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The Aquadome is a non-profit, volunteer-operated venue dedicated to music, art, and community in Kirksville, Missouri. It is, unfortunately, not a water park.
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Debunking Stress + Acupuncture Happy Hour

Reposted from Facebook (click here to see the event):

This workshop on acupuncture and stress goes from 2pm- 330pm [on Sunday, March 11]! Register for the workshop by emailing theaquadome@gmail.com. The first 20 people to register will get to participate in the Acupuncture Happy Hour afterwards.

DEBUNKING STRESS

Feel Stressed? Most of us re-play the same messages in our heads about how stressful life is, with no apparent end to the stress in sight. Come to this workshop if you want to:

  • Learn more about what you can do to alter your perceptions of your current situation.
  • Explore how feelings can be a roadmap to understanding your needs.
  • Create strategies for meeting your needs, rather than reeling in upset that they aren’t being met.
  • Create practices to help keep you in the present moment.

Bring paper and a pen to the workshop. Discussion will be encouraged, but not required.

ACUPUNCTURE HAPPY HOUR

Are you ready to try something different?
A holistic alternative to the traditional happy hour without the smoke, noise or hangover.

After the workshop, stay for a simple acupuncture treatment and learn how acupuncture can help promote relaxation and stillness. The treatment will take place in a group setting as participants sit comfortably in chairs.

ABOUT HOLLY ARBUCKLE

I am a licensed acupuncturist with a Master’s degree in Acupuncture from Tai Sophia University (www.tai.edu) in Laurel MD. I combine an integrated approach of health coaching and acupuncture. My goal is to help give patients tools to maintain wellness while providing real healing and relief at the deepest level. I am also a Weston A. Price chapter leader, a non-profit organization with a focus on eating nutrient dense, whole foods. My husband, John, and I run Singing Prairie Farm in La Plata, MO which specializes in grass fed, organic meat and poultry.

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The Website Needs You!

Is there something you’d like to see on the Aquadome’s website? Were you looking for some content that’s not here? As a community center, we rely on your input, so click where it says “Leave a comment” and tell us what you want!

Here are some ideas for the kind of input we’re looking for:

  • Additional content you would like to see on the site
  • Changes to the website’s layout (is there something that you wish was easier to find?)
  • Corrections to mistakes (content, spelling, syntax)
  • Anything else you can come up with

Image courtesy of http://bradcolbow.com/

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YouTube Channel

The Aquadome has a new YouTube channel! In the future, we’ll use to channel to host videos of concerts, activities, press coverage, and everything else related to the Aquadome. Right now, the channel has a video from Rae Fitzgerald’s recent musical performance, a poetry reading by Jamie D’Agostino, and a segment from local TV station KTRM.

Follow the link to our channel and subscribe for updates:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAquadomeMO

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High School Writing Circle

Do you know any High Schoolers who are interested in writing? The Aquadome is currently developing a writing circle. The group is open to young people interested in improving their writing skills under the careful guidance of TSU English majors.

This opportunity entails:

  • Biweekly workshops
  • The chance to be published in local journals
  • The opportunity to read your work aloud at Aquadome poetry nights

Please contact the Aquadome at theaquadome@gmail.com for more information!

by The Aquadome

Hello world!

What is The Aquadome?
The Aquadome is a not-for-profit arts, music, and community venue existing to create a vibrant, fruitful, and dynamic outlet for the Kirksville community.  We are here to offer a place that proudly showcases our community and gives back to it. Just recently re-established in the last six months, we have so far hosted poetry slams, gallery showings, and concerts. Band performances at the Aquadome have ranged from Kirksvillian screamo and NEMO Christian rock to rockabilly folk from Columbia, MO.

Who runs the place?
A board of five members from the Kirksville and Truman community currently runs The Aquadome. We all have real lives, jobs, and a passion for all that The Aquadome is. We have the opportunity and responsibility to keep this place going. The fun parts include planning shows, interior decorating (spray paint and Christmas lights), contacting talented members from our community, group cleaning sessions, and meeting amazing people who come to events. The not-so-fun part is making rent.

What do we need?
What does every not-for-profit need? People. The Aquadome is continually searching for people who desire to contribute their time, talents, ideas, or spare change. The best part is, we proudly guarantee that your contributions will be noticed. A fresh new not-for-profit, we are bursting with opportunities to help.

What are our goals?
We want to provide learning opportunities by letting community members share what they know. For example, board member Cliff Greanjeans has offered to give FREE guitar and banjo lessons. Truman student Brokell Bridel would like give FREE yoga classes. Furthermore, we would love to have regular homework hours, where people could come to The Aquadome to study or tutor each other. Also, we host potlucks on Wednesdays, because who doesn’t like meeting great people and eating their food?

On the artistic side, we plan to provide a gallery space (we have LOTS of space) for student and local artists. We want to be able to share our space for your sorority’s philanthropy event, or to show that new indie flick that just came out. And, of course, we want to keep our music scene alive and growing by throwing concerts with local and traveling musicians. But, in order to accomplish these goals and new ones, we need to stay open.

Money, Ew.
The Aquadome requires about $450 each month to pay rent and utilities. How have we been getting by so far? Fundraising, admission from shows, private donations, and a lot of scrounging from the board’s pockets. These sources have worked so far, but right now, in these winter months when many people hibernate in their warm homes we are fresh out of funds. We are confident that we can persist with help from the dedicated and gifted people that make up our community. If our bare bones description of The Aquadome has inspired you, please check our facebook page and come to an event. BUT WAIT, are you so inspired that you want to contribute? You’re hired! Contact us.

How do I get involved?
If you have any time, money, a talent you’ve been dying to share, extra folding chairs, if you can push a broom, if you can paint a masterpiece, or if you have an empty place inside you (The Aquadome can probably fill it) email us at theaquadome@gmail.com. We are located just behind the movie theater at 121 North Main Street.

We look forward to meeting you and helping to make our community a better place, one day at a time.