Open Sky Studio #1

A guided experience series for emerging creatives designed to build work, worlds, and momentum in shared flow. Sliding scale recommendation: $7-25 ​Open Sky Studio (OSS) is a portal into flow state, where every detail from lighting to sound is designed to bring you more in touch with your creative spirit. Pull up with your ambitious art projects, dusted-off ideas, and the creative gifts you haven't given the time to nurture. At OSS, our hope is that you’ll find yourself (and possibly lose yourself, too) in a personal creative practice that has the potential to be transformative. OSS #1 at a glance: Guided focus sessions to help you make progress on your own creative project(s)​Rotating art prompts to stimulate exploration​Ambient soundscapes provided by Theresa Panyawai (7-7:40 PM and 8:10-8:40 PM)​Unique tea blends presented by Kindred Studio Quick heads up: our ticketing tiers have adjusted. Details are further down the page. Suggested: $11 ($8 per ticket goes to Kindred Studio and tea service) ​Sliding scale: $7-25 (or more!) Program Details 6:00-7:00 Social Hour 7:00-7:40 Flow Session #1  + Soundscapes by Theresa Panyawai 7:40-8:10 Break 8:10-8:40 Flow Session #2 + Soundscapes by Theresa Panyawai 8:40-8:50 Break 8:50-9:30 Flow Session #3 9:30-10:00 Last Call for Tea +  Shareback on the Rug 10:00 Close Inspired by our upcoming Dream State project, The World Is Yours, we are offering art prompts designed to ignite your creative process. Art made from these prompts will be considered as featured works within future Dream State events and exhibitions. ​Food & Drink ​Your ticket comes with all-you-can-drink (AYCD) tea. Bring your own food if you’d like. Snacks can be purchased on-site. ​Ticketing OSS was built for creatives by creatives, and we are so grateful for this community and the opportunity to bring these spaces to the Bay Area. In order to continue doing what we love, we ask that you make a contribution that feels right for you (please note: for every ticket sale, Luma takes a 5% cut). Suggested: $11 ($8 per ticket goes to Kindred Studio and tea service)Sliding scale: $7-25 (or more!)Email events@dreamst888.io to request a no-cost ticket or if you prefer to pay in cash​Ask about our All-Access Pass at check-in​A limited number of registrations will be accepted at the door, space permitting. ​The OSS experience series will take place every other Tuesday. 6pm-10pm | April 14 to July 21 ​About ​Dream State is a collective of third-culture kids creating works, worlds, and programs where it is safe to dream. ​Open Sky Studio (OSS) is a new Dream State experiential series. Every two weeks (eight sessions), OSS will welcome a community dedicated to furthering their personal projects, sharpening their artist toolkit, and growing into a new version of their creative selves. ​Kindred Studio provides a nurturing environment where individuals are encouraged to connect with others and experience the joy of collaborative art. They are committed to offering a space that fosters inspiration, growth, and a sense of belonging. We are thrilled to be collaborating on this series with Kindred Studio. OSS #1 Artist Feature Theresa Panyawai | Photo taken by Tiyanane Kamba-Griffin Theresa Panyawai is an artist who exists in the space between genres. Their work navigates the tension between music, visual arts, movement practices, installation work, film photography, documentary video, and poetry. Through surrealism, lived experiences, and introspection, their work explores the process of becoming, transitions, and the constant return to oneself through working with memory, grief, vulnerability, time, transformation/transmutation, and rebirth. They aim to explore the complexity/interconnectedness of human nature through examining the multitude of ways in which they exist and how those intersect yet contradict one another, illustrating their journey with finding the beauty in the space between polarities and past/present/future selves. Instinctual in nature, their art examines the relationship of listening to one’s intuition and self through the process of trusting when to stop, leaning in into the pauses, and breathing through the unknown. Through music, they create immersive and dynamic soundscapes built through layers and layers of loops, becoming more expansive with each new layer added. In conjunction with their piano and SP-404, they create a portal in which listeners are invited to witness the intimate relationship between musician, instrument, and impermanence: how can loops serve as a portal of conversation between past and present selves/what can be created in a liminal space that is temporary yet entirely reliant on intuition? Through their process of live looping that is freestyled on the spot, both listeners and the artist are ushered into the artist’s inner world, where all are invited to immerse themselves into the depths of sound, the reflection that comes with space, and the temporary nature of their performance style~how does one capture yet hold space for a moment that is fleeting.