Name: Opening for Joy: Kindred welcomes back Clara Rose & Raphaella Hero
Start: 2025-02-02T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-02T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Vivid Oblivion

Kindred // gathering contemplatively at the intersection of the arts and mindfulness.
About this Event

Opening for Joy: Kindred welcomes back Clara Rose & Raphaella Hero

Sunday
February 2nd 2025
7:00-9:00PM
Doors: 6:30PM

Tickets
$15 - $30
Sliding scale suggested donation, and no one turned away for lack of funds.
There is also a "give-what-you can" donation option.
Your tickets support the arts! Sales are distributed 60% artists and 40% Vivid Oblivion.
Thank youfor you support!

Vivid Oblivion
288 Norfolk Street 2A
Cambridge MA

Please note that our space is located up two flights of stairs. If you need assistance or accommodations, don't hesitate to reach out in advance so we can support you.

KINDRED

Gathering at the intersection of mindfulness and the arts. Together, we engage with and explore contemplative creativity, using the act of creation as our anchor toward greater stillness and connection. By creating the circumstances for creative rest and kindred connection, we make a way for the divinity of life to shine through. As a community, we create the chance to inspire more love, compassion, and peace in ourselves, in each other, and in the world.

About this event

Joy is a radical act, as is mindfulness. And in the midst of this dark winter we hope you will join us as we banish the darkness and hold a warm space with music for collective contemplation and breath. For us, this musical practice is truly a radical joy––and, perhaps, even the reason we are alive. This “why” feels especially important in this moment, and at this Kindred we come open to possibility, ready to share what’s on our minds and in our hearts. So come be alive with us! Expect some poetry, a couple songs, plenty of laughter, and improvisation as accompaniment for moments of meditation practice and healing. Please feel free to set an intention for your practice throughout the evening, and/or to offer your practice to a loved one, someone in need of support, even an enemy…! We’re looking forward to sharing this time with you! –– Clara & Raphaella

Clara Rose and Raphaella Hero blend two unique voices into an inseparable whole in their revealing delivery of original music, traditional folk melodies, and improvisation. Their music represents a way of being together with presence, patience, compassion, embodiment, playfulness, and curiosity—elements that are central to the spirit of improvisation which characterizes their musical partnership. With every performance, they offer an invitation to simply be, holding space for healing not only in contemplation but in celebration. To put down what you carry, enter the present moment, and open yourself to joy in the safe embrace of acoustic sound, creative mastery, and grace.

In the spring of last year, Clara and Raphaella came to Kindred and improvised together as a way of holding space for community meditation. The experience was so profound for them that they were inspired to forge a more long term musical partnership, and since then the duo has performed and worked together extensively to build deep musical trust and repertoire. To close out a cozy winter tour throughout the Northeast, Clara and Raphaella will return to the Kindred community on February 2nd and share all that they have discovered since that beautiful beginning, exploring the power of musical vulnerability through new original music, historic folk songs, and improvisation rooted in American, Scottish, and Swedish fiddle traditions.

Photo credit: Antonio Pérez Coca

Parking & Public Transit

There is NO PARKING in the lots at the base of the building as they are private and will tow. Street parking can be found on Hampshire Street and Cambridge Street. Central Square Cambridge public transportation is .7 miles away. Union Square Somerville Green Line stop is .6 miles away. Bus lines that run through Inman Sq are the 83 and 69.

Venue

The event will take place at Vivid Oblivion, a 1200 sq ft studio in Inman Sq Cambridge dedicated to strengthening intersectional, international, and intergenerational co-creative dialogue to catalyze change, deepening networks within ourselves, place, and each other in service of visioning new and better futures. The studio opens new trajectories within body and landscape, through the wilds of interdisciplinary exchange, rigor and the untamed in performance, dance, somatics, design, and emerging spiritualities.