🇺🇸Berkeley, United States · California
The Finnish Hall
1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley, CA 94702
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A community hall in Berkeley, CA dedicated to arts, community, and Finnish culture, built in 1932. Home to Berkeley's Finnish Heritage Society; hosts weekly Contact Improvisation jams/classes and regular CI workshops and festivals for the Bay Area community.
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Berkeley
A Berkeley-based nonprofit fostering contemporary and experimental dance and performing arts through educational, performance, and research opportunities for artists and community organizers, with an emphasis on process over final product.
Berkeley
A focused contact improvisation jam at Berkeley's Finnish Hall, Tuesdays 8-11pm. No music; prior jam experience recommended. Non-dance chit-chat and phone-checking are discouraged. Suggested $5-10 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Berkeley
Join us every Thursday at Berkeley’s historic Finnish Hall for the biggest contact improvisation jam in the Bay Area. Since 2008, we’ve been a vibrant, community-run space, where newcomers and experienced practitioners explore this movement form. A different teacher offers class each week from 7–8p. The jam follows from 8–11p, featuring a dynamic soundscape that blends silence, improvised live music, and occasionally DJ’ed tracks. In the upstairs space from 8–10p, there’s often additional CI programming (labs, scores, classes, screenings, etc). Thursday Jam is run by community, for community. In the spirit of generosity, everything is offered by donation, with no pre-registration required.
