Experimental Meditation Club with Kelly Kelbel and Tony Rolando - A Meditation Celebration!

Make Noise + APLR Present: Experimental Meditation Club with Kelly Kelbel and Tony Rolando - A Meditation Celebration

Tuesday, December 1st, 2026

AyurPrana Listening Room - 312 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806

Doors 7:00 PM || Event 7:30 PM

A Meditation Celebration! Meditation for celebrating being alive. Especially when life is hard.

On this day in 2022, Kelly was diagnosed with a rare and advanced disease, Inflammatory Breast Cancer. Please join us on her cancerversary to celebrate that she's alive, and that you are, too, 'cuz we're all a bit lucky to be here in the beauty and brutality of human existence. It can be so hard to be human, and sometimes, it's really freakin' fun. We'll cultivate joy, orient toward playfulness, and like always, experiment in our meditation.

Maybe there will be some whimsical movements, vagus nerve activation, visualizations of becoming our favorite dogs, cheerful attire (consider a vibrant hoodie or sparkly eye shadow or a glow in the dark slug pin) or bad jokes about meditation (bring yours! Why do meditators hate vacuuming? Too many attachments! Oh,wow, that's terrible). WTF is a meditation celebration? We don't really know. Let's find out. Also, it's free.

This meditation is for people who love to meditate or only kinda like it or are skeptical of it. This is for people who love Kel or haven't ever met her. This is for people who enjoy celebrating, and love a party or dislike parties or are meh on parties. Show up as you are, in whatever mood you're in, and we'll celebrate being alive in the present moment.

Kelly Kelbel

Kelly Kelbel meditates every morning in bed, mostly using the Happier App. She started meditating shortly after she started chemotherapy out of desperation to find relief from her fear. It worked! Chemo Sessions is a project she created to offer support to folks going through treatment through a letter, music, tips from pals, and guided meditations. She is also a writer and co-owns a synthesizer company, Make Noise, in West Asheville. Previously, she served as a legal advocate for survivors of sexual violence in Chicago and youth being tried as adults in New York City. She was a founding teacher of the School for Democracy and Leadership in Brooklyn, and directed the Rise Project at Warren Wilson College.

www.kellykelbel.com

Tony Rolando

Tony Rolando meditates irregularly, but notices a benefit every time he does a sit. He often uses the quiet. He is a self-taught electronic musical instrument designer who got started by obsessively reading Amateur Radio Relay League books at the public library, building electronics for artists, such as the light controlled remixer for Simon Lee’s “Bus Obscura” which debuted at the Whitney Biennial, working for Moog Music, and always playing music. Tony has recently released music with Important Records and the Asheville based Ceremony of Seasons. He is the founder, lead designer, and co-owner of Make Noise.

https://tonyrolando.bandcamp.com/

www.makenoisemusic.com