Action Skills 101 - Know Your Rights Training 

(1) We will not play the video. However, we strongly encourage everyone to watch it at least once before the training. The video can be found at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTU9oLF2MzI&feature=youtu.be

(2) We will have a split format of one hour of training and one hour of role play.

 We will have a fifteen minute break in between. 

If you have any specific topics you would like to have included in the training, please email Marianne at rodeo.edu@gmail.com. Our current topics include (1) how to plan a demonstration, (2) what is legal and what is not, and (3) dealing with police.

Admission is FREE 

Interested competitors, the entry application form is LIVE at vmarkstheshop.com! Enter between now and March 30th! We'll be reviewing submissions as received. Selected competitors will be notified on March 31st. The official list of competitors will be announced on April 1st!

Dan Malloy - A Philadelphia instrumental guitar player who has played over 100 shows since 2005. He is always looking for ways to expand his sound. Starting out primarily as an acoustic player, he soon started playing electric guitar and added a delay pedal, then another and then another. Nowadays his sound is built on multiple loops with the occasional use of reverse reverb and pitchshifting.

Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells (born October 13, 1958) is an American Free improvisation bassist (bass guitar and electric upright bass), composer and conceptualist. He is one of the founding members of the improvising band Machine Gun which featured Thomas Chapin. He resided in Stockholm, Sweden from 1985 until 2010. Presently residing in Bangkok, Thailand, he has been active internationally as a promoter of improvised and experimental music performing and recording extensively. He has collaborated with Karl Berger, Daniel Carter, Jaron Lanier, John Sinclair and Tony Scott among others. Raised in southern Germany, Jair-Rôhm moved to New York in 1978. After touring the United States for a year with a top forty band he attended Tulane University in New Orleans. While at Tulane, he regularly performed with local jazz and rhythm and blues artists. He also performed as a member of Tulane University's Tulanians, met and studied with Richard Payne (the first person to record with the electric bass) and discovered the music of Harry Partch. He returned to the New York area in the fall of 1980 where he met and started work study under saxophonist/composer Ken Simon. During this period Jair-Rôhm also met Anthony Braxton and became involved in the study of his music. In 1982 Jair-Rôhm founded his own experimental music/theater group GLASS THOUGHT THEATER ENSEMBLE. Between 1982 and 1983 he was composer in residence at the New York Theater Ensemble (New York, N.Y.) where he wrote and produced a trilogy of progressive"operas". He received a MEET THE COMPOSER grant in 1983. From 1984 - 1985 he was resident in New Jersey where he continued composing and playing the bass. He was a founding member of the New Brunswick Jazz Musician's Collective (New Brunswick, N.J.) for which he composed and performed many significant works for various ensembles. (from the Wikipedia article)

Chuck van Zyl - Philadelphia area Spacemusician Chuck van Zyl, best known as host of STAR'S END (WXPN's renowned radio program of spacemusic dreamscapes) and as coordinator of The Gatherings (Philadelphia's premiere concert series of innovative music), Chuck van Zyl has also been making his own unique style of electronic music since 1983.

Over the course of his musical existence Chuck van Zyl has developed a signature exploratory style. By blending the primitive machine beauty of classics like "Ricochet" (1975) by Tangerine Dream with the highly formed values of more recent groups such as Redshift and Arc, his solo studio works are the result of a persistent creativity.

With a solid melodic invention, atmospheric modulations and heroic shifts in tonality, van Zyl masterfully realizes the fascinating patterns, riffs and pulses that dominate his live concerts. As the music forms, climbs and sustains, listeners are pulled into a highly distinctive mindscape. Tone patterns weave and collide as go-for-broke keyboard lead lines dance high above - all the while blissed-out synthetic strings and Mellotron choirs draw long lines across a cool digital plane.

Chuck van Zyl is completely at home in this endlessly inventive genre, offering ample muscle for the adventurous, archaic modulations for the experimentalist and dreamy floating space for the cloudwalker.

Admission is FREE

New Moon Chanting presents an evening of mediative and energizing song, movement and chanting. Join us to welcome the month of Iyaar with a special radiance ritual and healing refreshments. Sliding scale $10-20.

More info at www.NewMoonChanting.com.

The Rotunda & Vision Driven Consulting are teaming up to bring resources and capacity-building workshops to  

curators and self-producing artists from any discipline.  

Workshops will be held: 

2nd Monday of each month beginning in November,

6:00 – 8:00pm at The Rotunda (4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia)

All workshops in the series are FREE and OPEN to the public, but please sign up in advance HERE to secure your spot! 

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Nonprofit, LLC, or Fiscal Sponsorship (November 9th, 6-8pm)

• Discuss the pros and cons of various structures – pool experiences and get new ideas

• Craft your mission statement to determine the structure that best suits your practice

• Sole-proprietor, LLC, 501(c)3: understand the structures and how your projects fit into them

2016 Planning (December 14th, 6-8pm)

• Plan your upcoming year of work 

• Identify your goals and break them into achievable tasks

• Plot your tasks on a timeline for 2016

Fundraising Basics (January 11th, 6-8pm)

• Learn the language of fundraising 

• Maximize opportunities beyond grants to support your projects

• Brainstorm actual fundraising ideas for your work

Grant Writing – Beginner  (February 8th, 6-8pm)

• Demystify the language and process behind grant writing

• Receive tools for finding grants 

• Read actual grant proposals to learn common mistakes and important proposal components 

Grant Writing – Intermediate (March 14th, 6-8pm)

• Review aspects of a strong grant proposal

• Practice writing an actual grant 

• Receive feedback on your draft proposal 

Real Budgeting for Real Work (April 11th, 6-8pm)

• Look at sample budgets and learn how to interpret the story behind the numbers 

• Create a budget tailored to your goals for 2016

• How to assemble a project budget for potential funders

Crowdfunding 101 (May 9th, 6-8pm)

• Learn how to tell if crowdfunding is right for your project or if it is not

• Discover the pros and cons of various crowdfunding platforms

• Receive a crowdfunding workbook to help you plan a campaign

Getting New Projects off the Ground (June 13th, 6-8pm)

• Identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and potential threats of a new project 

• Think through the components of your project and its goals 

• Hone in on the details of your program or project and begin a draft project plan

Getting People to Show Up (July 11th, 6-8pm)

• Learn new techniques for building an audience, recruiting volunteers, and reaching your ideal participant

• Troubleshoot issues with audience development that you may have had in the past

• Identify tangible ways to keep people coming back in the future

Balancing Your Practice (August 8th, 6-8pm)

• Identify places of (im)balance in your practice

• Discuss health, wellness, and your work

• Share and obtain tools for successful time management

Developing Campus/Community Collaborations (September 12th, 6-8pm)

• Hear stories of successful campus and community collaborations

• Learn how to find campus and community partners

• Avoid common problems and learn how to build mutually beneficial partnerships

Goal Identification & Measurement (October 10th, 6-8pm)

• Identify what you want to achieve in your projects

• Incorporate critical feedback and self-reflection into your arts practice

• Brainstorm and receive tools for measuring success

MY LIFE IN 19inches is Craig Liggeons' hit One-Man show about one man's love of TV. Spanning 40 years in the life of a TV addict, the show begins on a Saturday morning in 1973 and travels through the 80's, 90's, and right up to today. Along the way Craig offers up hilarious and insightful observations on how we've changed the way we look at TV, and more importantly, how TV has changed the way we look at each other.

Preston Elliot of The Preston & Steve Show on 93.3 WMMR called it "A laugh out loud funny show for any TV junkie that will leave you with some serious food for thought as well! It was awesome!"

FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY

NO KIDS!!

Tickets: $10 in advance online and $15 at the door. Advance tickets available HERE