Just Announced: APLR and Secret Agent 23 Skidoo bring an immersive children’s workshop to the listening room this Winter with The Imaginarium: Flip The Script!
Throughout January, February, and March - Secret Agent 23 Skidoo will host a series of workshops teaching creativity and self-expression through rhyme-writing and performance. This children’s workshop is designed to boost confidence and self-esteem through tutorials covering topics like connecting to your voice, conveying your message, composure on stage, and delivery. Guiding attendees to connect their art with their emotions and cultivating the lifelong tools to express their perspective publicly.
Each child will then have the opportunity to showcase their skills at a full-blown Secret Agent 23 Skidoo show, which is open to the public and includes some very special guests!
Tickets are available at the link in the bio! Please note the workshop dates versus the performance dates when signing up.
WORKSHOPS:
2.5-hour rhyme writing and performance workshops led by GRAMMY-winning hip-hop artist 23 Skidoo, is designed to teach participants how to look inside themselves, find something of value, craft it into art, and then share it with their family, friends, and community!
Workshop Dates: 1.19 - 2.2 - 2.16 - 3.16
PERFORMANCES:
Participants from the rhyme writing workshops will have a chance to rock their rhyme at a live Secret Agent 23 Skidoo show! Sharing the stage with 23 Skidoo & Crew, you will become a special guest ready to impress! Loud and proud in front of a crowd!
Performance Dates: 1.26 -3.2 - 3.23
Blessings of Transcendence
Exciting new experiences are on the horizon.
TICKETS ARE MOVING FAST!
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@rosalimusic joins in support, with a portion of ticket sales benefiting @lamplightavl who have been instrumental in helping artists affected by Hurricane Helene.
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Garcia Peoples are too nervy to be a proper jam band, but they jam way too much to be anything else. Dodging Dues, the New Jersey sextet’s fifth studio album [is an] easeful tour of muscular riff-rock, noodly song suites, and curtsying pastoral folk. If you pick up this record in the hopes of hearing someone imitate the tone of Jerry Garcia’s tiger guitar, look elsewhere. Though still firmly tape-trader music, their form of psychedelia has more in common with the likes of Kikagaku Moyo, Dungen, and Chris Forsyth, the latter of whom they’ve backed live—all artists who use the clicked-in propulsion of krautrock to keep their wildest trips firmly within the guardrails. For Garcia Peoples, this sense of restraint makes their music more compelling and allows them to subvert expectations. - Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork
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Show up with a swimsuit, towel, and water bottle. A robe and flip flops are also welcome for comfort. Today sessions are no cost so come drip with us! 💦
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Friends! This Saturday, March 2nd we welcome Zondo Zondo Kevin Spears and Chinobay for a very special event… The Conscious Sound Healing Ecstatic Dance Fest: Africa Edition! This is going to be a very special one day event with masterclasses in the afternoon and concerts in the evening! We do hope that you can join us for this unique offering and feel the inspiration of the special melodies and rhythms, offered by three gifted Asheville artists. For topics, details and tickets, see the link in comments.🇿🇦💜🪘
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