Feb 13th, 12pm. Join Us As We Tell Pelosi: "This Valentine's Day, Have A Heart. Give Us A Food and Farm We'll Love"

From: Jess Bell

PLEASE FORWARD, PLEASE FORWARD

“Food Advocates Tell Pelosi: This Valentine’s Have A Heart.
Give Us A Food and Farm Bill We’ll Love”

Join Us For A Speak-Out and Eat-In For A Fair and Healthy Farm Bill, Wed. Feb. 13th, 12pm.
UN Plaza Farmers Market, 1182 Market Street, San Francisco – near Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office.

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This Valentine’s Day Season, join us as we urge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to have a heart and support a Fair and Healthy Food and Farm Bill. We need a Farm Bill that stops subsidizing corporate agribusiness at the expense of public health and instead invests our tax dollars into creating a sustainable, healthy, community-driven and just food system!

Speakers Include: Bryant Terry, eco-chef, author, and Food and Society Policy Fellow; the California Food and Justice Coalition; Shyaam Shabaka, founder and director of the Eco-Village Farm Learning Center; Local Farmers; Community Anti-Hunger Advocates; and representatives from Peggy De Silva, from Veritable Vegetable, the oldest organic produce distributor in the U.S. and San Francisco’s Alemany Farm.

We live in an era of global food insecurity and chronic hunger, where 800 million a day go hungry, small farmers worldwide are struggling to survive in a consolidated agricultural industry, soil erosion, water and air pollution and pesticides threaten our health and our farmland, and poor communities in the United States have little access to affordable, accessible, healthy food. The U.S. Farm Bill shapes our broken food system.

We know it’s time to take action for change. The passage of the 2007 Farm Bill through Congress has been marked by unprecedented and previously unseen public demand for reform, which has compelled California’s urban legislators to begin to vote in our favor. In the final stages of this campaign we must keep the pressure on.

SO MUCH IS STILL AT STAKE! Our Representatives are cobbling together a Farm Bill from the different House and Senate versions, and deciding how much money to allocate to each program. Neither of these bills include significant reform of commodity programs, but Speaker Pelosi has the opportunity to use her power to negotiate for meaningful reforms that will begin to transform the food system – like limiting subsidy payments to people who are actually farming (right now wealthy urbanites in New York City can get subsidy payments), and closing loop-holes that allow mega-farms to receive mega-payments. We also need to ensure that vital food and farm justice programs like the Community Food Projects Grants Program, which gives grants to small food justice organizations like the Ecology Center, and the Minority Farm Outreach Program, which helps minority farmers fairly access Federal Government support programs, receive the full funding they deserve. Go to http://www.cafoodjustice.org for more information on how this Farm Bill affects you.

This event is also an opportunity to listen to, connect with, learn from, and get involved in important local programs and campaigns to improve the bay area’s food system. We encourage you to bring a hearty lunch that reflects the kinds of foods you think our Farm Bill should support. We will walk to Pelosi’s office to deliver our message after our speak-out at the Farmers’ Market.

Get involved in creating this event: jessicabell@cafoodjustice.org, 510 704 0245, www.cafoodjustice.org.

Come to the following lead up events:

• Farm Bill and CFJC Public speaking skill share Sat. Feb. 9th, 10.00am – 11.30pm, 3208 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley. If you’re interested in publicly speaking about the Farm Bill then join us in a workshop that will allow us to increase our abilities and talking about our work in a compelling, powerful and inspiring way.
  

• Banner and sign making party, Sat. Feb. 9th, 12pm – 4pm, 3208 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley. We’ll be making a big banner as well as signs with love hearts on them.
  

The United Nations Plaza Farmers Market is next to the Civic Center BART Station. More info at: http://sanfrancisco.citysearch.com/profile/863197 .com/profile/863197>

reiki training, spring raw yoga retreat, & thai massage

From: kristie dahlia home
Date: Jan 29, 2008 12:17 PM
Subject: [atha-events] reiki training, spring retreat, thai massage
To: atha-events@athayoga.com

oh shining friends:

a few marvelous events coming up. please spread the word as you feel called; i am ever-grateful for your assistance in supporting my work in this way...

much love,

kristie

- REIKI TRAINING february 16-17 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

a new weekend workshop in home studio: reiki training! the weekend offers level 1 reiki attunement; at the end of the weekend participants will be reiki practitioners. reiki is a form of energy work; it's subtle and incredibly powerful stuff! our science doesn't yet understand how energy work happens, but many studies show that it is highly effective. personally i find it the most effective non-drug option for relieving the pain that can come with my body's endometriosis. energy work is a wonderful tool for supporting your health and that of your loved ones, complementing a bodywork practice, and is often a quickening in one's spiritual evolution and energetic growth. this is an intimate class; there will be a maximum of six participants. currently three places remain. we will practice yoga and meditation to support and explore our reiki practice; truly this is the real-est magic i have to offer you and i can't warmly enough recommend that if you feel the call, you come to swim with me in the etheric ocean.

please contact me to reserve your space if you are interested, or if you simply wish to discuss what reiki is and whether it is right for you. full details are here:

http://www.athayoga.com/2007/11/reiki_first_degree_weekend_wor_1.html#more

- SPRING RETREAT: RISING! april 11-13 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

and a reminder that rising is coming! the spring retreat plans are thick here and so pleasantly coming along. there is a discount for early registration, so think ahead....

http://www.athayoga.com/2007/10/rising_an_atha_yoga_retreat.html#more

-THAI YOGA MASSAGE CLASS january 31- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

this thursday january 31st i'll be teaching a thai yoga massage workshop at the integral yoga institute. this is the work i've been studying for a couple years and intensively the past few months. oh how i adore it!

http://www.athayoga.com/2007/11/thai_yoga_massage_workshop_1.html#more

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as always, in thanks for your attention i offer some inspiration:

We live in illusion

And the appearance of things.

There is a reality.

We are that reality.

When you understand this,

You see that you are nothing.

And being nothing,

You are everything.

That is all.

- Kalu Rinpoche

AXIS SYLLABUS WORKSHOP with Frey Faust & Kira Kirsch

From: Kira Kirsch <kirakirsch@yahoo.com>
Date: Jan 25, 2008 2:40 PM
Subject: AXIS SYLLABUS WORKSHOP with Frey Faust & Kira Kirsch
To: kirakirsch@yahoo.com

hey movers and shakers,

a little reminder for this upcoming workshop where i will be collaborating with Frey Faust who is the originator of the Axis Syllabus and who i studied with for 7 years. There are a few places left. This will be the last chance to catch a workshop with him here in the Bay Area before he leaves for Europe till next winter! The early registration discount will end on January 28th.
Let's dance together!
sunshine & warmth
Kira


AXIS SYLLABUS WORKSHOP in San Francisco

w. Kira Kirsch & Frey Faust

@1345 A 17th Street (@Connecticut), SF Muni Bus 22

Sat & Sun February 2nd & 3rd 11 – 4.30 pm (5hrs w half hour break)

SECRET AGENTS - extremity assistance & navigation f. floor work (taught by Kira)
Study supportive angles for shoulder and hip joints as well as healthy motion pathways for arms & legs. Learn to generate and use centrifugal force to help you hover in, above and out of the floor. The proximal driven use of your periphery amplifies axial movements, permits you to expands into space and leaves the adventurous taste of flight .
TIME CURVES - rhythm for coordination (taught by Frey)
The length of our limbs and their mass provide us with intrinsic inertial values to use as guidelines for musicality. Practice keeping time without losing yourself. This class focuses on optimal choices for the use of time, while dancing; specifically the utility of curved ramps that accelerate at the third quarter.

pre-reg fee: $85
after jan 28th $ 95
kirakirsch@yahoo.com 415-724-6778
checks payable to Rene Alvarez and send to 669 24th st. unit B, oakland, ca-94612
cancellation policies & info at: www.axissyllabus.com
lack of funds? please don't hesitate and call or write me!

click here for demo video of the axis syllabus and slide show

WHAT IS THE AXIS SYLLABUS?
The Axis Syllabus is a method of teaching people how to move safely. It uses basic physics, applied anatomy and a spiraling, circular vocabulary that proposes smart use of built-in landing pads in the body, harnessing your own mass and momentum to get into and out of the floor and air. The Axis Syllabus heals by helping you harmonize your movements with universal physical principles and your own skeletal architecture. It reduces stress on the joints and organs by offering logical transitions for the transfer of weight through muscles and bones, helping to locate and restructure harmful habits. These principles are for everyone, from the office-worker to the break-dance.

Frey Faust was given direction, discipline and the chance to develop a passion for his chosen muse by his mother, Shekhinah Mountainwater, a known author and leading figure in the women's spiritual movement of America. He worked under her direction from age 8 to age 15,performing as a pantomime-dancer-actor in all manner of circumstances, from the street to the theater. Nita Little, co-creator of Contact Improvisation, initiated him to its liberating concepts at the age of 14. At Marcel Marceau's invitation he then went to Paris to study intensively at the former's Ecole de Mimodrame for one year. Afterwards, he returned to California to pursue his personal education through the practice of Afro-Haitian dance, Aikido, Capoiera and Percussion. In 1980, he decided to try his luck in New York. Ten years later, having worked with some of the best of the NY movers and shakers such as David Parsons, Donald Byrd, Randy Warshaw, Gina Buntz, Ohad Naharin, Meredith Monk, Merce Cunningham and Stephen Petronio, he was granted the opportunity to be the artist in residence at the Werkstatt, Düsseldorf, Germany for two years (now the Tanzhaus NRW). There he was able, with the generous support of the German government, to create six solos and three evening-length works and to begin the consolidation of his pedagogical ideas. He is the author of the book and the originator of the Axis Syllabus-universal motor principles; a method for teaching movement through which he aspires to assist his students to deepen their understanding and use of nature's gift to us.

Kira Kirsch born in Berlin, studied modern dance and pedagogy at the conservatory of Vienna. She was granted with scholarships of tanzpool and the Austrian Arts Council to deepen and furthering her movement studies and artistic development. She studied with Frey Faust for seven years and is a certified Axis Syllabus instructor. She gets invited to lead wksps and classes in both dance technique and contact improv all around Europe and California and among others has performed with Half Machine(DK), Frey Faust's ABCD Collective(EU), PARTS(B) and Cie Anna Tenta(A). She is currently dancing for Erika Tsimbrovsky in San Francisco. Recent productions where 'IRational' for ODC Pilot and the 'Garden' at NOH space and Stanford University.

swap salvage, rescue animals, walkmen absurdists, conspiracy of venus, & alemany farm

announcements:

we have a ton of clothes & stuff (a small tv, blue puff balls for crafts) at our house leftover from sunday's swap. let me know if you want to look through it all before we bring it to the thrift store. thanks to everyone came to make it our biggest one yet!

click this link daily theanimalrescuesite.com to help The Animal Rescue Site meet their quota of getting free food donated to abused and neglected animals.

if you have a walkman or discman to lend or give to jeremy for his tour adventure through golden gate park this weekend, let him know! and find out more about sunday's ambient park tour at the absurdists.com

if you have a myspace account, please add conspiracy of venus and alemany farm to your friends list! (or if you don't, please just check out the links) myspace.com/conspiracyofvenus and myspace.com/alemanyfarm

thanks, and hope to see you soon at the events listed to the right,
jessie

what's going on

special announcements:

1) conspiracy of venus is opening for david dondero and the mountain goats, saturday march 1st at the independent! conspiracy of venus is a new women's choir, in which i sing with 20-25 other women... we sing the songs of leonard cohen, tom waits, joni mitchell, bjork, hildegard von bingen, rufus wainwright, and more to be added. we're excited to have this opportunity and hope you can make it to the show. you can find the rest of the noise pop schedule and get ticket info at http://noisepop.com.

2) farm bill event coming up soon ~ we are in the final final weeks of the 2007 Farm Bill determination. there will be a public event to build awareness and gather support sometime in late january / early february, probably in downtown SF. stay tuned for details...

Events! (details below this list when indicated):

*1/17 Thursday
Dan Deacon & Ultimate Reality (co-headlining), Health, & KIT at the Great American Music Hall (letty's pick)

*1/18 Thursday - 1/21 Monday
Yoga Journal Conference in SF

*1/20 Sunday
Alemany Farm Workday 12-5pm Free

*1/20 Sunday
The Dodos, Beatbeat Whisper, & Silvertooth at the Rite Spot

*1/22 Tuesday
Contact Improv Class for Beginners at Counterpulse with Kira Kirsch, 6:30-8pm, $12 drop-in

*1/22 Tuesday
The Blow & Mirah plus Cryptacize at the Great American Music Hall (letty's pick)

*1/23 Wednesday
Mirah & The Blow plus High Places at the Great American Music Hall (letty's pick)

*1/23 Wednesday - 1/26 Saturday
Ecological Farming Conference at Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove (details below)

*1/25 Friday
Sean Hayes plus JT & the Clouds at the Independent Doors 8:30, Show 9 $17

*1/26 Saturday
Alemany Farm Workday 12-5pm Free

*1/26 Saturday
World Social Forum's Global Day of Action, Everywhere, Free!

*1/29 Tuesday
Contact Improv Class for Beginners at Counterpulse with Kira Kirsch, 6:30-8pm, $12 drop-in

*1/31 Thursday
Coal Beautiere, Lona Echo, and Emily Jane White at Edinburgh Castle

*2/1 Friday - 2/9 Saturday
Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Festival (Volunteers Needed! details below)

*2/2 Saturday & 2/3 Sunday
Axis Syllabus Dance Workshop in SF, "Secret Agents" w/ Kira Kirsch & "Time Curves" w/ Frey Faust, 11am- 4:30pm (sign up now, details below)

*2/2 Saturday
Club Feral Benefit Show for In Search of Good Food w/ NRSZ, Conspiracy of Beards, & Enablers at Thee Parkside, with pastries by Hanna! 9pm $5 (details below)

*2/17 Sunday
St. Vincent at Great American Music Hall

*2/26 Tuesday - 3/2 Sunday
Noise Pop http://noisepop.com/2008

*3/1 Saturday
Conspiracy of Venus (women's choir), David Dondero, & Mountain Goats at the Independent for Noise Pop, 8:30pm, get tickets now while they are still available!

*3/21 Friday
Perranosperous plays at El Rio

Event Details!!

*1/20 Sunday, & 1/26 Saturday (First & Third Sundays of the Month & Saturdays In Between)

Alemany Farm Workdays 12-5pm Free

Join us at the Alemany Farm for our community workdays, from 12:00pm to 5:00pm. All skill levels welcome to do as much or as little for any portion or the entirety of the day. We will be harvesting food (lots of winter greens!) between 3:30 & 4:30pm. Hope to see you there! Hard rain cancels. Map, directions, and details at http://www.alemanyfarm.org Questions? Email community.gardeners@gmail.com

*2/1 Friday - 2/9 Saturday

Volunteer for the SF Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Festival

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for the San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival. This grass-roots, non-profit, volunteer-run festival is one of few in the US.

The festival runs Feb 1-9, 2008, with a benefit show on Jan 6th at Cafe du Nord. This year's festival features 50 acts from all over the US, and is held at 15 select venues around the Bay. Individual donations comprise a major portion of its funding. There are several ways to volunteer; hanging posters before the festival, working the merch table or passing out programs at the festival, and so much more. Plus you get to see free music!

To say thanks, we are having an after party on Feb 15 and all volunteers are welcome to come!

If you want to lend a hand please call Shelby Ash at (415)664-2044 or email him at shelby@shelbyashpresents.net

Shelby will give you the dates help is needed at.
Thanks kindly!

www.sfbluegrass.org

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*1/23 Wednesday - 1/26 Saturday
Ecological Farming Conference at Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove

Root Values: Connecting Ecology, Community and the Land

Details here: http://eco-farm.org/efc_08/index.html

* 2/2Saturday & 2/3 Sunday

"Secret Agents" w/ Kira Kirsch & "Time Curves" w/ Frey Faust, Axis Syllabus Dance Workshop in SF, 11am- 4:30pm

AXIS SYLLABUS WINTER WORKSHOP SERIES
in San Francisco

@1345 A 17th Street (@Connecticut), SF Muni Bus 22

WORKHOP II February 1st & 2nd 11 – 4.30 pm
w. Kira Kirsch & Frey Faust

SECRET AGENTS - extremity assistance & navigation f. floor work (taught by Kira)

Study supportive angles for shoulder and hip joints as well as healthy motion pathways for arms & legs. Learn to generate and use centrifugal force to help you hover in, above and out of the floor. The proximal driven use of your periphery amplifies axial movements, permits you to expands into space and leaves the adventurous taste of flight.

TIME CURVES - rhythm for coordination (taught by Frey)

The length of our limbs and their mass provide us with intrinsic inertial values to use as guidelines for musicality. Practice keeping time without losing yourself. This class focuses on optimal choices for the use of time, while dancing; specifically the utility of curved ramps that accelerate at the third quarter.

pre-reg fees: jan WS I $65 / feb WS II $85 / both WS I+II $130
after jan 1st WS I $75 / after jan 28th WS II $ 95

kirakirsch@yahoo.com 415-724-6778
checks payable to Kira Kirsch 669 24th st. unit B, oakland, ca-94612
cancellation policies & info at: www.axissyllabus.com
lack of funds? please don't hesitate and call or write!

click here for demo video of the axis syllabus and slide show or copy & paste this link http://www.axissyllabus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99&Itemid=2

WHAT IS THE AXIS SYLLABUS?
The Axis Syllabus is a method of teaching people how to move safely. It uses basic physics, applied anatomy and a spiraling, circular vocabulary that proposes smart use of built-in landing pads in the body, harnessing your own mass and momentum to get into and out of the floor and air. The Axis Syllabus heals by helping you harmonize your movements with universal physical principles and your own skeletal architecture. It reduces stress on the joints and organs by offering logical transitions for the transfer of weight through muscles and bones, helping to locate and restructure harmful habits. These principles are for everyone, from the office-worker to the break-dancer.

* 2/2 Saturday
Club Feral Benefit Show for In Search of Good Food w/ NRSZ, Conspiracy of Beards, & Enablers at Thee Parkside, with pastries by Hanna! 9pm $5

More music for good food!

9pm Saturday February 2nd

Benefit Show for In Search of Good Food

(mid-way through their tour of CA's emerging sustainable food system)

http://www.insearchofgoodfood.org

NRSZ http://myspace.com/nursesrehearses
Conspiracy of Beards http://conspiracyofbeards.com/
Enablers http://www.myspace.com/enablers

at Thee Parkside http://www.theeparkside.com/
1600 17th Street @ Wisconsin · San Francisco, CA · 415.252.1330

Benefit for Club Feral http://www.myspace.com/clubferal

plus Pastries by Hanna!

email insearchofgoodfood@gmail.com if you want to help with the movie-making effort.

sea gardens

i can't watch this Sea Garden video clip yet, but i think it may help explain the page you're looking at now. here is the description...

Sea Gardens
This video clip begins by showing a variety of creatures moving gently in the water. Green feather duster worms and seaweed sway with the current. Next, we see a closer view of white tunicates, with their air intake and discharge syphons visible, and what might be an orangish-colored sponge. The video again shows feather duster worms, before it pans to a closeup of a tunicate rocking gently with the current.

format

sorry for the weird formatting; i don't quite know how to use this thing yet. apparently copy and paste doesn't really work. let me know if you have any easy blog format tips.

starting the year things-to-do suggestions

Hello, and Happy New Year!

Below are some blogs that I recommend, and a lot more events that I hope you will check out, if you decide to brave the rain and venture out. I spared you the details on most of the events because this email is already long enough. However, please do write if you want to know more on any events or know any more about these events, and I'll make something up or take your word for it. Thanks for reading!

Blogs:

http://www.insearchofgoodfood.blogspot.com

The In Search of Good Food film tour of CA's emerging sustainable food system started two days ago. Go here to watch the trailer, find out who they're interviewing, and where in CA they are now .

http://www.theweekintro.blogspot.com

Free, cheap, or worth-paying-for Bay Area events of the week with commentary, by Lea.

http://www.seaweedsway.blogspot.com

My new blog, where I may post stuff I want to share. . .

Events! (details below this list when indicated):

*1/4 Friday
Didimao, Trainwreck Riders, Stripmall Seizures, Tinkture, & People Eaters, 924 Gilman Street Project, 924 Gilman, Berkeley, 8pm, $6 (check out Bay Guardian Article p. 26)

*1/5 Saturday & 1/6 Sunday
Axis Syllabus Dance Workshop "Vertebration" (spinal mechanics) w/ Kira at 17th & Connecticut in SF, 11am-3:30pm (details below)

*1/5 Saturday
WomenRock Benefit for GirlsRock Summer Camp w/ bernadette, Making Dinner, & Valerie Orth Band at Bottom of the Hill, 8:30pm, $5-$20 (details below)

*1/6 Sunday
Alemany Farm Workday 12-5pm Free (details below)

*1/6 Sunday
The Bluegrass Revolution – Benefit Show for the SF Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Festival, Featuring Montana Slim, Howdy!, & The Pine Needles, $10-$20 Sliding Scale, 6:30pm (Volunteers Needed for Festival! details are below)

*1/10 Thursday
The Entrance Band & Mariee Sioux (co-headlining), Little Wings, Lee Bob Watson, & DJ Andy Cabic of Vetiver at Great American Music Hall, Doors 7:30, Show 8, $13/$16

*1/11 Friday
Joseph Childress, Lazarus, & Katie Delwich at SF-Fort Gallery, 83B Wiese St. in SF, 8pm (email fortgallery@gmail.com with questions)

*1/12 Saturday
Alemany Farm Workday 12-5pm Free (details below)

*1/12 Saturday Option 1
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, Ray's Vast Basement, & The Dry Spells at Cafe Du Nord, 9:30pm, $10

*1/12 Saturday Option 2
Minipop with Kate Nash at Popscene, 330 Ritch St., 9pm

*1/13 Sunday
Swap Your Stuff at My House 1:13-5pm Free (plus you might find something you never knew you wanted or needed)

*1/17 Thursday
Dan Deacon & Ultimate Reality (co-headlining), Health, & KIT at the Great American Music Hall (letty's pick)

*1/18 Thursday - 1/21 Monday
Yoga Journal Conference in SF

*1/20 Sunday
Alemany Farm Workday 12-5pm Free

*1/20 Sunday
The Dodos, Beatbeat Whisper, & Silvertooth at the Rite Spot

*1/22 Tuesday
The Blow & Mirah plus Cryptacize at the Great American Music Hall (letty's pick)

*1/23 Wednesday
Mirah & The Blow plus High Places at the Great American Music Hall (letty's pick)

*1/23 Wednesday - 1/26 Saturday
Ecological Farming Conference at Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove (details below)

*1/25 Friday
Sean Hayes plus JT & the Clouds at the Independent Doors 8:30, Show 9 $17

*1/26 Saturday
Alemany Farm Workday 12-5pm Free

*1/26 Saturday
World Social Forum's Global Day of Action, Everywhere, Free!

*1/31 Thursday
Coal Beautiere, Lona Echo, and Emily Jane White at Edinburgh Castle

*2/1 Friday - 2/9 Saturday
Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Festival (Volunteers Needed! details below)

*2/2 Saturday & 2/3 Sunday
Axis Syllabus Dance Workshop in SF, "Secret Agents" w/ Kira Kirsch & "Time Curves" w/ Frey Faust, 11am-4:30pm (sign up now, details below)

*2/2 Saturday
Club Feral Benefit Show for In Search of Good Food w/ NRSZ, Conspiracy of Beards, & Enablers at Thee Parkside, with pastries by Hanna! 9pm $5 (details below)

*2/17 Sunday
St. Vincent at Great American Music Hall

*2/26 Tuesday - 3/2 Sunday
Noise Pop http://noisepop.com/2008

*3/21 Friday
Perranosperous plays at El Rio

Event Details!!

*1/5 Saturday & 1/6 Sunday
"Vertebration" Axis Syllabus Dance Workshop
w/ Kira in SF 11am-3:30pm

AXIS SYLLABUS WINTER WORKSHOP SERIES
in San Francisco

@1345 A 17th Street (@Connecticut), SF Muni Bus 22

WORKSHOP I January 5th & 6th 11am – 3.30pm
w. Kira Kirsch

VERTEBRATION - a deeper look into spinal mechanics
Discover the spine as a major motor for locomotion. Find your curves and individual neutral alignment. Practice coordination of three-axial movements, side-bending, undulations and oscillations. Experience efficient shock absorption and proximal magic which are keys towards fluidity, precision and ease.

pre-reg fees: jan WS I $65 / feb WS II $85 / both WS I+II $130
after jan 1st WS I $75 / after jan 28th WS II $ 95

kirakirsch@yahoo.com 415-724-6778
checks payable to Kira Kirsch 669 24th st. unit B, oakland, ca-94612
cancellation policies & info at: www.axissyllabus.com
lack of funds? please don't hesitate and call or write!

click here for demo video of the axis syllabus and slide show or copy & paste this link http://www.axissyllabus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99&Itemid=2

WHAT IS THE AXIS SYLLABUS?
The Axis Syllabus is a method of teaching people how to move safely. It uses basic physics, applied anatomy and a spiraling, circular vocabulary that proposes smart use of built-in landing pads in the body, harnessing your own mass and momentum to get into and out of the floor and air. The Axis Syllabus heals by helping you harmonize your movements with universal physical principles and your own skeletal architecture. It reduces stress on the joints and organs by offering logical transitions for the transfer of weight through muscles and bones, helping to locate and restructure harmful habits. These principles are for everyone, from the office-worker to the break-dancer.

*1/5 Saturday
WomenRock Benefit for GirlsRock Summer Camp w/ bernadette, Making Dinner, & Valerie Orth Band at Bottom of the Hill $5-$20

SATURDAY, JANUARY 5
WOMENROCK BENEFIT FOR GIRLS ROCK SUMMER CAMP

AT: BOTTOM OF THE HILL- 1233 17th St, San Francisco

LIVE MUSIC BY:

9PM - Making Dinner ( www.makingdinnertheband.com )
9:30PM - Valerie Orth Band ( www.myspace.com/vlomusic )
11PM - bernadette ( www.myspace.com/bernadettemusic )

Doors open at 8PM.

TICKETS: $5-$20 sliding scale.
Buy tickets now at www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=sfbay&query=schedule&venue=bottom&interface=both

BENEFIT put on by local women's music collective, WomenROCK (which Abigail and I are part of). We'll be raising money for summer classes at Blue Bear School of Music that teaches girls musicianship, performance skills and team-building. More details on my latest blog at www.myspace.com/vlomusic.

*1/6 Sunday, 1/12 Saturday, 1/20 Sunday, & 1/26 Saturday (First & Third Sundays of the Month & Saturdays In Between)

Alemany Farm Workdays 12-5pm Free

Join us at the Alemany Farm for our community workdays, from 12:00pm to 5:00pm. All skill levels welcome to do as much or as little for any portion or the entirety of the day. We will be harvesting food (lots of winter greens!) between 3:30 & 4:30pm. Hope to see you there! Hard rain cancels. Map, directions, and details at http://www.alemanyfarm.org Questions? Email community.gardeners@gmail.com

*1/6 Sunday

Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Festival Benefit Show at Café Du Nord and Volunteer Request

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for the San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival. This grass-roots, non-profit, volunteer-run festival is one of few in the US.

The festival runs Feb 1-9, 2008, with a benefit show on Jan 6th at Cafe du Nord. This year's festival features 50 acts from all over the US, and is held at 15 select venues around the Bay. Individual donations comprise a major portion of its funding. There are several ways to volunteer; hanging posters before the festival, working the merch table or passing out programs at the festival, and so much more. Plus you get to see free music!

To say thanks, we are having an after party on Feb 15 and all volunteers are welcome to come!

If you want to lend a hand please call Shelby Ash at (415)664-2044 or email him at shelby@shelbyashpresents.net

Shelby will give you the dates help is needed at.
Thanks kindly!

www.sfbluegrass.org

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Sunday, January 6, 2008
THE NEXT WAVE OF BLUEGRASS
A Benefit Concert for the San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival

Please help keep this local bluegrass festival going strong for another great year - come for the cause, buy a raffle ticket, have a cold beer, and enjoy some great bluegrass - the "next wave of bluegrass".
You can also sign up to be a festival volunteer at this fundraiser.

Featuring:
The Bluegrass Revolution -- gypsy grass
Montana Slim -- new grass
Howdy! -- jam grass
The Pine Needles -- mountain jazz
and the Mountain Boys (JUST ADDED!)

Cafe du Nord
2170 Market Street, SF
415-861-5016

EARLY SHOW!
6pm doors / 6:30 show
sliding scale: $10-$20

More info at:
www.shelbyashpresents.net
www.sfbluegrass.org
www.cafedunord.com
www.thebluegrassrevolution.com
www.myspace.com/montanaslimmusic
www.outlawfolk.com
www.myspace.com/thepineneedles
www.myspace.com/mountainboysmusic

Check out the poster at:
http://www.shelbyashpresents.net/benefitposter.pdf

*1/23 Wednesday - 1/26 Saturday
Ecological Farming Conference at Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove

Root Values: Connecting Ecology, Community and the Land

Details here: http://eco-farm.org/efc_08/index.html

* 2/2 Saturday & 2/3 Sunday

"Secret Agents" w/ Kira Kirsch & "Time Curves" w/ Frey Faust, Axis Syllabus Dance Workshop in SF, 11am-4:30pm

AXIS SYLLABUS WINTER WORKSHOP SERIES
in San Francisco

@1345 A 17th Street (@Connecticut), SF Muni Bus 22

WORKHOP II February 1st & 2nd 11 – 4.30 pm
w. Kira Kirsch & Frey Faust

SECRET AGENTS - extremity assistance & navigation f. floor work (taught by Kira)

Study supportive angles for shoulder and hip joints as well as healthy motion pathways for arms & legs. Learn to generate and use centrifugal force to help you hover in, above and out of the floor. The proximal driven use of your periphery amplifies axial movements, permits you to expands into space and leaves the adventurous taste of flight.

TIME CURVES - rhythm for coordination (taught by Frey)

The length of our limbs and their mass provide us with intrinsic inertial values to use as guidelines for musicality. Practice keeping time without losing yourself. This class focuses on optimal choices for the use of time, while dancing; specifically the utility of curved ramps that accelerate at the third quarter.

pre-reg fees: jan WS I $65 / feb WS II $85 / both WS I+II $130
after jan 1st WS I $75 / after jan 28th WS II $ 95

kirakirsch@yahoo.com 415-724-6778
checks payable to Kira Kirsch 669 24th st. unit B, oakland, ca-94612
cancellation policies & info at: www.axissyllabus.com
lack of funds? please don't hesitate and call or write!

click here for demo video of the axis syllabus and slide show or copy & paste this link http://www.axissyllabus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99&Itemid=2

WHAT IS THE AXIS SYLLABUS?
The Axis Syllabus is a method of teaching people how to move safely. It uses basic physics, applied anatomy and a spiraling, circular vocabulary that proposes smart use of built-in landing pads in the body, harnessing your own mass and momentum to get into and out of the floor and air. The Axis Syllabus heals by helping you harmonize your movements with universal physical principles and your own skeletal architecture. It reduces stress on the joints and organs by offering logical transitions for the transfer of weight through muscles and bones, helping to locate and restructure harmful habits. These principles are for everyone, from the office-worker to the break-dancer.

* 2/2 Saturday
Club Feral Benefit Show for In Search of Good Food w/ NRSZ, Conspiracy of Beards, & Enablers at Thee Parkside, with pastries by Hanna! 9pm $5

More music for good food!

9pm Saturday February 2nd

Benefit Show for In Search of Good Food

(mid-way through their tour of CA's emerging sustainable food system)

http://insearchofgoodfood.blogspot.com

NRSZ http://myspace.com/nursesrehearses
Conspiracy of Beards http://conspiracyofbeards.com/
Enablers http://www.myspace.com/enablers

at Thee Parkside http://www.theeparkside.com/
1600 17th Street @ Wisconsin · San Francisco, CA · 415.252.1330

Benefit for Club Feral http://www.myspace.com/clubferal

plus Pastries by Hanna!

email insearchofgoodfood@gmail.com if you want to help with the movie-making effort.