EVENTS
I M A G I N E ! F E S T I V A L B E L F A S T
26th March 2025
How might sharing dreams in community help us explore the relationship between humanity, technology and the shifting meaning of ‘connection’?
“The community that learns to operate on the basis of the circulating gift of dreams will be the community immune to the commodification of desire that so threatens the true potential of the human spirit.” Russell Lockhart
Join dream-activist Kate Alderton for a two-hour workshop that taps into the insight and power held in our collective dreaming.
In this session, we’ll gather together and take turns speaking our night-time dreams old and new, weaving a cohesive picture. It’s not about interpreting personal meaning, but about listening to how our dreams connect with one another and how our inner worlds reflect the world around us. We’ll focus on the collective experience of dreams, rather than the individual dreamer, and look for connections between them.
By sharing dreams, we’ll create a shared map of meaning that can help us navigate complex societal issues like technology, connection, and humanity.
The practice of Social Dreaming is a way of exploring dreams together, using imagination and creativity to uncover insights about our world. It allows us to step beyond polarised thinking, shift our perspectives, and explore the unknown with openness. Expect connection, curiosity, and a spirit of play.
No prior experience is needed – just bring an open mind and a willingness to listen and share.
Social Dreaming was discovered and developed by Gordon Lawrence at The Tavistock Institute and is a practice of sharing and working with dreams in a social space.
It’s different from other forms of dream work in that it works with dreams collectively, in a non-interpretive way, building up pictures of our shared unconscious as a reflection of what is happening in the wider world.
https://imaginebelfast.com/event/the-revolutionary-act-of-dreaming/
D R E A M P A L A C E C A I R O
Jan 1 -14th 2025
A divinely inspired, inventive and interdisciplinary project to celebrate the art, history, science and culture of dreaming.
The Dream Palace will be built from our dreams. We will follow the clues, we will incubate. Using practices old and new, we will experiment: artistically, philosophically, dramaturgically… We will feel our way to the Dream Palace, moment to moment. All we know for sure: it is calling.
The dream palace will share a slice of its residency and research in Cairo and beyond on the 6th of January at Darb 1718
Dream Palace is inspired by the ongoing research on a methodology of creating work we have playfully coined as “Dreamaturgy”. DP continues to explore this methodology and study deep structural processes to understand how to engage with collective dreaming in order to create artworks from dreams.
Kate Alderton brings a series of live and online social dream matrices, techniques for dream incubation, as well as dream tending and collective dream practices.
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D R E A M C R O S S I N G
July 1st- August 12th
Meditate, share dreams, make connections Social Dreaming at The Cockpit Wednesdays 7 pm- 8.30 pm READ MORE Expand
Calling all dreamers. Dream journey ahead
INTO OURSELVES We start with a meditation on a different energy centre in the body and its corresponding element.
INTO THE DREAMS We cross into the dream space to share our nighttime dreams and associations together in a social dream matrix, It’s a place where dreams speak to dreams without interpretation.
INTO THE WORLD We explore how our inner worlds can create patterns of meaning, connect us to each other, to the land around us, and to the challenges we face today.
Is there a bridge between our dreaming state and the waking world? How can Dream Crossing reveal what we hold in our collective unconscious? As a community, let’s explore the collective meaning of our dreams together.
SESSIONS 1. Earth | Trust 2. Water | Creativity 3. Fire | Power 4. Air | Love 5. Ether| Communication 6. Light | Awareness 7. Vibration | Spirit Image: Hilma af Klint – 1907 – Altarpiece – No 1 – Group X
A S O L S T I C E I N C U B A T I O N
June 20/21st
Very happy to be weaving some dreaming space into The Department of Dreams online festival for Civic Square, with dream weavers Kate Genevieve and Paola Bay.
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The festival is a place of radical dreaming. Explore multiple realities and futures together through a many and varied collection of talks, conversations, workshops and creative interventions of all kinds.
All info here: http://civicsquare.cc/re-festival
It’s free to join!
Language of the Birds – Dream Incubation
Sunday 20th 5pm-5.45pm
Language of the Birds – Dream Listening + Glyphing
The Land Is Dreaming Now
Under lockdown, the world turned outside-in. This unexpected mass retreat into our homes has had a profound effect on dreaming, making dreams more vivid and complex, as we collectively navigate the uncharted waters of what lies ahead.
In this moment between moments, while the balance between human activity and the natural world redress, how might the landscape of our dreaming change?
Can we use our dreams as a way to re-connect, to listen to the present and to re-imagine the future?
How has the natural world and beyond been present in your dreaming in you during lockdown?. I’m making an audio dream collage and would love to hear your dreams of the waters, the animals, the wilds, the trees and into deep space. Record them on your phone and send them to Kate using the contact form here :
Deep dreams to you all dear dreamers XK