Three Days. Two Nights.
One Question:

• 12:00 PM — Ishwari & Friends
• 1:00 PM — Radharani & Friends
• 2:00 PM — Spirit Brothers
• 3:30 PM — Nina Rao & Co.
• 4:30 PM — Krishna Das & Co.

• 12:15 – 1:10 PM — “Consciousness Shift and Our Planetary Salvation” with Carleton Schade, moderated by Paul McMahon
  Drawing from history, ecology, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality, this presentation explores the evolution of human consciousness and culture and asks whether humanity can make the next great leap in its development and save our world.
  For the past forty years, Carleton Schade has been researching, teaching, writing and speaking on topics focused on the ecological-societal polycrisis and human consciousness. His website radicalmindshift.com and Substack posts offer a perspective on these themes.
• 1:15 – 2:30 PM — Awakening Art Project in the Grove Panel, moderated by Jen Dragon
  The contemporary artists displaying artworks in the Grove will talk about their work, visual art in the 21st century, relational art and what awakening might have to do with what they do.
• 2:30 – 3:30 PM — Nondual Foundations, a talk & discussion with Ira Schepetin, moderated by Elliott Landy
  Vedanta scholar and teacher Ira Schepetin illuminates the nature of the nondual state as discerned in the Ashtavakra Gita & through experience. Elliott Landy is the legendary photographer of Woodstock, including of the 1969 Festival, the inventor of LandyVision and founder of Sharing Stillness.
• 3:30 – 4:30 PM — Hard Times Dharma: The Audacity to Cheer Up, with Patrick Surdam
  As many people find themselves in despair or denial concerning the state of the world, how exactly can one find the strength and capacity to remain centered and balanced amidst the instability? Join Patrick Surdam as he explores ideas and practices from a Buddhist perspective on how to open the heart and cultivate real faith in these challenging times.
  Patrick Surdam is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, author, and teacher. His path has been profoundly influenced by the mystical healing traditions of Peru, specifically the Mestizo Vegetalista Curanderismo tradition of the Amazon and by the Andean nature wisdom teachings of the Q’uero nation. He also teaches the Vocal Transformation Method™, a healing modality developed by his partner and musical collaborator, Maryn Azoff. (Not to be missed, Patrick plays with Tribe of Love and may be seen live in the Bearsville Theater this night.)

• 12:00 PM — Yoga with Brigit Moynihan
• 1:00 PM — 5Rhythms with Michael Gabriel
• 2:00 PM — Yoga with Corrine Gervai of Euphoria Yoga
• 3:00 PM — Yoga with Linda Winnick of Shakti Yoga
• 4:00 PM — Yoga with Mary Flinn

Dining at the Bearsville

For those looking to eat before the evening Tribe of Love and Dance gathering, please consider these fine restaurants at the Bearsville: Tibet Pho · The Bear Café · Tinker Street Tavern

• 11:11 AM, Main — Opening Blessing with Andrea Calderón
  Andrea Calderón will open ceremonial space for ancient song to enter.
• 11:45 – 12:30 PM, Altar — Dream Seed — Sound Healing Ensemble
  A sound healing ensemble hosted by members of Golden Drum. Shamanic chanting, mantras, overtone singing, Native American songs, indigenous music, didgeridoos, crystal singing bowls, bells, gongs, harmoniums, tuning forks and other overtone-emitting instruments create an environment conducive to deep relaxation and inward investigation. A one-of-a-kind eclectic sound healing ensemble rooted in 15 years of community living, world travel, deep indigenous music & powerful initiation.
• 12:35 – 1:15 PM, Main — Jon Lee Rucker — Spirit Revival
  Soul rebel Jon Lee Rucker is a singer-songwriter based in the Hudson Valley. His lyrics come from the collective heart with a one-of-a-kind Red Road Gospel sound that will surely move you. For this event he’s bringing his spiritual sounds to share in prayerful songs that will uplift the spirit of our awakening community.
• 1:20 – 2:00 PM, Altar — Andrea Calderón — Raincloud
  Curandera, Mystic, and Guardian of Ancestral Medicines, Andrea Calderón will form a ceremonial space for our audience with her ancient healing songs. She will utilize sacred instruments such as the water drum, Staff & Rattle from her lineage. With more than 25 years on the path of ancestral medicine, Andrea Raincloud serves as a guardian of ancient altars and a vital guide in the recovery of ancient wisdom across the Americas and Europe. Her path is distinguished by a unique ceremonial responsibility: she held the leadership and headship as Woman Drum Chief of the Sun Dance, the only woman in the continent to hold this sacred role.
• 2:00 – 3:30 PM, Main — Gratefully Yours
  Gratefully Yours is a Grateful Dead-inspired band, based out of New Paltz, NY. Founded in 2012 by keyboardist Alex Mazur (also founder of The Deadbeats). Their willingness and ability to improvise, and their openness to spontaneity and the energy of the moment, lie at the core of their performances. In the very best tradition of The Grateful Dead, it is this openness that allows the crowd to become part of the creative process. Members: Alex Mazur, Jude Defalco, Nate Calzetoni, Mike Manuele, Robert Schiff.

• 11:30 AM — Mapping the Watershed — Tracy Bouvette and Jennifer Zackin
  Join these water mavens Tracy Bouvette and Jennifer Zackin beside (and even in) the flow of Sawkill Creek as together with us they explore in words and enactment its diverse ecology practically and sensually with an eye toward building a portal through which to see its inseparability from all we see and don’t see, including ourselves. Tracy Bouvette is part of Mapping the Sawkill Watershed Project, a yearlong community initiative started by Jennifer Zackin, connecting art, ecology and stewardship along Woodstock’s historic creek.
• 12:30 PM — Christopher Stackhouse (poetry)
  Author of Plural (Counterpath Press) and co-author of Seismosis (1913 Press). Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College alum; Cave Canem Writers Fellow.
• 1:45 PM — Linda Montano and Anna Hafner
  The CHICKEN DANCE is in collaboration with all indigenous people. Linda Mary Montano is a performance artist who has embraced ART AS THERAPY, ART AS SELF APPOINTED MEDICINE, and ART AS LIFE. In 1989 she fell in love with Chicken and began CHICKEN AS ART, appearing as CHICKEN LINDA. Anna Laura Hafner is a multidisciplinary artist creating art about home, dreams, nature and transformation in the Anthropocene. Her work manifests as immersive experimental performances using recycled materials that become puppets, masks, props, and sets for works of both live art & video art.
• 2:30 PM — Vladimir Nahitchevansky (poetry)
  Poet and printer. Works through 1080PRESS. Lives in Kingston, NY.

• 12:00 Noon — A Celebration of the Spirit, Works and Wisdom of Robert Thurman, Moderated by Michael Burbank
  We gather to celebrate the extraordinary life and legacy of one of Woodstock’s greatest sages, Robert Thurman, in the company of some of his colleagues and friends. Scheduled speakers include Sharon Gannon, John Campbell, Marcela Lobos, Ira Schepetin, Ina Becker, Nina Rao, Krishna Das, and Paul Bloom. There will also be an opportunity for attendees to speak briefly of what Thurman meant to their own lives and path and/or ask questions to the speakers.
  Robert Thurman (1941–2016) was educated at Philips Exeter and Harvard and then studied Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism, and Asian languages and histories for over fifty years with many teachers, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He held the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West, the Jey Tsong Khapa Chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, before retiring in 2019. He has written substantial scholarly works, including founding and editing a new series through Columbia University Press, the Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences. He and his wife Nena founded Tibet House in 1987 at the request of the Dalai Lama, and in 2002 also Menla, Tibet House’s retreat center located the crater of Panther Mountain. He also wrote popular books, lecturing all over the world in the “public intellectual” tradition, with special concern for ethics and human rights in general, the fate of the endangered Tibetan culture and people, and the qualities of the human mind in its natural state.
• 2:00 PM — Spirit, Dreams & Golden Roads to Awakening, moderated by Annie Finch
  An expert panel into realms at the edge of human consciousness—dreams, the spirit world and the ineffable glowing at the margins of things.
  • Lorry Salluzzi on “How Spirit Saved My Life”
    As a distraught and suicidal teenager during my near death experience in 1968, I first met Spirit, my “guide,” who showed me my life purpose in this lifetime. They allowed me to return to our dimension to continue my journey. Then, 20 years later and diagnosed as terminally ill, I was given 48 hours to live if left untreated. I accepted the medical treatment which promised five more years of life. My older sister & parents had recently died, and my younger sister had terminal cancer. We needed a miracle, and I found it in the Spiritual Holistic world where we both remain in “remission” for 36 years. I will talk about that and how we may each connect to Spirit.
    Lorry Salluzzi, also known as Dr. Reiki, has been helping those seeking spiritual awakening, guidance, and healing through Reiki sessions, Reiki training, psychic clairvoyance, and tarot reading since 1990. Through her Reiki healings, meditation, and workshops, Lorry has helped thousands achieve optimal spiritual well-being and health. A Master Healer since 1990, she teaches psychic development & Reiki at SUNY Ulster Annex in Kingston and founded Volcano Reiki in 2018.
  • Michael Ruby on “Dreams as Virtual Realities”
    Everyone is a surrealist artist, and surrealist experience is part of everyone’s life. It occurs episodically during the one-third of every day while we’re asleep, and just below the level of consciousness the rest of the time in internally generated visions and words and memory fragments, all of which open unknown ways.
    Poet and literary editor. Author of nine poetry books. Co-editor of Bernadette Mayer’s early books and the selected poems of Steve Dalachinsky (City Lights Books). Former editor at The Wall Street Journal.
  • Doug Grunther on “What Our Dreams Know: Gateway to Awakening”
    In our current age, the wisdom of our night dreams may be our most overlooked resource. This talk explores three remarkable dreams and closes with practical invitations for how each of us can begin honoring our dreams—and through them, awaken to a deeper, more luminous life.
    Creator/host of “The Woodstock Roundtable.” Author of The Quantum & The Dream. Dreamwork facilitator certified by Dr. Jeremy Taylor.
  • Annie Finch (Moderator)
    Award-winning poet. Author of Spells: New and Selected Poems. Passionately devoted to poetic pattern and rhythm as a path to connection with self, nature, and spirit.

• 11:30 AM — Paul Bloom
  For the past 25 years, Paul Bloom has studied classical qigong with Chinese master Kwan Sai-hung and also been a practitioner of Buddhism. His in-depth examination of Chinese philosophy at Harvard and Columbia Universities enriches and augments the traditional wisdom he’s gained during a quarter century of study.
• 12:30 PM — Bob Vetter
  Drawing on more than fifty years of studying traditional healing with Indigenous elders throughout North America and Mexico, cultural anthropologist and healer Bob Vetter will share stories, teachings, and a live demonstration of healing practices inspired by traditional fire ceremonies. Participants will experience simple yet powerful practices for releasing what no longer serves them, reconnecting with inner wisdom, and discovering why fire has remained one of humanity’s oldest medicines. This session is experiential, interactive, and open to anyone seeking healing, renewal, and deeper connection.
• 1:30 PM — OneTone Sonic Alchemy in “S.U.N.” (Sonic Universe Now) with special guest, Peter Blum
  OneTone Sonic Alchemy is dedicated to raising awareness and educating individuals in the understanding and application of sonic vibrational medicine. A collaboration between Joseph Schmidlin, an osteopathic physician, sound facilitator, practitioner and trainer, and Michael Jay, a gong master, Reiki Master, and sound facilitator trainer, OneTone leads immersive sonic journeys, workshops and retreats. They work with a remarkable collection of rare, one-of-a-kind sound healing instruments from around the world—many of which will be available for purchase during the Festival.
• 2:30 PM — Red Feather Drummers
  The Red Feather Women Drummers are members of the Mid Hudson Valley Association of Native Americans. As keepers of our families and teachers of our history, they will present a talk about the significance of our drum and present some corrective history. They will also drum, sing and dance. (To note, free and open to the public, they meet on the fourth Friday of each month, 4:30–5:30 PM, at Bethany Hall in the Old Dutch Church, Kingston.)