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Where Climate Week
Comes to Dream

An urban refuge to cohere our dreams into a resilient, regenerative future.
September 20–27 · East Village, New York.

We are inviting the builders, dreamers, and doers who are tackling the Metacrisis and building a prosocial, regenerative future. We’ve partnered up with New York City’s oldest organic vegan restaurant to create a space for cross-pollination and convergence between worlds as we consider how to future-proof ourselves, our communities, and our planet.

Come nourish your mind, body, and spirit.

This space exists to support you.

“Here we are, all of us: in a dream-caravan.”

Bahaudin Naqshband · Sufi mystic

The Caravan of Dreams storefront at night, string lights on
Upcoming

All week long, this space will offer nourishing bites and thoughtfully curated events. If you’re interested in this space and would love to host an event that aligns with our , we can support your team with a workshop, talk, or activity. Please let us know.

Our private Dream Room holds about 40 people, with screens, A/V, a microphone and a speaker, and it reconfigures around whatever you are doing: . Book it as a ticketed event from $200 an hour, or as a dinner with at least $300 an hour going to food.

The rest of the week is open, and the room is listening. Submit an event, or .

You can request an open block for the Dream Room, which holds about 40 people and takes several shapes: . The front room stays open to everyone all week as the refuge, so it is not bookable right now. We leave half an hour between blocks so we can turn the room around.

Partners

Psychedelics for Climate Action Denizen Earthkind Buckminster Fuller Institute Bioregional Embassy

If you want to co-host any events with us, or use this as your home base for Climate Week, please reach out.

The refuge

East Sixth Street, five minutes from Tompkins Square Park.

Caravan of Dreams has fed the East Village since 1991.

Its name echoes a Sufi teaching. The mystic Bahaudin Naqshband described humanity as a dream-caravan: individuals traveling together, yet each suspended in their own subjective reality, carried by their own hopes and illusions.

This week, we hope to gather those dreams together, right here in NYC.

As you enter the space, you’ll discover a bohemian restaurant with a small stage and a kitchen that runs all day: warm coffee, healthy snacks, exquisite plates, and drinks with or without alcohol. Behind it, the private Dream Room has a screen and A/V, for the conversations that want a door closed.

The doors are open from 11 AM to 11 PM, all week, for the curious locals and the weary travelers alike.

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Submit an event

Bring a talk, a working group, a screening, a supper. Book the Dream Room as a ticketed event from $200 an hour, or as a dinner with at least $300 an hour going to food. We help with setup, A/V, and getting the right people in the room, and we answer within 48 hours.

Room

Dream Room Private, holds about 40, with screens, A/V, a microphone and a speaker. It is the only room we are booking right now. .

This week is a labor of love, run by volunteers who believe a better future is possible. If you’d like to volunteer, please join us.