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KCRW Events Presents: |
24 Hours of Serenity |
Sunday, April 18, 2021 // 12:00 a.m. - 11:59 p.m. PDT
A VIRTUAL FESTIVAL OF CALM
On Sunday, April 18th, KCRW hosted an all-day virtual festival of calm. Everything from guided meditation with Valerie June to kitten cams, art classes with Self Help Graphics to baguette shaping with Bub and Grandma’s, soothing sounds of dublab artists to comforting home haircuts with ProjectQ…along with many KCRW voices you love and so much more.
This event was free and open to the public, with just an RSVP required to attend. The Zoom link stayed the same for 24 hours so folks could jump in and out of what interested them most throughout the day, like you would at a festival. Some dropped by for just one segment, while others stayed for the whole 24 hours!
We have to say, it was the chillest party we’ve ever put on. Check out the video highlights from the festival below!
WHERE: Anywhere you have WiFi
WHEN: April 18 from 12:00 a.m. until midnight PDT
COST: $0.00
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Check out the complete schedule here.
Videos
A conversation with Garth Trinidad & Valerie June
Storytime with Bookworm’s Michael Silverblatt
KCRW’s Life Examined Presents The Art of Breath with James Nestor and Dr. Belisa Vranich
KCRW’s Bodies Podcast welcomes ProjectQ: How To Give a Friend a Haircut
WHAT TO EXPECT
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 a.m. PDT
DJ Set from KCRW’s Jeremy Sole
We’re kicking off our 24 hours of Serenity with a one-hour DJ set from KCRW’s very own Jeremy Sole. Jeremy can be heard on demand on KCRW.com with new shows every Sunday night.
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 a.m. PDT
dublab Presents No Translation
dublab presents a one-hour set from ambient artist No Translation. No Translation is the ambient electronic solo project of Taiwanese/American musician and visual artist, Emma Palm. Her music is a meditation on the relative nature of personal connection to environments and memories that collages melodic synths, field recordings, and vocals.
dublab is a non-profit radio station based in Los Angeles. Since 1999, dublab has been broadcasting wide-spectrum music from around the world. The station's programming has expanded to include the production of original art exhibits, films, events, record releases, and educational programs related to health, youth, development, education, and creative processes.
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 a.m. PDT
Do LaB Presents Sound Bath with Torkom Ji
Do LaB presents a one-hour sound bath with electronic artist Torkom Ji. Torkom is a live electronics musician and master sound weaver from Los Angeles. Following the tradition of Pythagoras and many other sound mystics, Torkom has fused ethereal knowledge with synth techniques to produce a soundscape that can only be described as "transcendent". All sounds are tuned to 432Hz.
Do LaB is an event design and production company that specializes in creating interactive environments, large scale art installations, stages, tents and production for music festivals. In addition to contracting build services to international festivals and events (Coachella, EDC, Boom, Symbiosis, to name a few), they also produce their own festival each year called Lightning in a Bottle.
Time: 3:00 - 3:30 a.m. PDT
Arthur King's Changing Landscapes (Isle of Eigg)
Take a trip to the remote Isle of Eigg, in the Scottish Hebrides, with Arthur King’s Changing Landscapes. While on an artist residency, Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle and Arthur King spent a week exploring the island, collecting a vast amount of photographic, audio, and video source material. At the end of their trip the group took the recorded elements, and set up audio/visual equipment at a local’s house for an hours-long improvisation session. The results are this record, of which the BBC3’s Corey Mwamba explains, "they’ve created this very fine textured fabric of sound, from which a narrative of life on this island springs."
Arthur King is a Los Angeles-based experimental music and art studio that features musicians, visual artists, filmmakers, and set designers. The process, or artistic methodology, of the Changing Landscapes series is focused primarily on field recordings, and is the unchanging framework that allows the location to truly serve as the focus of the art. Changing Landscapes (Isle of Eigg) was recorded in 2019 in the Scottish Hebrides.
Time: 3:30 - 4:00 a.m. PDT
Aquarium of the Pacific’s Tropical Reef Cam with Explore.org
Let’s watch some fish friends! Containing 350,000 gallons of water and over 1,000 animals, the tropical reef habitat is the Aquarium of the Pacific's largest exhibit. The reef represents the famous "blue corner" off the coast of Palau, an area considered to be one of the most beautiful and diverse oceanic sites in the world. In addition to the marine animals, you may even catch a diver on cam cleaning the exhibit or feeding the fish!
The nonprofit Aquarium of the Pacific aims to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the Pacific Ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems. As one of the largest aquariums in the nation, the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, is home to over 12,000 animals in more than 100 exhibits, all of which represent the diversity of the Pacific Ocean.
Founded in 2004 by Charles Annenberg Weingarten, Vice President of the Annenberg Foundation, explore.org is a philanthropic multimedia organization with a mission to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the natural world, and inspire lifelong learning. With almost 200 live streaming cameras, explore.org is the largest live nature network in the world.
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 a.m. PDT
Satisfying Soap Triggers with ASMR Bakery
Experience tingles from the most satisfying soap-focused ASMR that is sure to put you in full relaxation mode. ASMR Bakery creates no-talking ASMR videos that incorporate a wide variety of different triggers including tapping, scratching, crinkles, and brushing in hopes of bringing you relaxation and most importantly, good sleep!
Time: 5:00 - 6:00 a.m. PDT
Kitten Rescue Sanctuary Cam with Explore.org
Let’s watch some kitten friends! This live cam overlooks a special private room at Kitten Rescue Sanctuary in Los Angeles, California. This room is home to playful kittens awaiting their new homes. Watch all their antics, from afternoon cat-naps to spirited wrestling and more.
Kitten Rescue was founded in the spring of 1997 and has grown to become one of the largest and most respected animal welfare groups in Los Angeles. It is a non-profit, totally volunteer-run organization devoted to finding loving new homes for unwanted cats and kittens.
Founded in 2004 by Charles Annenberg Weingarten, Vice President of the Annenberg Foundation, explore.org is a philanthropic multimedia organization with a mission to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the natural world, and inspire lifelong learning. With almost 200 live streaming cameras, explore.org is the largest live nature network in the world.
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 a.m. PDT
Gentle Yoga with Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center
Join Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center for an hour of early morning yoga. Gentle Yoga starts with plenty of warm-ups for joint mobility. This class proceeds at a slower pace, with breathing exercises, adapted sun salutations, a shorter series of asanas, including a couple of restorative poses. Build up your strength, flexibility and endurance gradually.
The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center is a volunteer-based non-profit, which has been offering traditional, classical yoga in Los Angeles for 50 years. They practice and teach the ancient yogic knowledge of health, peace, unity in diversity and Self-realization with the intention to help all realize their highest potential and find inner peace. Inner peace will bring outer peace.
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 a.m. PDT
Qigong with Be Like Water Tai Chi
Join Be Like Water Tai Chi for a one-hour healing Qigong class, focused on awakening, aligning and stretching the body, centering and calming the mind, balancing our emotions and creating integration through the breath.
Since their inception, Be Like Water Tai Chi has developed a warm and welcoming community of practitioners in West Los Angeles. Committed to ensuring quality and individual attention, Be Like Water Tai Chi welcomes students of all ages, levels of fitness and martial arts knowledge.
Time: 8:00 - 8:30 a.m. PDT
Bilingual Spanish/English Guided Mindfulness Meditation with InsightLA’s Rosamaría Segura
Join InsightLA for a 30-minute bilingual Spanish/English guided meditation with Rosamaría Segura.
Rosamaría Segura has been practicing meditation since 1998. She teaches in non-profit organizations, public schools, and groups dedicated to social and environmental justice. Rosamaría is both a teacher and the Director of Insight in Action, an InsightLA program dedicated to offering free mindfulness training to marginalized communities that would otherwise not be able to afford or have access to these teachings.
InsightLA is a non-profit online meditation community providing high-quality mindfulness and compassion practices. For close to 20 years, InsightLA has offered classes, retreats, and special events that cater to both beginning meditators and those looking to deepen and sustain their practice. InsightLA is the only organization of it’s kind offering secular, evidenced-based mindfulness training and traditional Buddhist teachings within the Vipassana or Insight tradition.
Time: 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. PDT
Kids Breakfast workshop! Self Help Graphics Presents Printmaking with Your Kitchen Condiments
Calling all kids! Join us for a one-hour art class that will use supplies you can find right in your kitchen cabinets.
Self Help Graphic & Art Barrio Mobile Artists will lead a live one-hour virtual artmaking workshop. During the course of the class, the teaching artist will run through the artmaking process and answer any questions the attendees might have. Find the workshop descriptions and lists of required materials here.
Self Help Graphics & Art Barrio Mobile Art Studio (BMAS) serves their mission to nurture emerging artists and present Latino art to a broad audience, and address the vast demographic that is Los Angeles, while also expanding our audiences and community beyond the East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights communities.
Time: 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. PDT
We Knead to Relax: Shaping Baguettes with Bub & Grandma’s + Good Food’s Evan Kleiman
In conversation with KCRW Good Food’s Evan Kleiman, bread bakers Bub and Grandma’s will lead a deliciously soothing 30-minute baguette shaping demonstration. Be a fly on the wall or shape your own baguette by using this recipe recommended by Evan!
Bub and Grandma’s is a predominantly wholesale bread bakery supplying restaurants and markets across the expanse of Los Angeles. They make a great variety of deeply considered, long fermented breads filled with freshly milled whole grains and complementary ingredients. Featured at both the Culver City and Hollywood Farmers Markets, they plan to open their first retail sandwich shop and pastry kitchen in Glassell Park in the fall of 2021.
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. PDT
Stretching & Massage to Rehabilitate Injuries with Southern California Health Institute
Looking for some tips and tricks into how to give a massage? You’ve come to the right place. Southern California Health Institute is a School of Massage, Medical Assistant, Personal Fitness, Physical Therapy Aide and Medical Billing & Coding Training. SOCHi has been serving The Greater Los Angeles area and San Fernando area since 1995.
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PDT
ProjectQ Presents How to Give a Friend a Haircut with KCRW’s Bodies Podcast
In conversation with KCRW’s Bodies Podcast, ProjectQ will lead a demo on how to give a friend a haircut.
Madin Lopez is the Executive Director of ProjectQ, using hair as a form of social justice by giving free haircuts to trans and queer youth of color experiencing housing insecurity. ProjectQ provides queer youth with self affirming workshops in exchange for free gender affirming haircuts. Arming the next generation with self esteem, community, and a view into what kind of future they can have. In their spare time Madin enjoy's reading Octavia E. Butler, and N.K. Jemisin while listening to J.Dilla, M.F. Doom and Odd Future with Steven Universe or Drag Race Reruns playing in the background.
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Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. PDT
Guided Meditation with Valerie June & Garth Trinidad
Join KCRW DJ Garth Trinidad in conversation with singer-songwriter Valerie June about her passion for music, meditation, and more, followed by a guided meditation led by Valerie herself (+ we're crossing our fingers, she might even play us a tune).
Valerie June is a Tennessee-born singer-songwriter who weaves electric blues, African rhythms, and cosmic atmospherics with delicate soul. Her 2013 album Pushin’ Against A Stone and 2017’s The Order Of Time were both lauded by critics and appeared on numerous ‘best of’ lists. Valerie's new album The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers is newly released via Fantasy Records / Concord and already receiving rave reviews, including Essence, NPR, Pitchfork, New York Times, Uncut, The Atlantic, and UK’s The Times who declare this “a contender for Album Of The Year.”
KCRW DJ Garth Trinidad, brings an international mix of future soul, deep dance, indie rock, and jazz to his show. Stream his show on KCRW.com.
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Time: 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. PDT
Brain Massage Lunch Break with ASMR Bakery
Grab a bite and get your brain massaged with ASMR Bakery. ASMR Bakery creates no-talking ASMR videos that incorporate a wide variety of different triggers including tapping, scratching, crinkles, and brushing in hopes of bringing you relaxation and most importantly, good sleep!
Time: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. PDT
Classical Yoga with Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center
Join Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center for a one-hour Classical Yoga class. This is a balanced Hatha Yoga class including pranayama, sun salutations, a series of classic postures and a final deep relaxation. Alternating focus on movement, breath and conscious relaxation brings awareness within and encourages calmness. Leave feeling peaceful and rejuvenated. Suitable for all levels.
The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center is a volunteer-based non-profit, which has been offering traditional, classical yoga in Los Angeles for 50 years. They practice and teach the ancient yogic knowledge of health, peace, unity in diversity and Self-realization with the intention to help all realize their highest potential and find inner peace. Inner peace will bring outer peace.
Time: 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. PDT
KCRW’s Life Examined Presents The Art of Breath with James Nestor and Dr. Belisa Vranich
Join KCRW’s Jonathan Bastian in conversation with breathing expert James Nestor and clinical psychologist Dr. Belisa Vranich to discuss the importance of breath. James Nestor is a journalist and author of "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art.” In 2014, he wrote "DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves.” Dr. Belisa Vranich is the author of "Breathe: The Simple, Revolutionary 14-Day Program to Improve your Mental and Physical Health". She is the founder of www.thebreathingclass.com. This conversation will be followed by a 15-minute breathing exercise with Dr. Belisa Vranich.
Life Examined, hosted by Jonathan Bastian, is a one-hour weekly show exploring science, philosophy, faith — and finding meaning in the modern world. Tune in on air or on KCRW.com on Saturdays at 9am, or find it wherever you get your podcasts.
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Time: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. PDT
Tai Chi with Dr. Mike J. Ng’s Tai Chi & Bagua Institute
In his one-hour Tai Chi class, Dr. Ng will lead participants through three fundamental sets from his Swimming Body Method: Muscle-Tendon sequence to lubricate the joints, stretch the muscles, tendons, and ligaments, and open the body's energy channels to smooth out tension and stagnation; Energy Gate sequence to enhance circulation of Qi (vital life force) and promote centering and grounding; as well as the Three Treasures sequence to restore harmony of mind, body, and breath.
An authority on mindfulness, meditation, movement, breath work, and energy training, Mike J. Ng has dedicated his life to the promotion of health, harmony, and vitality through the practice of Chinese martial arts and medicine. Dr. Ng earned his clinical Doctor of Acupuncture and Master of Science in Chinese Medicine degrees from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is a Corrective Exercise Specialist certified by the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and has over 25 years of experience in movement and martial arts. He holds nine International All-Around Grand Championship titles, and in 2014, was inducted into the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. PDT
Weaving with a Homemade Cardboard Loom with Self Help Graphics
Let's make a homemade loom and weave together! Join us for a one-hour DIY art class that will use supplies you can find right in your home.
Self Help Graphics & Art Barrio Mobile Artists (BMAS) will lead a live one-hour virtual artmaking workshop. During the course of the class, the teaching artist will run through the artmaking process and answer any questions the attendees might have. Find the workshop descriptions and lists of required materials here.
Self Help Graphics & Art Barrio Mobile Art Studio (BMAS) serves their mission to nurture emerging artists and present Latino art to a broad audience, and address the vast demographic that is Los Angeles, while also expanding their audiences and community beyond the East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights communities.
Time: 5:00 - 5:30 p.m. PDT
Grounding through the Sense Doors Meditation with InsightLA’s Thomas Davis
InsightLA presents a 30-minute meditation for grounding yourself through the sense doors with Thomas Davis. Thomas Davis leads InsightLA’s weekly Friday night People of Color Sangha. His orientation to the Mindful Awareness practice began at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, CA, where he was introduced to the Theravadan tradition of Vipassana in 2012. Thomas is also a member of InsightLA’s Teacher Council.
InsightLA is a non-profit online meditation community providing high-quality mindfulness and compassion practices. For close to 20 years, InsightLA has offered classes, retreats, and special events that cater to both beginning meditators and those looking to deepen and sustain their practice. InsightLA is the only organization of it’s kind offering secular, evidenced-based mindfulness training and traditional Buddhist teachings within the Vipassana or Insight tradition.
Time: 5:30 - 6:00 p.m. PDT
From the Archives: KCRW’s Apogee Session with Tinariwen
Take a dinner break while we revisit a mesmerizing performance with Tinariwen from KCRW's Apogee Sessions. Nomadic musicians from the Saharan region of northwest Africa, the members of Tinariwen have been sharing their particular brand of desert blues since 1979.
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. PDT
Acupressure & Massage for Self + Others with Southern California Health Institute
Looking for some tips and tricks into how to give a massage? You’ve come to the right place. Southern California Health Institute is a School of Massage, Medical Assistant, Personal Fitness, Physical Therapy Aide and Medical Billing & Coding Training. SOCHi has been serving The Greater Los Angeles area and San Fernando area since 1995.
Time: 7:00 - 7:30 p.m. PDT
Music & Resiliency with esperanza spalding + interview w/ Novena Carmel
KCRW’s Novena Carmel sits down with esperanza spalding for a chat and a listen to her new album promoting healing.
esperanza spalding is a being who has grown to recognize love in the abstract and aspirational, and is now fully dedicated to learning how she can serve and embody actualized love through honor for and receptivity to, fellow humans, teachers, and practitioners of various regenerative arts. She continues experimenting with music as an aide for healing, with the release of three songs from her forthcoming album: AVAILABLE AT SONGWRIGHTSAPOTHECARYLAB.COM. Each song in the “TRIANGLE” suite is designed to have a unique yet related affect to benefit the listener, intended to relieve the tension, grief, and isolation experienced while being home-bound during this global pandemic. This suite was composed via consultation with practitioners from various disciplines, including: music-therapy, neuroscience, Black American music, Sufism, South Indian Carnatic music, and her students and colleagues at Harvard.
Time: 7:30 - 8:00 p.m. PDT
Storytime with Bookworm’s Michael Silverblatt
Cozy up for story time with KCRW's Bookworm host, Michael Silverblatt. Michael will read an excerpt from “The Making of Americans” by Gertrude Stein. Michael describes this book as “surreal, poetic and soothing.”
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Time: 8:00 - 8:30 p.m. PDT
Learn the Emotional Release Method with Elias Pack
Join Elias Pack for a 30-minute lesson on the emotional releasing method. Elias works with deep feelers to dissolve the emotional hang-ups that hold them back from becoming who they want to be. He guides them into converting previously overwhelming emotions into a propulsive force that makes things happen through natural confidence, embodiment, and engagement.
Time: 8:30 - 9:00 p.m. PDT
Do LaB Presents Sound Bath with Ayres Nouveau
Enjoy a one-hour sound bath with artist Ayres Nouveau for a transformative evening. Ayres Nouveau is an LA-based multidisciplinary healer with a mission to ignite seeds of light within the hearts of every being. She believes that the pursuit of enlightenment is a human birthright and is here to help you move beyond the physical self and tap into something much more real.
Do LaB is an event design and production company that specializes in creating interactive environments, large scale art installations, stages, tents and production for music festivals. In addition to contracting build services to international festivals and events (Coachella, EDC, Boom, Symbiosis, to name a few), they also produce their own festival each year called Lightning in a Bottle.
Time: 9:00 - 10:00 p.m. PDT
Silent Reading Party with Christopher Frizzelle and Paul Matthew Moore
Kick back and relax to the sweet sounds of live smooth piano, while you catch up on an hour of reading alongside people all over the world. The Silent Reading Party started in Seattle in 2009 and has since been replicated in cities around the world. You bring whatever you feel like reading and read it, silently, while the musician Paul Matthew Moore plays soothing, clever piano music. The host of the party, Christopher Frizzelle, will say a few words of welcome at the start.
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 p.m. PDT
dublab Presents Ki Oni
dublab presents a one-hour performance from Ki Oni with visuals by No Translation. Ki Oni is the pseudonym of ambient artist Chuck Soo-Hoo named after a creature in a Japanese monster movie – a tree with a human face that spews flower petals from its mouth. Soo-Hoo similarly inhabits a surreal space between the artificial and natural worlds, a liminal zone where the fabricated blends with the fluid and music is a river, flowing of its own accord. Soo-Hoo splits his time between working at dublab, L.A.'s freeform radio station, and co-hosting Contact Wave, the station's resident ambient and experimental music program.
dublab is a non-profit radio station based in Los Angeles. Since 1999, dublab has been broadcasting wide-spectrum music from around the world. The station's programming has expanded to include the production of original art exhibits, films, events record releases and educational programs related to health, youth, development, education and creative processes.
Time: 11:00 - 11:59 p.m. PDT
DJ set from KCRW’s Valida
Closing out our 24 hours of Serenity with KCRW’s very own Valida. Valida can be heard live on air or on KCRW.com on Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m.
FAQs
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Event tickets are free with RSVP, donations optional. A $50 USD donation gets you an annual KCRW membership, access to KCRW's Fringe Benefits, plus a limited-edition Serenity candle for the first 50 tickets.
Moments of Serenity
Let’s all…take a moment.
First airing on KCRW in March of 2020, Moments of Serenity are sprinkled through KCRW’s broadcast hours with a simple purpose.
Hosted by KCRW DJ and iconic voice of Los Angeles, Garth Trinidad, and written & produced by KCRW On-Air Promo Director Adria Kloke; the Moments are your snack-sized invitation to a serene space.
Browse the Moments below…and find serenity within.
If you have an idea for a Moment of Serenity you’d like to hear on KCRW, write to serenity@kcrw.org.
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