15. The Bowls Project: Summer Retrospective

JULY PROGRAMMING:

Sunday 7/11
noon-6PM
Jewish Music Festival open dome day!

Thursday 7/15
6PM
InkBoat: Butoh in (and on) the dome

Friday 7/16
6PM
Jewlia: Shamanistic Shabbat

Sunday 7/18
noon-6PM
The Bowls Project CD Release Party (inside YBCA Forum)

Thursday 7/22
6PM
Women of the Real Vocal String Quartet
Strings play medieval madrigals and Malian love songs

Friday 7/23
6PM
Alleluia Panis and the women of Kularts lead a ritual that Balances the Elements

Saturday 7/24
6PM
Cornelius Boots Multi-Reed Shamanistic Extravaganza

Sunday 7/25
2PM
Amy Kassiola leads a workshop on demon-proofing your home with amulets.

Thursday 7/29 (Jewlia's birthday!)
6PM
Faun Fables: Songs about the domestic world

Friday 7/30
6PM
UnLocked: The sacred geometry of the African diaspora in braids

Saturday 7/31
International Body Music Fest preview and fundraiser: Keith Terry, Evie Ladin, Derique McGee, Alex Feng
30 min shows @ 6, 6:45 & 7:30

AUGUST PROGRAMMING:

Sunday 8/1
2PM
One Taste leads a workshop about sacred orgasm

Sunday 8/1
4:30PM
Susan Duhan Felix speaking on contemporary Blessing Bowls: Origins & Present Day Uses

Thursday 8/5
6PM
Rachel Valfer-Sills of Qadim plays Iraqi Jewish music, sacred and secular

Friday 8/6
6PM
Kismat-Mahal Kirtan Ensemble leads ecstatic chant

Sunday 8/8
2PM
Pamela Reitman from Makor Or and Everyday Zen leads Jewish meditation for all

Thursday 8/12
6PM
Susu Pampanin Middle Eastern percussion ensemble

Friday 8/13
6PM
Sharanya (R)evolutionary Shakta Tantra honoring Kali Maa, the Dark Mother

Saturday 8/14
Big Idea Night at YBCA
Screening meditative work by film artist Shezad Dawood in the dome, with ChoHo performances from 11PM to 12AM

Sunday 8/15
noon-6PM
Maggid Jhos Singer teaches chants and songs in the Jewish mystical tradition

Thursday 8/19
6PM
X-Alfonso, Cuban hip-hop star, unplugged!

Friday 8/20
6PM
Sister Sara Femme leads a botanical celebration of labia and plants

Saturday 8/21
6PM
Dan Cantrell and Lily Storm
8PM
Amazing special guest I am not allowed to annunce yet

Sunday 8/22
4PM
Orisha Girls from Satya Yuga: sing the Bowls safely toward its next journey.

This song is from The Bowls Project by Charming Hostess.

The Bowls Project is inspired by texts drawn from Babylonian demon bowls, amulets common from 300-700 CE in the area now known as Iraq. Demon bowls, or incantation bowls, were inscribed with a householder's secrets and desires and then buried under the doorway to protect her home. Demon bowl inscriptions are about "secrets of the home": love and sensuality; angels and demons; and the trials and joys of daily life. Especially audible in these texts are the individual voices of women from this period: their sexuality, work, hopes, and dreams. These spiraled Aramaic inscriptions are among the few existing records of female voices during the time and place of the Babylonian Talmud. Jewlia researched these bowls for four years. She read hundreds of incantation bowls, and ended up setting her favorites. She was pleased to discover the points of similarity between the amulet texts, more recent Babylonian Jewish devotional text, and American apocalyptic musical visions. The bowls inhabit the world of the "apocalyptic intimate"--a spirit-rich environment where the vast supernatural realm intersects the tiny domestic sphere. They explore domestic secrets in unexpected ways, suggesting a spirit-rich world that is strange and inspiring.

Text: Incantation Bowl
Music: Jewlia Eisenberg

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