Gateway House Fundraiser

Gateway House, a Sacred Arts Community Venue, is growing…

Step through the virtual gate (watch the video) to experience a full sensory immersion of Gateway House’s unique spirit.

I am Kathleen Mandeville, the founder and spiritual director/producer of Gateway House, a multi-faith community venue honoring the sacredness of creativity and the creativity of sacredness.

Gateway House was ‘planted’ during Covid as we continued to hold small outdoor gatherings with ceremony, fire & music to keep our community’s flame alive. Now we are growing, thriving!

Gateway House has the opportunity to sustain its future through your donations. Your support will enable people to connect to one another, the earth, and the spirit through innovative & participatory artistic expression, music, dance, ritual, and ceremonies.

Your contribution goes to fund infrastructure costs, program development and production staff for a year’s ongoing operation. We ask for your participation, financially & energetically.

Join us in continuing to ‘water what is growing in our lives and the world.

Overview

In Rosendale, NY (Mid Hudson Valley), IgniVox (my production company) has created a venue, Gateway House, right off the Rosendale Trestle on the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail, a popular, recreational and historic thoroughfare with dramatic geography. Gateway House produces Celtic Turn of the Wheel events, celebrating the Summer & Winter Solstices, Vernal & Autumnal Equinoxes as well as the Cross Quarter days of Halloween, Imbolc, Beltane, and Lammas. The high holy days of Christmas and Easter are also celebrated. Our events include performative arts and ceremonies, community networking, food, and fire, followed by performances on our Gateway House stage.

We host workshops in various spiritual & performative modalities, including Family Constellations, Internal Listening Circles, Playback Theater, and Sacred Circle Dance. We also provide a venue for personal celebrations, music rehearsals & jams. In the last three years, Gateway House has produced and hosted over 40 events, including ‘Honoring Loss; Covid; a Gathering,’ a mandala making & performance ceremony to honor those who have died during Covid, and ‘Snap, Tap & Clap,’ a Children’s Winter Celebration.

A Growing Audience

Over the last several years, our audience has been growing, and our mission is thriving.

During Covid times, we continued to hold small gatherings, keeping the flame alive as people so deeply needed a locale to stay connected. We have provided live streaming for several local musicians. We regularly have seventy-plus people attending our events, with new people coming each time. Gateway House has a core visioning group. A new initiative is in the works to begin a friendly visitor network for those who need support during illness or crisis care.

Gateway House has provided production fundraising, coaching services, and a performing venue for many local musicians, dancers, circus artisans, storytellers, and fire performers. Some describe its work as being a ‘Portal to the People’. Our audience is intergenerational with elders, young people and children; multi-faith with people from a diversity of spiritual backgrounds; regionally broad with attendees from both sides of the Hudson River as well as New York City. As a ceremonialist, Episcopal priest and producer, my work has long been engaged with the sacred in music, nature and community. Now, this enterprise of Gateway House is blooming as an ongoing expression of IgniVox’s mission in the Mid Hudson Valley.



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