Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople, Oct ‘25 (Photo by Sam Lee)
The last weekend of 2025
& our final gathering of the year.
Donation-based & all ages.
Bring a blanket, open heart, and thank you
to Corazón for hosting us very last minute in these rains.
Much love to Creation Family Farms who we initially organized with
& have switched environments due to flooding.
Reach out if you have any questions.
All love, drive safely, take care of one another.
Thank you to Carlos Niño, Annelise Niño, Aaron Shaw, Jesse Peterson, Will Logan, Grace Oh, Esmeralda Rose, and Marisha Scott for being and beaming as one this afternoon.
See you in Topanga!
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A prolific album Producer, expansive Percussionist, experimental Composer, connector, communicator, Carlos Niño is known primarily for his main project Carlos Niño & Friends, and for his extensive work on André 3000’s New Blue Sun. Previously Niño made albums as/with Ammoncontact, Build An Ark, The Life Force Trio, and others. Niño cites Iasos, Laraaji, Luis Pérez Ixoneztli, Adam Rudolph, Idris Ackamoor, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, Yusef Lateef, Alice Coltrane, Airto, Kamau Daaood, Dwight Trible, Dexter Story, Jesse Peterson, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Jamire Williams, Deantoni Parks, Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, and André 3000 as among his “closest Mentors, Influences, Elders, and peers, all of whom I know well, (or at least met several times,) in this life . . .”
Photo by Jacob Sutton at the Audubon Center at Debs Park
Corazón Performing Arts fosters creative expression through supporting the work of accomplished dancers, musicians, poets, artists, and those immersed in social justice & the transformation / healing arts.
For years, Corazón Performing Arts space has been a hub for cultural dance performances and classes as well as intimate music concerts in the still-wild and wonderful Topanga Canyon. It continues to grow and deepen as the years go by (they’ve been open since 2015). They are a hub for our local community and a haven for those kindreds coming from elsewhere in the world, who share the same love of great music, soulful living, and a desire to make a positive impact on their community and those around them.