Session 4

On April 24th, Summer School Radios’s deep listening session returns for its fourth installment at Weeksville Heritage Center. 

sessions turns our performance space to an experiential room for sound, featuring curated music and live performance tailored for deep listening, contemplation, grooving, and feeling. 

sessions (4) opens at 5 pm with a meditative sound bath led by Kia Islam, offering a moment of grounding before our deep listening begins. At 7 pm, Lovie will guide us through an intimate live set, with sound amplified by Karlala Soundsystem. 

This will be a listening room:

When the session begins, attendees will be asked to maintain a silent room. This is a seated space, and you are welcome to bring blankets or pillows for comfort.

Tea and refreshments will be served between 5 and 6 pm, with the listening session beginning promptly at 7. This event is free to attend with an RSVP, with limited space for walk-ins.

Sonic Contributors

Lovie (summer school radio) – Broadcasting monthly from The Lot Radio, summer school radio started as a pandemic project from Brooklyn-based Lovie–her first venture as a music curator. she had yet to play beyond her bedroom when The Lot Radio offered her a now 4-year-old residency, slowly but surely becoming a staple show on the platform. a devoted following of listeners tune in to hear Lovie’s discoveries for a sonic range that spans ambient, spoken word, spiritual jazz, soul, and alternative R&B. in 2024, summer school radio expanded beyond the digital into the physical, and now presents deep listening sessions at Weeksville Heritage Center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Kia Islam– Kia Islam is a yoga and meditation instructor, multidisciplinary artist, co-founder of Good Juju, and a Nike Well Collective Trainer. Growing up between the East Coast and the Middle East, Kia was immersed in diverse cultural and devotional practices from an early age. She graduated from The New School with a double major in Photography and Culture & Media, where she first encountered Hatha Yoga through her first teacher, Sri Dharma Mittra. This exposure sparked her passion for the mind-body connection and the teachings of the eight-limbed Ashtanga yoga system.