Monica is a dancer, drummer, and overthinker based in San Francisco, California
pizzica workshopS
Kate Causbie (Seattle/Puglia) and Francesco Faustino (Puglia) return to San Francisco! Join us to celebrate the solstice with Italian dance!
Saturday, June 22
Sunday June 23
Lines Dance Center
26 Seventh Street
(between Market and Mission)
San Francisco, California
12:30 to 3:30pm each day
"We wanted to revive Salento’s pizzica, and in a very precise, studied way. Salento’s music is not only pizzica, but we needed pizzica, because pizzica moves, shakes, and we were not only interested in the musical aspects, but also in the social ones. The pizzica involves everyone. I wanted this music to become the flamenco of Italy, or the tango of Italy. We had the precise will to make this movement mass: we wanted thousands of people to know the pizzica."
Edoardo Winspeare, in Il ritmo meridiano. La pizzica e le identità danzanti del Salento, 2002
Sliding Scale
How do I decide what to pay?
Each bottle above contains sentences that describe a person's current financial experience and class. The bottle on the far left represents the upper end of the sliding scale spectrum. Folks who identify most with the statements in the far left bottle qualify to pay for class tickets at the upper end of our sliding scale. The middle bottle represents folks who sometimes can pay for the upper end of the sliding scale, sometimes the middle, and sometimes the bottom half. The bottle on the far right represents the lowest end of the scale and folks who qualify to purchase class tickets from the bottom of our price spectrum.
For ease of reading, here is the text from each of the bottles in the above graphic:
Top of the Scale (or the left bottle):
- I am comfortably able to meet all of my basic* needs
- I may have some debt but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs
- I own my home or property OR I rent a higher-end property
- I own or lease a car
- I am employed or do not need to work to meet my needs
- I have regular access to health care
- I have access to financial savings
- I have an expendable** income
- I can always buy new items
- I can afford an annual vacation or take time off
Middle of the Scale (or the middle bottle):
- I may stress about meeting my basic needs but still regularly achieve them
- I may have some debt but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs
- I own or lease a car
- I am employed
- I have access to health care
- I might have access to financial savings
- I have some expendable income
- I am able to buy some new items & I thrift others
- I can take a vacation annually or every few years without financial burden
Bottom of the Scale (or the right bottle):
- I frequently stress about meeting basic needs & don’t always achieve them
- I have debt and it sometimes prohibits me from meeting my basic needs
- I rent lower-end properties or have unstable housing
- I do not have a car and/or have limited access to a car but I am not always able to afford gas
- I am unemployed or underemployed
- I qualify for government assistance including food stamps & health care
- I have no access to savings
- I have no or very limited expendable income
- I rarely buy new items because I am unable to afford them
- I cannot afford a vacation or have the ability to take time off without financial burden
* Basic Needs include food, housing, health care, and transportation.
** Expendable Income might mean you are able to buy coffee or tea at a shop, go to the movies or a concert, buy new clothes, books, and similar items each month, etc.
This graphic and content is from Alexis Cunningfolk, and is used with permission.