Who’s at Wild Goose Festival This Year?
Another in a series of many!
Sanseria Murray, experienced by many as Mama Star, lives to awaken, ignite, heal, and propel everyone she encounters through her words, her workshops, and her embraces. Sanseria (she/they) is a word nerd and a storyteller with deep conviction that the only way to our collective liberation is by living with a transformative and restorative, radical love ethic. Sanseria teaches middle school theatre arts, hosts workshops and retreats, and spends their time writing, creating, loving, laughing and learning what it means to lean into rest, especially as a Black, Queer person.
Mitchell Gold is perhaps best known as Cofounder of Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams home furnishings but is also widely known as an advocate to end religion-based bigotry aka white supremacy. His advocacy focus is on motivating non-affirming religions to change their teachings and in simple words, to take ‘homosexuality off the sin list.’ Mitchell has been widely featured in the media including CBS Sunday Morning, Wall Street Journal and, Architectural Digest. He serves on the NC Daycare Commission as a Gubernatorial appointee and Governor Cooper’s NC Business Council.
“The Walking Pastor” Judy Peterson was terminated from her eleven-year tenured position as campus Pastor at North Park U. of Chicago in 2019 because she officiated a same-sex wedding. Earlier in her career, her faith came into focus as she set out on a spiritual journey. She walked across the United States from coast to coast in a quest to know what it means to “walk with God.” While she understands and appreciates the process of deconstruction, she prefers to call it composting. Today, she is founder and President of Haecceitas Inc. designed “to create spaces where those who feel disconnected from their faith might (re)discover a God who delights in each and everyone making a space for themselves in close proximity to the Divine.”
hot glue & the gun craft transformative, interactive theater-rock! Founding members Carrie Klein & joEL McGlynn met serving seafood and brunch to hungry upper west siders in New York City. At first irritated by each other, they then became friends in the brunch trenches, and then, in an act of ordinary mysticism, simply decided to spend as many days as possible together. They co-formed hot glue & the gun to explore the GLUEY intersections of artistry & community. They invite our co-creative participants to infuse their song, story, and assemblage art with the broken, beautiful pieces of their sacred selves.