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The Traveling
Bohemians have moved! While our long-time home, The Bohemian Art
Loft remains permanently closed (see the Loft's 2020 obituary below!),
we look forward to a renaissance of the performing arts in 2023, and to
starting the year off with a new open mic series close to our new home
in the Roseville area, thanks to the warm welcome of the nice folks at Pause Coffee - Rocklin. See our flier here.
Our site has remained dormant during the pandemic years. This
site will go completely offline 1/31/23 and redirect to our new page travelingbohemians.art
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It is not without significant regret that we announce that we are
permanently closing The Bohemian Art Loft as the home of The Traveling
Bohemians for performances and other gatherings, related substantially
to the Covid-19 pandemic, difficulties in social engineering related
thereto, and the timing of our lease. We have had a wonderful run
here for over 10 years (and over 25 years as the Traveling Bohemians!)
presenting a wide variety of performances of music, dance, theater,
spoken word, comedy, magic, etc. We presented many visual artists
in our gallery space, offered meeting and rehearsal space for various
groups, and supported various community events such as Reddings Earth
Day. We have come to know many many wonderful performers and
musicians, both local and traveling, and of course those who have
supported our activities by attending our events, and we cherish the
relationships we have forged through the years.
Nadia will continue her Meditative and Healing Arts work, conducting
much of her teaching and meditative/guidance activity via Zoom and
other electronic formats until such time as low-density in-person
gatherings can safely resume. Peter will continue to provide
sound reinforcement and recording services on location on a selective
basis as time allows.
We sincerely thank all of you who have contributed your talents and
appreciation over the years and wish you all the best in health and
hope you all weather the current and future landscape well!
-Nadia & Peter - April 2020
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Before and After - RIP Bohemian Art Loft!
This pic from our last show demonstrates the impossibility of
appropriate social engineering and reminds us of the wonderful warm
space we created for music and other artistic expressions. Thank
you to Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter for a wonderful last show!
The Traveling
Bohemians!
Began as an autonomous eclectic
collective of predominantly local
artists in 1995. Our purpose was and is to sustain and
encourage the
opportunity for alternative / experimental artistic expression.
We continue to support local performers, writers, and artists by
providing a venue
for presentation of their work. We have always felt that
complete freedom of
expression is essential to artistic creation and our venues and
productions have always been and shall always remain entirely free of
censorship.
The Bohemian Art Loft became
our permanent home after 15 years of often prolonged residencies at
various coffee shops and other local establishments, most recently
prior to settling down, The Shasta County Arts Council
of which we were an auxilliarly. We continued to host local and
traveling artists, musicians, and writers as we expanded into the
adjoining suite to allow our Center for
Meditative and Healing Arts to grow to its full potential.
The bohemian art loft is now closed as of 5/1/2020.
The
Participating Artists have been professionals, amateurs, and
advanced students. Most of our poets
and writers have been published locally and/or nationally, including
poetry award recipients. Artists have showcased their talents and some
are winners of juried exhibitions. Musicians, songwriters, and dancers
have widely performed locally as well as around the country, and most
have recorded CDs and/or videos. Many of our members also teach.
Visiting performing artists often join in our events.
Artistic director, founder, and producer, Nadia Hava-Robbins, MA,
born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, is a storyteller, puppeteer,
published poet, exhibiting artist, and a life-long dancer. She
has presented performances of dance, music, poetry, and storytelling in
major cities and festivals across the USA and Canada, directed numerous
plays, and appeared in a documentary film produced by the National Film
Board of Canada.
Technical director, Peter S. Robbins, is a
lighting, sound reinforcement, and recoding engineer,
videographer, and photographer, providing technical services to the
theater groups, Redding's Earth Day Festival, Dave Short's Jazz at Old
City Hall, and to local and visiting musicians and performers at the
Loft and outside venues as well.
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About Our Names
Bohemia
is the Latin name for the Czech region of the former
Czechoslovakia. During the Czech national revival in the 1700's
the artists, musicians, writers, composers, and artisans who flourished
in this region became known as "the Bohemians", and thus the terms
"artist" and "bohemian" became synonymous.
The Traveling
Bohemians refers to all of our performance activities both at
home and in other venues and locations.
The Bohemian Art
Loft is our permanent home at 3304B Bechelli Lane in Redding, CA
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The
Traveling Bohemians!
• Create and
Perform unique programs, intertwining and often uniting
dance, poetry, story-telling, art, and music, presenting audiences with
an inventive, cohesive, and colorful collage for the senses.
• Welcome Artists
& Performers to exhibit and perform at our home,
• Present School
Programs and Private Events of
Storytelling, Puppetry & Marionettes, Dance, and Cultural
Diversity.
• Produce Shows
& Festivals:
Multi-disciplinary, Multicultural Dance Festivals,
Storytelling Festivals, Single Artist Performances at our home and at
other major venues.
• Provide Technical
Support including sound
reinforcement, location recording, lighting, promotional assistance to
local and visiting musicians, songwriters, and a variety of
performances, festivals, and community presentations.
• Support and
Encourage local artists of all disciplines to join the
group for performances and/or
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What people say about The Traveling
Bohemians and The Loft:
"I just want to tell you how magnificent it was to attend your
performance and to have this in our community.
Thank you!"
"I have attended the Traveling Bohemians' productions, and I just
wanted to laud you all for bringing a touch of real culture and
entertainment to Shasta County... Please continue this venture."
"As a director and performer, Nadia is experimenting, doing something
different, risky, controversial, refreshing, and I think wonderful..."
"Thank you for bringing incredible talent, artistic excellence, and
passion to this community. We thoroughly enjoyed the eve. We laughed
and discussed and thought about it several more times over the weekend."
"Nadia... brought tears to my eyes. You embodied the human positive
live force itself... it was overwhelmingly and simultaneously beautiful
and tragic for me... Thank you."
"Thank you again for participating in our Children's Entertainment
Summer program... We received wonderful feedback from both the children
and their parents... Thank you for taking the time to interact with the
children and show them how the puppets worked... Thank you!"
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