The Alembic

10/19/2025

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10/14/2025

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10/12/2025

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10/06/2025

10/03/2025

Come experience ecosystem fluxes and reimagine the infinite interconnections and transformation that sustain life on Earth at this FREE event.

FLUXNET is an international network of over 500 flux towers around the world that Earth system scientists use to monitor and study the movement and cycling of water, carbon and energy between ecosystems and the atmosphere - the towers are tracking the Biosphere’s breath.

fluxART invited artists and scientists to collaborate during a one-year residency to engage in creative inquiry about ecosystem fluxes. Join us at the Alembic for a special art opening showcasing works-in-progress from selected art-science partnerships including:

A laser-cut sculpture combined with generative light simulations that invites us to breathe with Tara, cultivate compassion and deepen our experience of interdependence in nature by David Glowacki (Santiago et Compostella, Spain)
A video installation that explores ecological cycles through color data and lens-based technologies, offering a dynamic and expansive visual examination of changing landscapes by Julia Oldham (Eugene, OR)
Imaginal meditations that guide people into embodying ecosystem fluxes and dissolving their boundaries with the infinity of nature by Rosa Lewis (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Ecosystem data-viz mandalas that represent the radiant giving and receiving of living soils and plants interacting with climate by Maoya Bassiouni (Oakland, CA)

09/28/2025

Something Spooky This Way Comes is a celebration of all things occult, ghostly, ghoulish, noir, beastly, and ghastly. A truly wicked collection from local and national artists, join us for the opening on October 11, from 6-8pm.





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09/28/2025

What does it mean to come home to your voice? Can you remember when your voice was free and open as a child? Or perhaps it never felt that way? This workshop offers a chance to uncover the stories that hold you back from the relationship with your voice you’ve always longed for.

Through breathwork, gentle movement, vocalization, guided visualizations, and group singing, we’ll journey into unconscious material, play with imagery, release limiting beliefs, and begin to integrate the shadow voice.

Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and bring water, a journal or sketchpad, and pencils or pens for reflection. No prior singing, movement, or art experience is required — come as you are, and come home to your voice.

09/28/2025

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09/28/2025

Join us for a LIVE and in-person journey with One Light Tribe and the cacao spirit for a live session with gentle movement, breathwork, chant and sound healing. The journey is led by Isa and Ari, accompanied by a DJ set by Daniel for the breathwork. We use live rhythm and voice along with the breath, a chakra balancing meditation and sound healing with alchemy crystal bowls, didge, harmonium, shruti, chimes and flute.

​Cacao contains the neurotransmitters serotonin, tryptophan and dopamine. These assist with feelings of well-being, can combat stress and anxiety, and contribute to motivation. ​Cacao also contains the neuromodulator phenylethylamine (PEA) which helps the body create feelings of excitement and euphoria. Cacao is one of the highest sources of antioxidants and magnesium, is extremely beneficial to heart health, and helps lower blood pressure.

​When we combine cacao with powerful breathwork, chanting, and sound healing, we can achieve a sense of calm in the mind, deep connection through an open heart, and witness energy flowing through and around the body.

09/28/2025

What if you were told you had one year to live? How would this change your perspective on life, on yourself, on your priorities?

At the moment of death, we let go of everything—our possessions, our loved ones, our body, our identity. Resistance to letting go, whether at death or in any moment of change, leads to suffering. As we accept the truth of impermanence, we can open to each moment as it is. We can experience awakening. We do not have to wait until our last moment to awaken—we can awaken here, now.

Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche as he invites us to reflect on impermanence, our sense of identity, and our hidden attachments. As we deepen our personal relationship to impermanence and death, we can discover the key to living joyfully.

Through teachings and guided meditations, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will help us to:

Realize the importance of resolving conflicts now with our friends, family members, and others
Recognize death as a doorway to opening the heart and achieving self-realization
Cultivate an intimate connection with an internal source of refuge that sustains us as other supports fall away
Explore our individual relationship to death, as well as our desire and commitment to serve others in the dying process
Together we can support one another through reflection and meditation. All are welcome to attend. Please join us for this special opportunity.