Workshops.

Womb to Word

with Amaruka Sol

An interactive workshop for women and womb carriers exploring the connection between the womb and the voice through storytelling and the lens of Hip Hop and Her-story. You will be guided through a vocal activation, writing practice and a freestyle cypher to strengthen your authentic expression.

In this supportive feminine space we will explore how intention, sound, and the stories we speak shape both our artistry and our lives. Discover how your womb and voice are multidimensional spiritual technologies. Open to all femcees and womb carriers, regardless of rap, writing or performance experience.

Athlete Academy: Mobility and Group Fitness

with Justin Locante

15 minutes of mobility and movement, 15 minutes of group fitness training. Led by the founder of Athlete Academy, with over 15 years of experience training athletes at every level.

Rap Foundations 1: Intro to Channeling

with Manna

In the first installment in the series, attendees will learn to face their fears, step into their voice and into their confidence. We will work through exercises starting easy and ramping up in difficulty in pairs and in groups, and will end with a large cypher where everyone will perform for the whole group. We will also discuss the artistic implications of a regular freestyle practice.

Twerkshop

with Cassie

Know Your Fun Guys

with Alberto J Almarza

We will head deep into the forest and try to find the place where gnomes and fairies sleep. In the process we will encounter and meet trees, plants and mushrooms that can nurture us, heal us, open our minds and hopefully not kill us. Led by a certified identifier with the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club.

AI For Artists: Will It Kill Us All Or Deepen Your Commitment To Humanity

with Jonathan Kraft

There is a universe inside every human being. A lifetime of memories, music, heartbreak, humor, strange ideas, mistakes, and dreams. Inside each human are worlds that have never existed before and will never exist again.

AI can write a verse. Make a beat. Clone a voice. Answer questions that would have taken you days or years to research.

Cool.

So how do we protect and deepen what makes us uniquely human in the face of this relentless advancement? How does it help us build lives of meaning and purpose when it just feels like it’s there to steal everything we ever create?

You can say f**k AI and still highly benefit from this workshop.

Come skeptical. That’s okay. Most importantly, come curious.

Rap Foundations: Tracking Beats and Counting Bars

with Manna

Learn the fundamental skills required to analyze flow and create your own. In the second installment, we’ll be learning how to count beats and track bars, and then applying those skills to analyze classic verses and learn the flows of the greats. We’ll begin with a focus on couplets and techniques to arrange them for flow and storytelling. You’ll craft your own bars using these techniques.

Beatbox

with Johnny Buffalo

Remembering Unconditional Love: Return to the Heart

with Genna Rose Giannetti Kendall

In this guided experience, we will explore what unconditional love truly is, and what it is not. Through gentle teaching, partner reflection, mirror work, being witnessed, and a deep guided meditation, you will be invited to return to the love that already lives within you.

This experience is not about forcing forgiveness, tolerating harm, or abandoning yourself in the name of being “loving.” It is about remembering that unconditional love can include truth, boundaries, compassion, self-respect, and a heart that remains open without losing itself.

Movement as Medicine

with JAHNMANA

A series of low intensity exercises focused on teaching techniques for lymphatic drainage and flexibility building by targeting muscle groups that are often underworked.

Infinite Energy: A Community Crystal Grid Experience

with Toni Sullivan

Energy grows when intention is shared. In this collaborative workshop, participants will come together to build a large community crystal grid dedicated to connection, compassion, and collective harmony.

Through mindful intention setting, guided meditation, and an introduction to sacred geometry, each person will place a crystal into the grid, becoming an active part of a unified energetic creation. Together, we will create a sacred space that reflects the power of community, presence, and the ripple effect of positive energy.

Sunday / Monday Shake Up

with Maria Getto

Somatically release the stagnation in the body through free movement. Working through the body, we will acknowledge and release what does not serve us while activating the energy that is already within us.

This is a movement class, no rhythm or dance experience is necessary.

Rap Foundations: Adlibs and Punchlines + Advanced Drills

with Manna

Advance your freestyle abilities, we’ll expand on our first class and learn how to integrate rhymes and ideas to maintain a stream of consciousness and continuous flow. We’ll begin an exploration of freestyle punchlines and developing your rap persona, culminating in a final cypher.

The Creation of a Mandala

with Amanda Livelsberger

We will learn a bit of history of the mandala while learning to lay the foundational lines with precise measuring. Once we have the grid lines of the mandala placed, we will then go back with decorative shapes of your choosing and begin to lay those lines and magically watch our mandala take shape.

Colored pencils and such available if you decide to add color to your mandala.

Rap Foundations: Spotlighting and Songwriting

with Manna

Who are you and why should we pay attention? In the fourth installment in this series, we will study classic verses of emcees answering that question. We will look beyond the couplet and to larger structures in the verse. We will study written examples of punchlines, learn how to write them and use them to add energy and interest to your raps. You’ll learn techniques for memorization, and you’ll write a 16 bar verse.

Tantric Voice Activation

with Uni Parella

A Somatic Exploration of Energy, Creativity, Voice & Manifestation

What becomes possible when the energy alive within your body is given permission to move, be felt, and finally be expressed?

In this experiential workshop, we’ll explore the voice as more than something we use to speak—it is a channel through which our inner world becomes expressed in the outer world. Drawing from tantric and somatic practices, we’ll begin by awakening the body through authentic movement, breath, sound, presence, and connection.

From there, we’ll explore how the energy of desire and aliveness can move upward through the body: rooted in the body, fueled by the sacral, empowered through the solar plexus, guided by the heart, and ultimately given form through the throat and voice.

Sunset Yoga

with Richie Parella

Rap Foundations: Verse Performance

with Manna

The final day, you’ll perform your new verse, continue our freestyle practices with more advanced drills and conclude in a final cypher. We’ll close with reflections on the weekend, and how we plan to carry forward these practices and integrate them into our own artistic paths.

Activating Artist Alchemy

with IdealDialect

Closing Ceremony