Ruminate Happenings Fundraiser

$ 25.00 $ 40.00

Each spring we take an amazing leap of faith and bring together our readers, writers and artists in a beautiful way. Pre-order your ticket today and save over 60% off from our week of prices.

What is Ruminate Happenings? Well, Ruminate isn't an ordinary nonprofit, so of course we couldn't host just an ordinary fundraiser. Inspired by the “happenings” of the 1960s, where people showed up and made good things together, we decided to create our own version of this goodness! Between March 6-13, 2021 our brave writers and artists will go live on Instagram to spontaneously create poetry, art, little stories, and small essays for our community. Folks can purchase a ticket with a writer or artist, and in exchange they will receive an original creation as part of a whole digital journal in celebration of this event. To encourage connection with our contributors, ticket holders will be asked to fill out prompts to inspire their artist/writer. We also invite you to join us on Instagram to watch the creation being made live. It is a wild ride, and we're so excited to have you join us on this adventure!

A note on Ruminate Happenings

A few years back, our founder, Brianna Van Dyke told us about a conference that she had attended where Marie Howe described an event she helped plan and host called The Poet Is In. Poets set up tables with typewriters in Grand Central Station and invited the public to come and have a poem written for them, "with them," as she said. Marie shared how the poet would ask questions of the person, questions like, "Tell me a dream you've had more than once. Tell me about a toy you used to love." And then "the poet would take this and transform what the poet heard using language and silence and musicality. Take it and transform it, type it out, and then read it to the person. It was their own lives, given back, if you will."

Please join us March 6-13, 2021 for this wild and beautiful experience. Our contributors want to take your narrative and as Marie Howe said, "transform it, type it out, and then read it [back]. Tickets are on sale now.

FAQs

Flip through our booklet to meet the brave writers and artists participating. If you want a creation from a specific writer/artist, make sure to select them during checkout. A limited number of tickets are available with each artist/writer.
Your ticket includes a spontaneous original creation made for you (you can watch it being made live on Facebook, if you'd like—see times/days of below). And it helps Ruminate raise significant funds for the coming year.
After your purchase, we'll send you a link to answer a few questions that will give the writer/artist some prompts to work with, allowing your creation to be made for you and with you.
Not to worry, if you can't be on Facebook watching/chatting with the artist/writer as the creation is made live, you can always watch it afterwards. All the videos will be saved and archived on our Facebook page.
After the event is over, your creation will be mailed to you!

DAY/TIME OF LIVE SPONTANEOUS CREATIONS

All TIMES ARE IN MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME

Monday, February 25

Keira Havens
8:00am - 9:00am
Jason Villemez
9:00am - 10:00am
Tania Runyan
10:00am - 11:00am
Natalie Salminen Rude
11:00am - 12:00pm
Michelle Arnold Paine
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Monica Jimenez
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Allyson Armistead
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Rachel King
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Catherine Hervey
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Leslie Pearson

5:00pm - 6:00pm

Tuesday, Feb. 26th

Danielle Weeks
8:00am - 9:00am
Charity Gingerich
9:00am - 10:00am
Melissa Reeser Poulin
10:00am - 11:00am
Kate Gaskin
11:00am - 12:00pm
Marilyn Robinson
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Charnell Peters
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Hannah Kroonblawd
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Samuel J Adams
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Levi Andalou
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Raven Leilani
5:00pm - 6:00pm

Wednesday, Feb. 27

Carolyn Mount
10:00am - 11:00am
Doug Cornett
11:00am - 12:00pm
Thom Caraway
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Alex Mouw
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Josh MacIvor-Andersen
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Melody S. Gee
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Maggie Blake Bailey
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Karoline Strickland

7:00pm - 8:00pm

Thursday Feb. 28

Anne Boyle
8:00am - 9:00am
Jessica Yuan
9:00am - 10:00am
Clemonce Heard
10:00am - 11:00am
Kristin George Bagdanov
11:00am - 12:00pm
Chaun Ballard
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Trinh Mai
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Carly Joy Miller
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Mark Wagenaar
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Laurel Dowswell
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Kevin McLellan

5:00pm - 6:00pm

Friday March 1

Amanda Williams
10:00am - 11:00am
Brianna Van Dyke
11:00 - 12:00 am
Matthew Landrum
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Jen Stewart Fueston
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Kristin Bussard
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Shann Ray
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Madison Salters
4:00pm - 5:00pm

A note from our editor-in-chief:

Last April, as I was sitting in a beautiful chapel at Calvin College listening to Marie Howe and Pádraig Ó Tuama discuss the power of poetry, Marie Howe described an event she helped plan and host called The Poet Is In. Poets set up tables with typewriters in Grand Central Station and invited the public to come and have a poem written for them, "with them," as she said. Marie shared how the poet would ask questions of the person, questions like, "Tell me a dream you've had more than once. Tell me about a toy you used to love." And then "the poet would take this and transform what the poet heard using language and silence and musicality. Take it and transform it, type it out, and then read it to the person. It was their own lives, given back, if you will."

Inspired by The Poet Is In and by the chance to celebrate our upcoming 50th Issue, we've set out to create our own online version: 50 Hours of Ruminate Happenings. For 50 hours over the course of five days at the end of February, our writers and artists will go live on our Facebook feed and spontaneously create poetry, visual art, flash-fiction, and lyric essays for our community. It's going to be wild! Tickets will go on sale February 5th ($50/ticket). We hope you'll join us and help Ruminate raise funds for the coming year and experience having a piece of art made for you and with you.

Can't wait!
Brianna Van Dyke