Communication

STUDIO ANNOUNCEMENT

ALTAR BUILDING. SAT 6/13. 12-4

with M Sweetham (

Building an altar might feel right for you if you’ve been wanting to more intentionally hold space in your life for celebration, grief, remembrance, ancestors, gratitude, recognition, and more. Altars offer a tangible place to remind us of these intentions, and ground using connecting elements.

Participants will have the opportunity to build altar structures, using a combination of found items, thrifted components, and art materials for simple altar builds. Or use prebuilt structures as is. Artists are encouraged to bring personal items that they want to be a part of their altar, or a structure base if they have a particular shape in mind. Please be mindful of your own cultural connections and bring non-appropriative imagery/items.

This workshop centers the normalization of grief and memoriam, and the practice of remembering/honoring/celebrating life, love, and death. This is an opportunity to build a personalized altar, and share space with other artists that want to use altars within their own life rituals.

The workshop will include altar examples and historical context of altars in and outside of religious spaces.

Sliding scale $20-30, $40-$55 encouraged for those with disposable income. Any payment over $40 will go directly to Sun Seeker in Milwaukee, WI for ongoing mutual aid needs.

Coming up in two weeks! Tix available only at our website!
MIRAH () has remained a beloved and idiosyncratic voice through indie rock’s many permutations. Now — six full length solo records and a half-dozen collaborative albums, EP’s and funny side-projects in — Mirah is releasing her latest record, Dedication. MISCELLANEOUS OWL () is Madison-based singer/songwriter Huan-Hua Chye, who also sings and plays guitar and keyboards in indie-pop quintet Gentle Brontosaurus.

Four Madison-area bands this Saturday! RAT SHOES kick things off right at 7:30 with some spidery melodic rock, then THE FIVE MOD FOUR deliver some power-pop/post-punk, FROZEN CHARLOTTE will haunt you, and VOLT SEA close out the night with some melodic metal.