Joe’s Movement Emporium harmonizes with the artistic community this holiday season for an immersive Kwanzaa experience for the whole family. Joe’s Movement Emporium presents, Umoja: A Kwanzaa Experience for Families!  

Connect and create while sharing community on Sunday, December 15, 2024, at our Mount Rainier location. We're bringing in the Kwanzaa season with special performances, hands-on craft workshops, demo classes, diasporic food, and more. See you there! 

Performances: Workshop on July 19; live performance: July 21

Music and math have more in common than you may think. Musician, vocalist, singer-songwriter, and mathematician Sheyda Do’a draws on her multi-cultural heritage and upbringing in Albania to blend sounds from across the globe into what she calls “melodies for the soul.” This student of the world first started playing piano and singing under the guidance of her mother, a pianist who studied at Berlin’s prestigious University of the Arts. Do’a is currently a doctoral student in mathematics at the University of Maryland—which she refers to as her “side gig.”

Performances: Workshop on July 19; live performance: July 21

Vocalist, pianist, and guitarist Sheyda Do’a taps into her peripatetic and multi-cultural upbringing, to lead this musical journey around the world to explore melodies and rhythms you may not expect to be paired. Join Do’a to discover how Albanian folk music, bossa nova, jazz, Scottish Highland tunes, and Afro-Cuban rhythms combine and speak to our common human aspiration and search for beauty.  

This workshop is interactive. Come prepared to ask questions, learn Albanian vocabulary, and sing a few notes of your own.