"Voile Levee"
A Hallowtide's Dance for the Living & the Lived
Grange Hall Cultural Center
317 Howard Ave, Waterbury Center, VT 05677
7-10pm
Tickets by donation at the door and online at: https://sevendaystickets.com/events/voile-leve-a-hallowtides-dance-for-the-living-lived-10-25-2024
Reserve your place here!

Ian Babylon
is the MC for this multi-media dance experience
where you are liberated to feel and move as called within a circle of art, hemmed by gauzy, lifted veils.

Join us for a mirthful and reverent magickal space between the worlds where light & sound play together in a projection-based participatory celebration of music and dancing among your beloveds both Earthly and Beyond; a pagan(ish)-adjacent Dumb Supper at Studio 54; mixing songs sombre, sacred, joyous; forever + always: animating. Rump-bumping at your discretion.
Dress as your favorite ancestor!
(encouraged, not required)
Get your Tarot Cards read by Earth Eye!
Carve a pumpkin!

Featured Artists in this exhibition:
Ian Babylon, Jean Bennet, Cynthia Cagle, Anne Cummings, Eve O. & Stephen Schaub (EveNSteve), and Sarah Vogelsang-Card

Lifting the Veil is an exhibition featuring work by an invited group of artists, with the overarching theme of the connection - through art, memory, and artifacts - of the living with those who have "crossed the veil," into whatever the next state may be. Related events will include a closing celebration, with performances connecting to a variety of cultural traditions, beliefs, and values about honoring our ancestors, as well as nurturing and healing the living.
The intent is to create a space, through the art installation and event, which is positive, comforting, and caring in exploring the ways we interpret the veil between the world of the living and the world of the lived, and to share in the healing process.
Artists and community members will be invited to share memories of ancestors and family legacies through photos, writings, or objects, as part of the installation and join in a culminating celebratory event.
This exhibition has been curated by Anne Cummings, Vermont artist and art educator, along with the Across Roads Center for the Arts Board of Directors, and is sponsored by the Grange Hall Cultural Center.
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Ian Hermès Babylon (he/they) is an artist whose home is on the lands of the Neponset band of the Indigenous Massachusett peoples. He creates historic, mythic, archetypically Jungian surrealist collage from any and every thing. Source materials from the late 20th century address the ills of Late/Terminal Stage Capitalism; cut and dismantled, individuated, these pieces are reorganized new wholes, renewed places for reflection. His collage are intentioned-meditations for more just and loving ways of being. My childhood was spent among the hilltowns of the Pioneer Valley before coming of age in Chicopee, MA. Due to a series of systemic oversights I sought my fortunes elsewhere, so off to the Boston area I landed some 15 years ago. The friends along the way have made all the difference. :] I am active in the Reclaiming Tradition and the Nor'East Web community. Gardening and all music are additional passions. My partner Greg and I love our cat-friend whom we call Stella, though we would very much like to know how it is that they call themselves. My preferred scholarly readings include: Pyramid Collection, derelict auction catalogues, Time-Life's Mysteries of the Unknown series, and the works of Patti Smith, Carl Sagan, Robert A. Heinlein, John Waters, Helen Molesworth, Susan Sontag, and Joseph Campbell.

Event Info

Dec 31, 2024, 7 PM to 12 AM, Jan 1, 2025

Jan 4, 2025, 10 AM

Jan 4, 2025, 12:30 PM