UPCOMING COMMUNITY GATHERINGS
July Community Gathering
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In celebration of the Pride season, our July community gathering is a blog series featuring interviews with several LGBTQ+ members of the Lady Brain Collective. Visit the Lady Brain Presents blog throughout the month to read stories and perspectives from various queer voices within our group of San Diego womxn-identifying creatives.
We'll read about these members' coming out experiences, intersecting aspects of their identities, how their queer-ness is at work in their art, and how they apply a queer perspective to ongoing struggles against hate and oppression. Thank you for helping us lift up these voices!
We'll read about these members' coming out experiences, intersecting aspects of their identities, how their queer-ness is at work in their art, and how they apply a queer perspective to ongoing struggles against hate and oppression. Thank you for helping us lift up these voices!
August Community Gathering
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While this year's Lady Brain Fest didn't pan out to be the grand event we envisioned (thanks pandemic), the show must go on! Please join us on Saturday, August 8 as we virtually celebrate and honor this year's film and music video selections for our first ever film festival. Selections will be posted at 10am, so mark your calendars, buy some popcorn on your next grocery run, and prepare to be entertained!
UPCOMING MEMBER MEETUPS/WORKSHOPS
August Member Workshop
Image description: a square graphic, white background with yellow square and black line accents, as well as black text along the left side that reads “workshop.” Toward the center of the graphic is a photograph of Mona Tavakoli passionately playing percussion on stage, her hair is in the air, her face lifted up, and her mouth wide open. On the bottom of the graphic, black text on white background reads: "Meeting Info: Tuesday, Aug 18 // 6pm. Prospective members please visit ladybrainpresents.com/join. Topic: Q&A w/ Mona Tavakoli. Mona will speak to the group about art & activism, creativity during covid, branding, and more.
For this workshop, Los Angeles-based drummer, singer and performer Mona Tavakoli will be joining us for a Q&A on art and activism, creativity during Covid, branding, and more.
Mona began her professional musical career in 1999 as a founding member of Raining Jane, an all-female rock band. More recently, Raining Jane co-wrote and recorded YES! (Atlantic Records) with Jason Mraz. In support of the album they toured internationally for two years. Mona also toured worldwide on Mraz’s 2012 album, Love is a Four Letter Word, and they performed together as a duo on programs such as The Today Show, The David Letterman Show, Ellen, Dancing with the Stars, and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.
As the Duo Decibel System, Mona (percussion) and Mraz (guitar/vocals) have performed in Antarctica in support of climate change awareness and they were proud to help honor Ellen Degeneres as she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at The Kennedy Center.
As a solo percussionist, Mona has appeared on A&E’s Private Sessions, where she performed as a trio with Pat Benatar and her husband, Spyder Giraldo. She has been the featured percussionist with the Pasadena muse/ique orchestra (led by maestra Rachel Worby), and played with musicians such as Andy Grammer, Colbie Caillat, Keaton Simons, Lindsay Mac, Lucy Schwartz, Natalia Zukerman, Sara Bareilles, Tristan Prettyman and Willy Porter.
Mona believes that music can inspire and connect people to a larger purpose. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Rock n’ Roll Camp For Girls Los Angeles, a nonprofit that encourages girls to find their voices through music during an intensive, weeklong summer day camp. Mona also promotes music education by hosting rhythm workshops at elementary schools and colleges around the country. Mona is endorsed by: DW Drums and Hardware, Gibralter Hardware, Latin Percussion, Remo Percussion, Roland Electronic Percussion, Sabian Cymbals, Sennheiser Microphones and Vater Percussion.
Mona began her professional musical career in 1999 as a founding member of Raining Jane, an all-female rock band. More recently, Raining Jane co-wrote and recorded YES! (Atlantic Records) with Jason Mraz. In support of the album they toured internationally for two years. Mona also toured worldwide on Mraz’s 2012 album, Love is a Four Letter Word, and they performed together as a duo on programs such as The Today Show, The David Letterman Show, Ellen, Dancing with the Stars, and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.
As the Duo Decibel System, Mona (percussion) and Mraz (guitar/vocals) have performed in Antarctica in support of climate change awareness and they were proud to help honor Ellen Degeneres as she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at The Kennedy Center.
As a solo percussionist, Mona has appeared on A&E’s Private Sessions, where she performed as a trio with Pat Benatar and her husband, Spyder Giraldo. She has been the featured percussionist with the Pasadena muse/ique orchestra (led by maestra Rachel Worby), and played with musicians such as Andy Grammer, Colbie Caillat, Keaton Simons, Lindsay Mac, Lucy Schwartz, Natalia Zukerman, Sara Bareilles, Tristan Prettyman and Willy Porter.
Mona believes that music can inspire and connect people to a larger purpose. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Rock n’ Roll Camp For Girls Los Angeles, a nonprofit that encourages girls to find their voices through music during an intensive, weeklong summer day camp. Mona also promotes music education by hosting rhythm workshops at elementary schools and colleges around the country. Mona is endorsed by: DW Drums and Hardware, Gibralter Hardware, Latin Percussion, Remo Percussion, Roland Electronic Percussion, Sabian Cymbals, Sennheiser Microphones and Vater Percussion.
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