A modern renaissance woman and a native of Northern California LAVENDER GRACE CINNAMON Advocate of Sustainable Community Arts |
BIOGRAPHY
I was born at home into the loving arms of my family on the Northern Coast of Californiain in Santa Cruz. Surrounded by abundant creativity and guided by the cultural arts of music, poetry and dance from birth, I tell stories. Within these arts forms I undergo exploration of a deeper understanding into life and how it can be expressed. I am filled with these amazing experiences, to be danced, to be sung, to be shared. This is how I tell my stories. I have studied Theater in Scotland and worked in NYC as a professional sound engineer, and musician, traveled extensively in the US, South America, and Europe. Mendocino is my home town and where I have formed Lavender Grace Productions, a company dedicated to sustainable community arts; the knowldege of how essential music, dance and poetry is to a thriving community. How all people need shelter, a sense of purpose and nurishment. This work is benefitial to honoring performing artists within the community and honoring the community with art. My most recent collaboration is with my husband Todd Cinnamon of Resonance in Design. Together we form Studio Onethirtyone, a full service multi media production and design studio We have just been blessed with a daughter, Izabella Rae
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Examples
Resume updated 02/01/10
Producer
| 04/2009: TRILLIUM TRIBES 6TH ANNUAL SPRING HALFA - Greenwood Community
Center, Elk, CA 01/2009 to Present: Associate Artist with Hugh Dignon's Rock the Ground
Theater Company - Fort Bragg, CA |
Instructor
2006-present : California Poets in the Schools -
Fort Bragg/ Mendocino, CA |
Sound Engineer
2008- present: Studio Onethirtyone – Mendocino, CA 01/2010: Doctors Improving Healthcare and NBC Bay Area Commercial Spots - Audio Editor 07/2009: Mendocino Music Festival- Mendocino
CA January 28 - February 22, 2009: Rock the Ground production
of Richard O'brian's Rocky Horror 1999-2000: Trinity Digital - San Francisco, CA 1997-1998: Sonic Environment Lab - New York, NY 1998-1999: Servi Sound, Inc. - New York, NY |
Carpenter
2002-2005: Rivendell, Homestead Project - Albion, CA |
Performances
October 25th, 2009:A Conversation with Alice
Walker- Live music by
Lavender Grace- Raven Performing Arts Theater- Healdsburg, CA 95448 12/2008: New Year's Eve - Jazz at MacCallum House Inn and Restaurant
- Mendocino CA |
Trillium Tribe
October 17th, 2009: FLY FUNDRAISER for
Cotton Auditorium and Mendocino Center for Circus Arts Trillium Tribe
- Cotton Auditorium-Fort Bragg, CA March 7th, 2009: 18TH ANNUAL VARIETY SHOW in Anderson Valley- Trillium Tribe - Philo Grange, Philo, CA 10/2008: 4th Annual Fall Hafla - Lions Hall,
Point Arena, CA |
International
| 08/1999: Solo tour - England
and Ireland. 10/1998: Jazz Showcase - Eyvonne Pachenco's, Porte Alegre, Brazil. 10/1998: Channel 3 Community Arts Television, Porte Alegre, Brazil. 10/1998: Noite con Trilia De Famiga - Dente, Porte Alegre, Brazil. 11/1994: Chorus - Seven Lears - Royal Scottish Academy, Glasgow Scotland. 08/1991: Jazz Showcase - Pierres Cafe, Paris, France. |
Education
08/2009: Middle Eastern Music and Dance Camp - Mendocino CA 08/2008: Middle Eastern Music and Dance Camp - Mendocino CA 08/2007: Middle Eastern Music and Dance Camp - Mendocino CA 09/2006: Dumbek - Dror Sinai - Mendocino, CA 06/2004: Dumbek - Armando Mafufo - Mendocino, CA 10/2001: Green Medicine - Open Center, New York NY 10-11/1998: Zeppelin Films - Porte Allegre, Brazil 1997: Djeneba West African Dance Center- Afro Haitian Dance –New York, NY 1996: New School -Jazz, World Music- Arnie Lawrence, Jamie Haddad - New York, NY 1995-2002: Shivanada Yoga- Lucie Mitchell- New York, NY 1994: Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama - Glasgow, Scotland 1992-1994: Humanities, Theater, Choir - Santa Rosa Junior College - Santa Rosa, CA 1991: Jazz - Humanities - Cabrillo Junior College - Abtos, CA 1990: 6 month Cultural Tour - Western Europe and UK |