GAIA NYE 2025 EXTRAVAGANZA

This New Year’s Eve Extravaganza will be:

• part interactive concert
• part community art project
• part circle singing celebration
• part dance party
• part new year's eve festival
• and part evolving co-creation that takes on a life of its own

Together, we will create a bubble of loving community and celebration as we journey into the new year. Join us in crafting a space where we can use song and dance, art and expression, play and improvisation, community and connection to step into the new year with intention, surrounded by dear ones known and unknown.

WHAT TO EXPECT:
• performances by amazing artists from the Gaia community
• moments where the whole room joins in the music-making
• covers of beloved tunes and discoveries of new ones
• a communal arts and crafts project
• opportunities for reflection and intention-setting
• invitations to connect with your neighbors
• improvisations that spin song out of thin air
• moments of sharing and storytelling
• a whole lot of harmony
• dancingggg
• reveling into the night!
• and some special surprises… hehehe

LED AND FACILITATED BY: This event will be lovingly led and facilitated by Gaia’s Founder, Matt Goldstein, along with some of our core Facilitating Artists, Kenter Davies, Sofia Campoamor, Simi Yuyu, and Tracy LJ Roberston. Our amazing facilitating artists will be joined by a house band of incredible improvising musicians, including Stefano diBlasio, Mitch Bowers, and more!

THE DEETS:

WHERE: Sound Mind Center

DOORS @ 7pmMUSIC @ 7:30

DANCING @ Midnight

TAKING THE PARTY TO THE STREETS @ 12:45AM

WHAT TO BRING (all optional, ofc):
• A single piece of clothing/accessory that we will use in a community clothing swap game (try to stick to pieces that could be donned on top of an existing outfit!)
• An instrument, to jam along!
• A journal, if that feels juicy
• A friend, or come solo!
• A piece of art that you made this year, to hang in our community art wall
• Money to buy food from our wonderful food vendors!

PARTICIPATION AT GAIA:

Gaia Music Collective events are participatory, but low-pressure. You'll be invited to sing along and make music with us, but we encourage you to draw your own boundaries and engage at your own level - we pride ourselves in fostering a judgment-free community where you can express yourself however feels right!

PHYSICAL ACCESSIBILITY:

2 flights of steps to get into the main venue space

Moderate amount of seating available (several couches, chairs, cushions)

Bathroom is not wheelchair accessible (~2 steps in order to get into the bathroom stalls)

LAST BITS:

Respect The Space!

Sound Mind Center is a beloved venue and we want to honor them! Please be considerate of the space.

Lead With Kindness!

This party will be full of wonderful, beautiful human beings, all of whom are deserving of love and respect. Please greet them openly, kindly, and with the intent to connect, listen, and learn from one another!

A little more about who we are: Gaia Music Collective is an NYC-based creative community seeking to foster a more connected world through collective music-making. Founded in June of 2021 by Matt Goldstein in a living room in Brooklyn, this project was born out of a desire to create accessible, inclusive, playful spaces for people to explore connection, expression, healing, and release through collaborative song - spaces where folks feel empowered to make music free of judgment or expectation, and to make new friends as our full, beautiful, authentic selves.

We believe that communal music-making is a fundamental human practice, and this project seeks to build spaces for folks to nurture their relationship to music, whether they're shower singers, professional musicians, or anything in between.

All are welcome in this community: all ages, races, genders, sexual orientations, classes, religions, abilities, national origins, languages, and musical experiences. All we ask is that you bring an open mind, a desire to connect, and a willingness to leave judgment of self and others at the door.

In short - we're here to sing, to play, to connect, to grow, and to have a good time!

With love,

The Gaia Team

Host or Publisher Gaia Music Collective