Vision Driven Artists (VDA) Workshops are free and/or low-cost capacity-building workshops for self-producing artists/musicians, arts organization staff, and event curators in all disciplines. Attendees learn new skills, gain new resources, and meet and connect with other local artists.

***All workshops will be held online until further notice. All workshops in the series are FREE and OPEN to the public. However, you must pre-register to receive a link to the webinar. Please check back for links to register*** https://www.visiondrivenconsulting.com/vdaworkshops.html

Monday, January 11 - Taxes for Artists 

Facilitated by Tamara Ali Bey 

Monday, February 8 - Fundraising for Artists & Arts Organizations 

Facilitated by Brittany Campese

Monday, March 8 - Intro to Arts Grants 

Facilitated by Tezarah Wilkins 

Monday, April 12 - Finances for Artists

Facilitated by River Nice of Be Intentional Financial

Monday, May 10 - Social Media & Marketing

Facilitated by Brittnie Knight

Monday, June 14 - Website Basics for Artists 

Facilitated by Marria Nakhoda

Percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani will perform multiple bowed gongs from the desert near his home in New Mexico.

Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States, a new series of late night, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. 

Admission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Please register at https://bowerbird.ticketleap.com/tatsuya-nakatani-liminal-states/. SPACE IS LIMITED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 45 mins.

This event is part of the Liminal States Series

About the artist: Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990’s; Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. With his activity in the new music, improvisation and experimental music scenes, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Nakatani creates his distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In consort with his hand carved Kobo Bows, it is an instrument he has spent decades developing. Nakatani approaches his orchestral project (NGO) as an arrangement of formations of vibrations, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music.

More performances in the Liminal States Series: 

MARILYN NONKEN performs FELDMAN 

Wed, January 20 at 11pm

JEFF ZEIGLER

Sun, January 31 at 10pm

LARAAJI

Sun. February 14 at 10pm

LAURA BAIRD

Thu, February 25 at 10pm

TATSUYA NAKATANI

Wed, March 10 at 11pm

MARY LATTIMORE

Thu, March 25 at 11pm

VARIANT 6

Thu, May 6 at 10pm

100,000 Folds: A Collaborative Sculpture Project to Commemorate Those Lost by the Coronavirus Pandemic

6pm-7pm

Join 100,000 Folds in honoring and mourning COVID-19 victims through origami. This community sculpture project is folding 100,000 pieces of paper - one for each of the first 100,000 deaths in the United States from the pandemic. During this event, gather virtually with artist Joanna Hutchinson to learn to make the folded pieces, and build community while folding with others. The folded paper units will be assembled into larger sculptures to be displayed in Philadelphia upon completion, when it is safe to do so. Participants in this online folding session will get a sneak preview of some of the plans for the final sculpture. Participants will receive a package of 50 custom cut sheets of paper to fold during this event, sent to the mailing address provided through the USPS. After the event, participants are asked to send their folded work to the artist by USPS. This online event requires students to have a device to join the class with reliable internet access. Registration is required in order to receive the Zoom link. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/100000-folds-a-collaborative-sculpture-project-tickets-141048948201.  If you are interested in participating in the project, but not the online event, you can sign up to work independently at 100thousandfolds.com.

Harpist Mary Lattimore will perform from her home in California.

Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States, a new series of late night, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. 

Admission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Please register at https://bowerbird.ticketleap.com/mary-lattimore---liminal-states/. SPACE IS LIMITED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 45 mins.

This event is part of the Liminal States Series

About the artist: Mary Lattimore is a Los Angeles-based harpist. She experiments with effects through her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand pedal harp, concocting half-structured improvisations which can include both ambient glitter and unsettling noise. Her first solo record, the Withdrawing Room, was released on Desire Path Recordings in 2014. The solo recordings that followed, At the Dam and Collected Pieces, were released by Ghostly International. Mary has also recorded synth + harp duo projects with Elysse Thebner Miller (And the Birds Flew Overhead) and Jeff Zeigler (Slant of Light) and has co-written reimagined scores for the 1968 experimental silent film Le Revelateur, directed by Philippe Garrel (who approved of the project), and the Czech New Wave classic Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, and performed these scores live throughout the US with Jeff Zeigler and the Valerie Project, respectively. She has contributed and written harp parts for such artists as Kurt Vile, Thurston Moore, Sharon Van Etten, Meg Baird, Steve Gunn, the Clientele, Hop Along, Jarvis Cocker, Karen Elson, Ed Askew and Quilt.

More performances in the Liminal States Series: 

MARILYN NONKEN performs FELDMAN 

Wed, January 20 at 11pm

JEFF ZEIGLER

Sun, January 31 at 10pm

LARAAJI

Sun. February 14 at 10pm

LAURA BAIRD

Thu, February 25 at 10pm

TATSUYA NAKATANI

Wed, March 10 at 11pm

MARY LATTIMORE

Thu, March 25 at 11pm

VARIANT 6

Thu, May 6 at 10pm