Welcome to The Blind Cafe. The Blind Cafe is a mind bending / heart opening experience where the audience will dine, particpate in a Q & A with their blind wait staff and enjoy a concert of orginal music by Rosh & One Eye Glass Broken....all in the pitch dark!
Your heart and mind will be opened as you celebrate and explore spatial awareness & darkness with your blind waitstaff, while indulging in 'unencumbered music listening' without the distraction of visual conditioning, social etiquette & your cell phones!
This is NOT just a another dinner in the dark...it’s a community experience where people connect, learn and grow from working together to participate in something greater than themselves. The Blind Cafe is designed to get you thinking, to help you discover new aspects of yourself so you feel more alive, awake, present and connected to your world.
The Blind Cafe is place where we celebrate community, dine creativity and re-discover listening to music and each other in the pitch dark. Find your city by using the location tab on the top of this page and hopefully we will be in a city near you soon.
Come Dine & Experience A Concert In The Pitch Dark!
'See' for yourself in this short documentary...
Like this video? Devon Walton made it! See more of his work: http://devonmkwalton.com
Photo's from our latest Austin Blind Cafe!!!!!!!! So much love! :)
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Richie Flores - Keynote Speaker for The Austin Blind Cafe shares his song he wrote for the event 'You Got A Friend In The Darkness'
Read this latest Blog by Austin Blind Cafe guest... Austin Kirkland
Kim and I experienced something truly unique, and entirely perspective-changing a couple of weeks ago...Accepting an invitation from our friends Christian and Julia, we attended the first presentation of the Blind Cafe in Austin.
I had heard of something similar in London, where several of my colleagues attended a "team building" dinner some time ago. But as far as I'm aware, this was a first for Austin. Read MOre here...
Beth Omansky, a blind author from Portland, OR writes about her experience at The Portland Blind Cafe in the introduction of her latest book, 'Borderlands of Blindness'.
We placed a hand on the shoulder in front of us and were ledsingle file down a dark hallway. When the floor’s angle suddenly shifted, changing in texture as well, I was thrown off balance, phys- ically and emotionally. We had entered the Portland Blind Cafe, an event promoted as “a mind bending/heart opening experience where the audience will dine and enjoy a concert in the pitch dark”—where we would “discuss issues related to visual impair- ment, celebrate and explore spatial awareness, indulge in unencum- bered music listening (without distraction of visual conditioning).”
I felt a little panicked and wondered whatever possessed me to voluntarily plunge myself into total darkness. People around me laughed nervously or murmured similar sentiments.
“I don’t want to do this.” “Can we turn around now?” “I’m not so sure about this.” “Where are we?” We stopped. Apparently there was a “logjam” at the front of our
line. This gave me a chance to get a more solid footing...Read More.
Watch interviews from our Boulder Valentine's Blind Cafe in Colorado!
Like this video? Devon Walton made it! See more of his work: http://devonmkwalton.com
Read this awesome review of The Blind Cafe by The Marquee Magazine.
Our latest review of The Blind Cafe... by Brian F.Johnson of The Marquee Music Magazine Colorado. I’ve only experienced darkness like that once before. When I was a reporter in Alaska, I traveled to the site of a remote hydroelectric facility. We donned miners’ caps and walked one and half miles into a tunnel — inside a mountain, and under a mountain lake. When we got to the end of the tunnel we turned the lights off and I learned a new definition of darkness...Read More !
Hear video testimonials from our Boulder Blind Cafe 3 in November 2010.
Read testimonials from our guests!
“Thank you for an incredible event on Saturday. I'm still deciphering all of the incredible messages I received that night, but it was most definitely a profound and an amazing experience. Your music was also very impressive! I'm certainly going to share my enthusiasm with everyone here at eTown."
- Morgan Kiszka | eTown Boulder, CO
- Morgan Kiszka | eTown Boulder, CO
"It dawned on me that I most likely hadn’t listened to music in the dark like this since I was a young teenager. It was so liberating to allow my mind and ears to focus on instrumentation with no visual input. I couldn’t tell if Rosh was on some shockingly coveted Martin guitar, or some $200 Korean-made junker. It must have been something of decent caliber, as it sounded wonderful, but was that because I was only listening that it sounded that good?"
- Brian Johnson | The Marquee Music Magazine Colorado
“It was easily one of the best dates I have taken my wife on all year and we experienced a closeness in the darkness that was rare in a public place.”
- Marco Lam | Acupuncturist Boulder, CO
- Marco Lam | Acupuncturist Boulder, CO
“Rosh & One Eye Glass Broken, tackled singer/songwriter material that Rosh described (at least in regards to one song) about love and rainy days. It was solid musicianship, but what my ears told me, was so much more than had I been watching this. I couldn’t tell if the violin soloist was showing emotion in her movements or her face, while she played. I couldn’t see if Rosh had that look serious look that many singer/songwriters do when they’re singing of heartbreak. Heck, I couldn’t tell if they were sitting, or standing, on a stage or on the floor.”
- Brian Johnson | The Marquee Music Magazine Colorado
- Brian Johnson | The Marquee Music Magazine Colorado
"From the very beginning, our experience was incomparable with last November. I'm heartened to see how far things have progressed, no doubt thanks to your perseverance and dedication. All of us left fired-up and inspired. If your goal was to engender a heightened awareness and a renewed sense of compassion for everyone around us, blind and sighted alike, then you've overachieved. We left feeling as if we'd been given a gift, indeed we had, and agreed we'd do our best to pass it on. I hope to visit the blind café again in the future and will be sure to recommend it to anyone who will listen. Thank you for the phenomenal work."
- Jonathan | Boulder Blind Cafe Guest
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