🌿💕🦋🌋Tomorrow is the day!!! 🦎🪨🌱🍓💧Earth Dreams is almost here. 🫠🫠🫠 We can’t wait to see you. Tomorrow’s program is designed as a continuous experience and we hope you join for the full thing. 🐛🐛🐛🦋 8:00 pm - Program opens with a set by Tender Buttons 🏮 8:45 pm - Nocturnal Medicine leads a Sound Bath & Guided Journey into deep time, ecological grief and love 🎐 9:15 pm - Dr. Duke Redbird, Elder of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, performs his poem, “Mother Earth is an Altar” 🪄 9:30 pm - Second DJ Set by Tender Buttons, ft. Duke Redbird reading a his poem, “Summer” 🌅 11:30 pm - DJ Me Time carries us through the rest of the night. 🦋 1:30 am - Nocturnal Medicine leads Closing Rites, inviting participants into the ritual takedown of the space. 🌿 2:00 am -DJ Me Time closes the night. 💕

“We are tending to the emotional and psychological effects of climate change, which are often overlooked in terms of the profound role that they play in terms of our ability to deal with things in a real, substantive way.” - @nocturnalmedicine⁠ ⁠ This Saturday, @nocturnalmedicine brings Earth Dreams: A Summer Party for Grief & Love, to The Bentway - an apt time as the Earth recorded its hottest day on record this week and we're feeling the stress of climate change.⁠ ⁠ @nocturnalmedicine is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit studio building spiritual resiliency in the face of ecological crisis. They create collective experiences, installations, and media centering environmental justice, climate grief, and healing. Their work is intimate, honest, and rooted in powerful sensory experience, often addressing larger-than-life challenges like climate change and extinction. ⁠

Artist studio @nocturnalmedicine present a free, immersive experience at The Bentway on July 8th that centres both joy and sorrow, dancing and meditation, as we confront our planetary health crisis. 🌎 RSVP for free tickets at the link in our bio.

We’re hiring! The Bentway is seeking a Venue & Parks Supervisor to join our team. This key leadership role will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day site operations at our dynamic, year-round public space. This is a full-time, permanent position with a wage of $50,000/year. If you are passionate about providing outstanding visitor experiences, working outdoors, and using your hands, we encourage you to apply! Visit our linkinbio to learn more and apply. #NowHiring #Jobs #Hiring #TorontoJobs #JobOpportunity

"On an individual and community level, we are helping people grapple with the painful truths of the climate and ecological crises, helping them reckon with and metabolize what is happening." - @nocturnalmedicine, Brooklyn-based artist studio ⁠ ⁠ Earth Dreams by @nocturnalmedicine is a free late-night party for climate urgency, coming to the Bentway on July 8! ⁠ ⁠ Visit our linkinbio to read the full feature in @exclaimdotca, and RSVP for your free ticket!

Travel through your climate sorrow and grief towards catharsis, release, and regeneration with us at Earth Dreams on July 8.⁠ ⁠ Artist studio @nocturnalmedicine brings a contemporary gathering that’s equal parts dance party and meditative ritual to confront our planetary health crisis. Featuring sets by DJs @metime and @my_bodys_in_troubleshoot, and poetry reading from @elderoftheglobalvillage, join us for a multi-sensory journey on the dancefloor.⁠ ⁠ Earth Dreams is free to attend and open to all. Make sure to RSVP through the link in bio.⁠

In this personal essay, art critic @andrewrusseth highlights Cheonggyecheon, a 10.9km long stream and modern public recreation space in downtown Seoul. In looking at the stream’s rich history, it shows that moving “beyond concrete” alters our sense not only of materials, but also of time.⁠ ⁠ This essay is part of our ongoing multimedia series that explores themes of our Beyond Concrete summer season, highlighting local and global projects that centre interconnectedness. A collaboration with Brian Sholis of @frontier.is. ⁠ ⁠ Link in bio to read and listen! ⁠ ⁠ 📷: Yeoul Shin, Unsplash

We’re launching a free series of events inspired by our Eco Library Pop-up! On Sat. July 15, bestselling author Robyn Maynard joins Western University professor Kate Stanley for a lively discussion about crisis, care, and fostering interconnectedness in the city!⁠ ⁠ In the book Rehearsals for Living, authors Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson envision possibilities for more liberatory futures. Can new ways of thinking about urban space, ecologies and ecosystems, and our relationships accelerate positive change?⁠ ⁠ Presented in collaboration with @frontier.is.⁠ ⁠ Link in bio to RSVP for this free talk!

We’re honoured to have Dr. Duke Redbird, Elder of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, share his poetry and words with us at Earth Dreams on July 8.⁠ ⁠ Dr. Duke Redbird (@elderoftheglobalvillage) is an Elder, poet, activist, educator, and artist. With a legacy stretching back to the 1960s, he is a pillar of First Nations literature in Canada and has practiced a number of art disciplines including poetry, painting, theatre, and film. His outstanding contributions to culture and human rights continue to stretch far beyond his work in Canada.⁠ ⁠ Artist studio @nocturnalmedicine brings Earth Dreams, an urban gathering, to @thebentway. It's part dance party, part meditative journey that invites us to collectively confront our planetary health crisis. Free to attend. ⁠ ⁠ RSVP by following the link in our bio.

We're keeping the summer party energy alive with DJ Tender Buttons @my_bodys_in_troubleshoot at Earth Dreams on July 8! Earth Dreams by @nocturnalmedicine is a summer party of grief & love - inviting you to explore where climate progress lies, and to celebrate emergent possibilities for the future of Earth. Both a late-night party and meditative journey 💕⁠ ⁠ Akash Bansal is a writer, filmmaker, DJ and programmer based in Toronto. Their recent work has examined borders— both real and imagined, between people and places, and especially those within ourselves.⁠ ⁠ Earth Dreams is free and open to all! RSVP at the link in our bio.⁠

Who's ready for @djmetime at The Bentway? 🙌 Join us on July 8 at @thebentway for Earth Dreams by @nocturnalmedicine, an immersive rave and urban gathering for climate change!⁠ ⁠ Me Time is an interdisciplinary artist, techno-futurist, and founder of The R.A.V.E. Institute, who engages dance music, interactive technology, and science fiction for social change. Their sets will take us on a journey towards catharsis, release, and regeneration on the dancefloor.⁠ ⁠ This free, late-night party is open to all! RSVP at the link in our bio.⁠

Toronto, join us July 8 for Earth Dreams: A Summer Party for Grief & Love! It's a free, late-night party with Brooklyn studio @nocturnalmedicine, featuring music and dancing with DJs Tender Buttons @my_bodys_in_troubleshoot and Me Time @djmetime, and poetry readings by Dr. Duke Redbird @elderoftheglobalvillage. A party with a meditative journey, Earth Dreams invites us to confront the painful truths of our planetary health crisis, explore where progress lies, and celebrate emergent possibilities for the future of Earth 🌍 Free tickets at the link in our bio!