Inside the Process: One Month To Go
Liz Maxwell is the Artistic Director of the AMP, and the theater director of the summer piece. Here she shares some personal reflections on starting that process: In just one month, the artists arrive, and we begin. I’m absolutely exhilarated and thoroughly terrified about this. For almost an entire year now, I’ve been visioning, fantasizing, and […]
Requiem for a Pink Moon: Stunning
Joel Frederiksen’s concert celebrating the release of his new CD “Requiem for a Pink Moon,” performed to a packed church, was truly bravo. The perfect project to be developed at the Art Monastery, the CD bridges Nick Drake’s folk classics and Elizabethan lute. Amongst our most favorite performances hosted by the Art Monastery, Joel’s dark […]
Joel Frederiksen: Requiem for a Pink Moon
Joel Frederiksen returns to Art Monastery Italia! Saturday, April 14, 6:30pm Free admission Colle di Costa, Labro JOEL FREDERIKSEN: Requiem for a Pink Moon http://www.joelfrederiksen.com In celebration of his new CD, celebrated musician Joel Frederiksen will perform excerpts from his project “Requiem for a Pink Moon.” This unique lute concert mixes classical music, the traditional […]
Visiting Artists: Cirque en Déroute
CIRQUE EN DÉROUTE performing at Art Monastery Italia! Saturday, May 5, 6:30pm Free admission Colle di Costa, Labro http://cirqueenderoute.com Company Cirque en Déroute is an acrobatic clown trio specializing in a wide range of eccentric circus disciplines including Chinese jar manipulation, tap-dance juggling, and high-level comedy acrobatics. Using a unique blend of contemporary circus and […]
Making the offering to the public: Artmonk Retreat Concert
It turns out that if you have a bunch of great musicians sit together in contemplation for eight days — silent save fifteen minutes of Gregorian chant in the morning and another fifteen in the evening — and then ask them to perform a concert on the eighth day, magical things happen. In the Diego […]
Concert and Fundraising in SF – February 18, 2012
Save the Date: Saturday, February 18 On Saturday, February 18, in the Diego Rivera Gallery of the San Francisco Art Institute (800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco), the Artmonks will perform a concert that is the culmination of an 8-day meditation retreat. During this week these artists will have been diving in deeply together, mostly in […]
Artmonk Retreat 2011
A crew of 26 Artmonks experienced the second annual Art Monastery spiritual retreat at the energetically vibrating Integratron in California. Actors, musicians, writers, artists, all. The coldness of the January Mojave desert was bone chillling. Over 10 days Joel and Michelle Levey guided, supported, cried, hugged us through multiple meditation practices to access those that […]
Liftoff / Next up: May 22 Serata Art Monastica
Our debut was a great success! We performed a vespers in the church in Labro, then the audience came to the monastery and had aperitivi in the courtyard while our musicians jammed. We then led them into theater, where co-founders Christopher & Betsy made a brief introduction to the Project, showed a video of what […]
