Two women who have contributed greatly to the Pacific Northwest craft cannabis community have partnered up: Andi Bixel, founder of Drip Sweets, and Nichole Graf of Raven Grass and co-writer of Grow Your Own, have created the Woo Work Shop event series. Bixel writes, "Woo Work Shop is creating unique, diverse community magic that includes art, plant medicine, performance, and pop-up markets. We choose unity rather than exclusivity, and work together in order to create positivity that ripples outward and lifts us up collectively."
"It's a pretty damn special collaboration of two artists who care a lot about art, community and the cannabis plant," Bixel adds.
The programming schedule begins Friday, December 14 as a Holiday Soiree (psssst—that means dress up, so bring your sparkles!), which includes the launch of Drip's new line of hemp-derived CBD products, a selection of Raven Grass herbal and CBD joint blends, and a collaborative drink mix line including Golden Milk, Elderberry Syrup, and a Coconut Matcha Latte. There will be live portraits and view photography by Ashley Sofia Clark and live jazz piano. You so fancy! But fancy you also enjoys consuming cannabis, and it stands the reason the canna minds that put this on would have anticipated that, so go ahead and do your pot weed in a cannabis consumption bus "experience guided by groove star DJ Tim Bee." (Note to self: Change business cards to list profession as "groove star.")
On Saturday, the Woo is very much front and center for a full day and evening of events starting at a very humane 10 am with a movement class until 11, followed by coffee and CBD-infused donuts (yessss), and, beginning at noon, a CBD products pop-up shop, with chart and aura readings. From 7 to 11 pm, it's an evening of "Intimate performances to inspire expansion, conversation, questioning, and joy," including works of music, poetry, and movement from Bixel and Allison Jacks (video, movement, music/words), Shanitra (eats beautiful fruit and sings), Alleggra Behave (sultry soul), Jay Bray (high vibrational solo performance), and Annika Izora (poetry as a method of healing, freedom, and social change). The consumption bus will once again be onsite, because there is no way you should enjoy this without having visited a cannabis consumption bus. No more perfect pairing has ever existed. I got high just writing this.
Woo Work Shop is being held both days at Blanc Space at 215 SE 9th #307. Friday night is free, and Saturday day is free too, but Saturday night has a sliding scale of $5 to $15 that goes directly to the artists performing. There will be a cash bar both evenings. Square and paying by app is not what this is about, so why not actually just go all ironically retro and bring cash for everything.
