Saturday, Dec 31, 2022
8 pm until 1:30 am
$30 advance tickets only

Join ILLUMINATED SOULS NYE!!! With musical experiences featuring META MYTH, and Nāga!!!

-White attire is suggested to celebrate illuminating the soul!

-Refreshments

-No alcohol event gathering.

-Poster Vending for Darshan Dance Company featuring Brandon Calhoun’s art

– Event Photography- Brandon Calhoun

Be part of ILLUMINATED SOULS NYE!!!

Both META MYTH and Nāga are musical projects which are dedicated to creating an experience of sound healing vibrations, trance inducing, elevating consciousness, and manifestation, and bring joy and peace to the planet through their music. In addition to incredible musical productions, the beautiful and ethereal Darshan Dance Company will be offering sacred dance performance ritual throughout the evening. The event will be held in the sacred container of the glowing, mystical Lumonics Light and Sound Gallery featuring the sculptural light art of Mel and Dorothy Tanner! There will also be offerings of powerful ceremony throughout the night to help ground and manifest those hopes and dreams for the year to come. All in the perfect setting and incredible vibrations to help ILLUMINATE your soul into the coming of the New Year!! Join us!!

The Flow:

8:00-8:45pm Doors- DJ Rex begins the journey of the evening with vocal performances by Katie Bhairavi.

9-9:20- Opening Ceremony- Katie Bhairavi and Darshan Dance Company welcomes and begins the ceremony invocation and leads the body prayer. Rachel Fox Feather Doherty and Avery Runner of META MYTH will lead a guided meditation and healing sound scapes featuring her beautiful kotamo.

9:30-11pm – Nāga plays – With featured performances by Darshan Dance Company

11-11:20pm – DJ Ed Hed – stage turn over

11:20 – Darshan Dance Company performs “Nataraja,” music by David StarFire, a commissioned choreography by David StarFire for DDC.

11:30 – 1am META MYTH – with featured performances from Darshan Dance Company

1-1:15am – Closing Ceremony – Soundscape by Ed Hed, Katie Bhairavi leads the grounding ritual and closing out with “Loka Somhasta” prayer and Bhoomi Pranam

Bio’s:

Lumonics Light and Sound Gallery:

Lumonics is among the first and longest-running light art projects in the U.S. Its late founders, Dorothy and Mel Tanner, first began presenting immersive experiences in 1969 to positively affect people physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
https://www.lumonics.net

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META MYTH Bio: Featuring Avery Runner and Rachael Fox Feather Dougherty

We are a collective of musicians, dancers, and visionary artists working out of Aum Lab Studios founded at Mineral Hot Springs, Colorado. Bringing medicine music to our audiences and uniting our community of instrumental artists is our cause.

Spearheaded by sound engineer Avery Runner, the project brings a wide cultural array of tribal electronic influences to the sound system. Vocalist and sound therapist Rachael Fox Feather manages the project, bringing therapeutic sound modalities, poetry, and etheric vocals to our stunning studio and stage performances. Based on a simple invocational performance, with additional musicians and performers from across our diverse community, we provide a creatrix of music and dance performance. Exploring archetypes of collective consciousness, we apply neo-ceremonial staging to oelectro-sound and healing fusion. Our intentions are to create a sacred container within our performances, allowing our culture to explore and express personal mythologies into shared creation.
facebook.com/MetaMythOfficial

Rachael is a long -time student of sound healing therapy and actively works with many renowned sound healers around the United States. A mother, artist, healer, oracle and rising DJ she manifests magic in all she touches.

Avery is a student of indigenous musical traditions since childhood. With decades of experience holding energetic containers for community transformation, he is a visionary artist, music studio engineer, event promoter, and record label manager. A popular DJ in the Rhythm Sanctuary tribe of Denver, Avery is a well-appreciated musical influence in the Colorado community.

Together, Rachael and Avery are founders of Meta Myth, applying sound healing to electronic dance. Creating songs from investigations into a variety of cultural influences and electronic dance styles, Meta Myth explores global rhythms, deep atmospheres, psychedelic leads and organic instruments in a sea of modern effects. Creating sets that appeal to a wide dance audience while generating sound healing overtones, dance floors and ceremonies alike open their hearts to these transformational performances.
https://www.facebook.com/MetaMythOfficial

https://www.facebook.com/MetaMythOfficial

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Nāga Bio:

Ed Hed- Producer- Guitar- Strings- Hand Drums

Katie Bhairavi Marshall- Lead Vox-Hand Drums- Percussion

Rex Finfgeld- Supporting Vox- Hand Drums

Dave Bernhart- Guitar

Sagren Thumbiran- Tablas

Jerry Overmyer- Bass Guitar- Guitar

Nāga is a Denver-based organic-electronic, psychedelic world-fusion live performance group.

Combining World-beat, Tribal-Ambient, Downtempo and Electro-Dub, with Psychedelic and Experimental Rock, Nāga draws inspiration from around the world, interpreting indigenous, tribal and classical folk traditions. A blend of the ancient and the modern, Nāga’s live performances are often extended mystical explorations featuring psychedelic guitars, mantras, spoken word, tribal drumming, and downtempo electronic beats for a trance-inducing, mind-expanding experience.

Nāga’s roots began in the late Spring of 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, when band members of Quantum Beings of the Miraculous and Forests of Azure began drumming outdoors in a Denver park as a way of staying connected to friends and live music, as well as coping with the isolation of a quarantine. Soon, tribal drumming expanded to include chanting, guitars, and electronic textures, with

hypnotic improvisational jams becoming a sort of moving, musical meditation. As more and more players gathered for this ritual of music, the rhythm circle mushroomed into a weekly outdoor event including live tribal-ambient soundscapes and dancers. Over the next several years, a musical and ideological collective coalesced into what is now called Nāga, representing both light emerging from the darkness, as well as destruction, change, and rebirth.
https://m.facebook.com/Naga.music.colorado/

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Darshan Dance Company Bio:

Katie Bhairavi Marshall – Director, Choreographer- Instructor- Performer

Cast NYE:

Kayla Chavannes – performer

Caitlin Morris – performer – Spin Props

Gabie Flower – performer

Miranda Ganguly – performer

Reina McLinden- performer

Tiffany Smyth – performer

Saraphine Mesmer – performer

Darshan Dance Company is an Indian Temple Fusion dance company based out of Denver, Colorado.

Darshan Dance Company’s intention is to create an offering to the Divine through dance, to inspire divine imagery, and to heal both the planet and humanity through sacred dance ritual performance. We explore and apply Sacred Theatre Yogic philosophies to modern-day dance fusion performance by combining “Indian Temple Dance” with Tribal or “Transcontinental Fusion Belly Dance” to create our unique productions. Philosophically, the word Darshan is a Sanskrit word meaning “To see the Divine with your own eyes and to be changed from that experience.” In this spirit, we offer ourselves as a form of Maha Prasadam to the Divine through our dance ritual performances. Our intention is to give our audience and each other this blessing each time we perform, gather, and dance together.

Katie Bhairavi deeply believes that it is by the grace of her beloved Gurus, spiritual guides, and devotion to the love of the dance as prayer, that Darshan Dance Company has thrived. She has the deepest gratitude for all of the guides, Gurus, teachers, students, and visionaries who have supported and blessed Darshan Dance Company’s incredible mission through these years.
https://www.facebook.com/DarshanDanceCompany