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Published on Feb 10, 2015
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Akasha Improv Temple at Bridge & Enrich Featuring PEPE DANZA
"Improv is what you do with all the information that is coming to you in this moment.....improvisation means presence and responsiveness to what's really there"
~ Stephen Nachmanovitch
Who: Anyone who is interested in unleashing their creative potential while being inspired by the improvised expressions of others in a shared space.
Why: To experience the understanding, joy, responsibility and peace that come from the full use of the human imagination
What:
The Akasha Improv Temple is devoted to free play - to connect to and strengthen your own creative powers by unblocking the obstacles to its natural flow. This is an opportunity to create music, dance, poetry and visual art, as well as to make new connections and bring the art of improvisation into your life. The intention of this evening to draw out your inner improviser and develop the muscle of responding to the creative impulses arising from within you and from your environment. Everyone who comes is a participant, even if you are just dancing fully or listening deeply!
When:
7-8:30 - A dance meditation created by the mystic Osho called "Nataraja" - the dance of creation and destruction - followed by a discourse of this great Master. Pepe will provide electrifying percussion to shake up the body and help you transcend the mind so that you can experience the deep stillness of being. This is a beautiful way to open the body and access the penetrating teachings of one of the greatest Mystics of the 20th century who is a huge inspiration for Akasha Arts. We highly encourage that you come to this before the Improv Temple to deepen your experience.
8:30-11pm Improv Temple - Enter into the creative zone with the music of Pepe Danza, Zamir Dhanji and other amazing world musicians who create a space of improvised world music for you to tap into your own creative expressions. You will be inspired, uplifted and charged to harness greater creative energy in your life.
Where: Bridge and Enrich Community Studio (718 Fraser St)
What to bring: Your tools of self-expression - I.e. Instruments, journal, pens, flow toys etc. If you have beautiful art to share, bring it with you and the opportunity to share may arise.
How much:
Energy exchange - $20
About Pepe:
Born in Uruguay, South America, Pepe is part of a new generation of musicians bent on breaking geographical, spiritual and musical boundaries through a deep study and understanding of traditional forms both Eastern and Western. Having lived, studied, and performed in South America, USA, Europe, the Asian subcontinent, Japan and Indonesia, Pepe has a wide cross-cultural versatility and has been called “the embodiment of World Music”. He plays percussion, winds and strings from his collection of more than three hundred instruments from around the world. He is especially focused on Afro Latin drumming traditions, as well as exploring Sound Healing. His spiritual quest encompasses extensive experience with the Gurdjieff system, Sufism, Taoism, Yoga and Buddhism, including studies in India with the Dalai Lama.

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About Zamir Dhanji: Zamir is an interdisciplinary artist, producer and community organizer committed to bringing peace through culture. An advocate of creativity as a path to awakening and healing, he founded Akasha Arts as a vehicle for empowering cultural rebels to evolve tradition through the arts. He is also a member of the Naad music collective and the program director for the Teen Journey Society.
"Life as an art and art as a game—as action for its own sake, without thought of gain or of loss, praise or blame—is the key, then, to the turning of living itself into a yoga, and art into the means to such a life." - Joseph Campbell in Myths To Live By