RSVP to the Free Event For the 3rd edition of Cardea’s residency, Dr. Nicholas Powers will be joining us for a lecture. Powers is a literature professor, novelist and journalist. He has facilitated workshops from Occupy Wall Street, PEX, Burning Man and the California Institute for Integral Studies, and his writings have appeared in The Village [...]

Limited Spots - Register Here!   As archetypal tricksters, psychedelics continue to defy explanation. Invoking Cardea, the trickster goddess of the hinge, I want this talk to open some questions for us to play with: if psychedelics produce such weird and unruly experiences, why are they therapeutic, and what else might they be? I'll draw on [...]

Intimate somatic movement & awareness workshop with deep meditation practices, & exploration of improvised movement and vocalization.

Our womxn's integration support circles aim to create a safe space to openly share our psychedelic experiences and hold space in support of each other. We hope you can join us!

RSVP to reserve your spot! Psychedelics have always been big business, but lately they have become the center of a rapidly growing consciousness-expanding industry. We will consider this so-called “psychedelic renaissance” in light of philosopher and historian Michel Foucault's critique of neoliberalism, especially after his fabled Death Valley acid trip in 1975. How might Foucault help [...]

Free Event @ Nowadays   For the March edition of Cardea’s residency, Randy Polumbo and Eugenia Bone will be joining us for a talk on using fungi as an artistic medium and the mycology that makes it possible, followed by a wide ranging Q and A covering mycology, fungal ecology and psychedelic mushrooms.   Randy Polumbo [...]

Limited Spots - RSVP here!   Transcend exists to bring trans and gender-expansive/gender non-conforming voices into the choral music of the western choral tradition. We perform art music (in all its forms) from medieval to contemporary, with a general focus on presenting works of composers from minority backgrounds.   Our goals are artistic, musical, pedagogical and [...]

RSVP Here   Join CARDEA’s co-founder Ross Ellenhorn at ARTemple—a space to co-create art from a place of inner guidance, instead of guidelines. This space is fitting for anyone, no art experience required. Through pen, pencil, charcoal, and pain, we’ll meet each other in a place of creativity, improvisation, and connection.  We’re gathering at CARDEA’s gathering [...]

Reserve Your Spot   Guided Bodily Reverie This class is a snapshot in time of my current explorations in decentralizing and distributing awareness to be responsive to, and responsible for, the multiplicity inherent in the carnal body. Privileging qualitative sensorial curiosity and actively resisting the urge to translate these experiences into the quantitative world of data [...]