Resonating Alignment: A Vocal Workshop Series

with Tulsa Artist Fellow Micaela Tobin

Saturday, August 9

Vera Vera

205 E Archer St, Tulsa, OK 74103

1:00 - 3:00 PM

Doors Open at 12:45 PM

Open to age 18 and above.

Space is limited and RSVP is required

The human voice is a powerful tool. Connecting-to and understanding your physical voice is an important vehicle for empowering one's inner-voice! Join vocalist and sound artist Micaela Tobin this summer to discover the power of resonating your alignment. These workshops will cover the foundations of healthy vocal technique through gentle exercises, guided improvisations, and group singing. This workshop will be the last of the series and participants of the workshops.

All experience levels welcome!

ABOUT MICAELA TOBIN

Composer and sound artist Micaela Tobin wields her soprano voice against the confines of convention, specializing in experimental opera. Micaela focuses on building connections between the physical voice and one’s "inner" voice as a means of empowerment, challenging colonial stories and systems. Integrating voice with electronics, ritualized gesture and amplified object-symbolism, she weaves dynamic music that is at once alluring and demanding.

As composer and director, Micaela presented her opera film at REDCAT in 2021, titled BAKUNAWA: Opera of the Seven Moons, an adaptation of the album under her music project, White Boy Scream. Continuing her series celebrating precolonial mythology of the Philippines, Micaela premiered her second opera in 2023, APOLAKI: Opera of the Scorched Earth, at the historic Zorthian Ranch.

Micaela is the recipient of the 2021 MAP Fund, the 2022 NPN Creation & Development Fund, and was most recently awarded the 2024 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. She is currently based in Tulsa, OK as an awardee of the 2025-2027 Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Micaela has fostered young and new talent as a voice teacher for over a decade. She taught voice on faculty at the California Institute for the Arts from 2018-2024 and through her experimental voice hub, HOWL SPACE, co-founded with Carmina Escobar, since 2020.

ABOUT TULSA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP

Established in 2015, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship was created as a place-based initiative by the George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) to address pressing challenges faced by contemporary artists and arts workers living in and joining Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa Artist Fellowship believes the arts are critical to advancing cultural citizenship and supports community-invested practitioners who intentionally engage with our city.

VISITOR EXPERIENCE

205 E Archer St, Tulsa, OK 74103 (formerly the Vera Vera event space) is located between Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and Detroit Ave. The entrance is on the ground level and is wheelchair accessible. Free street parking is available on weekends.wheelchairs and strollers.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship's exhibitions and events are free, documented, and archived.