green dreamer presents
~alchemize~
join us in our 12-week audio-based program of daily creative prompts and imagination practices — an experimental invitation to sit with the mess, stretch comforts and alternatives, and disrupt status quo ways of thinking, sensing, being, and relating
behind the concept…
As someone who has engaged with various forms of visualization and creative practices intended to enhance my personal well-being and self-actualization, I started wondering over the last years:
What could this look like if we wanted to alchemize for collective thriving and Earth-actualization?
Green Dreamer has loved publishing intellectual, philosophical, and educational media content over the last five years—sharing over 400 conversations attempting to make sense of these troubled times through all sorts of lenses and angles. We are committed to continuing to do this.
And we have also been curious to conspire other forms of creative production. Called to help disrupt dominant ways of relating to, sensing, and being with the world, we feel that the time is ripe for some playful programming that invites us to sit with the mess while honoring the gifts of what already is and what could be.
After years of watering our seeds of possibilities, we are thrilled to present ~alchemize~.
With ten weeks of daily guided imagination, embodiment, and multi-sensory prompts and practices led by ~20 visionaries, dreamers, and shapeshifters, this quietly experimental offering was created to enrich our dreaming habits for more life-affirming possibilities. This is an invitation to deepen our self-rootedness, community connectedness, and Earth intimacy; expand our creativity through speculative fantasizing; and alchemize so we may further embody the changes we wish to see.
We welcome you to play and ~alchemize~ with us.
— Kamea Chayne
Host & Producer
alchemize with the imaginaries of…
Sean Sherman
Award-winning chef, educator, author, activist, and a member of the Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe dedicated to revitalizing Indigenous food systems
Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures Collective
An arts/research collective aiming to identify and de-activate colonial habits of being and gesture towards the possibility of decolonial futures
Hilding Neilson
Mi’kmaw astrophysicist whose research integrates Indigenous knowledges and focuses on the stories we can learn from stars and planets
Leny Mendoza Strobel
A Kapampangan Founding Elder at the Center for Babaylan Studies whose work tends to practices of decolonization and re-indigenization
Fariha Roisin
Multidisciplinary artist and the author of Being In Your Body, How to Cure a Ghost, and Who is Wellness For? (Photo by Amanda de Cadenet)
Ang Roell
Facilitator, thought leader, and dream weaver who co-operates They Keep Bees, which builds collaborative networks and teaches people about bees
Siv Watkins
Microbiologist, independent scholar, ritualist, and the founder of Microanimism, which examines how human culture engages with microbial organisms
Solaris J. Capehart
Liberian poet and abolitionist educator working alongside their neighbors to nurture The Garden Abolitionist Bookstore & Community Well
Gabes Torres
Therapist, organizer, and artist whose work focuses on imperialism and its vast impact on our collective mental health
Laurie Palmer
Artist, teacher, activist, and the author of The Lichen Museum, which examines lichen's role as an anti-capitalist companion and climate change survivor
Staci K. Haines
Founder of generative somatics, a multiracial social justice organization bringing somatics to social and environmental justice leaders, organizations, and alliances
Chelsea Mikael Frazier
Dr. Frazier is a Black feminist ecocritic writing, researching, and teaching at the intersection of Black feminist theory and environmental thought (photo by Solon Quinn)
Andreas Weber
Biologist, philosopher, and the author of The Biology of Wonder, Matter and Desire, and Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene
Camille Sapara Barton
Social Imagineer, artist, somatic practitioner, and the author of Tending Grief dedicated to creating networks of care and livable futures
brontë velez
Black-Boricua transdisciplinary ritual artist, shepherd, curandere, educator, and wakeworker whose work and rest is guided by the cosmology and promise of sabbath for Black people and the land
and more…
sample invitations…
tenderize: gentle openings and introductions
honoring your uniquely storied body, with gabes torres
into beingness
rooting deeper into your sense of place, with leny strobel
a gentle practice of tending grief, with camille s. barton
being here and now with your body, with fariha roisin
embracing intergenerational responsibility, with gtdf collective
disintegration, dissolution, & decomposition, with gabes torres
~ m e t a b o l i z e ~
into porousness
resurfacing landscapes of reciprocity, with sarah elisa kelly
the art of kinning, with gavin van horn
magnifying our intimacy with the microbial, with siv watkins
reconnecting with the cosmos, with hilding neilson
sensing into our bound/lessness, with staci k. haines
~ m a r i n a t e ~
into otherness
you are lichening, with laurie palmer
you are seeding, with kaméa chayne
you are honeybeeing, with ang roell
you are watering, with kamea chayne
you are fermenting futures, with anisa sima hawley
~ f e r m e n t ~
into belongingness
remembering your animality, with brontë velez
pollinating networks of collective care, with ang roell
nurturing wellness for all bodies, with fariha roisin
worlds of food sovereignty, with sean sherman
mapping towards freedom in community, with solaris j. capehart
~ c a r a m e l i z e ~
into earthfulness
becoming deliciously edible, with andreas weber
moving beyond colonial borders, with sean sherman
alive and well in afrofutures, with chelsea mikael frazier
cultivating receptivity in multispecies worlds, with stacy alaimo
dreaming into collective liberation, with solaris j. capehart
~ a l c h e m i z e ~
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