OF A MIND:
Dún Laoghaire
July 7 - 17, 2022 | Tickets: www.paviliontheatre.ie/of-a-mind
Join this guided walking tour from the People’s Park to the end of the pier. Meditative, immersive, and based on the latest in mind-body research, OF A MIND invites you to reconnect with nature and find the best in ourselves.
Guided by a live narrator and set to a score of local voices, stories, sounds, and music, audiences of up to 50 at a time are brought on a journey through hidden gems and often-missed parts of Dún Laoghaire in an exploration of mindfulness, urban ecology and social interactions.
Audiences are kept in sync with each other through their own smartphone and headphones.
CREATED BY Listen & Breathe
ORIGINAL COMPOSITION Kevin McNamara
Video by Daniel Fowler, music by Kevin McNamara.
Commissioned by Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire, to celebrate their 21st birthday and supported by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.
Video by Caleb Germany
“An unlikely fusion of low-key urban adventure, mindfulness exercises and immersive storytelling... A fulfilling, singular and even sometimes profound experience”
Commissioned by Oklahoma City Repertory Theater and presented as part of their ReBoot season in May 2022.
OF A MIND:
Oklahoma City
April 30-May 29, 2022
A guided audio tour of downtown, starting in Kerr Park, OF A MIND captures the changing spirit of Oklahoma City’s increasingly vital urban core.
Guided by a narrator and set to a score of local voices, stories, sounds, and music, audiences of up to 50 at a time are brought on a journey through often-overlooked parts of the city in an exploration of mindfulness, urban ecology and social interactions. Audiences are kept in sync with each other through their own smartphone and headphones.
CREATED BY Listen & Breathe (Hugh Farrell and Tyler Kieffer), Kelly Kerwin, & Emily Zemba
ORIGINAL COMPOSITION Kevin McNamara
MOVEMENT DIRECTION Hui Cha Poos
OF A MIND: Bray
A guided audio journey along Bray’s iconic promenade.
August 4 -15 at 7:30pm from Bray Bandstand
Part flash mob, part silent disco, part Mass—OF A MIND captures the changing spirit of our lives in a guided audio experience designed especially for Bray’s iconic promenade.
Meditative, immersive, and informed by the latest in mind-body research, dive deeper into the mystery of our minds as you step into rhythm with your breath and take a trip through the collective consciousness.
Guided by a live narrator and set to a score of local voices, sounds and music, gather as one of 50 at the Victorian bandstand for this outdoor walking experience using your own smartphone and headphones.
Video by Alan Fisher, music by Henry Prune and photo by Bríd O’Donovan.
Commissioned by Mermaid Arts Centre and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Creative Ireland, and Wicklow County Council.
FEAST: Every Year I Grow Again.
Twelve audience members, guided by 3D sound and visuals, taste their way through a seasonally-harvested, locally-sourced meal cooked by Michelin-star chef, Kevin Thornton.
To create the experience we travelled to oyster farms, chicken farms, organic farms and wind farms, talked the ears off hunters, fishers, foragers and fermenters, and got our hands dirty with bakers, butchers, brewers and bees to find out how we grow from what’s growing.
“a magical experience,
It changed how I connect with people”
Presented at Clonmel Junction Festival, Another Love Story, and Body&Soul.
Every morning I wake and seem to forget…
a hero’s journey into mindfulness
Two audience members guided by binaural sound design are embark on a walking tour. Through a series of interactive challenges they awaken a fresh perspective on their relationship to themselves, each other and our environment.
All Day I Imagine How to Act.
Stand in your self.
A solo audience member, alone on a busy city street, is guided into witnessing that all the world’s a stage and that they are, depending on how they look at it, both actor and audience.
“I felt like I was walking in someone else’s shoes”
Premiered at Live Collision Festival, Dublin, 2017.