Doors Open: 7:00 PM Arrive, ground in and meditate 
Opening Circle: 7:30 PM Prayer, Intention & Guidelines
Dance Activation: 7:45pm - 9:15 PM – Freeform, soul-led dancing
Closing Circle: 9:15 PM – Integrate, connect, and seal the experience

A container of deep presence, heart connection, and soul expansion.

An interactive session for makers and thinkers to collaborate, connect, and spark new ideas.

From workshops to community gatherings, here's what we have coming up. Mark your calendar—we'd love to see you there.

Join Yessica Osuna, experienced sound healer, for a soul-nourishing sound bath experience filled with intentional energy, community connection, and a little manifestation magic. This evening is all about tuning in — whether that means centering love, peace, prosperity, creativity, or clarity.

Expect cozy ambiance, uplifting energy, and a space where you can recharge, reflect, and feel supported.

Hairpin Arts Center is organized into six community-driven branches, each supported by an open, public committee. These branch committees exist so that community members, artists, neighbors, and stakeholders can share ideas, shape programming, and guide the work of the Center. The meetings are organic, collaborative spaces where every voice is valued and everyone is encouraged to participate.

If you have an idea for something you’d like to see at the Hairpin, a project you’d like to propose, or simply want to learn more about what is happening, we invite you to join the conversation. Come connect with others, contribute your ideas, and help us build creative, inclusive programming that reflects and serves our community.

Bringing flamenco’s rhythm, artistry, and community to Chicago.

An engaging percussion class designed especially for kids, where everyday buckets become powerful musical instruments. Using sticks and simple materials, students explore rhythm through hands-on drumming activities that are both fun and structured.

This class introduces essential drum rudiments while developing coordination, timing, and musical awareness. Through group exercises and shared rhythms, students build focus, discipline, and confidence—learning how individual parts come together to create a unified sound.

More than just a music class, The Bucket Project encourages creativity, leadership, and teamwork in a high-energy, inclusive environment. It’s an exciting introduction to percussion that inspires self-expression and a lasting love for rhythm and music.

Ages 8 and up

Native American Sweat Lodge but without the sweat. In reality, the first thing is to let go of what you think you know about Sweat Lodge and Ceremony all together. The Lodge is a tool that guides us to a deeper truth. This truth is not defined by anybody, not even ourselves. It is a discovery. An opening. It is an encouragement to our silent voice that it is ok to be recognized.

Indivisible Chicago Northwest is hosting a town hall to connect local neighbors with activism opportunities throughout Chicago’s Northwest Side.

Neighbors will learn how to get involved in:

• taking back Congress in the midterms,

• protecting neighbors against ICE (e.g., school patrols, rapid response),

• news boosting to swing districts,

• mutual aid,

• and replacing the NW side’s conservative aldermen with progressive candidates in next year’s race.

Performing BranchSara Zalek (they/them)
saratonin01@gmail.com
503-317-4501
www.saratonin.comEarth TomesEarth Tomes was born in 1993 in the middle of the night in an outhouse at a backcountry camp on snowy Mt. Rainier, Washington, while Joan sat listening to the sounds of nature and watching the shadows cast by her flashlight. She created the first solo for the Festival of One in Seattle and, also performed it at the Seattle Fringe Theater Festival. In 2015, Laage created a new version as part of a symposium in Sweden organized by Susan Kozel, a Canadian/British dance artist. Performed in a greenhouse in Sweden’s frigid winter, the audience sat on both sides, facing one another, in what she staged as an intentional yet subtle confrontation of one another. She describes the work as a birth, in which she enters as a tree and emerges as a body turned to earth. The piece for her is political, to remind us to remain connected to the earth.

Earth Tomes related back to Laage’s roots in rural Wisconsin. She swam in
the creeks in the summer, made igloos in the winter, traipsed through fields of
cow patties, and tended a garden with her family.

She says that when she began exploring butoh, it reconnected her with her upbringing: "I felt like I was recovering my childhood, that body that was really my body . . . When I heard Goda Nario talk about Hijikata’s one tatami mat dance and the children kept in a basket, whether or not it’s true, it says something about the importance of one’s childhood experience of space."
( Joan Laage, pers. comm., January 6, 2020)

She likens her early experiences in life to her current gardening practice (and profession), and planting seeds that sprout later in life. Initially a solo work, Earth Tomes became a project as Laage began inviting other dancers to join her. Since 2016, the project has been presented with local dancers in Seattle, Upstate New York, and several European cities. In many ways, it has become a community-based creative process and continues to evolve as it travels.Earth Tomes was born in 1993 in the middle of the night in an outhouse at a backcountry camp on snowy Mt. Rainier, Washington, while Joan sat listening to the sounds of nature and watching the shadows cast by her flashlight. She created the first solo for the Festival of One in Seattle and, also performed it at the Seattle Fringe Theater Festival. In 2015, Laage created a new version as part of a symposium in Sweden organized by Susan Kozel, a Canadian/British dance artist. Performed in a greenhouse in Sweden’s frigid winter, the audience sat on both sides, facing one another, in what she staged as an intentional yet subtle confrontation of one another. She describes the work as a birth, in which she enters as a tree and emerges as a body turned to earth. The piece for her is political, to remind us to remain connected to the earth. Earth Tomes related back to Laage’s roots in rural Wisconsin. She swam in the creeks in the summer, made igloos in the winter, traipsed through fields of cow patties, and tended a garden with her family. She says that when she began exploring butoh, it reconnected her with her upbringing: "I felt like I was recovering my childhood, that body that was really my body . . . When I heard Goda Nario talk about Hijikata’s one tatami mat dance and the children kept in a basket, whether or not it’s true, it says something about the importance of one’s childhood experience of space." ( Joan Laage, pers. comm., January 6, 2020) She likens her early experiences in life to her current gardening practice (and profession), and planting seeds that sprout later in life. Initially a solo work, Earth Tomes became a project as Laage began inviting other dancers to join her. Since 2016, the project has been presented with local dancers in Seattle, Upstate New York, and several European cities. In many ways, it has become a community-based creative process and continues to evolve as it travels.Doors Open @ 7:30PM, Show at 8PM, End time of 10-10:30PMTBDhttps://drive.google.com/open?id=19lvtONMdg-KWVHfRAHyPnNeEGvf9dbjQ

ZuluOne explores all things revolving around systemic constellations work developed by Bert Hellinger. Exploring topics like morphic resonance, unresolved trauma, systems dynamics, and much more! 

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