ZERO-POINT ART COLLECTIVE! OPENS tomorrow (saturday june 21st) : Theta Sound Healing and afterwards a quintet - QUIET IS THE NEW LOUD (wink)

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dear friend,
hope june has been good so far~! tomorrow (saturday june 21st) marks
the first of our new zero-point art collective with an excellent
workshop by toni pope and a quintet headed up by meghan fong
(violin). what a way to get ready to celebrate solstice!

perhaps you have taken time to peruse our new offerings and membership
styles.
all information you may seek is on our site: www.zeropointspace.org

and i've really been into facebook so : for those friendly people:
come find me:
i have a zero-point christie scott entity now, and a group for zero-
point on facebook...

more workshops have specific dates / times now
unless otherwise noted workshops are usually between $80 - $100
based on materials and such
or as low as $10 - $15 for certain classes

there are exceptions and they will be noted
things will always be different, because each event is different,
so please be patient....feel free to ask questions

there are many more workshops and interactive events t.b.a
including life drawing classes weekly!~ sweet as vegan chocolate!

oh, and we will be having vegan treats available for donation
yum! thanx to our generous baker / collective member brian!
(that will be starting june 28th for the 6th of the 13 moon series:
CULTIVATION)

and: if you are a quiet artist please submit!
we also have a few experimental music showcases upcoming...

membership is simple: it is a donation
of which part can be paid through collective service for the space.

$45 or $30 for students / seniors
also a regular group art show is in the planning
available for showcasing members work!
the membership entitles you to a 10% - 30% discount on all workshops /
classes
an art shop is also in the works to showcase sound artists work
and FREE entry to most events

or you can do 4/6 hours of collective service
and receive membership for the month at $20.

and for those who just want to come to a regular
$5 donation show: you too can become a member
for the night: because we are a collective: not a public place...

if you are interested in becoming a member of zero-point
just email me: zeropoi...@gmail.com
or go on our site under: JOIN THE ZERO-POINT ART COLLECTIVE
and you can use our paypal donation button:

this works for any kind of membership:
one event / monthly
and you can register / donate for workshops
(please leave the important details so we know for what and when you
are joining us)

you can still of course, donate at the door, but please email to rsvp
for workshops / classes etc.

below is our current summer schedule to whet your appetite for
learning
and quiet listening...

thanx again to everyone for all their help, we have gone through a lot
these last few weeks, and we still have the huge challenge of making
rent on this lovely space!~

so if you have any time or energy or money to donate in exchange for
what the space offers, the time is now! truly, the time is now!

love & ruckus!
***
christie.

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Theta - Sound Healing Workshop.

Alpha - Lucid dreaming while awake similar to “Daydreaming”

Beta - Everyday activity, media airwaves etc., can be toxic to
maintain holistic health

Theta - An inner / intuitive state, prior to sleeping or when invoked

Delta - Deep restful sleep

Gamma - Conscious cosmic soup - a general “social psychology” we’re
all tapped into



The Theta Sound Healing Workshop consists of primordial vocals and
instruments that naturally place the human brain into a theta like
patterning. These instruments include East Indian electric Tambura,
Australian Aborigines didgeridoo, and Tibetan singing bowls. Once
heard, the listener automatically begins to relax, the brain becomes
calm, as the essence of the total being of the listener is
replenished.


As instruments are played and at various moments during the session
Toni Pope will offer and provide primordial vocals. Primordial vocals
include throat-singing/harmonic singing, micro-tonation, and multi-
phonetical voicings - i.e. producing multiple tones simultaneously.
Toni is a voice and sound practitioner who carries a unique ability to
channel sacred dimensions of sound using her voice and theta sounding
instruments.



During the course of the session intuitive concepts of voice and sound
instruction will be given, as well as the opportunity to utilize the
voice as a sacred sounding instrument. Concepts such as toning,
harmonic singing, deep inner listening, and concsious breath work will
be discussed and practiced. The benefits of this workshop vocal
inhibition, voice placement , tone placement, toning, and tone
isolation/multi-
phonetical singing



Saturday June 21 2008, 3-6pm

Cost: $90 members / $120 non-members


and afterward a wonderful performance from the Classic Quintet: Qasim
Naqvi, Aakaash Israni, Casey Anderson, Scott Cezan and Meghan Fong we
play very soft improvisational music. they are percussion, violin,
alto sax, double bass and computer.

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PHILLIP STERNS - WORKSHOP

"Simplified Gardening: Against Biotech Agribusiness"




June 28th


Food is as necessary as air and water for the maintaining of the body,
the house of the soul. As times have progressed, we have become
further separated from the source of our food, and it has become
increasingly processed in order to keep up with demands of peoples
living a life that is faster paced than ever. There was a time when
we had an intimate relationship with the land. It is not difficult to
see how that relationship has changed when we read the ingredients on
the back of a microwave dinner. We have alienated ourselves from
nature's way in order to pursue our own desires by exchanging our
faith in the ability of nature to adequately provide for a dependence
on the fruits of intellect and reason to dominate and control. You
can see the true nature of a civilization by the way in which it feeds
its people. It is food and its acquisition, or production, after all,
which lies at its very foundation.


In "Simplified Gardening: Against Biotech Agribusiness" we'll take 3
hours to examine and discuss topics as broad as the source of life and
as specific as the ingredients in the world's most popular herbicides,
all starting from the basic principles behind "Do Nothing Farming"
developed by Masanobu Fukuoka, author of "The One-Straw Revolution".
From there, we'll look into some common methods of growing on smaller
plots of land and in containers, and study traditional methods of pest
and weed control via companion planting. After which we will examine
some of the modern techniques of cultivation. All the usual boring
lecture techniques, i.e. slide show, movie clips, and Q and A sessions
will be present, but when it's all over, your head will be filled with
a strong foundation of knowledge to being a lifelong practice in
natural gardening.


12-3 pm

(before 13 moon series: CULTIVATION)


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and : for your regard: zero-point welcomes you to collaborate and
contribute!

lexical evidence : the zine of 32 pages. photocopied and / or sent at
what time it is finished. submissions only under pen names. the story
of stories. words are documents. this is the word. now. prose .
real . made-up . deeply poetic . photographs . whatever can retain
it's purpose and meaning and aesthetics enough to be photocopied.
black and white.


this project was created to continue the 13 moon series.

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after the workshop :
“Simplified Gardening: Against Biotech Agribusiness”

JUNE 28TH

that same day::::::::

6pm - midnight

CULTIVATION


an evening of plant performance art, cellular lectures, poetic
distillation and more....


this is an open call for quiet art:

2d / 3d / quiet amplified / acoustic / dance / puppetry / fabric arts
etc.

email links to zeropoi...@gmail.com

love & ruckus.

this is the process of making the human mark into the earth, but it is
proper to exist in balance. this is not only a metaphor, but the
beauty of it is that it extends, as the curl of a new tendril, out to
the farthest and ultimate cyclic now. so this is important to know
about, to explore, to ponder, to look at from different directions, to
head in new directions, to put things into perspective and enjoy the
work necessary to cultivate.

in our current urban living, we must find ways to reconnect with the
elemental, in our bodies, our work, our food, with our fellow living
beings, and our metaphysical and critical aspects. this begins with
the child as artist: making things through a state of wonder, but now
is the time to cultivate that human urge to create / make art in all
forms : and know that this is our world too, and we are part of it.


it is also the cult of culture. it is the bravery of us to say that
we can make our own culture, our own symbolic way or description or
names for sacred or release or regeneration. it is the right of
people to have rituals that nourish and speak with language they have
had a hand in forming. it is different than before because it is
now. that's all.

cultivation is mostly about absorbing and emitting energy. to behave
with wisdom in our daily lives.
this evening / event / re-opened warehouse warming
is to foster.
it is about people, celebrating and mourning,
powerful forces of will and belief, knowing that there will be that
one good spot
and all the work will be worth it.
and these will go in cycles
constantly.

CULTIVATION is a $5 - $10 one evening membership
or FREE for members



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Crystal DAngora - WORKSHOP

June 29th 1pm

Chakra Balance Kundalini Yoga –
Experience the transformational power of Kundalini yoga and
meditation, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, to tune our precious vehicles
and balance all systems of our Being via the Chakras. Return to
Source through physical movement, breath, and mantra, supported and
surrounded by the elements of nature. With Chakra balancing yoga we
use the color spectrum imagery connected to each Chakra (from Root to
Crown) to harmonize and align our complete selves. We will ride the
wave between strength and flexibility, exertion and relaxation, and
chaos and stillness to find the “Union” within that is Yoga. Crystal
combines 6 years as a teacher and 13 years in practice, an eclectic
background in theater, dance, Kundalini, Pilates and Hatha yoga, to
create a holistic fusion of physical expression. She currently
teaches adults and children at Golden Bridge and in her own Los
Angeles studio. http://www.crystalyogaandpilates.com/


$15 with a $10-$12 discount rate for members!




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HANS FJELLESTAD - WORKSHOP

July 9th

improvisation
1 hr. lecture


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JULY 12TH

EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SHOWCASE:

'QUIET is the new loud'

daniel r.
mike robbins and selected members of 182
WUMMIN

$5 for one evening membership / FREE for monthly members

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MELANIE MCQUITTY - WORKSHOP


july 19th


intro to philosophy of art

existentialism and phenomenology would be a good way of looking at the
intersection of philosophy, art, and life.


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‘READING’ SLAVOJ ZIZEK


A GROUP READING SEMINAR



july 26th



“[O]ne should distinguish between ordinary escapism

and this dimension of Otherness, this magic moment

when the Absolute appears in all its fragility:

the prisoners have seen a ghost –

neither the resuscitated obscene ghost of the past,

not the spectral ghost of the capitalist present,

but the brief apparition of a future utopian Otherness

to which every authentic revolutionary stance should cling.”


- Slavoj Zizek1




Since the beginning of the short twenty first century I have
participated in group – reading seminars as the basis of my art and
writing process. Reading for me can be not only important, but also
primary to a person’s creative economy. As Rainer Ganahl put it,
“Meeting people, reading together and discussion [can be] an art of
temporary encounter, an act that can affect both our noetic and social
activities.”2


The title of this introduction alludes to a similar artist-run reading
seminar by Rainer Ganahl entitled Reading Karl Marx (1998-2001).
Commissioned by Craig Martin as part of the Open House Projects, what
initially struck me was the fact that the vast majority of people who
participated in Reading Karl Marx seminars have never actually read
anything by Marx. In staging ‘Reading’ Slavoj Zizek at Zero-point, I
would like to foster a similar open-door atmosphere. Ideally, there
should be no assumption that the participants have a prior knowledge
of the subject. Neither are they asked to read the text in advance.
Participants may not have the time, the patience, habit or perhaps the
educational grooming to read often elitist, sometimes indecipherable
academic texts. It has been my experience that in order to facilitate
meaningful discussion through the study of Zizek, we would have to
read together, sometimes phrase-by-phrase. Simultaneously,
participants have urged other participants to cross out certain
paragraphs. I have found myself comforting readers; don’t be afraid of
simply absorbing the surface of Zizek. Depth and surface are often on
identical sides of the Moebius strip. Divorcing, dividing, violently
stripping the text from its original philosophical roots may be the
most utopic act of all. At the end of the day ‘Reading’ Slavoj Zizek
is not about reading Lacan. And it certainly isn’t about rereading
Marx.


Why Zizek? Why not more established names such as Deleuze? Derrida? Or
Foucault? With the help of group-reading seminars I came to understand
that reading chapter-by-chapter, paragraph-by-paragraph, enabled a
more precise discussion. However with this precision came a price:
xenophobia. In London and Berlin, the group-reading emphasis on French
intellectuals and French theory often encouraged the concealment and
silence of non-french thinkers such as Zizek, bell hooks, and Cornel
West. Moreover, much of French theory – deconstruction, for example –
is notorious for its inability to engage popular culture – and hence,
a wider audience. On the other hand, Zizek’s texts – often
highlighting today’s headlines, movies and television programs – can
serve as a barometer to comprehend our contemporary situation, without
pretension or guilt. In the ‘Reading’ Slavoj Zizek seminars all
contributions are welcomed and I try not to solicit or impose
classical interpretations, as is often the case with continental
pedagogical readings.


In the beginning of 2008 I worked with new groups of artists from
University of Greenwich and Goldsmiths College. The art school
approach has the advantage of reaching people whom in most cases have
never broached reading this kind of literature. However I believe the
true positive emancipatory potential of the experience can be reached
at experimental spaces such as Zero-point. After all, Zero-point has a
keen understanding of the relationship between dreams and reality.
Themes such as Geobiotic and Dreamtime encourages participants to
question the contemporary frame of reality, to question the fantasies
that shape our global, consumer capitalist world. It is by re-
imagining the social imaginary that the social can effectively change.
In a way, as naïve as it sounds and contrary to many of the totalizing
concepts of today’s social fabric that see people solely as
unconscious and manipulated consumers, it is surprising how little it
takes to stimulate change. Let’s read! Let’s re-imagine a new utopia
for the short twenty-first century!!


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ALSO: THIS HAS BEEN REINSTATED THANX TO IT'S QUIET NATURE....QUIET IS
THE NEW LOUD.


FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY


AUGUST 22nd , 23rd & 24th
You found your HeArt

Andy Ben, Jeff Boynton and Mona Jean Cedar present

circuit-bending, ASL, dance, spoken word collaboration : site-specific
work

You found your HeArt
is a $5 - $10 one evening membership
or FREE for members

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