Sunday Swap + SeaweedSway w/ Salt Minds (Dearest&MarieeSioux), Il Gato, & Lucky Cloud + Jeremy Dalmas performs Star Trek // + shows & news!

hello!

i'm writing w/ another list of recommended shows, yoga classes, & some other news... of course!!

first, did you hear about the total solar eclipse *& new moon this week on 7/11?? read about its significance here

second, here are some highlights to start things off, then please check out the events list below! !

highlight 1) there is an everything SWAP this Sunday at the Caretakers House 1-4, followed by the SeaweedSway Showcase at the Make-Out Room 7-11, and this month we are collaborating with the Songbird Festival to bring you a night of super duper good music. I'm excited to feature a couple of newish projects (Salt Minds & Lucky Cloud), and one not as new, but they have a new album out! (Il Gato) Thanks to the Bay Bridged for writing a little preview of the show here. and here's a more visually palatable version of the show info :)

Sunday July 18th

SeaweedSway Showcase and the Songbird Festival Present:

SALT MINDS (Dearest + Mariee Sioux)

IL GATO (New Album Out July 13th!)

LUCKY CLOUD (EP Release, with Zack from the Botticellis)

and your host JEREMY DALMAS performing the "Cause & Effect" episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation!

at the Make-Out Room

3225 22nd St. in San Francisco

Tickets: $7 at the door

Venue: http://makeoutroom.com

RSVP on facebook: http://bit.ly/july18seaweedsway

Time: 7pm doors / 8pm sharp showtime

My Mom will be there too, visiting from Ohio - a rare occasion - so come and say hi! :)

Hear songs from & learn more about the bands via the links in the events list below.

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Highlight 2, KICKSTARTER: help friends fulfill their creative intentions (making a new album, making comic books) by kicking a little $ their way!! if they don't reach their $ goal they don't get any of the $, so please give what you can to help support their projects

henri rabbit (in washington on orcas island, recording a new album)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1352641294/henri-rabbit
4 days to go

raighne hogan (in minneapolis, MN, making rad comic books)http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/765505753/good-minnesotan-4-comics-anthology

9 days to go

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Highlight 3, PILATES W/ KAREN: check out Peaceful Body Pilates w/ Karen Campbell.  she is offering 50% OFF first sessions plus 10% OFF additional sessions and packages thru July 31st.  email "Karen Campbell" <karen@peacefulbodypilates.com>.

Also, Pilates Mat group class is forming! Interested in joining? At a studio space TBD in the Upper Haight. Cost approx. $20/class. Email Karen w/ dates & times that work best for you and whether it is something you could commit to on a regular ongoing weekly basis. Class time will be determined by responses.

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RECOMMENDED EVENTS!!! great shows coming up!!!!

mark your calendar or refer back when you want something to do. :)

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7-16 Friday.

4-6pm

Diamond Dave's Radio Show w/ 1 or more of the performers in Sunday's SeaweedSway Show (so possibly Salt Minds, Il Gato, & Lucky Cloud). Tune in at http://piratecatradio.com or come to Pirate Cat Cafe to hear the songs live (2781 21st St. @ Florida) !!!

evening
Sean Hayes at the Dark Room for Snob Theatre! http://seanhayesmusic.com

RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135446923141444&ref=ts

Snob Theatre at The Dark Room
2263 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-401-7987
Tickets & info: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/117280

Sean will play 30 minutes at the end of the night.

Comedians:
Miles K
Coree Spencer
Loren Kraut
Dave Thomason

Musical Guests:
Sean Hayes
TV Mike and the Scarecrowes
Snob Theater is a show that features the best in the Bay Area's indie rock bands and stand-up comedians. The small 50+ seat theater setting makes for the most intimate of performances and provides a unique and exciting atmosphere. Created and organized by Bay Area comedian/music blogger Shawn Robbins, Snob Theater is an event that showcases the comfort of the performers as they take chances in a stripped-down setting.

7-17 Saturday.

12:45-2pm

Gentle Hatha Yoga Class at the Yoga Loft w/ Jessie :) $10. 321 divisadero st. http://theloftsf.com 12:45-2pm. 

2-4:30pm

Energy 101 Workshop:  Why I Feel So Icky When You Are Near Me. With Elisa Romeo and Meg Whitbread at the Yoga Loft. $25* (My Mom & I are going to this...)
Description:Talking about energy is kind of like talking about breathing.  Or math.  We’re aware of it but often let it remain a mystery; or something out of our control, something not meant to be understood.
Yet, energy is pervasive.  And very alive.  And something that we can examine, manipulate, move and shift.  After a brief intro on our perspective of energy, energy work, psychic stuff, intuition, the spirit world, etc., we’ll explore why working with energy is so liberating, why we both crave and repel presence, how authentic boundaries are our best friend and how working in the subtle realm is actually an effective tool for embodiment.
This afternoon includes:
 Exercises to Differentiate Thinking from Feeling and Mental Activity from Intuition
-Examples of How Energy Can Distort our Reality
-Partner Work to Explore, Test and Validate What you are Sensing
-Meditations/Practices to Use at Home for Personal Energetic Hygiene and Keeping your Space Cootie Free

*You can register by writing myogaloft@gmail.com or sign up online on the workshop page of the Yoga Loft's website http://theloftsf.com  Note that there is a Scholarship to this workshop for one student that delivers an essay on their most hilarious energy experience.  The only guidelines are that it is a “true” story and that you give us permission to read it out loud in this class.

evening, 8-11pm

Porto Franco Records Presents: Ramon & Jessica & Kacey Johansing @ the Red Poppy Art House in the Mission. http://portofrancorecords.com/

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133243803366057&ref=ts

2698 Folsom St. @ 23rd.

7-18 sunday.

mid-day:
clothing/everything SWAP at THE caretakers house. 1-4pm. 848 divisadero st. @ mccallister. bring your swappables!  meet my mom! if you have a car to help us bring stuff to goodwill, please let me know!

*****EARLY evening***********

july SEAWEEDSWAY SHOWCASE & SONGBIRD FESTIVAL PRESENT:

SALT MINDS (DEAREST & MARIEE SIOUX)
IL GATO (ALBUM OUT TODAY!)
& LUCKY CLOUD (AMANDA HARPER, ZACK EHRLICH from the botticellis, & MICHAEL LANDIS)

host JEREMY DALMAS is performing the "Cause & Effect" episode of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION.

to make it an even more special occasion, my MOM will be there too! 

PLEASE BRING YOURSELF & YOUR FRIENDS & RSVP at the facebook event page http://bit.ly/july18seaweedsway

SALT MINDS (Dearest + Mariee Sioux)

http://myspace.com/saltminds
Salt Minds is a relatively new collaboration of Sean Kae from Dearest, Mariee Sioux, & friends. Folk chords and harmonies with tripped out electric guitars and synthesizer, welcoming new technology into "folkish" music.

IL GATO
http://ilgato.com
il gato originally was conceived as a performance art piece by Gainesville, Florida native Daimian Holiday Scott while studying architecture in Vicenza, Italy. Guayaveras, the Italian language, the Spanish language, and covers of Enrique Inglesias and Boyz II Men were to abound. Perhaps thankfully, most of the original ideas have took their departure and a new, more unhinged face has arose.

The current incarnation of il gato may best be described as indie-baroque-folk: utilizing repetition and a broad pallette of instrumentation (acoustic guitar, trumpet, violin, mandolin, banjo, upright bass, harmonica, melodica, banjo, drums, etc.). il gato writes emotionally complex songs about love and loss and how if you are going to be a lover in this world you are undoubtedly also going to be a loser and how maybe that isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it is even a beautiful thing.

Falling somewhere between old Country Folk Blues artists (Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, etc.), Neutral Milk Hotel, Modest Mouse, Andrew Bird, The Arcade Fire, M. Ward, Phillip Glass, The Dirty Three, Devotchka and Beirut, il gato is emerging in it's own space and surely will keep growing and changing as if there was really a choice.

LUCKY CLOUD (EP Release)
http://myspace.com/luckycloudband
Lucky Cloud is a three piece band of multi-instrumentalists producing atmospheric, futuristic pop; featuring Zack Ehrlich (of The Botticellis), Michale Landis and Amanda Harper

JEREMY DALMAS
http://theabsurdists.com
Jeremy will be performing, for the first time ever, a live production of Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode "Cause & Effect". About a time loop wormhole or a time warp loophole? With performing help from Christi Ginger & Julie Grossman.

@ the MAKE-OUT ROOM
3225 22ND ST. @ VALENCIA/MISSION

7PM doors/ 8pm sharp show. $7

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7-20 tuesday.

community yoga at the caretakers house! important: please rsvp if you can make it! 848 divisadero st. @ mccallister. 6:15-7:45pm. $5-10 suggested donation, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds (& trades are also welcome).

7-21 wednesday.
Me in the Zoo, Sonya Cotton, & Ben & Ashi at 19 Broadway in Fairfax, 8pm, $12.

tickets here: http://www.19broadway.com/show/detail/30692
Matt Trowbridge (Me in the Zoo) is a New Jersey songwriter and an 8th grade English teacher (and longtime friend/musical inspiration of Sonya Cotton!) The songs fall somewhere between Nilsson and Neil Young, depending if he's playing piano or guitar. For this visit to the West Coast, Matt will be joined by producer and master drummer Joe Russo (Furthur, Benevento/Russo Duo), longtime bandmate Andrew Southern (bass-RANA) and multi instrumentalist Jon Shaw (Sean Bones,The Broken West,Beasts Of Eden). This four-piece will visit and revisit songs from the recently released Radio Soap Star Opera (2009). Check out and/or download the record for free at http://www.laughatmatt.com/ 
Sonya Cotton
http://www.myspace.com/sonyacotton
http://www.sonyacotton.com

Ben and Ashi
http://www.myspace.com/benandashi

7-22 thursday.
reapandsow presents: Me and the Zoo (Joe Russo of Further), SONYA COTTON, Ben & Ashi at CAFE DU NORD!!! 

9pm, $10, tickets here: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2246305

http://cafedunord.com 

http://sonyacotton.com

see the show above for info & links (same bands, different place)!
7-23 friday.
REGIONAL BIAS: BENEFIT FOR THE BAY BRIDGED @ THE VERDI CLUB w/ THAO NGUYEN, JOHN VANDERSLICE, MAN/MIRACLE, & EXRAY'S! DJ SETS FROM VETIVER, OR, THE WHALE, & THE DONT'S. 

http://www.thebaybridged.com/regional-bias 

http://johnvanderslice.com

http://www.thaomusic.com

7-24 saturday.
FUZZPOD CD RELEASE PARTY @ AMNESIA. 6-9pm. $8-10. w/ w/Andy Van Wort, Freedy, Amalgamatron & DF Tram. 

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140870892597173&ref=ts

 853 Valencia Street. Free Fuzzpod CD/download card with admission! Fuzzpod says: Tell your friends and bring your chickens, this is one show not to be missed.

UKULELE nite @ KALEIDOSCOPE w/ the BLANK TAPES, FPODBPOD, INDIANNA HALE, SLEEPY TODD, HONEYBODY MOONBEE, THE BEEHAVERS, & CHILDLIKE DIVINE

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=138276626191064&ref=ts

24th St. @ Folsom. http://www.kaleidoscopefreespeechzone.com/

KC TURNER PRESENTS: FRANCESCA LEE & THE NEW BELIEVERS, THE WELCOME MATT, & OWEN ROBERTS @ CAFE DU NORD

http://cafedunord.com

ASADA MESSIAH show (i forget where - check  http://www.myspace.com/asadamessiah or blog for updates)

7-25 sunday.
fpodbpod & michael musika @ SF MARATHON 16th & guerrero rest stop - early in the morning til 11?

CHASING THE MOON, the SONGBIRD FESTIVAL, & SEAWEEDSWAY present: BART DAVENPORT's chasing the moon episode release w/ OBO MARTIN & ADAM & TREE & @ MILLION FISHES!!

EARLY!! DOORS 7, SHOW STARTS AT 7:30 SHARP, & GOES TIL 10:30. Maybe one more surprise special guest.

RSVP:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143135529035762&ref=ts

Bart Davenport's Chasing the Moon Episode Premier
on the full moon!

http://bartdavenport.com

with live music from Adam and Tree http://myspace.com/adamfkirk
and Obo Martin http://myspace.com/obomartin
http://chasingthemoon.pdcst.com

7-26 monday.
THE CAT'S PAJAMAS CABARET & THE SONGBIRD FESTIVAL @ THE MAKE-OUT ROOM - SIN & SASS - with mr. lucky, romeo romeos, the 7 deadly sins

RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142249175792591&ref=mf

7-28 wednesday.
SONGBIRD FESTIVAL & JASCHA HOFFMAN PRESENT: JASCHA VS. JASCHA, Juliet Strong, KIRK HAMILTON, & Debbie Gipsman @ THE BLUE MACAW

RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119424161436871&ref=ts

http://jaschavsjascha.com

http://kirkhamilton.com

7-29 thursday.
MICHAEL MUSIKA & THE SONGBIRD FESTIVAL PRESENT: MICHAEL MUSIKA, ZOYRES, & THE BLANK TAPES @ VIRACOCHA.

RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113422972039236&ref=ts

http://myspace.com/michaelmusika

http://myspace.com/theblanktapes

Honeycomb, Black Bear (with 20-person choir), and Dark Dark Dark at St. Joseph's Cultural Center in Grass Valley

http://myspace.com/honeycombmusic

http://myspace.com/darkdarkdark

7-30 friday.
LITTLE WINGS & BREATHE OWL BREATHE at MARIN HEADLANDS HOSTEL. 

http://kyledraws.com

http://myspace.com/breatheowlbreathe

DARK DARK DARK at harrison's house in OAKLAND.

http://myspace.com/darkdarkdark

7-31 saturday.
BIKE MUSIC FESTIVAL. all day! with Sean Hayes & more tba. 

http://bicyclemusicfestival.com/ (this year they have permits! :)

Les Trois Petits Ouiseaux & the Doug Martin Avatar Ensemble: BellyDance and Gypsy Jazz, cafe style. 8-10pm @ Cafe Royale. 800 Post St. @ Leavenworth. Facebook RSVP (featuring Joie Mazor!!)

8-1 sunday.
INDIANNA HALE and DARK DARK DARK at AMNESIA!!

http://myspace.com/indiannahale

http://myspace.com/darkdarkdark

http://amnesiathebar.com

HONEYCOMB, SILIAN RAIL (CD release), and TARTUFI at the RICKSHAW STOP

http://myspace.com/honeycombmusic

http://myspace.com/silianrailmusic

http://myspace.com/tartufi

http://rickshawstop.com

8-6 friday.
DEVOTIONALS (CD release) at Bottom of the Hill (more bands TBA).

http://myspace.com/buildingsofheart

8-7 saturday.
SeaweedSway presents: THE MOANIN' DOVE, JOHN HEART JACKIE (PDX), & THE BEEHAVERS @ THE HOTEL UTAH!

RSVP:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137834022907148&ref=ts

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YOGA CLASSES:

These are the Ongoing Yoga Classes that I'm teaching these days. I would love to see you there!
Gentle Hatha Yoga Saturdays at the Yoga Loft. $10 Community Class. 12:45-2pm. 321 Divisadero St. @ Page. http://theloftsf.com/

Restorative Yoga Sundays at the Yoga Loft. $17 drop-in, or $10 if you ask for the friend price. Also, new student passes are 3 classes for $35. 6:30-8pm. (This class happens weekly, but there will be a very wonderful sub on the 3rd Sundays because of the SeaweedSway showcase!)
Community Yoga @ the Caretakers House 1st & 3rd Tuesdays of the month. 848 Divisadero St. @ McCallister. 6:15-7:45pm. RSVP if you can make it. Suggested donation of $5-10 but no one turned away for lack of funds, trades are welcome too.http://caretakers-sf.org/

if you'd like, sign up to get my yoga email updates (once a week or less) at http://groups.google.com/group/seaweedsway-yoga

If you're in the East Bay, check out the East Bay Yoga Collective. They are a donation based community yoga collective and have classes almost everyday of the week. Their website is http://ebcyoga.com/ and their email is ebcyoga@gmail.com
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MOre NEWS:

cleo the pup, needs $$ for medical care because he jumped out of a window! :(

Please donate at http://cleothepup.blogspot.com !

Cleo's Story (by Samaki... some of you may know her from Fuzzpod):

Cleo and I have been best friends since she first appeared (literally) at my patio in Hollywood 4 years ago. Her separation anxiety lead her to breaking out of her owners house and since I was unemployed at the time, she would spend her days with me. Soon I would adopt her.

With many long walks and lots of attentions she has overcome her anxiety but with our move to a new neighborhood (and city) on June 11th she lept out of the 2nd story window of our apartment only to break her foot and bust her face. Pretty minor injuries considering the circumstances but on the following day she attempted this feat again.

Having a cast on her leg and a cone on her head, her landing was not nearly as graceful and she suffered a bad blow to the head, hip and internal damages to her bladder. She has spent many nights in the emergency room and will soon return home. She may be confused and broken, but her spirit is not broken! She is looking forward to celebrating her 10th birthday on the 4th of July. She is not going to let that stop her from celebrating despite her injuries. Cleo looks forward to stealing your heart as soon as she gets better.
http://cleothepup.blogspot.com

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HOUSING LIST / JOB LIST / SUBMITTING EVENTS:

HOUSING LIST: if you're looking for housing in the sf bay, you can sign up to receive emails or browse recent posts at  http://groups.google.com/group/looking-for-housing it's a google group i started to make it easier to pass on housing announcements that i see. please send me any good room openings you see so i can pass them on to everyone who's looking! if you join the group, you can post your housing opening directly to the list.

JOB LIST: I also have a job list - let me know if you have job announcements that I should forward or join it if you'd like to get job announcements. http://groups.google.com/group/looking-for-jobs-in-sf-bay-area

EVENT SUBMISSION: if you'd like to submit an event, please write to me at seaweedsway@gmail.com and send a short description in the brief format above (2-5 lines please), 2 weeks or more before the event. if i left your event out of this list, it usually just means i ran out of time to re-format it & add it. please remind me of it, and i'll try to add it or possibly promote it in other ways...

thank you for reading & participating in community events !!

xo
jessie

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