About

 

IgniVox Mission Statement

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.


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Clients, Collaborators & Venues

 

Association of New York Catholic Homes
Bard College
Bedford Hills Women’s Correctional Facility
Black Swan, Tivoli, NY
Broadway Housing Communities
Brooklyn Arts Council
Casita Maria
Catholic Charities
Center for Pastoral Education
    at Jewish Theological Seminary
Center for Symbolic Studies
Chinese Theater Works
City Hall Park
CityLore
Christopher Court Apts, South Bronx
The Dancing Web
Dutchess County Arts Council
Dutchess County Fairgrounds
Fort Tryon Park
Fractured Atlas
The Elders Drum Project
Garden 6BC
George Hardy St. Francis Apts, South Bronx
Grand Street Guild Apartments
Haven Plaza Apts
House of Collection, Williamsburg
House of Yes
InConcert Audio
Interfaith Assembly Homelessness & Housing
Inwood Hill Park
Jazz Power Initiative
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Make Music NY Special Projects
New York Peer Aids Coalition
New York State Council on the Arts
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance
Partnerships for Parks
Processional Arts Workshop
Public waterway of the Hudson River
Redwing Blackbird Theater
Rikers Island, Vernon Bain Prison Barge
Rokeby Farm
Sacred Music NY
Sage center for Sound Healing, Woodstock, NY
Sanctuary for Families
School of Architecture
    Dalhousie University in Halifax, N.S.
Seedsong Farm, Kingston, NY
Sixth St Community Center & Sanctuary ABC
Spiegel Tent
St. Paul’s Chapel
Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art
The Phantom Gardener
Threshold Collaborative
TransNDanceNDrum Center
Tin Horn Uprising
Townships of Tivoli, Rosendale, and Kingston, NY
Women’s Wellness, Frost Valley YMCA

January 2024 Winter Moon

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)

January 2024 Winter Moon

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)
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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.
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#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
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