About the Event

Crescent Moon Theater presents a boisterous, lively and bustling night of cabaret, circus, tea, tarot and dance.

Crescent Moon Theater presents a boisterous, lively and bustling night of cabaret, circus, tea, tarot and dance.

Come dance the night away with us and help make our new show thrive!

6:00 PM, Doors Open, Grab a drink, check out cool local craft vendors, make friends and get your tarot cards read!

8:00 PM Cabaret, including circus acts, burlesque, music and more. MCed by the one and only SHMEE

9:00PM Dance Party!

Music by DJ Oui Boogie

Tickets by donation (suggested donation $15-$30)

*This is a benefit for Crescent Moon Theater and Metzmecatl: Moon Rope Theatre's new production, 'When your Skin Calls you Home.' Learn about our work at: www.crescentmoontheaterproductions.com

*This a Covid safe outdoor party, with social distancing, masks and safety protocols

Photos from Moon Bloom 2021

(Photos by Carly McCarthy)

PERFORMERS

ANNA KAYE

Anna Kaye was born and raised in the state of Kansas of the USA. A natural performer, she has been entertaining audiences since the tender age of 8. An upbringing with a rigorous ballet training which spanned a 12 year period laid the foundation for the discipline, drive, and creative movement of contemporary circus. As a performer, Anna explores the subtleties of human behavior through movement. A visceral, enigmatic vulnerability crawls out of her gestures, leaving audiences curious for more. Anna was coached by Yury Bozyan of the National Circus School in Montreal, Canada full time training hand balancing from June 2017-December 2019. Previously she spent 6 years at the San Francisco circus school, 915 Cayuga under the tutelage of her teachers Leslie Tipton, Dominik Wyss and Xiaohong Weng. For Anna, life is best captured through the vocabulary of the body. She sees this as a gift. An athlete and a dancer, Anna molds together technical skill, creative dance, and her natural curiosity on the stage. She currently lives and teaches hand balancing and flexibility classes in the San Francisco Bay Area.

CHEETAH BISCOTTI

Cheetah Biscotti is known as the "cutest clown in town" and one of the resident performers for Hex in the City Burlesque. She is ridiculous and fabulous with a whole lot of jiggle. She prides herself on being outrageous and looking at you with her ginormous eyes! She brings the sass with a twist of humor that will have you confusing aroused - I promise you won't be disappointed.

JEFFERSON FREIRE

Jefferson Freire was born in in São Paulo, Brazil.  Jefferson was raised by his mother and was fifteen when he began learning juggling techniques from a Brazilian street performer. At first, Jefferson learned just for fun, but he quickly caught the juggling bug, and began training incessantly. Rain or shine, at home or at school, Jefferson and his clubs were inseparable. 

His mother was poor, and Jefferson decided he had to help the household by taking advantage of his newly acquired skills: he went on to juggling on street corners making a living by passing the hat. In doing so, he also took comfort in the belief that, one day, he would become a true professional juggler and a circus artist—and this dream kept him going.

Soon, he found engagements in small circuses and then in Circo Universo Casuo, one of Brazil’s most prestigious circus companies. 

Jefferson came to the United States in 2017 to participate in the Juggling Convention of the World Juggling Federation (WJF), the world’s largest gathering of jugglers and then decided to settle in the United States and moved to San Francisco, California. He has since performed extensively on the West Coast. In 2020, he became a permanent company member at Circus Bella. 

MOLLY JAMES

Molly James is an Oakland based poet, songwriter, singer and storyteller with a devotion to truth telling. Her poetry is a radical call to action for the birth of a new culture. Her work explores feminism, white supremacy, ecology, body image, spirituality and more through a deeply personal lense. It will leave you feeling more human every time.

KELSEY MAEVE

Kelsey Maeve helps trauma survivors reclaim power & embody pleasure through embodiment. In her work with individual clients and facilitating groups, Kelsey draws upon a decade of leadership & training in Somatic Experiencing, Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Depth Psychology, Expressive Arts, Intuitive Painting and the Rebloom Coaching method. As a cis white queer woman of Irish & Swedish ancestry, raised as a settler on Ohlone land in occupied Huichin, (known colonially as Berkeley, California), Kelsey is deeply influenced by her own ancestral healing journey & reclamation of traditional wisdom. She loves studying traditional Irish Sean-nós singing and mythology, and has a special love for the otherworld, selkies and songs about grief & longing.

PRACTITIONERS

LIMPIAS (spiritual cleansings) with Curandera, Melusina Gomez

Melusina is a curandera, practitioner of Nahualismo, and ritual artist, whose healing arts offerings combine the principles and practices of Curanderismo and Nahualismo. Curanderismo is a traditional healing art from Mexico, which blends Indigenous wisdom with influences from Europe. Nahualismo is the Indigenous dreaming, healing and sorcery tradition of ancient Mexico. Melusina has studied and practiced Indigenous healing techniques for 20 years, and has applied these traditional methods to 1:1 healing sessions, workshops, public ritual, and healing groups within mental health facilities for survivors of trauma, abuse, neglect, mental illness and human trafficking. Melusina is a full time healer and workshop leader at the Heart Tribe Collective in Fairfax. She is also director of Metzmecatl, Moon Lineage Medicine, a project bringing the traditional healing forms of Mexico into our mixed heritage, secular, overstimulated American culture, for the purpose of healing the wounds of displacement, colonization, and generational trauma, and to support the reclamation of ancestral gifts, while nourishing the soul. For more information visit www.metzmecatl.com

Psychic Readings and Channeled Messages with Ankke Orryn, the Holistic Medium

Ankke is a Holistic Health Therapist, Intuitive Counselor, Medical Intuitive, Energy Healer, Spiritual/Psychic Medium, and Family/Systemic Constellations Facilitator practicing in San Francisco and worldwide online. You can find out more and connect with her at www.ankkeorryn.com

Tarot Readings with Danielle Mainas

I'm Danielle Mainas of Space & Thyme Oracle and The Cacio e Pepe Tarot! Together we will ask what your highest self is asking you to pay attention to and how you can be present with its messages. I study tarot under many teachers, including Lindsay Mack, and am trained in the philosophy of Wild Soul Healing. I have also studied astrology for as long as I can remember, since young adulthood. Along my path, I discovered Evolutionary Astrology as taught by Jeffrey Wolf Greene and am trained in this branch by the New Paradigm Astrology team of professional mentors. I am a RYT 200 and Teacher Training Mentor with Unite By Yoga, trained in a variety of modalities and teach vinyasa regularly in The Bay Area. I am a Certified TRE (Trauma & Tension Release Exercise) Provider.

Learn more at: www.spaceandthymetarot.com

Embodied Divination: Charting the Soul's Course with Somatic Therapist, Aida Curtis

Bring a question. You will consult the I-Ching Book of Changes, an alchemical text developed by ancient Chinese chieftains, kings and philosophers. Through the Hexagrams yielded, you will be invited into an embodied inquiry, and given tools for painting and documenting the imagery that emerges inside. You will leave with a map forward, generated from a consultation with the ancients, their knowledge of elemental relationships, and your own embodied-soul.

Aida Curtis (MA, CLMA, RSMT/E) is an author, somatic therapist, performer, and embodiment educator. She synthesizes her expertise in somatic studies, cultural reflection, and art making to facilitate greater awareness and creativity in various areas of life. She recently co-developed research on boxing as a conscious channeling of power and presented at the ISMETA Conference Engaging Embodiment : Somatic Applications for Health, Education, and Social Justice. Her writing on embodiment and the Iranian diaspora was recently published in Moveable Gardens: Itineraries and Sanctuaries of Memory (University of Arizona Press, 2021). She practices somatic psychotherapy in Oakland, California.