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qUest wiRx: 10 meditations, 30 days, 50 artists

qUest wiRx • creating sanctuary • creative meditation • sonic resonance • kinetic discovery • breath

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qUest wiRx: 10 meditations, 30 days, 50 artists

qUest wiRx: 10 meditations, 30 days, 50 artists

qUest wiRx: 10 meditations, 30 days, 50 artists

qUest wiRx: 10 meditations, 30 days, 50 artists

qUest wiRx: 10 meditations, 30 days, 50 artists

qUest wiRx • creating sanctuary • creative meditation • sonic resonance • kinetic discovery • breath

qUest wiRx • creating sanctuary • creative meditation • sonic resonance • kinetic discovery • breath

qUest wiRx • creating sanctuary • creative meditation • sonic resonance • kinetic discovery • breath

qUest wiRx • creating sanctuary • creative meditation • sonic resonance • kinetic discovery • breath

qUest wiRx
qUest wiRx
qUest wiRx
qUest wiRx
1 Campaign |
Durham, United States
$320 USD 6 backers
4% of $8,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Overview
qUest wiRx is a core group of creative innovators & collaborators based in Durham, NC, deeply interested in creating sanctuaries in various environments: public spaces in over-crowded urbanity, deserted sites of impoverishment. Through holding a space of focused stillness, together, we drop down to meet each other in the belly of the earth and source of sky. • no mud, no lotus • Thich Nhat Hanh • For 30 days in August, over 50 artists will converge in residence at the Power Plant Gallery.

For over four decades, qUest wiRx has elaborated on the potentiality of grace through authentic modes of creative expression in human beings.

Our core group of innovators and collaborators has devoted their lives, as professional artists working across the globe, to sharing and awakening capacity for wellness by inspiring children, families, folks in crisis centers, prisons, hospitals and on the street and edges of civilization.

For the entire month of August 2016, qUest wiRx will transform the Power Plant Gallery at American Tobacco Campus into a creative sanctuary, a convergence of over 50 artists with public visitors, together forging:

meditations on echoes of breath  •

Exploring a new element each week • ether • fire • water • earth • qUest wiRx will create installations in response to the conditions of a technology-driven world, both positive and stressful!

• meditative movements & dance & stillness • scribed art & writing • drawing & painting • installations & sun salutations • textiles & photography • sonic resonance & music & silence • singing bowls • echoes of breath •

This living, creative sanctuary will hold space for both friends and strangers to co-discover ways for transforming trauma & embodying enchantment.

During the citywide 3rd Friday celebration, qUest wiRx will offer a 24-hour haven for nourishing experimental, collaborative approaches to centering and self-expression.

• no mud, no lotus • Thich Nhat Hanh

We have the backing of Power Plant Gallery, inviting qUest wiRx founder Nina Be as artist in residence for the month of August.

We have a core group of 15 artists... a team growing stronger, more diverse and more creative at every prep meeting and rehearsal... and also growing deeper in commitment to this project with each contribution from backers like you.

We have decades of know-how, as artists, as yoga therapists, as teachers, musicians and choreographers, with expertise ranging from somatic psychology to sonic healing.

What we need NOW is your support.

E C O N O M I C A L L Y

  • support STIPENDS for more than 50 artists/tech crew: 
offer your compassion with a donation to support dedicated hours, days & weeks of work & passion that bring rare projects like this into being... like everyone else, artists need to eat & to sleep under a sound roof. For real... do the math, and you will see that our goal is a very modest one. Click here for bios of core qUest wiRx artists. This list is blossoming by the day!
  • assist with MATERIALS:

we are gathering both monetary and in-kind contributions for • art supplies (paper, charcoal, paint) • wardrobe inventions (fabric remnants, wearable origami, ...you know...  typical items you would expect to find donned by inhabitants of an enchanted forest of beings)  ... Click here for an updated wish list of the in-kind donations we seek


E N E R G E T I C A L L Y

  • JOIN US during the residency:

the gallery will be open to the public from 11am-6pm every Thursday, Friday and Saturday in August

Power Plant Gallery
Suite 100
American Tobacco Campus
320 Blackwell Street
Durham, NC 27701

... qUest wiRx will transform the gallery between elements each week. We'll definitely need extra hands this August, especially during the 24-hour meditation marathon! 
We would love your company and help, SUNDAYS and WEDNESDAYS, between 12-9pm, August 2- August 28. 
  • SIGN UP by sending an email to nina@nina-be.com to let us know when you can SHOW UP and lend a hand with:
your truck • your time • your love

  • SPREAD the WORD:

share it: qUest wiRx... 

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Choose your Perk

ethereal love

$20 USD
during a daily, public meditation your name will be spoken, sung, and whispered aloud in gratitude by qUest wirx
Estimated Shipping
August 2016
1 claimed

a powerful spark

$50 USD
ethereal love + your name will also be • scribed • painted • drawn • on a surface in the gallery, with a digital image emailed to you.
Estimated Shipping
August 2016
0 out of 250 of claimed

a drop in the ocean

$75 USD
ethereal love + a powerful spark + a • material fragment (domestic) or 30-second voice memo (international) • created by qUest wiRx artists in the space, and personalized by several core members
Estimated Shipping
September 2016
1 out of 100 of claimed
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grounded in compassion

$108 USD
ethereal love + a powerful spark + a drop in the ocean + an 8 x 10in black & white print of any one of the four elements, signed by photographer Sarah Borst (your choice of • ether • fire • water • earth)
Estimated Shipping
September 2016
0 out of 108 of claimed
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unafraid of the mud

$150 USD
ethereal love + a powerful spark + a drop in the ocean + grounded compassion + a canvas tote bag with Thich Nhat Hanh's famous "no mud, no lotus" phrase hand screen-printed by artist Lindsey Allen.
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September 2016
0 out of 50 of claimed
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cutting through static

$250 USD
ethereal love + a powerful spark + a drop in the ocean + grounded compassion + unafraid of the mud + private yoga therapy session with Nina Be at Global Breath Studio in Durham (total of 3 hours)
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October 2016
0 out of 20 of claimed
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sonic bather

$500 USD
ethereal love + a powerful spark + a drop in the ocean + grounded compassion + unafraid of the mud + cutting through static + a sound healing bath, alone or with a loved one, by Nina Be at Global Breath Studio in Durham
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October 2016
0 out of 10 of claimed
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sonic fête

$1,000 USD
ethereal love + a powerful spark + a drop in the ocean + grounded compassion + unafraid of the mud + cutting through static + sonic bather + Nina Be and another musician will bring a singing bowl celebration to you (total of 90 minutes, for travel to locations within 100 driving miles of Durham)
Estimated Shipping
November 2016
0 out of 5 of claimed
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sonic fête within 500 miles

$2,500 USD
ethereal love + a powerful spark + a drop in the ocean + grounded compassion + unafraid of the mud + cutting through static + sonic bather + sonic fête + Nina Be and another musician will bring a singing bowl celebration to you + throw in a basket of essential oils (total of 90 minutes, for travel to locations within 500 driving miles of Durham)
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November 2016
0 out of 3 of claimed
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sonic fête 1000 ripple effect

$5,000 USD
ethereal love + a powerful spark + a drop in the ocean + grounded compassion + unafraid of the mud + cutting through static + sonic bather + sonic fête within 1,000 driving miles + private singing bowl lessons with Nina Be (total 3 hours)
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December 2016
0 out of 2 of claimed
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