World-wide dream action theater including performances, virtual music and literary launchings, art exhibitions, round table discussions, citywide and international ephemeral and long lasting dream events.
Calendar of Events
This year's Dream Festival took place Internationally in Paris, Kingston NY, Montreal, London, and in your Dreams! Check out the recap of all of our dreams!
Listen to Radio Kingston's Midday Medicine Journey with host Jaguar Mary X, IONE and Lisa B Kelley discuss the deep democracy of dreams
Listen to Radio Kingston's Midday Medicine Journey with host Jaguar Mary X, IONE and Lisa B Kelley discuss the deep democracy of dreams
Brief excerpt from PAULINE DREAMS by IONE
for Ione’s 28th Annual Dream Festival Retro-Futurism
with Avatar Orchestra Metaverse on December 17, 2023
for Ione’s 28th Annual Dream Festival Retro-Futurism
with Avatar Orchestra Metaverse on December 17, 2023
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“Saturn Walk” by China Blue
November 9 - December 2, 2023
D.R.A.W. Teaching Gallery, 22 Iwo Jima Lane, Midtown Kingston
Listen to the Cosmos with China Blue, combining art, sound, and science, this exhibit will find you following an interactive maze whilst listening to the continuous low pitch hum of the far-off planet Saturn.
November 9 - December 2, 2023
D.R.A.W. Teaching Gallery, 22 Iwo Jima Lane, Midtown Kingston
Listen to the Cosmos with China Blue, combining art, sound, and science, this exhibit will find you following an interactive maze whilst listening to the continuous low pitch hum of the far-off planet Saturn.
Dream Walker appearances:
September 16, 12-5pm - DREAM TENT at Deep Listening Plaza, Midtown
October 7 - O+ Festival, Uptown
December 1 - Snowflake Festival, Uptown
January 1, 2024 - First Walk Kingston
Listen to Radio Kingston's Midday Medicine Show hosted by Jaguar Mary X with guests IONE, Lisa B Kelley and Micah Blumenthal
September 16, 12-5pm - DREAM TENT at Deep Listening Plaza, Midtown
October 7 - O+ Festival, Uptown
December 1 - Snowflake Festival, Uptown
January 1, 2024 - First Walk Kingston
Listen to Radio Kingston's Midday Medicine Show hosted by Jaguar Mary X with guests IONE, Lisa B Kelley and Micah Blumenthal
September 16, 12-5 DREAM FLOW DEPOT & COMMUNITY DREAM ACTION THEATER
@ the Deep Listening PLAZA DREAM TENT
Listen to Radio Kingston's Live Broadcast of the Dream Tent with Peter Wetzler
The Dream Flow Depot is an all day activation of the Dream Tent with dream box making and dreamkeeper IONE and artists CHINA BLUE, NORMAN LOWREY, JED ZAEB, GRACE WOODARD, LISA B KELLEY and the DREAM WALKER, Dream Action Theater and spontaneous performances.
12-5pm throughout the day
Saturn's Sirens and Moon Whispers
by CHINA BLUE
While being grounded to the earth a participant can meditate on the cosmos in the sonic installation Saturn’s Sirens. Moon Whispers is an offering for people to experience a moon bath -- a selection of five 3d printed and illuminated moons of Saturn accompanied by a sound piece in a handheld speaker that will be passed over the sitter’s spine.
These works are based on the sounds in Saturn’s rings discovered by China Blue for NASA.
Mask Dreams by Normaskman
We are dreaming together. We call upon Singing Masks, chatter boxes/automata, our hands, found objects, anything - as vehicles of transformation, carrying us into Dream Time. We are Many. We are One. Listening. Sounding. Dancing. Dreaming.
DREAMbient with Jed Zaeb
DREAMbient: an improvised musical soundscape intended to evoke a state of waking dreamfulness.
2-4pm
DREAM WALKER
A magical presence embodying and amplifying the hopes and dreams of the City of Kingston. They walk slowly and dreamily through neighborhoods, reflecting our communal vision of mystery and beauty for the world.
3:33pm
Sweet Cosmic Dreams: A Guided Meditation Experience with Grace Woodard
Grace will begin by serving folks her Sweet Cosmic Dreams elixir (contains skullcap, blue lotus, rose, lavender, chamomile, oat straw, essences of Collective Dreaming and The Star tarot card, apple cider vinegar, local brandy, and local raw honey). She will leads participants through a guided dream meditation with a live electronic accompaniment. The meditation will encourage participants to connect to their bodies, their imaginations, the stars, and each other. Participants will then be invited to record their impressions/experiences visually; these illustrations of our collective dreaming will then decorate the walls of the Dream Flow Depot.
8:30-10pm
Dreaming with Goopy Feedback Loop
One facet of Sebi Spaghetti's video art explores the captivating visual potential of vintage analog video equipment. Departing from the manufacturer's original intent, Sebi uses vide mixers and cameras to generate interactive and dynamic visuals reminiscent of fluid patterns. These visuals are subsequently projected onto surfaces or performers. Much like the Puerto Rican music genre of Bomba, where drummers adjust their playing to dancers' movements, the amorphous visuals are adjusted to mirror the performer, responding and translating both audio and motion cues.
Suenos en ESPAGNOL!
Escuchando en Suenos Listening in Dreams in Spanish Book Launch
September 17, 12-5 MARATHON OF DREAMERS
@ the Deep Listening PLAZA DREAM TENT
Open Dream Mic throughout the day
Performances by
CHINA BLUE
DONNALDSON BROWN
ELIZABETH CLARK
IONE
LISA B KELLEY
LINDA MONTANO
NORMASKMAN
JULIE LYON ROSE
PETER WETZLER
GRACE WOODARD
JAGUAR MARY X
JED ZAEB
SPECIAL SURPRISE GUESTS
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Saturn's Sirens by CHINA BLUE
2-5PM Special live broadcast of this event on Peter Wetzler's Radio Kingston show Sound Forms
IONE is an author, director and performer whose works include the critically acclaimed memoir, Pride of Family Four Generations of American Women of Color, and Listening in Dreams and This is a Dream! She is the playwright and director with her creative partner and spouse, composer Pauline Oliveros, of several large theater works including Njinga the Queen King; The Return of a Warrior (premiered at BAM’s Next Wave Festival), The Nubian Word for Flowers; A Phantom Opera, "a deep dream exploration of Nubian Soul and the Colonial Mind," premiered at Roulette Intermedium and the NYPL @Lincoln Center, the Dance Opera Io and Her and the Trouble with Him, and The Lunar Opera-Deep Listening For_tunes. The two performed internationally as a duo (The Horns of Hathor) and currently IONE disseminates Oliveros’ works world wide. She recently presented The World Wide Tuning Meditation at Carnegie Hall as a part of Claire Chase’s Pauline Oliveros @ 90. Two days of celebration included an ensemble performance of The Witness and The Day of Listening (for families with infants and featuring Oliveros’ Adaptive Use Musical Instrument, AUMI.) She is an Executive Producer of Daniel Weintraub’s seminal film; Deep Listening; The Story of Pauline Oliveros, currently showing in selected theaters world-wide. (PaulineOliveros.us) IONE is the Founding Director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc (MinistryofMaat.org) and Former Artistic Director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. (now The Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer). The recipient of the 2019 Arts Mid Hudson Individual Artists Award and a Certificate of Merit from the General Assembly of the State of New York, IONE was a member of the Kingston, NY Arts Commission for several years. A member of the Distinguished Mentors Council of Composers Now. IONE’s recent opera, TOUCH, with composer Karen Power, premiered at Irish National Opera in 2021. Ionedreams.us
CHINA BLUE is an internationally exhibiting and award winning, sound based visual artist. Her work is inspired by how listening can connect us, make us more creative and heal communities. chinablueart.com
DONNALDSON BROWN grew up riding horses on her family’s ranch in East Texas and in her hometown in New England. A former screenwriter, she worked for Robert Redford’s film development company for several years. Her spoken word pieces have been featured in The Deep Listening Institute’s Writers in Performance and Women & Identity Festivals in New York City, and in the Made in the Berkshires Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She’s a past fellow of the Community of Writers (formerly Squaw Valley Community of Writers), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Craigardan. Ms. Brown is a mother, a former attorney, a 500 hour RYT yoga instructor, as well as a facilitator and trainer with The Equus Effect, offering somatic based experiential learning with horses for veterans, first responders and others struggling with PTSD. She, and her corgis, divide their time between Brooklyn, New York and western Massachusetts.
LISA B KELLEY is a vocalist and transdisciplinary artist residing in Kingston, NY. Steeped in traditional theater, vocal and performance studies in her youth, Lisa’s creative process continues to evolve through explorations of identity, musical genres and styles, adaptation of personal dreams to performance, her family’s immigration story from the Philippines, female archetypes across cultures, Eastern philosophy and a recognition of metaphysical and spiritual practices. Lisa’s performances and writing explore womanhood, grief and loss, dreams and the confluence of self in nature and the cosmos. Lisa is a Deep Listening certificate holder and an ordained high priestess and board member of the Ministry of Maåt. Lisa is currently the founding Executive Director of the Kingston Midtown Arts District and an arts commissioner for the City of Kingston. lisabarnardkelley.com
NORMAN LOWREY Is a maskmaker / composer / performance / sound / video artist and Professor Emeritus of Music at Drew University, Madison, NJ. He holds a Ph.D. in composition from the Eastman School of Music.He is the originator of Singing Masks. The masks, ceramic, carved wood, leather and virtual, incorporate flutes, reeds, ratchets, electronics and other sounding devices. Each mask has a unique voice. They have been exhibited in East Coast museums and galleries, including the New Jersey State Museum. His primary creative work over the last two decades stems from a project that he initiated in collaboration with the Delaware Riverkeeper (Cynthia Poten) called River Sounding: gatherings of people along the 350 mile length of the Delaware River to listen to the river in silence and create work in response to that listening.
LINDA MARY MONTANO (b. 1942, Saugerties, NY) is a pioneer in contemporary performance art and her work since the mid 1960s has been critical in the development of video and performance by, for, and about women. Attempting to dissolve the boundaries between art and life, Montano’s work explores her own art/life through shared experience, role adoption, and intricate life-altering ceremonies, some of which last for many years. Staunchly insistent about the interconnectedness of her art/life, Montano’s output resists categorization on a fundamental level and her legacy has been vastly underrecognized by the establishment.
PETER WETZLER has worked as a composer of music for dance, theater television and film and multimedia. He began his classical career as guest piano soloist with symphony orchestras and then moved into jazz, experimental and non-western musics while writing music for post modern choreographers in the East Village. While devoting his life to uncovering the exquisite relationship of sound to movement Peter’s passion has also been exploring harmony both in its historic roots and evolutions and to the power of music to transform society and heal. Wetzler and his wife, the painter/poet Julie Hedrick bought an abandoned church in the Rondout Kingston 35 years ago, raised their 2 children Aria and Matthew, mostly in Kingston and have been active in the local music and art scene since then.
GRACE WOODARD (she/they) is a vorticist: As a sounder, mover, writer, Deep Listening® facilitator, Licensed Master Social Worker, organizational change consultant, herbalist, and devotee of mystery, Grace’s work explores the social and environmental context of listening with a goal of fostering individual, communal, and ecological resilience. She's particularly interested in how we can learn from listening to and collaborating with one another, ancestors, non-human kin, dreams, the land, and the often unperceived.
JAGUAR MARY X is a performance artist, glossolalia vocalist, filmmaker, and hoop dancer. Their specific concerns, and the directives that have driven their work, engage black feminist discourse, ritual performance in community, and practices of liberation and freedom-making. JM has shown films and performed internationally at the Havana and Johannesburg Biennials, KARST (UK), Museo de Belles Artes (Venezuela) and more. They are also the host of "Midnight Medicine Journey" on Radio Kingston. kaliartproject.com
JED ZAEB is a musician and actor who works within the condition of conditions to create parameter magic.
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This year's Dream Festival is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
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And also, in whole or in part, with support from the federal American Rescue Plan Act funds awarded to the City of Kingston by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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