HOPE RISING
HOPE AND COMMUNITY THROUGH THE SUMMER

Dreamline’s HOPE RISING is a fully developed online offering for organizers of summer student programs in 2020 – safe, interactive, hands-on, fun, and inspiring.

Many summer programs are on hold and we are here to meet the need, building hope and community. If you know someone involved in summer programs, you’ll want to pass this on. Learn more.

FIRST COVID DREAMS UPLOADED
DREAMS FOR THE WORLD FROM NEAR MUMBAI

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click an image and its subtitle to see details and hear voice recordings

These dreams for the world from the City Pride school in Pune, near Mumbai, India, are some of the first results of our ABUNDANCE Covid response program. Learn more about our current Covid Response program with training for teachers and online sessions for students here.

In March and April, we gathered teachers from around the country in focus groups to figure out how to make the best ALL-online experience possible that is true to our mission. And it’s working!

#GIVING TUESDAY FUNDRAISER CLIMBING
GOFUNDME CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED MAY 5TH HITS 60%

We asked people to write something about the Dreamline Covid Response Program that we’re funding. Here’s what some of them said:

“Dreamline offers a simple yet profound way to connect the human family in a time of social distancing.” –Creator of We, the World’s Climate Collaboratory

“Dreamline’s online program gives kids an opportunity to dream big – beyond the frustrations and limitations of our current situation. Having meaningful goals to work towards will energize them and the online Dreamline will help them feel connected to other kids at a time when connections are harder to come by.” –Elementary School Teacher, Philadelphia, PA

“Now more than ever, the health and security of our planet depends on the realization that our local wellbeing is connected to global actions. Dreamline enables youth to connect online to achieve this realization and to start brainstorming ways to transform the world for the better, using others’ creative ideas as inspiration.” –Doctoral Student at Columbia Teachers College working at the college level in rural Mexico.

See what the buzz is about and make your contribution HERE.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR, CLICK THE YES
YOUR JUNE 7 INVITE IS COMING SOON

DREAM BANNER FABRIC IN NEW FORM
ORIGINAL ART ON BANNER MATERIAL UNMASKING PASSION

This is longtime Dreamline supporter and staffer Grace Bridy modeling some of the masks she created from our repurposed sheets of Dream Banner woven fabric! Follow our social media and this blog for updates on availability and check out ABUNDANCE masks you can purchase to create your own art works. ABUNDANCE MASKS

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UPLIFT THE LINE!
SAFE SOCIAL INSTALLATIONS OF DREAMLINES TO INSPIRE AND ENGAGE

This is one person waiting to get into Headhouse Market in Philadelphia where Dreamlines–with Banners spaced six feet apart–have been engaging customers while they wait to enter. They’ve been our pilot site for four weeks, and we’re now offering Uplift the Line to other interested businesses. Please pass it ON! More info.

FOCUS AND FEELING
DREAMLINE’S NEW PROGRAM ASSISTANT BRINGS MORE POWER TO CONNECTED DREAMERS

We are thrilled to have the skillful focus of Dreamline’s newest staff member Camille Baechler just when we need it most! Camille’s technical facilitation of our Zoom sessions AND her capacity to make everyone feel at home in the digital classroom–students and teachers alike–is a huge plus for our program.

Camille is a recent graduate of Bryn Mawr College. In her own words, she is “a student of life interested in self awareness, freedom, and compassion – and loves nature, writing, travel, and taking care of loved ones.”
What’s it like working with Dreamline?

VIRTUAL VOLUNTEER PROGRAM READY FOR LAUNCH
OUR PILOT WITH SALESFORCE CORPORATION IS SET TO LEAD

Many corporations across the country encourage their employees to give back to their communities through paid volunteer time off and other programs. But virtual volunteer programs are not so easy to find. With the help of Vivian Sun at Salesforce, Dreamline has created a virtual volunteer experience that will help student groups with our program and provide a rewarding volunteer experience like none other. We’re starting to look into working with other groups as well, so please pass this on. Learn more.

This Dream Keeper News explains what we are offering for our schools that are dealing with a whole new world and to our students who are at home. It has some of the details of what has come out of many hours of group Zoom calls, simulating student experiences with focus groups of both seasoned educators and community members relatively new to our program.

The result is something that will serve us well–now and in years to come. We are creating access for everyone–or as many people as we possibly can–and that has ALWAYS been the goal of Dreamline. Nothing new there. But the urgency of creating all phone-friendly materials that really work is right now, and we’ve got it.

Below is an outline of how our Dreamline Abundance Program works, followed by our schedule of required information calls for participation with a group, and the rollout timeframe.

Very Briefly in other news, our Home Depot Mexico fundraiser continues to break giving records week after week, our Abundance Mask Sales program (link at the bottom) is off and running with our first large order of 200 just in to serve a homeless shelter, and we are working weekly to stay on track of a June 7 ALL DIGITAL Dream Philly Festival.

Below is the real news, and it’s news I want you to share.

If you want to participate with students, you need to sign up for an information and training Zoom call. Max 25 participants per call.
Thursday April 16 1:00pm (13:00) & 8:00 pm (20:00) EDT (UTC-4)
Tuesday, April 21 1:00pm (13:00) & 8:00 pm (20:00) EDT (UTC-4)
Thursday April 23 1:00pm (13:00) & 8:00 pm (20:00) EDT (UTC-4)
 SIGN UP  bit.ly/abundancetrain

PROGRAM MATERIALS WILL BE SENT TO TRAINING CALL PARTICIPANTS BY MAY 1.
WE ASK THAT ALL PARTICIPANTS COMPLETE THE PROGRAM BY JUNE 1 TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR JUNE 7 ONLINE DREAM FESTIVAL.

ABUNDANCE MASKS – Customizable, Water Resistant & Dream Building
$2.50

These are masks we make from repurposed Dream Banner material and ribbon and ship to you. You can write or draw on the nonwoven fabric to make your mask send positive messages to all you meet. Proceeds help fund our Abundance Program. 

Out an abundance of dreams, we are creating something together that transcends fear, and taps into creative connections everywhere. Times like these are when we need that connection more than ever.

This March Dreamkeeper News introduces our Out of an ABUNDANCE OF DREAMS Program for schools not in session.  We also celebrate a community outpouring of support and creative design in the Not Only From Olney, first-ever Dreamline art gallery installation.

And this past month more than 250 images from students at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Delphi programs went online through Dreamline World to accompany their installation at Philadelphia’s Ronald McDonald House (where each banner is phone readable!) – and just in time. We’ll also highlight a new Banner Samples page you’ll love and give a quick update on June 7.

To follow on the February news for our Home Depot in Mexico program, Eduardo, Celina, and Amanda had a fantastically successful Dreamline Mexico Road Trip in February, bussing for four days across Veracruz and creating a wave of support from Home Depot employees. Enjoy all 29 photos in our FB album HERE.  

OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF DREAMS

CREATING AND ASSEMBLING DREAMLINES REMOTELY AND SAFELY

When Marzieh Abedi from Iran and Vivian Sun from San Francisco got in touch with me, we got to work. Both had the same concern. Marzieh’s students at Farzanegan 1 High School were signed up to participate in Dreamline but were not in session (weeks ago), and Vivian’s volunteers from Salesforce Corporation wanted to support Dreamline–without physically going to schools. What we came up with is the Dream Abundance Program where any group of students with access to a device for video and audio–phone, tablet, or computer–and a piece of paper can have the full Dreamline experience. The end result is a physical Dreamline of safe digitally interactive Banners for public display and a global digital Dreamline of humanly interactive hope!

OUR STUDENTS NEED YOUR HELP as a volunteer or donor to this program to keep their dreams alive now, when the connection matters most!
If you’re a student group leader, you can apply now to participate and bring Dreamline to your students while they’re at home.
Click the logo or link to get started.

Out of an ABUNDANCE OF DREAMS

JUST IN TIME DREAMS

INSTALLATION OF MUSEUM DREAMS AT RMH PHILADELPHIA BEFORE THE DOOR SHUT

This past week, I got an email from Erin Sullivan at Philadelphia’s Ronald McDonald House. It was to tell me that outside visitors would be strictly limited to protect the ill children and their families who stay there. But it was NOT before the installation of more than 120 beautifully crafted Dreamline Banners, created by students in the Delphi Program of the Philadelphia Museum of Art! That installation had gone in days before and will remain to inspire the house residents in the challenging times ahead. Many thanks to Joseph Iocona at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for making this happen, and just in time. Going forward, Ronald McDonald House is exploring Dreamline programming at this facility and others.
Installation Photos on Facebook

LIGHT, SPACE, DREAMS, AND CARE 

FIRST EVER GALLERY INSTALLATION SETS A HIGH BAR

From February 9 to March 1 for eight hours every weekend, people walked off the busy sidewalk near Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square to find moments of quiet, to slow down their day, reflect on the dreams of a child, and on their own dreams. This magical transformation happened because of the outpouring of community spirit, especially from Wendy Born (co-owner of the Metropolitan Bakery) and Joy Waldinger (art teacher at Olney Charter.) The result was our Not Only from Olney installation at Metropolitan Gallery 250 in Philadelphia. On the opening day, the gallery was filled with proud students, their families and their teachers from Olney Charter High School in North Philadelphia. They made the long trip to Center City to celebrate. You can feel the energy in the pictures linked below and walk through the gallery in our video interview. Our dream is that this is the first of many installations to come. It set an appropriately high bar for supercharging our students’ dreams.
Facebook Album
3-minute Video Interview & Gallery Tour

BANNERS TO EXPLORE, INSPIRE & SHARE 

A NEW RESOURCE FOR FRIENDS OF DREAMLINE THAT TAKES YOU AROUND THE WORLD FROM YOUR COUCH

In the online gallery at dreamline.org, as of this writing you’ll find 2,403 Dream Banners posted by teachers around the world. It would take you a while to look through them all. So for the sake of simplicity, education, and enjoyment, we’ve created a BANNER SAMPLE page where you’ll find three banners each from: China, Haiti, Mexico, Morocco, Tanzania, UAE, Zambia, and the US states of Pennsylvania, Wyoming, North Dakota, Utah, California, Texas, and Alaska. Links from each take you to voice recordings in multiple languages, transcripts and translations to English, Google Maps of where they’re from, and links to share. Hope when you need it.
Banner Samples

JUNE 7, 2020
10 am to 5 pm (UTC-4)

We hope that by June 7 we will have the green light for gatherings and that we can join in force–both in person and remotely–to celebrate the power of aligned dreams. However, …