8.8 Lions Gate Portal : One Year of EarthLab • One Year to REB:EARTH LA
🌀 A portal opens—calling us into a celebration of return, resilience, and rebirth.
We come together in this potent window — 🦁 Lions Gate 8.8 — to honor a shared vision of healing, unity, and regeneration for the city of Los Angeles and beyond.
After fires, displacement, and deep transitions, we rise. Join a community of artists, leaders, and visionaries as we gather to ignite resilience and empowerment—fueling a ripple of transformation across Los Angeles and beyond.
This celebration marks:
🌍 One year since the launch of EarthLab in Bali
🪽Our return to Los Angeles, the City of Angels
🌱 The one-year countdown to REB:EARTH Festival 2026, to be held at LA State Historic Park Downtown Los Angeles during Lions Gate weekend next year August 7-9, 2026
🔥 Event Schedule
5-6:40PM | Nourishment + Networking
•Join us for an intimate drop-in with the EarthLab team and ecosystem to connect, ask questions, and learn more about our mission—and the vision behind REB:EARTH Festival 2026.
• Organic Grazing Table by The Seed, featuring locally and sustainably sourced ingredients. A tree is planted with every board sold.
• Non-Alcoholic Elixir Bar by Cali Craft Concoctions – Serving handcrafted botanical elixirs and vibrant, alcohol-free creations designed to refresh, uplift, and inspire connection.
• Sweet Dessert Challah Bread from Worthy of Love Bakery 501(c)(3), supporting unhoused youth, mothers and families in LA
• Enjoy sacred architectural installations from the Sky Portal X Gallery by Greg Fleishman and experience vibrant, nature-inspired works
• Music — weaving deep, soulful rhythms to move the body and elevate the vibe.
6:35 7:00PM | Lions Gate Portal Opening led by our EarthLab founder Cassandra , Tongva Native Michael White Horse + Worthy of Love Challah Bread Global Peace Prayer
Led by our founder Cassandra, this ceremonial activation anchors the Lions Gate Portal into our community and projects in Los Angeles—connecting to a global energetic grid that she's opened across sacred sites from Bali to Peru, Egypt, and Southern France. This sacred window invites transformation, remembrance, and higher-dimensional alignment. Michael Whitehorse, Tongva native, will open up a transmission and land prayer connecting us to the land. The ceremony continues with a Challah Bread ritual and Global Peace & Unity Prayer led by Mary, founder of Worthy of Love Productions and Bakery, followed by an Song Prayer Transmission from Hannah, also from the Worthy of Love community.
7:00 PM-7:45 PM | EarthLab Ecosystem Intro + The REB:EARTH Mission
We’ll open with a powerful conversation and vision mapping featuring the EarthLab ecosystem and its collaborators—MoonLab Productions, BloqLab Fabrication, Worthy of Love, INBODY, gallery host Gregg Fleishman and our ecosystem allies—sharing how the people in the room are shifting systems through co-creation, purpose, and community-driven impact.
7:45 PM - 8:10 PM | Earth-Heart Alignment Ceremony: Prayer, Song, Cacao & Breath led by Salvador Chalchihuitzilli + Kimberley Boelen + Natalie Valle + Saleha Bhatti
The ceremony will begin with an opening song and prayer offered by Salvador, grounding us in Indigenous wisdom and honoring the land, our ancestors, and the living spirit of the Earth. We will then enter into a cacao ceremony with the medicine carried by our founder Cassandra, who brings Sacred Union Cacao from Peru by Ayuna Amazonas—an artisanal 50/50 blend of macambo and cacao. This sacred medicine honors the inner balance of feminine and masculine energies, opening a portal for remembrance, harmony, and deeper connection to self, spirit, and community.T he cacao experience will be guided by Kimberly, with Natalie holding space through the healing resonance of singing bowls, and Saleha leading us into a womb breath activation—a practice to reconnect with our creative centers and ancestral power.
8:10–9:45 PM | INBODY Experience led by Veronica Trinity and Marco Hansell l @inbody.movement
Through playful embodiment, voice activation, and dance, we reconnect with our body's intelligence.
Imagine a world where the planet is thriving.
Where joy is embodied.
We invite you into this vision —
A world reborn from the ashes, rising wiser, stronger, and more in tune.
A world where your body becomes the compass back HOME.
• Curated soundscape and performance by Victory l @srvj
• Dj Set Portal Lion Eyes | @jesse_james_kingston
• Closing sound bath to anchor in peace and power by Ariana and Victory
9:45 PM – 10:00 PM | Closing & Farewells
We’ll close the evening with shared reflections, gratitude, and a final moment of connection. Until next time, may the seeds we’ve planted together continue to spiral outward in service and celebration. ✨
🌍 We Are EarthLab
EarthLab is a global impact collective co-creating experiences and ventures with earthkeepers, visionaries, and builders rising in service to the planet. Through gatherings, creative collaboration, and systems rooted in regeneration, EarthLab cultivates sacred spaces for connection, transformation, and action.
weareearthlab.com l @weareearthlab
🫶 We rise in service of Worthy of Love, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing monthly birthday celebrations for unhoused children and families across Los Angeles. A portion of all event proceeds and vendor sales will directly support this mission that our ecosystem has been supporting since 2017. www.worthyoflovela.org l @worthyofloveproductions
🌕 Our EarthLab Ecosystem & REB:EARTH Festival Co-Creators
INBODY is an experiential design movement empowering growth and unlocking human potential through dance, somatic activations, sound, and education. Rooted in curating deeply embodied spaces calling us back into the wisdom of our own bodies.
MoonLab Productions is a women-owned events & creative agency on a mission to design, produce, and launch impactful brand experiences for clients around the world. www.moonlabproductions.com l @moonlabprod
BloqLab Fabrication, MoonLab’s brother company, specializes in modular, sustainable design solutions crafted for reuse and circularity. Integrating cutting-edge technologies such as 3D printing, robotics, and smart fabrication systems. www.bloqlab.com l @bloqlab
🌈 Our Venue & Artist Collaborators
Sky Portal X Gallery l @skyportalx l @greggfleishman
An immersive exhibition space featuring the sacred architectural works of visionary designer Gregg Fleishman. Known for his interlocking, precision-cut wooden structures, Gregg’s work transforms space into living sculpture—blending geometry, functionality, and spiritual intention. His world-renowned architectural installations have been featured at Burning Man, where they’ve become iconic portals for collective gathering, contemplation, and transformation. Each piece invites you into a realm where structure becomes sanctuary, and form embodies spirit.
Art Curation in collaboration with @FutureEyes
Featured Artists:
Ekaterina Sky | @ekaterina.sky.art
A multidisciplinary artist whose vibrant, nature-inspired works explore the sacred connection between humans, animals, and the cosmos. Ekaterina’s art channels symbolism, color, and soul to awaken remembrance, reverence, and collective healing. Her pieces serve as visual invocations—bridging earth and sky through beauty and intention.
Gary Brewer | @garywinstonbrewer
Gary Brewer is a self-taught artist, curator, and writer. His luminous oil paintings are inspired by nature and art history, blending detail with atmospheric beauty. In 2025, his exhibition Everything is Radiant was shown at Wonzimer Gallery. Art critic Shana Nys Dambrot described the works as emerging from “a wellspring of fertile nature and fractal biomorphic amalgamations.”
Lawrence Gipe | @lawrence_gipe_studio
Lawrence Gipe is known for powerful visual critiques of industrialization and climate change. His Commemorative Paintings series memorializes disappearing islands due to global warming, using 19th-century aesthetic styles with modern drone imagery. Notable works include “Gardi Sugdub, 2024” and Russian Drone Paintings, confronting environmental collapse and surveillance. He has exhibited in over 70 solo shows worldwide and co-curated major environmental-themed exhibitions. Gipe’s style blends romantic realism with archival imagery and painterly precision to evoke beauty while exposing ecological and political decay.
Victory | @srvj
A visionary artist and sonic force whose voice heals, moves, and ignites. Blending soulful dance with powerful storytelling, her sound is a call to awaken—body, mind, and spirit. With undeniable presence and a message for the moment, Victory creates music that’s more than a vibe—it’s a movement.
Lion Eyes, Jesse James Kingston | @jesse_james_kingston
A multi-instrumentalist producer, DJ and singer/songwriter. His sets draw from a deep well of global music, weaving ethnic and modern sounds into a musical tapestry that inspires primal movement, freedom of expression, and joy. His range is vast, from Africa to South America, the Middle East to Berlin. All genres are in play beyond house as he infuses soul, downtempo, indie dance, the occasional curveball classic, while layering shamanic overtones into the experience. Jesse is constantly foraging for new sounds to move dance-floors and awaken consciousness.
Salvador Chalchihuitzilli | @huitzil.sanctuary
A certified mental health specialist, integrative self-development coach, and ceremonial facilitator. Of Mexica and Purépecha descent, Salvador bridges modern healing modalities with traditional Native American practices rooted in elemental wisdom and ancestral reverence. With over a decade of experience, he has led transformative workshops across rehabilitation centers and community spaces, helping people access deeper healing through guided ritual, inner discipline, and spiritual embodiment.
Marco Hansell | @mhansell
Known as The Magician, didn’t just rise from the collapse of a $35M empire—he reinvented the game. He turned loss into leverage, transforming what looked like an ending into a beginning rooted in deeper alignment, freedom, and abundance. Blending imaginative insight with systems thinking, he crafts emotionally magnetic and strategically sound experiences that empower people and brands to evolve with clarity and confidence. In this session, Marco guides you through voice, movement, and freestyle alchemy—helping you turn resistance into play, complexity into simplicity, and uncertainty into purpose. He leaves you with two questions:
“Why?”
“And what kind of world are you here to create?”
🛍 Conscious Impact Marketplace featuring EarthLab ecosystem vendors — with participants still being confirmed — each contributing a portion of proceeds in support of Worthy of Love.
Mama Ayni Collective | @mamaaynicollective www.mamaayni.com
From handwoven alpaca capes and Amazonian jewelry to consciously curated collaborations, Mama Ayni Collective is a sacred ecosystem of creativity, community, and evolution. They foster economic sovereignty, intercultural exchange, and sustainable solutions for future generations and planetary health.
Energy Muse l @energymuse
Energy Muse offers powerful crystal tools designed to support intention-setting, healing, and transformation—especially through their curated energy generators. These crystal formations are crafted to amplify and direct energy, making them ideal for meditation, manifestation, and space clearing. Each generator is selected for its vibrational clarity and aligned purpose—whether grounding, abundance, protection, or heart-opening—helping you elevate your energy and anchor daily rituals with purpose and power. Their Frequency Generators emit grounding, natural vibrations. Frequencies like 7.83Hz help your body remember balance. Over time, you feel clearer, calmer, and more protected.
Love Lynn Botanicals l @lovelynnbotanicals
Love Lynn Botanicals Alchemy line is a plant-based collection crafted with love, intention, and healing. A portion of proceeds supports the Young Creatives Club, a nonprofit founded in memory of her son, Jackson Appel Nazario, dedicated to providing mentorship and financial aid to young artists in need. Every product honors his creative spirit and helps others shine.
🌍 Why We Gather
To honor the fires that shaped us.
To return to our roots in Los Angeles.
To uplift the children, mothers, and families of this city.
To rise together—through creativity, devotion, and community.
To walk through the next portal, hand in hand.
Your presence helps seed the future of REB:EARTH Festival 2026 and sustains the ongoing work of Worthy of Love, a 501(c)(3) uplifting unhoused youth and families across Los Angeles.
Let us rise—in service, in celebration, and in shared vision.
🌀 Are you ready for the REB:EARTH of Los Angeles? 🦋