Fanoplane, San Kazakgascar and Weed Tree will perform at RhizomeDC on Sunday, July 14, beginning at 7pm. $10-$20. Tickets: https://withfriends.co/event/20241506
RhizomeDC, the beloved nonprofit space for art, activism, and music, is currently located at 6950 Maple St NW, in the Takoma neighborhood of Washington DC. It is dedicated to promoting creativity as a force for personal empowerment and community engagement. It also strives to provide a home for non-mainstream programming in the DC area.
It hosts programs that promote creativity in all its forms. These include concerts, workshops, performances, talks, exhibitions, and demonstration projects in areas such as art, music, technology, theater, local food, poetry, as well as in more esoteric fields of knowledge.
It believes it’s more interesting to make your own culture than to consume culture made by others.
It is exploring new approaches to grassroots community education which seek to blur the lines between amateur and professional, teacher and student, and which free learning from rigid models of instruction and explication.
It also strongly supports non-commercial artistic experiences and seeks to provide a space for artists to create experimental works and share the results with the broader community. More at https://www.rhizomedc.org/about-rhizomedc .
RhizomeDC has purchased a building to serve as a permanent home in the District of Columbia for the organization’s various activities and events, from concerts and children’s camps to art exhibitions and workshops. The finalization of the purchase represents an unprecedented success – not only in DC but nationally, where similar volunteer-run spaces and organizations have been increasingly marginalized and priced out of large metropolitan areas.
RhizomeDC closed on the property at 7733 Alaska Ave NW DC on May 30. It now must submit plans to the Department of Buildings to obtain a building permit for needed repairs and renovations. A rough estimate of early 2025 has been put forth as projected opening date for the new space. The organization continues to accept donations and loans, needing to raise ~$70,000 more between now and September 1 to finance the renovations.
More information on supporting Rhizome through a community financing loan: https://www.rhizomedc.org/communityfinancing; more info on donating to Rhizome through GiveButter: https://givebutter.com/rhizomedc.
Fanoplane is an improvisational ensemble co-founded with Tiny Desk Concert‘s Bob Boilen. The ensemble never rehearses, it just loads-in, sets-up, tunes-up and plays. The ensemble’s lineup varies from performance to performance. Fanoplane’s seed was planted in a duo performance by Bob Boilen and Ted Zook. Following that, Bob sat in for a couple of performances with the Lost Civilizations experimental music project, then several performances with Heterodyne. Fanoplane’s performances are unscored and improvised extemporaneously on the spot. Here’s a link leading to a recording of Fanoplane‘s most recent performance: https://avantmusicnews.com/2024/06/19/grab-a-recording-of-fanoplanes-june-15-performance/ .
San Kazakgascar is a Sacramento-based band that formed in 2006. Core members Jed Brewer and Greg Hain have worked with several players such as Anthony Occipinti, Rachel Freund, Chris Hall, Paul Takushi, Linda Michelle Hardy, Mike Woo, Tony Passarell, Matt Kretzman, Sheila Bosco, Ethan Port, Brian Lucas, Robert Kennedy, Colleen Kelly, James Jaroba Barnes, John Cypher, Jeff Tobias, Rusi Gustafson, and others. The Kazakgascar sound is made on an art-punk/surf/drone/psych foundation and accented with Central Asian/Eastern Europe flavors. This iteration will consist of Jed Brewer and local collaborators.
Weed Tree – Amanda Huron and Layne Garrett play improvised music on drums, prepared guitar, and homemade instruments.
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