Week 3: Organizing and planning sets, coordinating events, and working with staff, other DJs, and MCs (Guest Teachers: Awa Mally and Kwey)

• Different event B2B styles

  • Knowing how to play within each hour in a club setting

• Playlist organization

• Crate digging

• DJ etiquette with event planners

• Building chemistry with other DJs and MCs

This class will focus on the prep work that goes into DJing. The conversation will be focused on the different types of events you may play, how to prepare for an event, and how to add flavor to your set lists. We'll then talk about working with other staff members at events, such as organizers, MCs, and other DJs.

The launch party of Daely Social Club, hosting a group of black and brown entrepreneurs.

Join Seat At The Table for an evening of poetry, music, and stories centered on the people and places that raised us. Share a song, poem or story that connects you to home. We invite you to explore what home means to you, as we listen, reflect and share amongst one another.

Week 2: Advanced transition skills, performance skills, and reading the crowd (Guest Teacher: Duke Dubz and/or DJ CH!SME)

• Implementing phrasing

• Understanding Keymatching, advanced EQ, and stem capabilities

• Techniques to manipulate crowd energy

• Open practice

In our second class, we'll build upon the basics from the previous class and introduce more advanced concepts and techniques. We'll talk about song phrasing, key matching, and being creative with EQs and stems. Afterwards, we'll cover live performance skills and how to bring your performances to life.

Catered to artists, organizers, and storykeepers; this hands-on course will guide you through the essential skills needed to begin building your family tree.

Discover how to organize your research, access vital records, and navigate common roadblocks, all while highlighting uniquely Black source material.

Sliding scale tickers: $0-10

​​​Join us on July 2nd for another installment of The Kitchen Table with Tall Paul.

Tall Paul is a hip-hop artist, inspirational speaker, and arts-focused youth worker from South Minneapolis. Ojibwe and Oneida, his ancestral roots flow from the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in northern Minnesota and beyond. He believes hip-hop can be a tool for Native empowerment and healing, weaving personal narrative, cultural perspective, and historical reckoning into music that speaks to urban Native experiences and broader struggles for justice.

Tall Paul is one half of Native rap duo Red Poets Society, who have opened for major artists such as Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Mobb Deep, and Jay Electronica. His acclaimed single Prayers in a Song is the first rap song to incorporate the Ojibwe language for more than sixty seconds, and remains a touchstone for conversations about cultural reclamation and identity. His 2022 album The Story of Jim Thorpe is a ten-track semi-biographical work that lyrically chronicles the life of Sac and Fox and Potawatomi legend Jim Thorpe, while laying bare this country's history of conquest, forced removal, and settler colonialism. He has performed, talked, and facilitated workshops across the world, from Minneapolis to Chemnitz, Germany.

Tall Paul earned his degree from the University of Minnesota, with a BA in American Indian Studies and a minor in Sociology. He is also a co-founder of Right to Remain, a collective of organizers and artists of various mediums using creative media to document and respond to immigration enforcement's impact on Native communities in Minnesota and throughout the U.S. He is a 2025 United States Artist Fellow, a 2025 Tiwahe Foundation Oyate Leadership Network Cohort Member, and a 2024 NDN Collective Abundance Fund Awardee.

The Kitchen Table is an artist talk series that (typically) takes place on the first Saturday of every month. It features a rotating selection of speakers who work in creative industries and invites community members to learn more about each speaker and their work.

​​​Doors open at 6pm and we will have snacks and refreshments for guests. At 6:30pm, the talk will begin followed by an audience Q&A.

​​​Space is limited. RSVP to secure your spot.

Week 1: Intro, basic transition styles, and open practice (Guest Teacher: DJ Lakeooo)

• DJ Alt’s background and goal of the class

• Walk through of the board and software

• Beat matching explanation activity

• Live trial

• Transition techniques

  • Drop mix, echo out, and blend

In our first session, we will introduce the class and goals for this course. We'll walkthrough the DJ controller and software, learn how to beatmatch, and learn core transition techniques. The end of the class will be spent doing open practice.

Join us on June 26th for another installment of The Living Room ft Vinny Franco.

Vinny Franco is a Minneapolis based singer, producer, and songwriter who’s music blends neo-soul, R&B, and latin styles creating a sound that feels both intimate and energetic. Outside of performing, Vinny works as a composer and producer for sync, film, and commercial music, bringing a deep love of storytelling and arrangement into every project.

The Living Room is an intimate, live concert series at ZOMA House that takes place on the last Friday of every month. Each session fosters a warm, acoustic experience by encouraging artists to strip their music down to its rawest form. It invites guests to listen and connect, and it invites the performing artist to share the stories that bring their music to life. Each performance will be followed by an audience Q&A. The goal is to inspire connection, creativity, and respect for the artists who share their work.

Tickets are $12 presale and $15 at the door.

Event Schedule ​

8:00pm - Doors Open

​9:00pm - Concert Start

​9:45pm - Q + A

​10:30pm - Event End

Jo Rochelle, a Jamaican-American writer-director originally from Minneapolis, returns for one night for an intimate public conversation on story, craft, artistic voice, and what it takes to build a creative life that can actually move through the world.

Through selected work and conversation, we’ll trace Jo’s path from theater to web series, independent film, and television writing, including her feature Jasmine is a Star, her work on the TV series Good Trouble, and her latest feature, Dead Deer High, which premiered at SXSW 2026.

This conversation is for filmmakers, artists, and storytellers asking how to cultivate and protect the voice inside their work while still getting that work produced, shared, and seen beyond inner circles.  

We’re going deep enough for you to leave with real gems and next moves. This is one to be in the room for. 

Space is limited. RSVP to secure your spot.

Home Theater is a screening series that takes place every other month. Each screening features the work of local filmmakers followed by an audience Q&A. The selected films will be revealed closer to the event date.

Bring your dad to BYOV is a vinyl experience encouraging people to bring records (and dads) from home, create new memories, and share classic records with the community.

Sliding scale ticket: $0-15

Celebrate Juneteenth with Firebomb Frequencies. Come dance, sing and listen to house music on June 12th 2026 from 5:00-9:30. The set features live choir vocals, Djing, and live instrumentation, an experience made to dance. If you love house and electronic music, this is the event for you. Come to Zoma House and have a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Join us on June 12, 2026, from 5:00–9:30 PM for an unforgettable night of house music, live vocals, and movement. Firebomb Frequencies brings together live choir vocals, DJ sets, and real instrumentation all crafted to make you dance.

If you love house and electronic music, this is your moment. Come sing, dance, and celebrate Juneteenth in a vibrant, one-of-a-kind atmosphere.

ZOMA House 1426 W Lake St, Uptown Minneapolis, MN 55408

Don’t miss this experience.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Suggested donation: $15-20

Join us on June 6th for another installment of The Kitchen Table with Leslie Barlow.

Leslie Barlow is a visual artist, educator, and cultural worker from Minneapolis, MN. Barlow believes art and art making is both healing and liberatory, through the power of representation, witnessing and storytelling. Her life-sized oil paintings are inspired by community and personal experiences, and often serve as monuments to community members and explorations into how race entangles the intimate sphere of love, family, and friendship. Barlow is a recipient of the 2025 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship, 2021-23 Jerome Hill Fellowship, 2019 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship, 20/20 Springboard Fellowship, and six MN State Arts Board grants between 2016 and 2026. Her work can be viewed in collections around Minnesota including at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota Historical Society, Weisman Art Museum, Minnesota Museum of American Art, and US Bank Stadium. Barlow earned her BFA in 2011 from the University of Wisconsin-Stout and her MFA in 2016 from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In addition to her studio practice, Barlow is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota and supports emerging artists at Public Functionary as the founder of PF Studios. Barlow is also the founder of ConFluence, a BIPOC arts, science fiction, and fandom convention, and co-founder of Creatives After Curfew, a mural collective. Barlow is represented by Bockley Gallery.

The Kitchen Table is an artist talk series that takes place on the first Saturday of every month. It features a rotating selection of speakers who work in creative industries and invites community members to learn more about each speaker and their work.

​​​Doors open at 11am and we will have light breakfast and refreshments for guests. At 11:30am, the talk will begin followed by an audience Q&A.

​​​Space is limited. RSVP to secure your spot.

Join us for a guided doodling experience led by visual artist Miku. This hands-on, art-filled afternoon encourages participants to let go of perfectionism and create work that is messy and fun. We will explore sketching, doodling, collaging and get a first-hand look at Miku's doodling process via a live demonstration. All supplies are included, you just need to bring your inner child.

Miku is a visual artist and storyteller based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A lover of science fiction and fantasy, Miku illustrates afro futuristic worlds accompanied with stories that provide them with a sense of hopefulness and comfort. Art has played an integral role in Miku’s quest to embrace their own identity and they create in hopes it might do the same for others.

​Join us on May 29th for another installment of The Living Room ft. Jada Lynn.

The Living Room is an intimate, live concert series at ZOMA House that takes place on the last Friday of every month. Each session fosters a warm, acoustic experience by encouraging artists to strip their music down to its rawest form. It invites guests to listen and connect, and it invites the performing artist to share the stories that bring their music to life. Each performance will be followed by an audience Q&A. The goal is to inspire connection, creativity, and respect for the artists who share their work.

Tickets are $12 presale and $15 at the door.

​Event Schedule

​8:00pm - Doors Open

​9:00pm - Concert Start

​9:45pm - Q + A

​10:30pm - Event End

Join us at ZOMA House for a night of belting out your favorite songs.

Our program addresses the lack of artistic development resources for recording artists in Minnesota's pop and solo artist realm. This event is our 2nd quarter workshop, focused on performance techniques, stage presence, and building confidence with the audience-- led by MN artist, XINA.

TIME TBD

Story time for kids age 0-5. Kids can bring their own stuffed animal and book for Kemmah to read.

Join us at ZOMA House for an evening of arts and crafts. Bring your own project or use our supplies.

This event brings together record collectors, DJs, hip-hop artists, who will bring records and other music merchandise to sell and trade. There will be turntables and a sound system, with a rotating set of people playing records and music. Goal is to create space to celebrate record digging, share vibes, build community.

Join us at ZOMA House for a family friendly afternoon of painting, crafting, and art making for artists of all ages. Bring your own art supplies or use some of ours!

Join us at ZOMA House for a shared musical experience featuring songs that never topped any charts but went triple platinum in your library. The aux chord is open to all.

Join us at ZOMA House for a casual game night. Bring your favorite games or play some of ours.

​​​Join us on May 2nd for another installment of The Kitchen Table with photographer, filmmaker, and producer Ryan Stopera.

​After starting his career as a social worker and community organizer, Ryan began his practice in photography and film to amplify movement work through the power of narrative. Today, he continues to share stories in a process rooted in relationships, justice and truthtelling. Last year Ryan released Back of House, a narrative and art driven photo book celebrating the ancestral origins of cultural cuisines. In 2026 he is on a festival tour with two films, Why We Dance and Ruunta. Ryan's artistic practice centers creating space for other artists to share work with each other. With the collective Cult Classics he collaboratively produces work centering disability justice and mutual aid, and with Public Functionary he programs a process driven screening event Open Screen.

The Kitchen Table is an artist talk series that takes place on the first Saturday of every month. It features a rotating selection of speakers who work in creative industries and invites community members to learn more about each speaker and their work.

​​​Doors open at 11am and we will have coffee and light breakfast for guests. At 11:30am, the talk will begin followed by an audience Q&A.

​​​Space is limited. RSVP to secure your spot.