MAGMA

MAGMA CLOSED
2019-07-02, 2019-07-01 | MA
MAGMA is closed June 30 – July 6 for refinishing of the wood floors!
We reopen Sunday July 7 with Capoeira at 2pm

MAGMA CLOSED
2019-06-30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States

SING
2019-06-28 18:30 - 19:45 (America/New_York) | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Let’s sing together for fun, for community, for the magic that happens when we unite our voices in song. Using both free form exploration and improvisational structures we will play with the amazing acoustics in MAGMA. No experience necessary, just the desire to sing. Facilitated by Lisa Bouchie.
$5

Rock Show #4
2019-06-22 19:00 - 22:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
All Ages Show At Magma #4
With
Totality
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCa9jTgUKEDfsQa2__D3nEIA#menu
Jazz Imposters
https://m.soundcloud.com/user-258494266
Martha Martha
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K2niBGfViZg&t=53s
Sorry
https://sorrybandma.bandcamp.com/
And Pushflowers
https://pushflowers.bandcamp.com/
Again the show is All Ages so no sketchy business
Doors are at 7, first band on around 730, get there before 8 it’s only 5$, 10$ after.
It all goes down at Magma, 11 Pleasant st Gloucester
Top Floor

Electric Kitchen
2019-06-21 20:00 - 22:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
electric.kitchen is an electronic music project focusing on timbre and rhythm. Most works are conceived for live improvisational performance, aiming to take the audience on a journey rather than stick to a genre.
Project leader Mark Lentczner works with a wide range of electronics from analog synths, to digital samplers, controllers, and computers with his own software. Co-founder Paul Buser will return to the project for the Summer 2019 tour bringing his fusion of harmonic and timbral ideas on keyboard.
Collaboration and improvisation is a large part of the project’s work. Musicians with drones, keyboards, processed vocals, bass robots, and Tesla coils have all been part of prior works.
$10 at the door. Doors open 7:30pm
For their performance at MAGMA, Mark and Paul will be joined by dancers Paul Ctania, Jillian Olivera, Sarah Slifer Swift, and laura Tanguay improvising to their set. There will be a post-performance hangout for dancing and mingling, with DJ Salomon. B.Y.O.B.

Dogma presents In the Valley of Flowers
2019-06-15 19:30 - 21:00 | MA
Dogma* presents Poetry and Performance featuring “In the Valley of Flowers” by Casey Buckles

Performance of: In the Valley of Flowers with Jess Semararo and liquid lights by Josh Lentini and Casey Buckles

Poetry by: Ben Tavares and More

Dance performance by: Sarah Slifer Swift and Kate Tarlow Morgan

doors 7:00 PM, show 7:30pm
at Magma, 11 Pleasant Gloucester MA
B.Y.O.B.

$10 tickets at door or buy online

*Dogma is a collaboration between Dogtown Books and MAGMA, supporting multidisciplinary projects and synergistic events in language and performance.

Children's Program Recital
2019-06-15 15:00 - 16:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Creative Movement
Ballet I
Ballet II
Ballet/Contemporary

Improv Jam
2019-06-14 17:30 - 19:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The monthly improv jam is open to musicians, movers, poets, actors, performance artists: anyone who wants to co-create live art in real time.
Schedule is as follows:
5:30- 6pm warm-up, composition skills, conversation
6-7pm open jam
$5 suggested donation

+ GOOGLE CALENDAR

OmDrum
2019-06-13 16:30 - 17:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
OmDrum , founded May, 2015
Discover the meditative and healing power of the Drum with OmDrum, led by Mitch Cohen.

Suggested donation $10

Second Thursdays of the Month, 4:30-5:30pm

Bio:
Mitch “Pashawari” Cohen has been drumming since age 12, when he discovered his lifelong passion for music. As founder of OmDrum, he now brings the meditative power of the drum to anyone who has a desire to explore unconventional methodology to self-healing. Mitch spent thirteen years as drummer for the Boston Music Award winning group Mamadou, and also has been playing devotional Kirtan music for the past several years. He had a successful career in the semiconductor industry, and is the father of two teenagers.

Grow Fest
2019-06-09 12:00 - 15:00 | Burnham’s Field, Gloucester, 75 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Come hang out with MAGMA at the Backyard Grower’s Grow Fest!
Hang out at our booth, with fun activities and MAGMA staff.
See a Forro demonstration performance and take a mini-class at 2pm!

Primal Roots - Stories
2019-06-07 20:00 - 22:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
We are the stories we create – and this is something that differentiates us from other creatures – our ability to tell stories.
Humans with our powers of memory and imagination are very good at this. Our Tribes make narratives and histories – and with these agreements we create societies. Our stories are powerful beyond measure.
This Primal Roots is about stories. Journey with us as we witness, create and begin to think about our own and our communities stories.
Primal Roots is a dance – but so much more…
As part of the festivities, there will be a transformation station stocked with props and attire to support your changing story. You are encouraged to bring things to add or for your own personal use.
We are going to have some special performances and offerings during the course of the night. There will be live and recorded music, voice and vocal offerings, guided dance journeys and more.
$15 presle (tix available soon)
$20 at the door

Sashimi
2019-05-18 19:30 - 21:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
It’s FRESH. It’s RAW. It’s SASHIMI.
Open platform art share cabaret, hosted by Sarah from MAGMA and Paul from Closet Case.
Come share your performance/poetry/music/fashion/ideas/art. 10 minute maximum per share.

Sign up starts at 7:30pm
Show starts at 8pm
$5 suggested donation n.o.t.a.f.l.o.f.
b.y.o.b.

Rock Show: AutoShoes/Badlarrys/Crimps/WinterJogger/77everthings
2019-05-11 19:00 - 22:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Automatic Shoes
https://automaticshoes420.bandcamp.com/album/crimps-automatic-shoes-split
Bad Larry’s
https://badlarrys.bandcamp.com/
Crimps
https://crimps.bandcamp.com/
Winter Jogger
https://winterjogger.bandcamp.com/
77 Everything’s
https://77everythings.bandcamp.com/
All Ages
No Booze No Bullshit
7pm, 5$
@ Magma
11 Pleasant St (Top Floor)
(For those handicapped or walking impaired, please email rileyknispel@yahoo.com to arrange elevator access.)

Improv Jam
2019-05-10 17:30 - 19:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The monthly improv jam is for movers, musicians, poets, actors, anyone interest in creating live art in real time.
5:30-6pm, warm-up/compositional skills/deep listening
6-7pm open jam
$5 suggested donation

Om Drum
2019-05-09 16:30 - 17:30, 2019-04-11 16:30 - 17:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
OmDrum , founded May, 2015
Discover the meditative and healing power of the Drum with OmDrum, led by Mitch Cohen.

Suggested donation $10

Dates at MAGMA

March 14, 4:30-5:30pm
April 11, 4:30-5:30pm

May 9, 4:30-5:30pm
June 13, 4:30-5:30pm

Bio:
Mitch “Pashawari” Cohen has been drumming since age 12, when he discovered his lifelong passion for music. As founder of OmDrum, he now brings the meditative power of the drum to anyone who has a desire to explore unconventional methodology to self-healing. Mitch spent thirteen years as drummer for the Boston Music Award winning group Mamadou, and also has been playing devotional Kirtan music for the past several years. He had a successful career in the semiconductor industry, and is the father of two teenagers.

Mandingueiros dos Palmares batizado
2019-04-29 12:30 - 20:00 | MA
Annual Capoeira event for the students of Mestre Chuvisco’s Mandingueiros dos Palmares. Windsor Community Center, 119 Windsor St. Cambridge

Rock Show II
2019-04-26 19:00 - 22:30 | MA
We’re back with another All Ages Banger At MAGMA!
This time we’re rocking with
Off The Spectrum
https://m.facebook.com/offthespectrummusic/
Peoples Ensemble
https://thepeoplesensemble.bandcamp.com/
Ceramic
https://ceramicc.bandcamp.com/track/rambler-2
Courters
https://courters.bandcamp.com/
& The Dazies
https://thedazies.bandcamp.com/
Doors open at 7pm
Only 5$ before 8pm
$10 for the fashionably late
All Ages so no Booze, no Bullocks
@ Magma
11 pleasant st Gloucester
Top Floor

Soul Motion workshop begins
2019-04-23 10:30 - 11:45 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Soul Motion Conscious Dance series
Weekly: Tuesday April 23, 30 May 7, 14, 21, 28
$15 drop-in
$60 for the series
Join Corey McLaughlin for Soul Motion® conscious dance series.
“This is a dance we create with our own resources of renewal and freedom and inspiration ~ occupying more of what’s moving in and around us. In this space there is an abundance of curiosity and creativity where we can connect within and with community Your dance is needed!
No experience needed, I hope you can join me. ”
More information at www.theinfinitedance.com.

Closet Case: EGGS
2019-04-21 16:00 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
$10 tickets in advance
$15 at the door
BYOB

April vacation week
2019-04-15 08:00 - 17:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
No Children’s Classes this week. April 15-20

Improv Jam
2019-04-12 17:30 - 19:00 | MA
The monthly improv jam is open to musicians, movers, poets, actors, performance artists: anyone who wants to co-create live art in real time.
Schedule is as follows:
5:30- 6pm warm-up, composition skills, conversation
6-7pm open jam
$5 suggested donation

Samba begins
2019-04-07 17:00 - 18:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Join SambaViva for a series of four Sunday Samba workshops
Sundays April 7, 14, 28, and May 5
5:00 to 6:30pm
MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St. Gloucester MA
Come dance, sweat and smile with us! SambaViva dancers will help you shake off the cold with hot samba and Afro-Brazilian dance moves for folks hungry for a taste of Carnaval in Brazil. Come enjoy Brazilian rhythms, learn fun dance steps and feel as though you have been transported to the streets of Rio and Bahia right here on the Northshore!
Bring water, comfy workout clothes, friends and good vibes! No heeled shoes. All levels welcome!
Fee: $15 per class
or all 4 for $50
https://www.getsambaviva.com/

Brazilian Dance Night
2019-03-30 20:00 - 23:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Lessons in Samba and Forro (8-9pm)
plus
Performances by Raisa and Moabi (forro) and SambaViva Boston
Dancing til late! bring your own drinks
$15 at the door

XYZ of Yoga
2019-03-30 14:00 - 16:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Yoga, a 5000-year tradition within the human era, is actually based on earlier phylogenetic stages of the animal kingdom. Participants, trained or new to a Yoga practice, will explore these ancient, fundamental positions (asanas) through the lens of developmental movement patterns that are basic to all humans and animals in locomotion.
This three-part workshop of movement, visualization and experiential anatomy will serve to discover the evolutionary underpinnings of Yoga and build a developmental vocabulary for your Asana practice that is sourced from the natural world in overlapping waves.
It is optimal to attend all workshops due to the flow of knowledge being shared. However, do not hesitate to attend, if you must miss a session. We will catch you up!
February 9 The Starfish and the axial skeleton
March 9 The Frog and the Lizard
March 30 From Mammal to Human
All dates meet from 2 to 4:30pm
Pricing
SIngle workshop: $35
All three: $75
For more information feel free to call Magma (978) 381-3494 or Kate at 802 257 0855.
Kate Tarlow Morgan, dancer/choreographer, author, and teacher is editor-in-chief of Currents Journal for the Body-Mind Centering Association, and editorial consultant for Lost & Found Poetics Document Initiative at C.U.N.Y-Center for Humanities. As sole archivist of The Rhythms Fundamentals, based on the study of human and animal natural movement, Kate teaches in local area schools and studios. Her book of NYC-based essays and stories, Circles & Boundaries, (Factory School) was published in 2011. The Gloucester Writers Center and Trident Gallery has been recent home to Kate’s “dance-formation” events that are inspired by poets, painters and performers of the 20th c., including Charles Olson, Paul Valery, Lee Nagrin, Margie Beals, Andre Bernard and Marvin Israel.

The Red Table of Grief + Other Fine Episodes
2019-03-23 16:00 - 21:00 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
MAGMA and Trident Live Art Series present:
The Red Table of Grief + Other Fine Episodes
An improvised performance with Sarah Hickler, Lorraine Grosslight, Cass Tunick, Trisha Zembruski

Saturday, March 23, 2019
2 SHOWS: 4PM + 8PM
MAGMA
11 Pleasant Street Gloucester, Massachusetts
Tickets $15
Tix sold at the door or online via Brown Paper Tickets: BUY NOW

Improvisation reveals surprising worlds. These four performers have worked together in Action Theater, clown and other improvised collaborations for over 20 years. In this performance, light as a feather vignettes collide with a universal sense of loss framed by humor + absurdity.

Bios:

Lorraine Grosslight is a theater artist, painter, and STEM educator. She loves to practice, perform, and teach Action Theater, comedy improvisation, and clown. She’s been doing that for many years.
Sarah Hickler is a physical theater performer, actor and director, and a long-time practitioner and teacher of Action Theater. She is the Head of Acting at Emerson College where she teaches Movement, Action Theater and Shakespeare.

Cass Tunick is a performer and theater-maker. She teaches Action Theater Improvisation at Emerson College, in communities across the country, and during the summer in Estonia.
Trisha Zembruski is a performer, teacher + graphic artist. She trained in Action Theater and clown for a long time. She directs Theater for Kids—a unique program that creates original plays with children.

Qigong starts
2019-03-21 17:30 - 18:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Suzanne Sweeney offer this new course in Qigong at MAGMA, Thursdays 5:30-6:30pm.
Qigong is the foundation of martial arts and has its roots in Chinese Medicine and Taoist philosophy. Simply translated, qigong means cultivation of energy and the cultivation of the skill of moving energy. Abundant energy manifests in the body as high functioning organs, flexible muscles, supple joints, clear thinking, and balanced emotions.
A primary goal of Qigong is to strengthen the environment of the body, i.e., build life-force energy, improve the immune system, clear stress and tension, and increase circulation. With regular practice, Qi begins to flow smoothly through every part of your body.
Qigong imitates the movements of nature and is often considered a form of meditation.
It emphasizes the harmony and health of body, mind, and spirit. Qigong shifts your nervous system into the parasympathetic state, which is the state in which your body comes into balance, repairs, and heals making Qigong the perfect complement to your current exercise program.

Practicing Qigong will help you:

Relax your mind and body to promote healing
Move energy to where you need it most
Improve balance, mood, and circulation

Among the many great things about Qigong are that anyone can do it and tremendous benefits can be realized with minimum time commitment.
Mind calm, heart open, body energized is the Qigong state of being.

CHEK Holistic Lifestyle coach, FDN-P, Reiki Okuden, and author of The Optimal Health Cookbook, Suzanne Sweeney, teaches people how to improve health & happiness through diet, Tai Chi & Qi gong, and relaxation techniques including Reiki and Shamanic healing. Suzanne has trained in various martial arts since 2010 and considers Tai Chi and Qi gong to be a fun and effective path to a better body, a happier outlook, and improved overall health.

http://energizebodyandmind.com/tai-chi/

Children's Program Spring Term Begins
2019-03-18 | MA
Spring Term March 18 – June 15
No classes April vacation week: April 15 – 21
Final recital for all classes Saturday June 15, 3pm

OmDrum
2019-03-14 16:30 - 17:30 | MAGMA, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
