The Dream Festival is an international celebration of dreams and dreamers curated by Kingston based author and dream facilitator Ione. Going on its fourteenth year, this global community event includes artwork, performances and workshops by world-class artists, everyday dreamers and inspired beings. Most of this year’s events take place at Deep Listening Institute’s new Deep Listening Space @ the Shirt Factory on Cornell Street in midtown Kingston, NY. In addition to Kingston, events are planned in New Paltz, Manhattan, and through the internet with co-located telematic events in Argentina, Barcelona, The Netherlands and Second Life. All events will be broadcast via live webstream on Deep Listening Institute’s channel at ustreamtv.com (Ustream.tv/channel/deep-listening-institute-presents).
This annual festival continues to expand every year with participants from around the world creating dream boxes to contain the dreams of their communities and hosting dream circles where meaningful dialogue can take place in a supportive environment. For the past two years Ione has been hosting a Dreamers’ Blog with 25-30 dreamers on Deep Listening Institute’s website (www.deeplistening.org). The Dreamers’ Blog is a blog invitational wherein dreamers share and respond to each others dreams. Ione states, “I am interested in fostering a Dream Community. Dreams are our deepest source of creativity and dreams are always truthful about our feelings. Since all humans and most animals dream, sharing dreams and dream creations can help dissolve the cultural and class demarcations that keep us separate from one another. Dream awareness can help us lead more authentic lives.“

Dreamers have the opportunity to participate by attending one of our events throughout the month, contributing a dream via a dream box or Ione’s Dream Sack (www.deeplistening.org/cgi-bin/dreamsack.cgi), and performing their dreams in Dream Action Theater, spontaneous improvisations of dreams.

The highlights of this year’s festival include the events on Sunday, October 11 starting with our Marathon of Dreamers at 2 pm hosted by Ione featuring the Center for Symbolic Studies Dream Group facilitated by Robin and Stephen Larsen as well as regional musicians and authors. This event will followed by a telematic concert, Between Dreams, with Pauline Oliveros performing at the Deep Listening Space and Alan Courtis performing in Buenos Aired, Argentina. Telematic concerts are co-located performances where the performers improvise through Skype conference video. Also, on Saturday morning, October 17th the Dream Festival will host a free kids dream workshop called Dream Masks with artist Sadee Brathwaite. These events will be at the Deep Listening Space at the Shirt Factory in Kingston NY.

See below for the whole Dream Festival calendar.

Each year the Festival has an international presence via IONE'S DREAM SACK on the internet, a website which constantly receives dreams from participants throughout the world. This year the festival will also feature the second year of its International Dreamers’ Blog where dreamers all over the world can come together to create a virtual community to share, comment, and create dialogue with their dreams and other dreamers’ dreams. The invited dreamers will consist of a wide variety of international and local NY artists, writers and dreamers.

Dream Boxes on Display throughout the month! Special Barcelona Dream Boxes this year!

Caja de Sueño - contribuir un sueño!

WHAT ARE DREAM BOXES?

Traditionally Dream Boxes- fanciful containers that are receptacles for dreams-are placed at Dream Depots (café’s, galleries, and other public locations throughout the city.) The boxes are created by dreamers of all ages from pre-schoolers to High School students to mature artists.  Dreamers are encouraged to contribute a dream to the boxes. These can be contributed anonymously or with a special Dream Name depending on the dreamer’s wishes.  Prior to the Dream Marathon, the Dream boxes are brought to the Deep Listening Institute where the dreams are handled gently. Some are picked at random and read or performed during the month’s events.  Eventually the dreams are posted on Ione’s Website.

CALL FOR DREAMERS!

EVERYONE (especially kids) IS INVITED TO CREATE A DREAM BOX.  IF YOU'RE INTERESTED, PLEASE CREATE!!  THERE ARE ONLY TWO REQUIREMENTS, EVERYTHING ELSE IS UP TO YOU: MAKE SURE YOUR DREAM BOX HAS A SLOT TO INSERT DREAMS IN TO AND A WAY TO TAKE THE DREAMS OUT. 

If you have questions or want to drop a box off, please call Lisa at 845-338-5984