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Dear friends,

Something is happening.

Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that something is failing to stay hidden.

A small disturbance.
A crack in the ordinary.

We are gathering for an evening in Catskill, NY

I will be sharing a screening of my documentary film about my initiation as a sangoma in South Africa. It is a story about apprenticeship to forces that refuse easy explanation—ancestors that interrupt, dreams that instruct, illnesses that initiate, and landscapes that refuse to remain background.

In many traditions, becoming a healer begins with a rupture.

A falling apart.
A being-called.

This is a call to the seers, the oracles, the deep listeners. To the land stewards, the wanderers, the herbalists, the poets. To those who suspect that the world is not a silent stage but a murmuring field of presences.

After the film, we will be joined by Bayo Akomolafe for a conversation that may wander through strange terrain: initiation, ancestry, land, the more-than-human world, and the possibility that the troubles of our time are not problems waiting for solutions but portals asking for new kinds of attention.

This will not be a typical film screening.

Think of it more as a temporary clearing.
A pause in the machinery.
A place where other questions might find us.

Details

This is an in-person event in Catskill NY, All times are in EST

Doors open & DJ Atta Begins @ 6:30pm

Documentary Screening Begins @ 7pm

Talk back with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe @ 7:45pm

If you feel the tug of this invitation, we would be glad to share the evening with you.

And if someone comes to mind—someone who knows that the world is still speaking through wind, through dreams, through the stubborn memory of the land—please pass this along.

Warmly,

Dayle

P.S. You might bring a friend. Or an ancestor. Or a question that refuses to go away.

P.P.S If you want to join VIRTUALLY from anywhere in the world, grab a Virtual Ticket Here: https://kinema.com/events/Day-of-My-Death:-In-Conversation-with-Dr.-Bayo-Akomolafe-bbntfn

P.P.P.S View the Trailer & Learn More at https://dayofmydeathdocumentary.com/

About the Hosts:

Bayo Akomolafe, PhD, rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak, Bayo Akomolafe is the founder of The Emergence Network, a planet-wide initiative that seeks to convene communities in new ways in response to the critical, civilizational challenges we face as a species.

He is host of the postactivist course/festival/event, “We Will Dance with Mountains.” He currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California. He sits on the Board of many organizations, including Science and Non-Duality (US) and Ancient Futures (Australia).

He is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and has been Commencement Speaker in two universities convocation events. He is also the recipient of the New Thought Leadership Award 2021 and the Excellence in Ethnocultural Psychotherapy Award by the African Mental Health Summit 2022. In a ceremony in July 2023, the City of Portland (Maine, USA) awarded Dr. Akomolafe with the symbolic “Key to the City” in recognition of his planet-wide work and achievements.

Dr. Akomolafe is a Member of the Club of Rome, a Fellow for the Royal Society of Arts in the UK, and an Ambassador for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance.

Find Bayo’s Work at: www.bayoakomolafe.net

Dayle McLeod (Makhosi Nyoga Yomfula) is a decolonial dream weaver using performance, Storytelling, Poetry, Music & film to inspire visions of what liberation could look like.

As an actor you’ve seen her on Amazon’s The Expanse, Orphan Black, Startrek: Starfleet Academy & is currently working with Oscar winners Brie Larson & Olivia Coleman on a new series ‘Cry Wolf’ for FX.

Her folk music albums ‘In Bloom’ and ‘Snakes’ have been featured in a number of film and television productions including CTV’s ‘Kims Convenience’, Mary Harron’s film; ‘Charlie Says’ and Sam Coyle’s award winning web series ‘Avocado Toast’ on the CW.

Her memoir ‘The Big Dream; My Terrifyingly Beautiful Shamanic Initiation into the Arts’ is a Cult Classic, and tells the story of her calling illness and how she came to shamanic medicine.

Day of my Death is her first documentary short that followed her initiation as a sangoma in South Africa, commissioned by the Toronto Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.

Find Dayle’s work at https://daylemcleod.com/