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Come learn more about yoga and meditation in the tradition of Raja Yoga, the bliss filled path.

Please join us for a Twist Out Cancer artist workshop at CultureVerse Gallery focused on wellbeing. TOC board member Kara Thomas will talk about how participating in the Brushes with Cancer program has influenced the artwork in her show "Dimensions". The show is currently on display at CultureVerse through Nov. 20. Kara will also lead a guided meditation that will be followed by the opportunity to journal and sketch about the experience.

You do not need to be an artist to participate in this event! This event is open to everyone. Feel free to bring a journal, art supplies, and a blanket or pillow for the meditation (all optional). Hope to see you there!

Join us at Harmony in Motion Studio, Ann Arbor, for yoga movement, breath, and meditation practices to calm the nervous system and initiate the body's natural relaxation response. Workshop will focus on yoga practices to engage the vagus nerve and promote heart-brain coherence. Please join us to experience practices that cultivate greater awareness, compassion for self and others and sense of connection to all of life. Open to all fully vaccinated meditation and yoga practitioners. Masking optional.

A regular at the Blue LLama, SEAN DOBBINS is a highly sought-after jazz sideman and educator whose sound can best be described as hard-driving, solid rhythm with refreshing melodic sensibility. Being the focus of countless news articles, jazz radio programs, and documentaries, Dobbins has performed/toured/recorded with artists, such as Johnny Basset, Joey DeFrancesco, Marcus Belgrave, and David Baker.

Ellen Rowe and Andrew Bishop have been playing together for 15 years, recently releasing “Chisel & Stone”, an album featuring their own compositions as well as arrangements of jazz standards. They have been featured at the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference and have toured throughout the Midwest, including concerts at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Albion College. They have also performed locally at the Kerrytown Concert House and in concert at the UM School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

Andrew Bishop is a versatile multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, scholar, and educator comfortable in many musical idioms. He maintains an international career and serves as an Associate Professor and Chair of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Bishop’s three recordings as a leader have received widespread acclaim from national and international journals. As a composer and arranger, he has received numerous commissions, residencies, and awards from the ASCAP, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Andrew W. Melon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and a nomination from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He earned five degrees in music including a DMA in music composition from the University of Michigan. A dedicated and committed teacher, Bishop was twice the recipient of the Arthur Anderson Professor of the Year Award, the Joyce G. Ferguson Faculty Development Grant for Excellence in Teaching, and the 2021 Harold Haugh Award for excellence in studio teaching. He is a Conn-Selmer and Vandoren artist.

Ellen Rowe, jazz pianist and composer, is currently the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation at the University of Michigan. Ms. Rowe has released five CDs as a leader four of which, “Sylvan Way”, “Denali Pass”, “Wishing Well” and “Courage Music” are available at PKO records and at CDBaby.com. Her newest album “Momentum – Portraits of Women In Motion” was released to widespread critical acclaim in January 2019 and is available at Smokin’ Sleddog Records, ellenrowe.com, CDBaby.com, Spotify and other streaming services. Her various small groups have been featured at jazz festivals around the country, as well as at colleges and universities, and her “Momentum” band was recently selected to perform at the 2022 Jazz Education Network Conference.

Ms. Rowe's compositions and arrangements are published by Kendor Music, Doug Beach Music and Sierra Music Publishing and have been performed by ensembles including the Village Vanguard Orchestra, BBC Jazz Orchestra, U.S. Navy Commodores, Berlin and NDR Radio Jazz Orchestras, DIVA and the Perth Jazz Orchestra. She has received commissions from the Westchester Jazz Orchestra, Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra, Minnesota Music Educators, Illinois Music Educators, Lawrence University’s Fred Sturm Commissioning Project and the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, in addition to junior high and high school groups throughout the country. She has also been selected to conduct numerous All-State jazz ensembles, including the NafME All-Eastern and All-Northwest honors groups.