We all need a passionate outlet: Calling all artists, dancers, musicians, art-enthusiasts, and creative types to gathers together and create MAD love... Music, Art, and Dance that is. :) I am a dance/movement therapist, painter, and teacher living in an apartment splattered in paint. I invite you to MEETUP (bring your instrument, paints, poetry, camera, ideas, etc.) with an open mind and creative spirit. Let's encourage each other in our crafts and share the beauty of what we love. The first mee …

The Lila Group is an ongoing womens' circle using expressive arts, ritual and games to explore ones relationship to Self, others, higher self, God, soul and life path. Lila in sanskrit means "play" or "divine play." Thus "Lila" describes the existence of everything as the result of the creative play of the divine absolute. What is Expressive Arts? Expressive Arts weaves multiple modalities planned and spontaneous: drawing, painting, clay, mask making, drama games, role play, music, journaling, c …

Who Are We? Brooklyn Pilgrims is a cradle to grave collaborative theatre company. We take an idea or a piece of existing art and turn it into a fully company created piece of theatre. Our rehearsal process is flexible so no matter your availability you can be a part of the process. What Do We Do? Through an extensive workshop process with as many collaborators as possible we explore elements of improvisation, movement, music and words to arrive at a fully realized structure to build a play. Why …

Our main goal is to provide a resource and creative meeting facility for lovers all things hand-made. Focused in the Textile Arts, we offer courses, workshops, and special events. Course topics include: Hand-Weaving on full sized multi-harness floor looms Screen-Printing in a state of the art facility Dyeing (Natural + Synthetic) Fashion and Sewing Construction Embroidery, felting, and other needle arts Exploratory courses in Hat-Making, Shoe-Making, Silk Painting, Spinning, and Contem …

This is a group for artists of all varieties! Creativity is a gift that we can use to improve our lives and our connection to spirit. Learn techniques for embracing creativity to lead more fulfilling lives. Art can be used in many ways. It can be a meditative tool, a means to manifest desires, or a vehicle to release emotion. It can be used to gain connection with your higher-self, angels and guides, etc., and to simply exist within a state of joy and peace.

The Art for China Foundation is committed to providing financially underprivileged children in China with an equal opportunity to study and explore art at an early age. We are a nonprofit organization that uses innovative and engaging tactics to improve the lives of these children.

Soul Collection's Art of Beginner's Sewing Classes, Advanced Sewing Specializations, or Flat Patternmaking Classes offers a Small Group setting and Affordable Class Fees in Brooklyn. Soul Collections helps students Develop Creative Life Application Skills in Sewing or Flat Patternmaking during the 4 Week Sessions  . Students who have taken Soul Collections Sewing Classes have advanced tremendously from not knowing how to thread the sewing machine to sewing skirts or shorts in a matter of weeks …

Calling all PAINTERS, WRITERS, MUSICIANS, FILMMAKERS, ACTORS, COMEDIANS, SINGERS, ETC ...! Whether you are an ARTIST or an ART LOVER I'd like to welcome you to the ARTBEAT, my storefront studio in Rahway's up and coming Arts District. I'm a NYC multi-media artist who moved back to Jersey and this studio is where I do all my stuff so I was thinking - I would love for it to be a place where creative people of all types can meet, make things and show their work AND a place for creativity appreciato …

This Meetup will explore human spirituality from multiple perspectives in art, music, film, sculpture, poetry, and every other form of artistic expression. We will experience and discuss how the many forms of human spirituality utilize the arts as a means of enhancing meditation, expressing feelings and emotions beyond words, strengthening community, and co-creating with a Divine Essence that exists beyond our understanding. Please note that this group is not just for people who create art and m …

Wing Chun Gung Fu in Park Slope! Wing Chun (traditional Chinese: 詠春; pinyin: yǒng chūn; literally "spring chant"), also romanized as Ving Tsun or "Wing Tsun" (and sometimes substituted with the characters 永春 "eternal springtime") is a concept-based southern Chinese martial art and form of self-defense utilizing both striking and grappling while specializing in close-range combat. Instructional emphasis will be placed on Siu Lim Tao and the development of Energy, Distance, Timing, Movement, and S …

Come join us and learn extremely effective ways to defend yourself in the street, in a bar or crowded building. Training is based on the instructors study and interpretation (though not limited to) of Native Russian Martial Arts, which are based on the science of natural human motion, or bio-mechanics. We also train some basic grappling. Easily learn to at least double your striking power with no more than half the effort. Though we take training serious, the group is very laid back and easygoin …

Hi Everyone! Thanks for coming to the Brooklyn Kickboxing, Boxing & Muay Thai Meetup Group home page. Our mission is to: Offer the public a complete Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) program with a full range of various striking and grappling arts, combined with a comprehensive strength and conditioning regimen. Nurture and develop great self confidence through the mastery of self defense. Empower others with the desire, ability and knowledge to sustain regular, lifelong physical activity as a founda …

This is a group for beginners on oil painting. If you always want to try but never have the opportunity to express yourself with a brush stroke the time is now. Join us for a creative, fun and relaxing experience.

This group is for anyone who appreciates Modernism in all its forms and movements. Spanning the majority of the 20th century, this group will seek out experiences in modernism, including museum and gallery exhibits, tours modernist architecture and homes, and maybe even schedule some swank and stylish themed cocktail parties. Although this group will place special focus on post-war Mid Century Modern ("Mid Mod"), the overall time frame for this group will be broadly focussed on all forms of 20th …

HAI hopes to spark a creative revolution by amateur and professional animators in a field of graphic design that evolved from still-cartoons and filmed-motion pictures so quickly most of the genre’s possibilities were left unexplored. Divergent creativity flowers when limits on length (and size/complexity) are combined with themes that encourage participation, provided the tools available make actual production and sharing quick and easy. It happened with short-form Japanese poetry as a mass par …

New Jersey Yoga and Meditation group welcomes those who practice and/or want to learn more about Yoga, Meditation & Breathing techniques to reduce stress and enhance the quality of life. We offer FREE introductory sessions and workshops, for a charge, that teach Yoga, Meditation & Breathing techniques to reduce stress, detoxify the body, bring clarity of mind, emotional stability and nurture the spirit. We offer programs through the Art of Living Foundation. The Art of Living Foundation offers …