darning Woman in 2024 saw critical acclaim and international success as she pushed the idiom of folk music to its limits. Coope has now responded to the success of Darning Woman by enclosing the space around her voice and casting aside the baggage of her folk forebears. On DOT, her first EP on Bonzo, Coope extends a generous invitation into her inner life, and inside a new musical language built from the gorgeous and the mundane, an everyday sublime. The result is a beauty that is light on its feet and almost abrasive in its clarity, avant-garde and as easy as turning on the radio: What's that song...?
Autobahn is a three piece band from New York: Findlay Fullarton, Liam Barton, and Louisa Tantillo.
Other People
Friday January 23 * doors at 6:30, music at 7 * $20-30 * TICKETS
Transparent Productions presents Pearring Sound with Jeff Pearring (sax), Jon Elbaz (piano), Evan Palmer (bass), and TBA (drums).
JEFF PEARRING has released four critically endorsed albums under Pearring Sound, and continues to perform under the Pearring Sound moniker with trios, quartets, quintets, and a double trio all formed from thoughtful combinations of world class musicians.
JON ELBAZ is a pianist and composer from New Jersey. His compositional and ensemble approach incorporates interest in the 20th century’s written structures and systems, as well as its many pioneers of improvisation and creative thinking.
EVAN PALMER (they/them) is a bassist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator based in Brooklyn. Through improvisation, composition, and an arsenal of traditional and extended techniques, they are developing a deeply personal artistic language and concept that can be heard across their many different projects, from solo bass performances, to hard-hitting free jazz ensembles, to jazz standards and more.
Monday January 26 * 7pm * $15 * TICKETS
CHEMICAL-X
hardcore punk from North Jersey
https://chemical-x1.bandcamp.com/
SAAFEWAAY
evil grocery store punk music from DC
https://saafewaay.bandcamp.com/
LIMIT BREAK
Super saiyan hardcore from Baltimore
https://limitbreakbchc.bandcamp.com/
2nd & 4th Wednesdays * online at 8pm Eastern * Free / donations appreciated * 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.
Friday February 6 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * OFFSITE at Tonal Park * $25-35 * TICKETS
Transparent Productions presents pianist Matthew Shipp, solo, at Tonal Park Studios. Tonal Park is at 7014-C Westmoreland Ave, Takoma Park, MD. Enter through the WOWD entrance at 7014-B. Any questions, email Transparent at transparentprods AT gmail DOT com; please don’t contact Tonal Park.
New York City-based pianist, MATTHEW SHIPP, has collaborated with, among others, David S. Ware, William Parker, Joe Morris, Roscoe Mitchell, Matt Maneri, Darius Jones, Michael Bisio, and Gerald Cleaver. Downbeat describes Shipp as “the connection between the past, present and future for jazzheads of all ages” and as “a musician who deserves a place of choice in the jazz piano pantheon.” He is the author of the book “Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings” which was published earlier this year. Shipp’s latest solo piano recording is “The Cosmic Piano” on Cantaloupe Music: https://matthewshipp.bandcamp.com/album/the-cosmic-piano
Saturday February 7 * 3pm * $25 / scholarships available * REGISTER
This is an in-person workshop on the basics of vocal feminization: raising your pitch, shifting your resonance, and sustaining your trained voice. It'll be interactive, so come prepared to try the exercises in a judgment-free setting. Instructor: Jessica Austin
Scholarships available - please email info@rhizomedc.org
To find out more about me or schedule private lessons, visit my website: https://thetransjessicaaustin.com/
Saturday February 7 * doors at 7, show at 7:30 * $10 * TICKETS
Suicide Eyes (PA)
https://suicideeyes.bandcamp.com
False Salvation (PA)
https://rebirthrecordsphl.bandcamp.com/album/false-salvation
Flip the Switch (PA)
https://fliptheswitchlv.bandcamp.com/
Recent events:

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.