a little antler wave, and london shintaido for all @ union chapel. (Patreon)

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hey londoners...and everybody.

this is just a quickie mostly news-y post. 

i've had a quiet weekend with ash.  thanksgiving in london was bleak and depressing and lonely. neil is gone for a couple weeks - he left wednesday for a writing retreat up in his house on the isle of skye - and i'm using the time to quickly indoctrinate ash with a love for ABBA. 

quickly, quickly, loves, before his father finds out. 

swiftly, and with focus.

every morning has been a "winner takes it all" dance party. 

hush, child, not a word to your father. 

ash also just had his first school "holiday concert". my heart exploded. for reasons known only to the gods, he insisted (and i mean insisted) on wearing his david bowie pajama pants. i let him. i mean why the fuck not, whatever works.

yes, his antlers are hands.

wave wave.

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after the merch post, i have a few more community-midned posts to make (i'm drafting several).....but right now, with the holiday merch needing to go out and the london shows upon us.....

first: a reminder to all people coming to the union chapel shows that the doors are at 5:30 pm FOR ALL SHOWS (dec 5, 6, 13 and 14). all the shows are VERY SOLD OUT. please come on time!!! shows starts 6:30 sharp and ends at 10:30. bring a cushion for your bum. i am not joking. also maybe bring snacks. 

second: there's going to be A LOT OF SHINTAIDO in london!!

shintaido. yes. it's like a combination of yoga, karate, improv, and primal scream therapy. sound weird? it is. it's also easy and really fucking fun.

so....david is coming from prague to turn us all into screaming, stretching weirdos RIGHT IN THE VENUE!!! union chapel is big and has a lotta rooms! come early, do shintaido, got get food, come back for the show.

being able to practice this kind of movement/awareness-oriented stuff with the community has been supremely fantastic while on tour. it's nice to be able to BE with everybody like this. 

if you've been to one of the shintaido practices, please comment below and encourage london people to come and tell them how goddamn fun and not scary and easy it is! 

and london people, book early and often and bring pals - this is OPEN TO ALL, not just to patrons, but i'm not going to spread this around on social media because the class sizes need to stay SMALL. but feel free to spread the word among friends and bring people you think might like it. 

here's a little letter david wrote to the community. i'll hopefully see a lot of you there. i need this practice before the shows more than anybody....it opens my soul. i won't be at every practice, but i'll be at 80% of them as time allows. i may have to miss the 12th, since it's not a show day, but i'm gonna try.

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the info, from david.

PRE-CONCERT SHINTAIDO IN LONDON @ UNION CHAPEL!

(open to public, and you don't need to be coming to the concert to take part!!!)

Hello lovely AFP Patreon members,

You may remember that Amanda wrote this fantastic phrase in a previous Patreon post about Shintaido and the free speech issues we had on tour in Ireland and so on:  "VOICE is the new SIGN.” I hope she’ll let me steal that slogan and use it for Shintaido, because it is fitting.

As you may know, I've been traveling with Amanda's There Will Be No Intermission tour offering Shintaido trainings in the afternoons before concerts. Shintaido: a modern art of movement from Japan. Wild, wonderful, energizing. For COMPLETE BEGINNERS of all shapes, sizes, and physical abilities. This amazing contemporary Japanese art of movement moved people (pun intended) during the There Will Be No Intermission tour from Prague through Limerick. We practiced on the beach, in various yoga studios, dance studios, parks, and in an art gallery.

The Shintaido-practices-before-the-concerts is coming to London in December. See below.

Here we are in Bexhill-on-Sea:

He we are crammed into a dance studio In Prague:

And 

…and here's a little video in Cork (shot by wonderwoman Gaby Motola):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9f9lnKLEaQ&feature=youtu.be

And now, pre-concert Shintaido LONDON details:

December 5, 6, 13, 14!
all 3:00 - 4:00 pm

Union Chapel Upper Hall (yes, that is the concert venue, but a different room)
Compton Terrace, London N1 2UN, UK

Price: sliding scale £2 - £25 - please pay what you can.

SPACE IS LIMITED so please buy a ticket in advance at:
https://shintaido.weebly.com/amanda-palmer-pre-concert.html

You can come to more than one Shintaido practice. It's best to buy a ticket. If it's not sold out, you can just show up and pay cash or with a card - we will announce if it's sold out here on the patreon.

In case you're wondering who is offering these Shintaido practices:

I'm David Franklin (a.k.a. manta) and a Shintaido instructor, visual artist, performance artist, and video- and filmmaker. I was part of the same art scene in Boston in the late 90s and early 2000s where the Dresden Dolls first made their debut. I also BTW worked with another long-time Amanda Palmer collaborator Michael Pope to produce the Dresden Dolls first two music videos, Girl Anachronism and Coin-Operated Boy, and the experimental film/performance Neovoxer.

And the pre-concert what? Shintaido is a modern Japanese art of body movement and expression of life. Read more about it at the British Shintaido website http://www.shintaido.co.uk/what-is-shintaido/ or you can watch a 5-minute info video at http://shintaido.weebly.com/video.html. The practices are for complete beginners, people in any kind of physical condition, except that sorry :-(   the Union Chapel Upper Hall is not wheelchair accessible. Wear comfy clothes for movement.

Questions? Email David Franklin at shintaido@dfranklin.org or WhatsApp me at +420 608 534 383

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that's it loves.

see you in a moment with merch stuff.

x

afp

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UPCOMING SHOWS:

Thu Dec 5 – UK – London – Union Chapel (SOLD OUT) 

Fri Dec 6 – UK – London – Union Chapel (SOLD OUT) 

Fri Dec 13th - UK - London - Union Chapel (SOLD OUT) 

Sat Dec 14th - UK - London - Union Chapel (SOLD OUT)
 

THEN DOWN UNDER:

Mon. Dec 30 — Wed.. Jan 1 - WOODFORD, QLD - Woodford Folk Festival

Thurs. Jan 16 — Sat. Jan 18 - LAUNCESTON, TAS - Mona Foma Confessional

Mon. Jan 20 - LAUNCESTON, TAS - Princess Theatre, Mona Foma

Wed. Jan 22 - MELBOURNE, VIC - Hamer Hall

Fri. Jan 31 - BRISBANE, QLD - Brisbane Powerhouse

Sat. Feb 1 - BRISBANE, QLD - Brisbane Powerhouse

Fri. Feb 7 - CANBERRA, ACT - Canberra Theatre

Sat. Feb 8 - SPRINGWOOD, NSW - Blue Mountains Theatre

Fri. Feb 14 — Sat. Feb 15 - ADELAIDE, SA - Bonython Hall, Adelaide Fringe 

Thurs. Feb 20 - SYDNEY, NSW - Enmore Theatre

Sat. Feb 22 - PERTH, WA - Perth Concert Hall, Perth Festival 

Sat. Feb 29 - DARWIN, NT - Darwin Entertainment Centre

Thurs. Mar 12 — Fri. Mar 13 - AUCKLAND, NZ - Auckland Arts Festival: Hollywood Avondale

Sat. March 14th - CHRISTCHURCH, NZ - The Piano

Mon. March 16th - WELLINGTON, NZ - St Peters Church, Wellington Fringe

ALL TICKETS: https://nointermission.amandapalmer.net