Help Crescent Thrive and Manifest DREAM

Help Crescent Manifest DREAM

Alongside Crescent’s vibrant, pay-as-you-can offerings, a new vision is coming to life for 2025: DREAM—an immersive evening of sacred presence, surreal beauty, and deep nourishment. This is the magical story of a young woman who has lost her voice and dreams. As she finds both, we too will be transformed.

Conceived by Jenny Wonderling (co-creator of BLOOM and LUMINOUS), DREAM invites guests to feast with magical beings, held by original live music, sound healing, and the healing resonance of song—all crafted in collaboration with visionary artists and renowned chef.

We’re raising funds to bring this offering to life—covering materials for handmade sets and costumes, fair pay for artists, and infrastructure to host this one-of-a-kind experience. DREAM will premiere in the Hudson Valley and serve as a living, evolving template for community healing, wonder, and collective joy.

If you feel called, we welcome your support—every contribution helps weave the magic.

DREAM's premier launch in the Hudson Valley in the coming months will be the first of many of these productions to come. We are currently weaving the songs and details, creating sets and costumes so that this can be another template for inspiration, community building, and healing.

Before We DREAM, A Glimpse Behind…

In 2022, BLOOM was born—a full-sensory journey through 13 scenes on a mile-long candlelit path at Stone Ridge Orchard. Co-written, co-directed, and co-produced by Jenny Wonderling, co-founder of Circle Creative Collective, BLOOM traced the great arc of life: from the void, through transformation and growth, to birth and celebration. Each guest became both witness and participant in a living myth where performance met the sacred. Over 1,200 guests and more than 200 makers, creatives, and volunteers helped bring this dream to life, with community-led, zero-waste workshops crafting every costume and set by hand.

That fall, LUMINOUS emerged. Held in the haunted beauty of the Widow Jane Mine, it honored grief, ancestors, and the gifts of the dark. Through story, song, and ceremony, 80+ artists invited 700 guests to walk into the depths of earth and self, guided by ancestral flame and creative reverence. LUMINOUS reminded us that by honoring impermanence, we more fully celebrate life.

Both events were powerful, community-rooted rituals of transformation. Now, Jenny carries this legacy forward into her Hudson Valley base and artists' collective Crescent, where DREAM is ready to rise all across the valley and beyond.

(Photo of LUMINOUS courtesy of Circle Creative Collective)

WANT TO BE A DONOR? (Tax-deductible donations are possible through Crescent's fiscal sponsor for larger donations. Please contact Jenny.)

WANT TO BE A SPONSOR?

While every contribution goes a LONG way, give more than $1000 and...

This is ritual theater for the soul...for healthier community and the world. Interactive, immersive, and transformative, guests will arrive as living symbols of their inner myth, embodied and alive. With special guest CC Treadway, Sikoya, Sama Shakti and others, divine food, breathtaking soundscapes, original songs, visual magic, and co-created myth, this is more than a performance. It’s a revival.

AND NOW WITH NO FURTHER ADO...

It’s time to awaken.

To live the dream you’ve held quietly in the soil of your dark, awaiting its rising. To love and live without constraint...

DREAM

Guests will join us for this wild journey, donned as the embodiment of their own secret dream, a symbol, or the ways they can uniquely dream of showing up in the world.

This is interactive ritual theater at its best.

This is a revival of hope, creativity and connection.

With special guest CC Treadway.

This multimedia production involves a large team of talent, an incredible chef, projectors, costumes, social media, signage and promo materials, and so much more.

More information will be unveiled in the coming weeks. For now… start calling in the dreams you never allowed yourself to before, and consider making a donation.

Again, every cent will go a long way to pay musicians and artists, create costumes, cover promotional materials and so much more. Thank you for considering!

These wild offerings invite all of us to step into every aspect of ourselves, and then go even further, helping us to find our courage and share our rare gifts with the world.

What has been longing to emerge, to manifest and celebrate the extraordinary life you’ve been given?

DREAM holds an important key.

Join us as a guest and as a contributor.

Sincerest thanks!

-Jenny Wonderling

What is Crescent?

Crescent Hudson Valley offers community programs that promote deep connections among neighbors and new friends. Through a vibrant mix of art exhibits, health and wellness classes, sound healing, dance, Breathwork and yoga, musical house concerts, talks with Indigenous wisdom keepers, song and drum circles, herb and forest walks, dating events, communal meals, craft and creativity workshops, and we invite a renewed feeling of hopefulness, inner-balance, courage, and mutual support. Our offerings are heartfelt, meaningful, and joyous. All this, while re/awakening to our responsibility and relationship with the earth.

Why is this Go Fund Me campaign needed now?

“Recent reports indicate that as much as 33 percent of the world's population is lonely. A study by Ipsos MORI found that 45% of adults globally reported feeling lonelier since the pandemic began.” -DiscoveryABA

Our programming inspires, connects and heals for attendees, creatives, teachers, and space holders alike. In a world and country plagued by soaring rates of loneliness and depression, and a health care system that cannot meet needs, such oases are crucial.

In addition to being a healing antidote, our needed funds will also help CRESCENT to…

A Note by Jenny Wonderling, Crescent’s Owner…

Hello Beloved Community,

If you are receiving this campaign, you probably already know about the ways I have been helping to nourish and weave community for decades. Through my Breathwork, writing classes and retreats, the events that I have created, co-produced, or provided the space for, as well as my days owning my Nectar shops, and being a Co-Founder/Co-Director of Circle Creative Collective, I have been so blessed to help ignite lasting, deep relationships in and with others, as well as greater joy and connection.

I have seen first-hand, the powerful catharsis and healing that happens through creative expression, authentic communication within safe and inclusive spaces, the importance of traditional wisdom, spiritual tools, and shared experiences with caring humans who also consider our connection with the earth.

It has been my great honor to heal, teach, learn, volunteer and dream alongside you in quiet or more overtly impactful ways. Whether you also live in our lush Hudson Valley (our small but luminous corner of hope) where I have lived for over 23 years now, or you are receiving this because our paths crossed a different way, thank you for your reflection of kindness in what often feels like a mad world.

This quote by Yehuda Berg sums it up for me: “A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.”

I want to keep providing thriving spaces, events and ways that we can foster such a culture and orientation for all who pass through the doors.

It's time to call in support! Every dollar will genuinely help.

THANK YOU sincerely for giving what you can.

I look forward to creating, growing, playing, connecting and healing with you. .

With so much love and sincere gratitude,

-Jenny

Crescent at the The Farm is @ 1201 Bruynswick Road, Gardiner.

(LUMINOUS, Oct 2023, Co-Produced, Co-Written and Co-Directed by Jenny Wonderling. Photo by Matt Petricone for Circle Creative Collective)

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"The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning." -Mitch Albom

JOIN US…

If you haven’t yet experienced Crescent, we hope you will come join us to learn from some of our community's most inspiring teachers, growers, creatives, healers, artisans and visionaries.

We also invite you to join our roster as a space holder, teacher, performer, or vendor or practitioner in our weekly market (which folds in creativity and healing.

We look forward to HEARING FROM YOU.

“Here's to the bridge-builders, the hand-holders, the light-bringers, those extraordinary souls wrapped in ordinary lives who quietly weave threads of humanity into an inhumane world. They are the unsung heroes in a world at war with itself. They are the whisperers of hope that peace is possible. Look for them in this present darkness. Light your candle with their flame. And then go. Build bridges. Hold hands. Bring light to a dark and desperate world. Be the hero you are looking for. Peace is possible. It begins with us.” -L.R. Knost

“Crescent is one of my favorite places and truly nourishing in every way. I’ve been there for classes, a woman’s song circle, and their original productions, EarthSong and One Flame Many. A river, gardens, delicious meals, lovely humans… it’s one of those places you never really want to leave. I came as a stranger but now I truly have a LOT of dear friends.” -C.W.

“I’ve been witnessing the magic of community weaving that Jenny has crafted over a couple of decades. She has a very unique gift of seeing and hearing people's core selves. She seems to be a master at manifesting visions that are rooted in deep truth and goodness. Add those two high vibrational realities and it is of no surprise that this is her next step in her offerings. Jenny is a natural producer of magic and the healing that is possible within us all and in our world. Carve out time to be at Full Circle and allow your spirit to be touched and your life to shift in the direction of grace.”

-Natasha Zajac, vocalist, wellness/massage therapist and music agent.

RECAP of giving needs:

This $23,000 initial goal will provide essential funds for: