<div dir="ltr">hey sudoroom & noisebridge<div><br></div><div>an artist friend of mine and a founder of a mycology (mushrooms as material) company is also a really cool person!</div><div>She's doing this pride weekend performance event Saturday at Lake Merritt in oakland.</div><div><br></div><div>I think this would be appropriate for the sudoroom & noisebridge crew</div><div><br></div><div>LET'S KEEP THE BAY AREA WEIRD!</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">--</div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr">Hi friends & accomplices,<div><br></div><div>you're receiving this personal invitation because you are:</div><div><br></div><div>1) awesome & experimental & not afraid of weirdness</div><div>2) are fond of me, Chani Bockwinkel, Caroline Alexander, Sappho, Kate Bush, Ciara, and/or any number of other contemporary and historical goddesses. hehe.</div><div>2) live in the east bay or are not easy bay-averse </div><div>3) will forgive me for this because we all love each other and you know the drill:</div><div><br></div><div>SF Chronicle has decided to cover <a href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/fitness-for-your-brain/Content?oid=4362132" target="_blank">Heavy Breathing</a>, the summer conceptual fitness series i co-programmed, for the front page of their upcoming Datebook section. They're sending a journalist and photographer to our next session, THIS SATURDAY, and we'd love a strong showing of friends + participants for the occasion. Please come support!! :)<br><br></div><div>Saturday's session is a one-hour weirdo fitness experience under the direction of Chani Bockwinkel and Caroline Alexander, that will involve stretching + dance-aerobic-type exercises inspired by the new work they have been developing around Sappho and Sapphic poetry + an awesome soundtrack featuring Kate Bush + Ciara + others. More details (from fbook invite):<br></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#0000ff"><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px">Get Sapphic on Pride Saturday with Chani Bockwinkel & Caroline Alexander!!!</span><br style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px"><br style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px"><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px">WHEN: Saturday, June 27, 11:30am - 12:30pm</span><br style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px"><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px">WHERE: Lake Merritt / Edoff Memorial Bandstand</span><br style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px"><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px">666 Bellevue Avenue, Lake Merritt, Oakland</span><br style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px"><a href="https://localwiki.org/oakland/Lake_Merritt_Bandstand" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px" target="_blank">https://localwiki.org/<span style="display:inline-block"></span>oakland/<span style="display:inline-block"></span>Lake_Merritt_Bandstand</a><br style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px"><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px">RSVP & QUESTIONS: heavyheavybreathing@gmail.</span><span style="display:inline-block;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px"></span><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px">com</span><br style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px"><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px">FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC</span><br style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px"><br style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px"><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px">DESCRIPTION: Imagine somatics + Kate Bush + Ciara: we'll get sweaty and circular, moving our A$$ muscles and feeling our insides together. Read at least one passage of Sappho (your choice; see resources below), and come ready to project yourself into history while invoking ancient greek women and contemporary goddesses.</span><br style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px"><br style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px"><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px">Wear gym shoes and an outfit that brings out your deep femm</span><span style="display:inline;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px">e/tough exercise queen. <br><br>RESOURCES:<br>Anne Carson's "If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho":<br><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/82932076/Anne-Carson-Sappho-If-Not-Winter#scribd" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://www.scribd.com/doc/<span style="display:inline-block"></span>82932076/<span style="display:inline-block"></span>Anne-Carson-Sappho-If-Not-W<span style="display:inline-block"></span>inter#scribd</a><br>Poetry Foundation's Sappho resources: <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poetryfoundation.org%2Fbio%2Fsappho%23poet&h=SAQHvxwoX&enc=AZOzmHDLG-LGvkVvWcJ5fRhvBI9O7oGdIUNGPYTKn-PLEFAETapDA5tNSMN_Z00mT4Y&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://<span style="display:inline-block"></span>www.poetryfoundation.org/<span style="display:inline-block"></span>bio/sappho#poet</a><br><a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FPoets.org%2F&h=2AQGtm8H6&enc=AZO2xSZM4KrFvWiSfpZbLl4Iatw8O2VwRQ8UJSVspqSXl5T1GPHPIs6TEfw7vQn0Ysw&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Poets.org</a> Sappho resources: <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poets.org%2Fpoetsorg%2Fpoet%2Fsappho&h=tAQEPqDsn&enc=AZOEiIYhosHOs5vDclhD-_i2fYLIwcU7byLU-ckyIqip5m6Yxjd1TTeQ7uKKjfyZYO0&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://www.poets.org/<span style="display:inline-block"></span>poetsorg/poet/sappho</a><br>Poems of Sappho (Julia Dubnoff, trans.): <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uh.edu%2F%7Ecldue%2Ftexts%2Fsappho.html&h=kAQFvEhJ9&enc=AZONGwJyKp_crad-Top3QCkwdTBR1iPJ8DwQJsrziKAhsT1Gzd_1iVy3LutGMjjo1XQ&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://www.uh.edu/~cldue/<span style="display:inline-block"></span>texts/sappho.html</a><br><br></span></font></div><div><font face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px">THANK YOU!!!!</span></font></div><div><font face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px">xoxo</span></font></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><font face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18.7600002288818px">Sophia</span></font></div></font></span></div>
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