Move and Soothe - Pieter Space

Name: Move and Soothe - Pieter Space
Start: 2025-03-14T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Pieter Performance Space

Schedule

Fri, 14 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Pieter Performance Space | Los Angeles, CA

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What if you didn’t have to sit still in rows of chairs to listen to beautiful music?
What if you were free to lay down on a yoga mat and close your eyes, cuddle with a friend, dance, or move your body in whatever way felt good in the moment?
Come join me in a beautiful ballroom in Lincoln Heights for a very special, intimate concert experience.
Doors open at 7 PM and we’ll close the container at 7:30 PM.
I’ll lead us in some connection exercises so the group can get to know each other and orient everyone to the space. There will be designated areas for dancing (fusion, tango, contact improv…) a cuddle corner, and an area for folks who just want to sit or lay down and enjoy the concert without interacting with anyone else. I’ll also facilitate a proximity game to help attune us to non-verbal and energetic boundaries, and offer clear, simple, shared gestures to initiate and decline contact before asking folks to refrain from talking during the performance. I’ll play about an hour concert and then we’ll gather again briefly to close.
$35-45 sliding scale tickets, pay what you can. If you can afford to contribute more, please do. Venmo preferred. There are also two WFT spots available for people willing to assist me in setting and resetting the space and checking in guests in exchange for free admission. Please contact me directly if this might be you!
Bring a yoga mat, back jack, floor cushion, pillows, a cozy blanket or whatever you’d like for comfort. This venue has plenty of room to spread out!
Because we will be practicing optional attuned connection and deeper presence, the invitation is to arrive in a sober state and refrain from any mind-altering substances during the event. Because we will be going over agreements for the space and our interactions, we will close the doors at 7:30 PM. Late arrivals after this time will not be permitted.
Looking forward to sharing this experience with you!
Love,
Gillian
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ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Gillian Grassie is an award-winning writer, musician, and coach based in Los Angeles.
Traveling the world with her harp on her back and her heart on her sleeve, she has sold out listening rooms from Sicily to Siberia with a contemporary sound that critics have called “soulful… ravishing… dazzling” (Philadelphia Magazine). She cites Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Björk, Patty Griffin, Radiohead and Portishead among her eclectic influences.
Gillian delights in bringing the harp to unexpected spaces and is as comfortable performing at a private gala for HRH Prince Albert of Monaco as she is opening for punk-cabaret artist Amanda Palmer or entertaining a TEDx audience at The NY Times Center, once even playing on a moving train car in Mumbai. Grammy-winner Marc Cohn called himself, "an instant Gillian Grassie fan," observing, “it’s rare to hear a young singer with such control and understated soulfulness, and even more rare to hear a harp provide such a deep percussive groove. I was immediately captivated by her sound.”
As much a storyteller as she is an artist, Gillian studied Comparative Literature & Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College, and her music is often inspired by literary works, with references to Philip Larkin, Robert Frost, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Faulkner, folktales and myths woven throughout. Over the years, she has expanded to other forms of empathetic narrative. She has ghostwritten two memoirs, including a Publishers Weekly Bestseller, and later became a WGA screenwriter. An episode of the AppleTV+ series “Best Foot Forward” she wrote with comedian Zach Anner was honored by the Norman Lear Center with a 2023 Sentinel Award for its humanizing portrayal of disability.
Much of Gillian’s work is focused on the beautiful and complicated experience of being a spirit in a body, and the nuanced relational space between humans. She calls herself “an avid void-spelunker” and her pursuit of deep, authentic connection, compassionate truth, and self-sovereignty has led her to become a Relatefulness facilitator and certified coach. The containers she creates are spacious, warm, and grounded.
Gillian enjoys elaborate baking projects, dancing Argentine tango, and is a besotted dog-mom her pitbull rescue, Liadain.