Dream Pool Presents: Shimi & Friends
Your breath slows to small visible puffs in the winter cold as a warmth bellows across the air towards you. Making its return, Dream Pool appears again to warm this late December night with an evening of ambient music and poetry with the therians of the PNW at heart. Relax again as the beanbags roll their way into the Good Shepherd Center’s Chapel Performance Space for Impact!’s second to last 2025 date.
Exploring the cacophonous silence of the desert with hypnotic percussion and animal calls, Bassariscus takes you on a trip through the therianthropic mind.
frrn is a Seattle based ambient experimental musician. With both her records and improvised live performances her music is a blending of melodic, sweeping drones and fragments of tone and texture that build vast emotional landscapes that invite the listener to dive deep within and to drift and reflect as the river of sound pulls them along. Her music exists somewhere in-between, weaving through darkness and light.
Shimi is a storyteller, musician, and performance artist whose work moves between memoir, myth, and ritual. Her performances explore the thin boundary between what is human and animal, what is sacred and what is feral. Bringing Lykaeon to Seattle, she offers a forest-born performance of spoken word and music—part poetry, part monologue, all howl. Blending mythology, ancient stories, and sound art, she calls you back to the wild, inviting you to remember the instinct that still lives beneath the skin—the pull of something ancient and creaturely inside.
Accompanying the longer acts of the nights, we will also get to behold the works of 4 different poets. Rose Novick will be reading poems about centipedes. Nocki :3 will be performing an oration of several extended monologues on its experiences since moving to Seattle, falling in love, finding community, and dealing with what comes after. Twig shares his story of an unexpected and profound shift. Trop will provide the results of her states of mental fluidity where she writes about feelings of inhumanity and the pains that come with human coexistence.
Flyer by Shimi, 3LIXAR, and Smokeyocity