THE DREAMCOAT...
is covered in pockets. Each pocket has a dream inside which someone has written.
Anyone can have a dream from a pocket but they must exchange it for a dream of their own.
So they give their dream......and get a stranger’s dream.
Those dreams can be of the sleeping kind, daydreams, aspirations, visions or fantasies.
All kinds of dreams, all kinds of people.
The Dreamcoat was created by Nicola Sokell in 2005. It’s an invitation for connection and reflection and an opportunity to see our individual dreams as part of the collective whole, and how our dream stories, and the lives and world we create from them, are a constant collaboration.
As dreams are a language that everyone understands in some way, the journey of the coat is ever expanding. Places and people it's visited include:
Festivals and celebrations:
Edinburgh Festival, The Big Chill, Glastonbury Festival, Festinho, Rollright Fayre, Secret Garden Party, Brighton Festival; Port Elliot; Superheroes, San Francisco; The Hurly Burly, Brighton.
Community orgs:
Phoenix Community Care, London; Athens Solidarity School, Greece; Akasha, London; West Lexham, Norfolk, UK; Phoenix Arts, Glastonbury, UK; Global Tolerance, UK; Morning Gloryville; ImpactHub, London; Lifebeat, UK; Mother Miracle School, India; Brockley Market, London; Brixton Market, London.
Corporate:
Macmillans Publishers; Toastmasters Glasgow; CTI Coaching.
Exhibitions:
NeuKöln 48Stunden, Berlin; ‘Neglected’ exhibition, Neu Köln, Berlin; Lizard Spring, London.
Spontaneous encounters:
Mount Olympus, Greece; MaiFest, Berlin; Cabot Square, Canary Wharf, London (on a week day lunch hour, the most incongruous outing so far); a fabric embellishment shop in Rishikesh, India; a fabric creating store in New Mills, Derbyshire, UK; and many other picnics, parties, pubs, meetings, gatherings and individual encounters
Dream pilgrimage walks from:
Glastonbury town to the festival; Folkestone to Hyde, Kent; Kennet and Avon canal, Bristol; Greenwich to Southbank, London; Lindisfarne, Northumberland; Brighton to London Walk For Women.
