IgniVox is a production company dedicated to spiritual, regional and environmental witness through the arts. IgniVox accomplishes its work through a configuration of satellite organizations, spiritual communities, venues, performers and artisans. We practice true commerce in all our projects, believing that value accrues via exchange. We are committed to production as a vehicle for self awareness and social change, seeking excellence in performance. Our core image is fire, the embodiment of the egoless performer around which community gathers to apprehend divine beauty.
IgniVox Produces…
Community Arts Development programs in low income housing complexes located in the Lower East Side, East Village & South Bronx neighborhoods of New York City. IgniVox offers a sixteen event season in four sites, initiating this program for the Association of NY Catholic Homes and sustaining it over a seven year period.
We are committed to producing music & events that touch the deepest part of ourselves.Our passion is making events come alive. Aliveness is evoked by our performers’ capacity to engage the audience, by the sharing of food, by the collective ritual of preparing the space, by relationships that are built in the process of ‘making together,’ and by the pleasure, work and joy evoked in this alchemical mix of creation & community.
IgniVox promotes and collaborates with a growing list of performers whose work aligns with our mission of igniting social transformation through creative endeavor. We curate & produce events & programs in a variety of site specific settings both in NYC and upstate NY.
Lately, I have been engaging in my winter practice of going outside and gazing up at the winter moon, asking myself: “What is the truest essence of myself that I am dreaming in my winter dream?” The cold heightens the moon’s luminosity; stars seem to crackle through the night sky. Sometimes things are clearer in the cold. And out of this clarity can come a greater capacity to discern what is true—and what is resistance. When I have the “I don’t feel like doing this right now!” phenomenon, like “Oh, it would be good to go skiing and get some exercise,” or “Oh, I really need to get this newsletter written,” I summon a practice called Tricking My Resistance.
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Lately, I have been engaging in my winter practice of going outside and gazing up at the winter moon, asking myself: “What is the truest essence of myself that I am dreaming in my winter dream?” The cold heightens the moon’s luminosity; stars seem to crackle through the night sky. Sometimes things are clearer in the cold. And out of this clarity can come a greater capacity to discern what is true—and what is resistance. When I have the “I don’t feel like doing this right now!” phenomenon, like “Oh, it would be good to go skiing and get some exercise,” or “Oh, I really need to get this newsletter written,” I summon a practice called Tricking My Resistance.
(Read more transmissions, find Outer Edge link in bio...oh and sign up for The Stay Edgy newsletter) ...
Photo credit @archilpichkhadze
A year ago, I set a fundraising aspiration for Gateway House, and so many of you offered generously to meet it. On the cusp of the New Year, we have reached our goal! Dancing Leaf, as the generous, spritely spirit she is, showed up on my porch the day after our WInter Solstice and pressed some fresh bills in my hand, completing our GoFundMe Goal. Dancing Leaf is also responsible for bringing a zero waste practice to Gateway House events.
Each of you have made a difference in this interweaving of generosity, talent and community. This past year, Gateway House produced 10 events, collaborated with 20 ceremonial leaders, hosted 24 performers, helped inaugurate some new ensembles and incubated several others, and facilitated 15 workshops.
Your contributions have enabled our ongoing capacity to hold space for the depth of sacred arts that keep our inner and outer fires going.
As this tumultuous year ends, we continue to hold our centers together as we lament all that is occurring in the world, share our personal joys, challenges and sorrows, and celebrate the interweaving of our lives with one another, nature, and the Great Mystery.
With the warmest regards and gratitude for your generosity. As we step through the Gate of the New Year. Kathleen ********************************************* #musicisfire #gatewayhouse #gofundme #raisingspirits #newyear2024 #generous #heart #sacredarts #ontothenext #depthofcommunity
A year ago, I set a fundraising aspiration for Gateway House, and so many of you offered generously to meet it. On the cusp of the New Year, we have reached our goal! Dancing Leaf, as the generous, spritely spirit she is, showed up on my porch the day after our WInter Solstice and pressed some fresh bills in my hand, completing our GoFundMe Goal. Dancing Leaf is also responsible for bringing a zero waste practice to Gateway House events.
Each of you have made a difference in this interweaving of generosity, talent and community. This past year, Gateway House produced 10 events, collaborated with 20 ceremonial leaders, hosted 24 performers, helped inaugurate some new ensembles and incubated several others, and facilitated 15 workshops.
Your contributions have enabled our ongoing capacity to hold space for the depth of sacred arts that keep our inner and outer fires going.
As this tumultuous year ends, we continue to hold our centers together as we lament all that is occurring in the world, share our personal joys, challenges and sorrows, and celebrate the interweaving of our lives with one another, nature, and the Great Mystery.
With the warmest regards and gratitude for your generosity. As we step through the Gate of the New Year. Kathleen ********************************************* #musicisfire #gatewayhouse #gofundme #raisingspirits #newyear2024 #generous #heart #sacredarts #ontothenext #depthofcommunity ...
Winter Solstice performances at Gateway House with The 4 Joy Singers: @sarahurech88 , @laurensky47 , @wynterslori ; @seancrimmins_music ; Margot Becker, Moriah Vecchia, @whoahmusic As always, a deep time was had by all. Gratitude for such talent & spirit as we gather by the fire. ********************************************* #musicisfire #gatewayhouse #rosendaletrestle #wintersolstice #shitisallfuckedup #12daysofsolstice #alltogethernow #beyourtrueself #asoaling
Winter Solstice performances at Gateway House with The 4 Joy Singers: @sarahurech88 , @laurensky47 , @wynterslori ; @seancrimmins_music ; Margot Becker, Moriah Vecchia, @whoahmusic As always, a deep time was had by all. Gratitude for such talent & spirit as we gather by the fire. ********************************************* #musicisfire #gatewayhouse #rosendaletrestle #wintersolstice #shitisallfuckedup #12daysofsolstice #alltogethernow #beyourtrueself #asoaling ...
Gateway House Winter Solstice scenes. With walking thru Gate of Winter, Meryn Oakwood as The Deer Mother, Winter Spiral Luminariums, Bells of Norwich Sacred Circle Dance. May we find the seeds of light conceived within us. Gratitude for Spiral set up & design to @dbuddleia18 , @felicia.flanagan.50 , @jillsylvia2004 , @amy.little.798 ******************************************* #musicisfire #gatewayhouse #wintersolstice #winterspiral #luminariums #deermother #bellsofnorwich #allwillbewell #solsticefireceremony #iamher #seedsoflight #rosendaletrestle #gateofwinter #finnishlullaby #bluelight
Gateway House Winter Solstice scenes. With walking thru Gate of Winter, Meryn Oakwood as The Deer Mother, Winter Spiral Luminariums, Bells of Norwich Sacred Circle Dance. May we find the seeds of light conceived within us. Gratitude for Spiral set up & design to @dbuddleia18 , @felicia.flanagan.50 , @jillsylvia2004 , @amy.little.798 ******************************************* #musicisfire #gatewayhouse #wintersolstice #winterspiral #luminariums #deermother #bellsofnorwich #allwillbewell #solsticefireceremony #iamher #seedsoflight #rosendaletrestle #gateofwinter #finnishlullaby #bluelight ...
Rosendale Community Heart & Soul received a Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley grant! So honored to be on the team for this work. @amberlyjanebondage’ amazing smile:) ********************************************* #communityheartandsoul #rosendaleny #communitystrategicplanning #smalltownsthrive #ortenfamilyfoundation #vermontcounteystore #includeeveryone #imagine #lovemytown #christmasgiving
Rosendale Community Heart & Soul received a Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley grant! So honored to be on the team for this work. @amberlyjanebondage’ amazing smile:) ********************************************* #communityheartandsoul #rosendaleny #communitystrategicplanning #smalltownsthrive #ortenfamilyfoundation #vermontcounteystore #includeeveryone #imagine #lovemytown #christmasgiving ...
Truth be told, Thanksgiving for me is kinda a ‘Meh’ holiday. Yes, I get the Thanks part. Any occasion to gather & give gratitude is a good thing, of course. Give me Christmas, Easter, Solstice, Equinoxes.. all a big Yes. So what is it, I ask myself? I guess it does not really have antecedent in some deeper ancient meaning… it is a later (mid 1800’s), distinctly American tradition… an add-on. Yes, we all know the mythology of the natives & pilgrims having a feast to celebrate their harvest. Yes, there was a historical moment where the Wampanoags & pilgrims did gather, but was quickly subsumed by the history of descent into colonization and destruction. This I did not know, (thanks to Heather Cox Richardson, a historian & author who writes ‘Letters from an American’, a nightly newsletter that chronicles current events in the larger context of American history)… that Thanksgiving was instituted by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 in the midst of the horrendous turmoil & struggle of the Civil War. It was his initiative to bring some form of union to the enormous polarity, sacrifice & bloodshed of that time in our nation’s history. Thanksgiving as ritual of union in the face of the horror and extremity of division in our nation, indeed, in the world! Yes, this gives a most potent contemporary significance to our gathering together. I am reminded of Jung’s great teaching on ‘holding the tension of the opposites’ as we reach for a transcendent third, a union borne of holding the center in the face of the terrible pulling apart we experience both within the microcosm of our psyches as well as in the macrocosm of the outer reality of the world. At historical moments such as these, I can, at least, hold my hand on my heart and feel the right & left ventricles pumping in a synergistic rhythm of union. ********************************* #outeredge #lifecoaching #spiritualguidance #heathercoxrichardson #thanksgiving #tensionoftheopposites #polarity #carljung #rythumoftheheart #historyofthanksgiving
Truth be told, Thanksgiving for me is kinda a ‘Meh’ holiday. Yes, I get the Thanks part. Any occasion to gather & give gratitude is a good thing, of course. Give me Christmas, Easter, Solstice, Equinoxes.. all a big Yes. So what is it, I ask myself? I guess it does not really have antecedent in some deeper ancient meaning… it is a later (mid 1800’s), distinctly American tradition… an add-on. Yes, we all know the mythology of the natives & pilgrims having a feast to celebrate their harvest. Yes, there was a historical moment where the Wampanoags & pilgrims did gather, but was quickly subsumed by the history of descent into colonization and destruction. This I did not know, (thanks to Heather Cox Richardson, a historian & author who writes ‘Letters from an American’, a nightly newsletter that chronicles current events in the larger context of American history)… that Thanksgiving was instituted by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 in the midst of the horrendous turmoil & struggle of the Civil War. It was his initiative to bring some form of union to the enormous polarity, sacrifice & bloodshed of that time in our nation’s history. Thanksgiving as ritual of union in the face of the horror and extremity of division in our nation, indeed, in the world! Yes, this gives a most potent contemporary significance to our gathering together. I am reminded of Jung’s great teaching on ‘holding the tension of the opposites’ as we reach for a transcendent third, a union borne of holding the center in the face of the terrible pulling apart we experience both within the microcosm of our psyches as well as in the macrocosm of the outer reality of the world. At historical moments such as these, I can, at least, hold my hand on my heart and feel the right & left ventricles pumping in a synergistic rhythm of union. ********************************* #outeredge #lifecoaching #spiritualguidance #heathercoxrichardson #thanksgiving #tensionoftheopposites #polarity #carljung #rythumoftheheart #historyofthanksgiving ...
I express the greatest gratitude for the amazing complement of musical talent, generosity of heart & profound exchange, always occurring around our Gateway House fire. Scenes from our Day of the Dead fire. With @sonic_elixirs @lianagabelmusic @skylakepiper @mir_bai @carlwelden @felicia.flanagan.50 ********************************************* #gatewayhouse #musicisfire #dayofthedead #moremusic #morefire #allsaintsday #alltogethernow #rosendaleny #zippersong #honoringtheancestors #thanksgiving #whatareyougratefulfor
I express the greatest gratitude for the amazing complement of musical talent, generosity of heart & profound exchange, always occurring around our Gateway House fire. Scenes from our Day of the Dead fire. With @sonic_elixirs @lianagabelmusic @skylakepiper @mir_bai @carlwelden @felicia.flanagan.50 ********************************************* #gatewayhouse #musicisfire #dayofthedead #moremusic #morefire #allsaintsday #alltogethernow #rosendaleny #zippersong #honoringtheancestors #thanksgiving #whatareyougratefulfor ...
Gateway House Day of the Dead ceremony 2023🔥 With @skylakepiper @dbuddleia18 @jillsylvia2004 @sonic_elixirs @mir_bai @felicia.flanagan.50, Mike Dwyer’s amazing Bone artistry and the support & talents of this ever deepening community. ****************************** #musicisfire #gatewayhouse #dayofthedead #samhain #honoringtheancestors #fatherdeathblues #angelofdeath #angeloflight #soundhealing #dancingwithancestors #blinddance #poweroflament #sounding #fireceremony #bonewreath #winteriscoming #sacredartscommunity
Gateway House Day of the Dead ceremony 2023🔥 With @skylakepiper @dbuddleia18 @jillsylvia2004 @sonic_elixirs @mir_bai @felicia.flanagan.50, Mike Dwyer’s amazing Bone artistry and the support & talents of this ever deepening community. ****************************** #musicisfire #gatewayhouse #dayofthedead #samhain #honoringtheancestors #fatherdeathblues #angelofdeath #angeloflight #soundhealing #dancingwithancestors #blinddance #poweroflament #sounding #fireceremony #bonewreath #winteriscoming #sacredartscommunity ...