Live & Local: Dream Create Inspire Tour stops by KUVO

The following is an excerpt of the conversation heard above:

Steve Chavis: Good morning. Alright, so you've got to tell us how you came up with this idea of helping others connect with their creativity and then we'll find out how you do it. But you're just like choir leaders, piano players..?

Destiny Hardney: Not exactly. Actually, we never planned to do this. So, we started in education and we met working in schools. We were doing things like college prep and mentoring, but a love of music, Wayne's also a musician, I was also a lot in the healing space and the mindfulness space and things like that. So, we started doing just pop-up events around the city just because we wanted to do stuff for our friends that felt good, do stuff for our families that felt good, and it grew into this movement. And so, we decided to go on a tour. We're like, let's see if this is going to work. We can go on a tour. So, in 2018 we did a Kickstarter and we raised over $15,000, less than 30 days, and we went on a tour to nine different cities and we came back and people kept asking us, 'When's the next event? When's the next workshop, when's the next..?' And so, we saw the demand for it and we saw the joy that happened in those spaces and we decided, okay, this is a real thing. This is an organization. So, we've merged that healing, that liberation aspect with music and are really intentional about having that across the board.

SC: I'm amazed and encouraged that people are hungry for something and you found a way to get it to them. When they call you, they say, 'Hey, we need what?' And then you're like, 'Oh, we got you, we got you.' What do people need?

Wayne Watts: I think they need creativity in a nontraditional way. They need access to music in non-traditional venues. So, we provide that for those who like music and also those who perform music and need an outlet to just be themselves and not just perform for people. So, it's not we're performing for you, we're performing with you. And they call us for that

SC: Participative, right? Yeah. I mean, I've done corporate team building, I've done trust falls, stand on the table, we'll catch you. I've done the rock climbing, the wall climbing thing where you do something that you've never done and everybody cheers and helps you on it, but you guys are doing some creative like wall climbing. You're doing some creative trust falling.

DH: I love that!

SC: How do you do this in so many different ways?

DH: That's interesting you bring that up because we actually do a lot of corporate and professional development workshops, and we always create music with that space. So, when you go into a space where people are used to sitting and listening or just having peer-to-peer conversations and you come in the room and say, 'Hey, we're going to make a song.' Everyone looks at you. 'How are we going to do that? We don't make music,' but we create an experience where everyone can participate. They can share their thoughts, they can share their feelings, they can get up and dance. They can be a part of the melody. They can be a part of whatever piece of the music they want, and by the end of it we can just say like, 'Hey, you just wrote this song' in a group full of people and we've done it for 500 people at a time. We've done it for five people at a time. And it's always this experience of we didn't know what we were getting into, and we were uncomfortable at the beginning, but by the end, we're all connected. We all built something.

SC: This is the team from Dreamcreateinspiretour.com, Wayne Watts and Destiny Hardney. You also do on a very personal tip, guided meditations on the healing side.

DH: Yes. So, we kind of did that already together. That was one of the things that bonded us, and we were really intentional about before we do a show, before we do an event, we get grounded, we get ourself present, and I started doing them just kind of in a small sense and one day decided, let's just try it on stage with an audience. And the way the audience responded to it, I saw people's eyes close, them smiling them, imagining themselves during a visualization, them breathing, and just the intentionality of saying, we're going to breathe together. If nothing else, we're going to breathe together. And the way that people are receptive to it, even at a performance, even in a workshop, even when they've never done it before, just puts us in a space where we can really be together on a different level than if we didn't do that together.

SC: We were wondering if you do these projects and workshops and experiences just in Colorado. Wait, you said you were in nine cities, so you're national. Destiny Hardney (06:55): Yeah, yeah. So, we are based in Denver. This is home for us, but we travel. We are a tour that's a part of our name intentionally because we started that way, and we want to stay connected. So, we like to build bridges from one place to another. We like to make sure that we're connecting to other cultures, we're connecting to other people, and we're not just staying where we are because we're honestly global at this point.

SC: Destiny Hardney and Wayne Watts from Dream create inspired tour.com.

Abi Clark: I saw that you have an event coming up at Dazzle. Can you tell me a little bit about that?

DH: That's actually exciting. I'm going to start and then you kind of take it. So, we're going to meditate at Dazzle and we're going to create music at Dazzle. So, I'm going to pass it to Wayne so he can describe it a little bit more for y'all. Can you do that?

WW: It is going up, man! So, we're actually taking over downtown. So, it's the By Any Dream Necessary Experience.

SC: Say that again!

WW: By Any Dream Necessary Experience. And what that looks like is we'll be having a show at Dazzle featuring amazingly dope artists. Osha Renee will be there, Virgyl Gerdine will be there. D-Trait will be there as well too. Those are some of our headlining within our sets. We're going to do an immersive experience of making a song together after doing a meditation. And then check this though, we're walking, after Dazzle, we're walking from Dazzle to the clock tower and shout out to Night Lights Denver. We're taking over the clock tower and showing our dream flow programs on the clock tower. So, it's a whole.. by any dream necessary, you got to make sure you're showing what it looks like.

For more information, you can visit: Dream Create Inspire Tour

Details on the event at Dazzle

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