Enhance your experience during the conference with special events woven into the program, including live performances, exhibitions, and immersive artistic experiences. These moments offer a different way to engage with the themes of dreaming, creativity, and expression alongside the talks and workshops.
Dream Oracle Performance
by Atrapos Dance Culture Group (Saturday, Aug 1st)
In the performance Dream Oracle, dream becomes stage, prophecy, and mystery.
The first part unfolds through dreams drawn from ancient Greek tragedy.
Atossa, mother and queen, listens for the sign that rises from sleep — a vision bearing both downfall and revelation.
Clytemnestra envisions the serpent of guilt.
Penelope searches for meaning in the symbols of the night.
Through these figures, a poetic thread is woven between memory, desire, and fate.
At the threshold of sleep, two gates rise:
one of horn, transparent, breathing the truth of visions;
and one of ivory, pale and cold, giving shape to illusion.
The dream passes at times through one, at times through the other --
and man awakens, never knowing from which one he came.
The second part transforms into a ritual, immersive experience:
a healing dance performance inspired by the ancient practice of sacred incubation in the temples of Asclepius.
Bodies move within a ceremonial space, echoing the archaic rite of enkoimesis, where sleep becomes a passage to healing and inner revelation.
Through dance, music, and texts in ancient and modern Greek, the spectator does not simply watch a performance — they enter and experience it. The experience is deep: enriched with soundscapes, subtle crystal healing frequencies, and an English voice-over that gently guides and completes the meaning for an international audience.
Every shadow, every whisper, every vibration reflects an inner vision.
In the end, all dreams dissolve and merge; time fades, and only breath remains.
What lingers is a question — a mirror of the night:
What is a dream? What is reality?
Perhaps they meet within the same circle.
The first part unfolds through dreams drawn from ancient Greek tragedy.
Atossa, mother and queen, listens for the sign that rises from sleep — a vision bearing both downfall and revelation.
Clytemnestra envisions the serpent of guilt.
Penelope searches for meaning in the symbols of the night.
Through these figures, a poetic thread is woven between memory, desire, and fate.
At the threshold of sleep, two gates rise:
one of horn, transparent, breathing the truth of visions;
and one of ivory, pale and cold, giving shape to illusion.
The dream passes at times through one, at times through the other --
and man awakens, never knowing from which one he came.
The second part transforms into a ritual, immersive experience:
a healing dance performance inspired by the ancient practice of sacred incubation in the temples of Asclepius.
Bodies move within a ceremonial space, echoing the archaic rite of enkoimesis, where sleep becomes a passage to healing and inner revelation.
Through dance, music, and texts in ancient and modern Greek, the spectator does not simply watch a performance — they enter and experience it. The experience is deep: enriched with soundscapes, subtle crystal healing frequencies, and an English voice-over that gently guides and completes the meaning for an international audience.
Every shadow, every whisper, every vibration reflects an inner vision.
In the end, all dreams dissolve and merge; time fades, and only breath remains.
What lingers is a question — a mirror of the night:
What is a dream? What is reality?
Perhaps they meet within the same circle.
Terra Sacra Exhibition
by Dimitra Natskouli
This exhibition is inspired by a year-and-a-half pilgrimage to few sacred sites of the Earth. Beginning and ending in Delphi, the journey unfolded without a fixed plan—guided by intuition, trust, and a deep listening to the voice of earth within.
Rooted in the ancient call of know thyself, the work expands that question outward: if I am part of the Earth, then to know myself is also to meet the soul of earth. Each artwork is a sacred breath of the living portraits of Gaia within me—inviting you into a direct connection with something both intimate and archetypal.
If you were a microcosmic manifestation of the soul of the world how would you interact with Her?
If your life was an act of Her and you the creator what would you chose to manifest?
Rooted in the ancient call of know thyself, the work expands that question outward: if I am part of the Earth, then to know myself is also to meet the soul of earth. Each artwork is a sacred breath of the living portraits of Gaia within me—inviting you into a direct connection with something both intimate and archetypal.
If you were a microcosmic manifestation of the soul of the world how would you interact with Her?
If your life was an act of Her and you the creator what would you chose to manifest?
Dimitra Natskouli is a visionary artist and founder of Ariadne’s Garden of Spiritual Arts ( https://ariadnesgarden.gr/), known for creating immersive experiences at the intersection of archetypes, movement, ritual, and embodied transformation. Her work moves between the sacred and the untamed, exploring the anima mundi through shadow work, somatic expression, and mythic symbolism.