Eye of the Needle / Collective Dreaming at the Threshold of Art and Death

In this episode, Narinder sits down with Melissa Word (co-creator of Eye of the Needle) for another deep conversation. They explore what it means to gather right now in threshold spaces, - beginning at the sacred springs, moving through the urgent necessity of collective dreaming, art-making, and ritual. They also talk about how Eye of the Needle has evolved, who is invited, who is presenting, what magic is to come.About Eye of the Needle: Ritual Arts ImmersionWhat it is: A hybrid ritual arts immersion, weaving together online sessions + an optional in-person (residency) gathering. It’s designed for artists, grief tenders, death workers, visionaries, and dreamers. Through embodied making, cloth & fiber art, dream ceremony, land listening, improvisational quilting, somatic practices, seership and ceremony, the gathering aims to help us tend rupture, repair, and belonging.Dates & Format:Online portion: October 2025. (Exact online dates: October 10, 2025, 2:00 PM through October 12, 2025, 5:00 PM) In-person Residency: November 9-15, 2025 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Facilitators / Guest Presenters / Artists:The immersion is facilitated by Melissa Word & Nico Wolf. Guest presenters include:Bayo Akomolafe Aerin Dunford Pat McCabe Kimberly Johnson Stephen Jenkinson Narinder BazenNaomi LewisGavin BernardChiara GiovandoWhat participants will do/receive:Online: work with grief, personal life density, dream ceremonies, foundational cloth/fiber art techniques, intuitive patchwork and stitching, somatic attunement, sewing circles with guest-speakers etc.In-person: deep time in the high desert of New Mexico, land-listening, co-creating a large community quilt (story & cloth combined), performance, cloth & body work, ceremony & ritual practices, honoring ancestral relationality, the more-than-human etc. Why this matters now: As Melissa & team frame it, this is a time of rupture, disconnection, and grief—but also emergence. The immersion asks participants to be both the undertakers of what’s dying (the overculture, inherited broken patterns) and midwives of what may come next. It’s about repairing belonging: with Earth, with self, with ancestors, with the unseen, with art as devotional practice.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.