“PATH OF ETERNAL LIGHT” STORY CONCERT

Join us for a dream-like wander through a world music story-scape about finding your way home to the light. Part 2 of the ‘Embrace the Light’ series, “Path of Eternal Light” is a transcendental storytelling experience with exclusive live music by visiting Hindustani Vocalist Ram VJ from Karnal, India and multi-instrumentalist/nomad Monty Cash featuring a musical score of Indian Raga, Bandish, Himalayan Folk songs and eclectic improvisation. To accompany this dream will be presented animated mandala designs with oratory perfection by our storyteller and artist Jessica Berry.

The etheric props have been artfully aligned to allow for a wholesome experience and to impress a snapshot of another realm. Join us for an unforgettable journey of the self! 🙏

Part one of ‘Embrace the Light’ series has already been expressed in various forms. It’s about embracing the unknown, facing your shadow and willingly jumping in and having a go to go on to find a pathway to your ultimate potential! Presented as both a third person storytelling experience and a first person ‘Guided Dream’ meditation, the story debuted in the same venue in Witchcliffe in August 2022 as a storytelling/music/art/animation collaboration with Amanda Forward (artist), Jessica Berry (Illustrator for the animation), Kirsty Hutchinson (sculptor) and Monty Cash. Take a look:

Animation with illustrations and Narration by Jessica Berry and Balkan inspired music by Monty Cash
Live Performance by Monty Cash in Witchcliffe August 2022
Live storytelling and music with Lindsay Baker and Ninks September 2023
‘A Guided Dream’ with narration/story interpretation by Solange Niessen

MEET THE ARTISTS

Jessica Berry – Storyteller
Writer, artist and spiritual nerd Jessica Berry was born creative and curious. The theme of her life has been a deep investigation into the Truth. From the very beginning she desired to make things with her hands and understand how the Everything weaves together. She has spent 10 years in formal studies and 46 in informal. Her first degree saw her concentrate on visual art in the 3D disciplines; majoring in textiles and sculpture. Her second degree was a deep dive into the skills of art and design in 2D. She has also studied anthroposophy and meditation facilitation therapy in the Inquiry method. All along her intensive love of reading has coincided with a delight in writing. She has published two children’s books she authored and illustrated, she has written a Psy Fi novel as yet unpublished, and regularly writes and performs esoteric poetry. Her father was a professional speaker and her mother was an actress; this has imbued in her the capacity for compelling speech making.

For all her multi disciplinary creative adventuring, her favourite thing to make is the tiny tears caused by transcendant laughter

Ram VJ – Hindustani Vocalist
Ram is an Indian Sufi and classical musician hailing from Karnal in North India near New Delhi. Having taught and played music for over 20 years his love for music as a pathway to unity with God is evident in his practice. Ram has had many teachers over the years – one notable of which was the late Ustad Sabri Khan who took Ram under his wing for over a decade. Ram has performed all over India and taught vocal workshops internationally including in Moscow and regional Russia. Major influences include devotional poetry of enlightened mystics such as Saint Kabir Das and Saint Raidas. He has a deep passion in singing a range of transcendental poetry, Sufi songs, mantras and devotional songs. It is Ram’s strong belief that music can be one of the many paths to the ultimate spiritual goal – transcendence

Ram is visiting us from India to provide his music and talents for this and other exciting events run in Perth and the south-west between Jan-Mar 2024 (see more: https://linktr.ee/indanceindance )

Monty Cash – Multi-instrumentalist
Monty Cash creates music for the purpose of spiritual development using a range of styles influenced from over 7 years travel as a street musician in the span from Turkey to Ireland. It is his philosophy that by returning to the fundamental building blocks of rhythm and tone we can find our way back to the foundation of source, creating new pathways for the mind to navigate trauma and repressed emotion to move onwards to potentials yet unknown. Monty plays a range of Balkan and Indian inspired musics with Balkan, Indian and western instruments as well as jazzy/blues/rock as a singer/songwriter act which was his bread and butter while traveling the streets of the world. In an intuitive search for a music oriented spirituality Monty found Sufism.

Want to make a cash booking?
You can make a reservation by messaging +61 422 563 234, and your reservation will be confirmed a few days before the event.