Dreaming with Bees at MorningStar Community Arts House

We are so excited to bring this beeutiful collaboration to our community in Middle Tennesse. So grateful for our amazing hosts who made this possible, Diana Morningstar and Seemi Rizvi.

Diana Morningstar Ault is a longtime community organizer, activist and artist whose purpose is building a global mutual support network of community artists as a soulforce for a better world. She's the founder of MorningStar Community Arts House, hosting people from over 120 countries, linking arts and social transformation, writing, performing and producing hundreds of community circle gatherings and house concerts in Middle Tennesse. 

Seemi Rizvi is a henna artist with a mission to help people to see their best through her intuitive custom art sessions. Seemi has been spreading her message of unconditional love as a life purpose. She shares her beautiful gifts through the medias of art, television, radio and podcasts, locally as well as internationally.

Diana and Seemi have woven together an amazing line up for this event honoring our bees. Diana's nephew, Luke Richardson, will be performing songs from his new album , "Bee Cathedral." 

Luke, along with his bandmates, Joseph Decosimo and Cleek Schrey, have been described as three of the most compelling interpreters in the American traditional music scene. Their debut album, Beehive Cathedral, presents resonant, thoughtful, and expansive explorations of Appalachian and American music. The results showcase deep study and enveloping, exhilarating performances. The trio departs from the string band format that has defined the genre, especially since the old-time music revival of the 1970s made guitar, bass, and chordal accompaniment features of the music. Untethering the music from chord patterns and guitars, they reimagine older approaches to the music filled with tonal ambiguity, drone, and bittersweet dissonance. "You can't step in the same river twice, " Luke notes, hinting at  the vast interpretive possibilities that these tunes present.

Diana and Seemi have also invited Dasha Bond and some of her bee sisters to come and read from their new bestselling collaborative book, Dreaming with Bees: Sacred Medicine from Beyond the Veil of Grief. The book was released on World Bee Day and within 24 hours hit the bestseller list in 18 different categories. Global Shamanic teachers, Robert Moss, Sandra Ingerman and Ariella Daly praised the book for its raw, vulnerable and courageous stories that offer deep healing to all who are brave enough to keep turning the page. 

Dasha is a certified dream coach and intuitive shamanic healer, who works with the energy of the bees and Divine Mother to help hold space for individuals and groups to find their way back to Healing Source. She is also a certified End of Life Doula, so much of her work within the community is around the universal themes of grief. The Dreaming with Bees book came to her literally in a dream from the bees. The majority of book sales profits will go to benefit the nonprofit, Aluna Bridge, which offers support to hospice patients who are also without homes or are suffering with housing insecurities. 

This beautiful event will also feature performances from guests Kristin Clark and Angela Bennett.

Kristin Clark is an award-winning Fine Artist, Singer-Songwriter, and certified Dream Coach. Her songs often come from her dreams and invite us to journey to inner worlds of mystery and magic. Most of her creations are inspired by a deep longing to remember the love that we are, to reclaim our wild natures and to bring new worlds into being through dreaming and imagination. 

Angela Bennett is an award winning actess and playwright who has spent her life acting, singing, improvising, writing/playing music and producing shows. She has consciously taken paths of deep spiritual healing and transformation. At this juncture in her life, she is returning to her roots in live performance art primarily as a producer of a form she calls "guided musical journeys," with the intention of creating inspired, ritualized and transformative experiences. 

The event is located at MorningStar Community Arts House. Address will be announced to those who RSVP. It will be from 2:00 to 4:00 and is donation based. We hope you will join us for this amazing celebration.