BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange

Deadline is Tonight at 11:59 PM.

Apply Here!

https://www.bax.org/between-and-beyond-gender/

You’re Invited! 🎊🎉

HOMECOMING:
A BAX Alumni Show & Party

Buy Your Tickets via link below 🔗
🗣️ Early Bird Sale Ends 9/15!

https://www.bax.org/homecoming-a-bax-alumni-show-party/

BAX Alumni Groups will FACE OFF in a DANCE BATTLE in the style of Dancify That — a playful and fierce dance competition where teams transform stories, recipes, and memes into dance.

🗓 Thursday, October 24
📍 3 Dollar Bill
260 Meserole Street Brooklyn, NY, 11206

MC’D By None Other Than:
🧚Kelindah aka Theydy Bedbug 🧚

Featuring Our Competing Alumni Groups:

🟣 Artist Residencies
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🔴 Faculty Alumni
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🔵 Youth Alumni
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🟢 EmergeNYC

…Who Are You Rooting For?!
Can’t decide?
Root for them all!

Cheer on your favorite team and join in the fun with…

⭐ Ring Toss

⭐ Co****le

⭐ Fate-With-Gambling

⭐ Raffle

…and MORE at our…

Pre-Show Tailgate! 🔥

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Tailgate – Games, Photo Booth, Shmoozing at the Bar 🍸
8:00 PM – 10:00 PM – Dancify That Show & Competition 🏆
10:00 PM – 11:00 PM – Dance Party with DJ Nessoono 🎶

🎟️ Tickets purchased at $75 or more subsidize additional low-cost tickets to our community. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. 3 Dollar Bill is wheelchair accessible. If you would like to make a larger tax deductible donation you can do so via the link below:

https://www.bax.org/donate/

Underwriting provided by Idlewild Partners & Derive Engineers.

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Attention❗

🌈 Applications for the Fall 2024 in-person cycle of Drag Performance are now OPEN! 🌈

❗Submissions are due by 11:59pm on September 6th❗

*Criteria: You must be 21+ years of age and not currently enrolled full time in school in order to participate in this program.

🗓 When: Monday nights from September 30, 2024 through December 14, 2024 at BAX from 6:30-8:45pm

👢 Class dates: September 30 (first class); October 7, 21, 28; November 4, 11, 18, 25; December 2, 9, 10* (extra optional rehearsal). NOTE: No class on October 14 in observance of Indigenous People’s Day.

👠 Tech Rehearsal dates: December 11-13

🥾 Dress Rehearsal & Culminating Showcase: December 14, 2024

⭐ Facilitated by: Theydy Bedbug (aka Kelindah bee Schuster) and Guest Artists, The Maine Attraction & Zenobia

This class focuses on developing drag characters that expand what it means to be a drag queen, king, thing, in between or beyond what we’ve seen. Through group games, writing prompts and discussion, solo and collaborative movement exercises, we give ourselves permission to express the full range of who we are and can be while releasing narratives about how we “should” move, express, or dress based on gender norms we’ve inherited.

We experiment with the tools of pantomime, clowning, lip sync, caricature, structured improv and intuitive movement to build towards in-process drag performance acts. While this class is focused primarily on performance skills, we touch upon what goes into making a drag act including: makeup, costumes, creating a musical track, movement choreography and technical production choices.

💋 Apply Now via the link below! 🔗
https://www.bax.org/between-and-beyond-gender/

📸 #1: Kayla, Pixel journalism

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🗣️ We're excited to announce the launch of our new Online Rehearsal Space Platform, powered by our new software partner, Amilia!

This platform will allow you to check studio availability, book rehearsals, make payments, and keep track of your bookings, now all online. Our goal is to make the booking process more efficient and user-friendly. We're now accepting bookings through December 22, so be sure to secure your fall schedule soon.

🟪 BAX Spaces 🟪

The BAX building at 421 5th Avenue in Park Slope houses four beautiful, well-equipped, multi-purpose studios one of which doubles as a 70-seat black box Theater.

We Rent Our Spaces For:

🟣 Dance | Theater | Performance Rehearsals
🟣 Classes | Workshops | Meetings | Auditions | Readings
🟣 Informal Showings | Performances | Special Events
.And More!

📍 BAX is roughly one (1) avenue block and 1.5 street blocks away from the 9th Street/4th Avenue F/G/R Subway Station.

🏢 BAX is on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the building, accessible by stairs with no lift or elevator. However, we make every effort to help folks with mobility challenges reach our space. If you have a specific request or need, please reach out to us at [email protected].

Head To Our Link Below For More Information! 🔗
https://www.bax.org/space/rentals/rehearsals/

Happy Renting!

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🔺 Join Us For BAX's Annual Fall Open House & Block Party! 🔻⁠
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🗓 Saturday, September 28 ⁠
⏱ 11-3PM!⁠
Ages 3-18⁠
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BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange⁠
421 Fifth Avenue⁠
Brooklyn, NY 11215⁠
(between 7-8th streets and 5th Ave) ⁠
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Join us as we kick off our 2024/25 season and sample fall studio classes, meet BAX staff and families, and join for all kinds of family fun outside the building! ⁠
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🟣 Family-Friendly Art!⁠
🟠 Movement!⁠
🔵 Music Activities Outside!⁠

RSVP And View The Open House Schedule via link below! 🔗🎉⁠
https://www.bax.org/fallopenhouse/
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🗓 Fall Semester Begins September 30! ⁠

Heads Up! Early Bird Registration Discount of 5% expires August 15 for Fall Youth Classes! ⁠

Tiered Tuition, Financial Assistance, Trial Classes, and Select School Pick Up available!
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Check Out The Fall Schedule & Register via link below! 🔗
https://www.bax.org/classes/youth/
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Come Work With Us!⁠
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Now Hiring: Education Programs Associate & Apprentice Positions⁠
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🗓 Fall 2024 ⁠
⏱ Part-Time⁠
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The Education Programs Associate is an exciting, hands-on, position playing a vital role in the planning, day to day logistics, and community building of BAX’s on site Education Programs.⁠
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The Education Programs Apprentice is a hands-on position playing a vital role in the ex*****on of our School Pick Up Program as well as assisting teaching artists in dance, tumbling, and drama classes. The Apprentice will also be asked to take on discrete administrative and production tasks, help with day to day logistics, and support in community building of BAX’s on site Education Programs.⁠
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BAX’s Education Department actively engages in discussions about how race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other aspects of identity affect access to, representation in, and experience within all of our programs and curriculum. BAX is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating and developing an inclusive staff team. Disabled, BIPOC, LGBTQIA, and bi/multilingual individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.⁠
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Follow the link below for more Info and how to apply! 🔗⁠
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https://www.bax.org/opportunities/

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🌈 Happy Pride! 🌈

Take a look back at our fearless Drag Artists from this Spring’s 2024 Between & Beyond Gender Drag Performance Showcase!

This cohort was curated and led by the one and only Kelindah aka Theydy Bedbug with Special Guest Facilitators Timothy Westbrook (as seen on Project Runway) and Miz Jade.

This showcase featured performances by:

Crux, Cherri Cobra, Feral Thing, Ryder Steel, Charlie Chapless, Mr. Slut, Dairy King, Parcell, Billy Bon Bonson, Deuce S. Wilde, Nova, Retro TransPROSEon, Trojan W***e, Gene Naté

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Registration Now Open For Fall 2024 Youth Classes!⁠
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Check Out Our Exciting Fall Roster and Claim Your Spot Today! ⁠
Early Bird Registration Discount of 5% expires August 15.⁠
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BAX is where young artists-in-progress develop authentic creative voices within a nurturing community.⁠
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BAX is an intergenerational incubator space that welcomes all kinds of learners and encourages peer-mentorship and community. BAX arts education centers community, creative choice, collaboration, skill building, performance, and reflection. ⁠
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Fall Term Starts:⁠
Monday, September 30⁠
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School Pick Up Schedules Available!⁠
Free Trials & Scholarships!⁠
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Register via the link below!

https://www.bax.org/classes/youth/

RSVP via link below for BAX's Annual Fall Open House & Block Party:⁠
Saturday, September 28 from 11-3PM⁠

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-hS1CsmieHZ8I4_wpL8Q3Kwj_9ZPN1P1q7_UFGPakMM/edit?ts=666b29b1
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Join us for free sample classes in the BAX Building and fun family-friendly art, movement, and music activities outside (between 7-8th streets and 5th Ave). Meet new and returning staff and families, learn more about the upcoming season, and come celebrate as we kick off the new season!⁠
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Renovations | Building Closed

Saturday, August 3 to Monday, September 2

• Only the 2nd Floor - Studios A & B - Available for programs and rentals June 24 - August 2

• Studios C & D (3rd Floor) will re-open for rentals September 8

• Studios A & B (2nd Foor) will re-open for rentals September 22

BAX Youth Classes Begin September 30

Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

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BAX Family,

BIG News!

While the artists have been busy in the studios, the staff and board have been busy preparing for some big changes at 421 5th Avenue this summer!

There is a convergence of major projects coming to fruition…

→ BAX is installing HVAC in the studios and theater—modernized heating and cooling for the space! (How many of you remember sweating through a show in the third-floor theater?)

→ We are renovating the 2nd floor bathrooms!
(No more knee-knocking on those ancient saloon doors!)

→ More accessible ways to register for classes and book rental space are coming soon via new communication platforms, which will be more user-friendly and efficient! And, a few more surprises are in the works! Stay tuned! ...
.. Making this all happen is a complex puzzle, and YOU are the ESSENTIAL PIECE.

Your donation is the key to helping us complete these projects. Please contribute now to help us reach our $30,000 goal by June 30!

Help Us Reach Our Fundraising Goal By Donating via the link below:

https://www.bax.org/donate/

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Photo Credits: Gabriel Johnson; LeVue, Kayla, Merissa Blitz

Come Work With Us!⁠
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BAX is Now Hiring for a Part-Time Operations Associate.⁠
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As a key member of the Operations Team, the Operations Associate acts as a co-head Administrative & Facilities Assistant (AFA) (with the Technical Coordinator & Facilities Associate), and works closely with the Finance & Operations Manager and Senior Director of Finance & Operations.⁠
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Ideal Start Date: ⁠
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Paid training will start the week of June 27, 2024 and regular hours will start July 1.⁠
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See the Link below for more info and how to apply!

https://www.bax.org/bax-part-time-operations-associate/

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You’re invited to the 25th annual (ABCW) Art By Construction Workers Show! The opening reception will be Saturday, June 1, 2024, 4-6 PM at BAX!

This year’s show is titled, “The One That Got Away in memory of Fred Becker” and will be up April 29 – June 30, 2024.

Check out photos from the exhibit and visit our link below to find out more about these amazing artists!

https://www.bax.org/2024-art-by-construction-workers/

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Just 24 Hours Left!

The BAX Spring Online Auction Closes Sunday at 10 PM

With over 100+ prizes, there's something to enjoy for everyone!

Your generosity will support BAX's:

Youth Education Programs
Artist Residencies
Intergenerational Workshops
Financial Aid Programs

Check Out the link below to place your bid before it's too late!

https://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/auctionhome.action?auctionId=341748056

Prizes Include:

Tickets to MoMA
$100 Gift Card to Fausto
Family Membership to LongHouse Reserve
Dog and Cat Lovers Package
$250 Gift Card from Fluevog

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✨💫⭐️

Sunday, May 19, 2024

2:30 - 5:30pm

New Earth Bodies
with Yura Sapi

Movement Synthesis led by Maria Bauman .mariabauman

“We are creators, and birthing humans is not the only legacy we leave. No matter who we are, we as humans are stewards of Mother Earth and it’s time to remember our power in bringing to life our liberated future.

We are beings entrusted with the responsibility of nurturing our planet. New Earth Bodies is your opportunity to reconnect with the natural world and explore the profound connection between humans and plants. 🌱🌾🌿

Join this immersive experience where you’ll learn the ancient arts of communicating with plants through a series of hands-on activities, guided meditations and interactive discussions. Unlock these sacred codes, journey to self-discovery and awaken your connection to the Earth. 🌎

We are birthing the rEvolution towards a liberated and harmonious future.

Are you ready? New Earth Bodies awaits you.

Join us to sow the seeds of transformation together.”

Register via the link below! 💫
https://www.bax.org/mbdance-glorious-bodies/

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✨🌈 BAX is proud to announce our Spring 2024 Drag Showcase featuring participants from Kelindah Schuster aka Theydy Bedbug’s class “Drag Performance: Between & Beyond Gender”🌈✨

Join us in community as we celebrate q***r joy and gender-expansive expression! 🎉🎊

🗓️ Date: Saturday, May 11, 2024
⏰ Time: 8:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
📍Location: Brooklyn Arts Exchange (421 5th Avenue) and Livestreamed for Remote Access
*Please note that BAX’s space is not yet wheelchair accessible.

This culminating showcase will feature 14 original performance pieces by emerging experimental drag artists who subvert both gender and genre. This year’s cohort was curated and led by Kelindah aka Theydy Bedbug .bedbug with Timothy Westbrook (as seen on Project Runway) and Miz Jade who served as Guest Facilitators for the season.

This showcase will feature performances by Crux, Cherri Cobra, Feral Thing, Ryder Steel, Charlie Chapless, Mr. Slut, Dairy King, Parcell, Billy Bon Bonson, Deuce S. Wilde, Nova, Retro TransPROSEon, Trojan W***e, Gene Naté.

Please bring cash to tip the performers. Ball-up those dollar bills to throw onto the stage! 💸💸💸

In-Person and Livestream Tickets Available NOW via link below! 🎟️

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spring-2024-drag-showcase-between-and-beyond-gender-tickets-881051397447?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Let the Bidding Begin!

The BAX Spring Online Auction is Now Open

Auction Will Run From May 3-19

From Family Fun Adventures to Romantic Catskills Getaways, you, your friends, family, and loved ones will delight in our auction catalog!!

Proceeds will support BAX's:

Youth Education Programs
Artist Residencies
Intergenerational Workshops
Financial Aid Programs

Thank you for being a part of the extraordinary BAX community!

Prizes Include:

Luxurious 2 Night Stay at Wylder Hotel in Windham, NY
Delicious $200 Gift Certificate to Colonia Verde
2 Tickets to Forest Hills Stadium 2024 Concert Series
Tattoo from Stephanie Tamez
2 Guest Wellness Passes to SoJo Spa

Check Out The Prizes And Bid Below!

https://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/auctionhome.action?auctionId=341748056

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Congratulations to BAX’s 2024 Teen Artist Exchange participants for an exceptional event this year! 🎉

Talented teen artists, workshop facilitators, and company directors from MCC Manhattan and Brooklyn Youth Companies, Irondale Ensemble Project, Dancewave and BAX’s own Dance Performance Workshop ensembles (and beyond) came together for an afternoon of interactive workshops in:

⭐️ Peer Leadership ⭐️
⭐️ Drag Performance ⭐️
⭐️ Hip Hop & the Art of Freestyle ⭐️
⭐️ Partner Acrobatics ⭐️

Each teen company presented works-in-progress for each other and offered generous feedback in return; companies modeled different devising processes and exchanged resources, building a network among networks. This community of rising NYC artists embodied brave openness, compassion, and imagination that left all of us at BAX deeply inspired with promises of a more liberated future ahead!

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🌎️ Every day is Earth Day! 🌎️

And April is a month we actively raise awareness of and show our appreciation for the planet and the roles each of us play in keeping it healthy. There are many things we can do on a daily basis to help the environment, and in turn, improve the health and safety of our community!

At BAX, we use our imaginations and our bodies to express ourselves and collectively create all kinds of new performances. Together, we are empowered to envision and build the world we want to be a part of!

Check out some additional Environment & Climate Justice Resources via the link below!

https://socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/environment/

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New Sign, Same BAX!

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Along with community festivals, restaurants, shops and third spaces on Park Slope’s 5th Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID named one of the coolest streets in the world by Time Out Magazine Time Out New York is BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange, located at 421 Fifth Avenue.

In addition to our historical home on Fifth Avenue we also live at the intersection of the arts and social justice by offering

Artist Residencies & Space Grant Programs ✔️

Practice Lab Arts Initiatives ✔️

Youth Education Arts Programming ✔️

Affordable Studio Spaces ✔️

Annually, we invite over 10,000 students, parents, families, artists, and audiences to engage in shared creative journeys.

Check out our brand new outdoor signage, pick up one of our brochures and join us! 🎉🎊

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2024 BAX Summer Arts Program Registration is Open!
Limited Spots Available!

Program Dates
Monday, July 8 – Friday, August 2, 2024

NanoBAXers – entering K through 1st grade
MegaBAXers – entering 2nd through 5th grade

Register by the week, mix and match, or join us for all four weeks!
Sliding Scale Tiered Tuition & Scholarships Available

Daily Nano Visual & Performing Arts Activities ..culminating in mixed media galleries each week!

Weekly Mega Performing Arts Activities!
Circus
Dance
Drama
Tumbling..culminating in end-of-week original performances!

Register via the link below and see the full schedule!

https://www.bax.org/summer/

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BAX is fully excited to welcome two new Board Members, Mariana Valencia and Maia Wechsler!

Mariana Valencia has held numerous residencies and received awards for her choreography, the most notable being the 2018 Bessie Award for Outstanding “Breakout” Choreographer, a 2018 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists Award, a 2015 Jerome Travel and Study grant, and a 2023 Creative Capital Award. She was also an artist in the Whitney Biennial 2019. Mariana was a BAX Artist in Residence 2016-2018.

Valencia’s dance work reaches beyond the stage: in 2019, she published two books of performance texts, Mariana Valencia’s Bouquet (3 Hole Press) and Album (Wendy’s Subway), she is a founding member of the No Total reading group and she has been the co-editor of Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence. Valencia has toured in the United Kingdom, Norway and the Balkans, and her major commissions include: The Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Shed, Performance Space New York, and Abrons Arts Center.

Maia Wechsler is a documentary filmmaker whose work has focused on both the arts and social justice. Prior to filmmaking, she was a journalist in France and the U.S. Maia became a certified yoga instructor a decade ago and spent two years teaching women detainees at Rikers Island. She devoted her early life to dance.

Mariana Valencia Photo Credit: Charlotte Curtis⁠

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At BAX we lift up the Black lives, stories, and voices across all our intergenerational programs. This month, BAX students, families, and teachers drew inspiration from such monthly awareness campaigns as Black Lives Matter in School Action (week of February 5-8) and Black History Month, celebrating the 13 guiding principles of the BLM movement with our living gallery.

We invite our intergenerational community of resident artists, students, families, and renters to join us and contribute a coloring page(s) to our living gallery walls throughout the building. You can also check out BAX's living, year-round, anti-racist family resource webpage below for more inspirations and materials.

https://www.bax.org/education/family-resources/

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Congratulations AGAIN to BAX’s 2024 YouthWorks ensemble!

The showcase featured 10 original performance pieces and 19 young artists (ranging in ages from 7 to 17). Over the course of 6 weeks (from late-December through mid-February), these artists conceived, developed, rehearsed, directed and performed an incredible body of performance work in dance, theater, multimedia, poetry, and interdisciplinary performance. Some of the artists knew each other before the start of the program and others met and became collaborators at the first rehearsal in January!

Throughout the process, these artists were supported by professional artist coaches, who volunteer their time to support the development of these young artists and their art. The full list of coaches is below and we encourage you to learn about them and get to know their work! Some of our YouthWorks coaches this year are brand new to BAX, some have been coaches for many years, and some of our coaches are themselves alumni of YouthWorks, having participated in the program when they were kids. Quite simply, YouthWorks couldn’t exist without our generous and talented coaches!

2024 Coach Volunteers:

Jordan Bell
Leah Woodbridge
Eddie Prunoske
Ari Wes
Lily Ali-Oshatz
Brooke Rucker
Dana Jacks
Eleanor Crawford
Anna Vomacka

Check out some behind the scenes photos of the process!

Follow the link below to learn more!
https://www.bax.org/youthworks/

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Weekly Drop-In Melt classes with EmmaGrace Scove-Epes start today at BAX!

Link in bio to register! Tiered pricing available.

Fridays from 6:00-7:30 pm
February 24 through April 21
*No class on Friday, March 31

What is Melt?

The MELT Method is a self-treatment technique and body literacy system that focuses on rehydrating dehydrated connective tissue throughout the body and nourishing our nervous systems. Using props, including rubber rollers and balls, we will simulate the effects of therapeutic bodywork techniques- the props will serve as the “hands” of a bodywork practitioner. Drawing from practices including CranioSacral Therapy, Neuromuscular Therapy, Reflexology, Lymphatic Drainage, and Structural Integration/Rolfing, the MELT Method can help people recuperate from daily activities, including exercise, intense exertion, long periods of working at a desk or on your feet, and accumulated physical and/or emotional tension and stress. It can also be helpful in disrupting chronic pain patterns, healing from injury, preventing reinjury, helping your body prepare for or recover from surgery, and decreasing inflammation. By providing gentle compression and sensory feedback to different parts of your own body, you will learn how to systematically work with the fluid flow in your own body’s amazingly vast connective tissue matrix. Through learning to locate your fascial lines and how you can impact their interconnected currents of fluid flow, you will learn how to identify “pre-pain” signals and sensations that your body is communicating before pain or injury occur and to gently shift various physical symptoms. The MELT method, especially practiced over time, offers a way into deeper self-knowledge- allowing you to identify how you can offer yourself care and invite more ease, grounding, and deepen embodied awareness and presence.

Congratulations to Kelindah Schuster aka Theydy Bedbug .bedbug on the Drag Performance: Between and Beyond Gender Showcase last week at BAX! Participants from the class gave their all in a night of q***r creativity, community, and energy. joined Kelindah as the class’s special guests, and we are excited to have and teaching alongside Kelindah in this upcoming cycle.

Applications for the next round of Drag Performance: Between and Beyond Gender are up and open until 2/17! Link in bio.