Underground River Online Film Preview

A water ceremony and film inspired by women.

When: June 5th, 7pm - 8pm.

Where: Online

Tickets: Free

JOIN US FOR A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE AS WE HONOUR THE SACRED BODY AND SPIRIT THAT IS WATER THROUGH THE HEARTS OF WOMEN.

Enjoy an evening of ceremony, creativity, and celebration with us from the comfort of your own home. Witness the magic unfold as we collectively acknowledge and appreciate the great mother for all she has gifted us through her waters.

Let us take time to slow down, tune in, to this wild and precious life we share.

Experience Flow

  • Welcome prayer and meditation by Mother Candice (Motherlove Midwife)

  • Water Blessing and song by Marya Stark

  • Underground River Film

  • Collective integration and intention blessing by Marya Stark

  • Closing Prayer, Mother Candice

About MotherLove

MotherLove serves as a global sanctuary where women reclaim cultural values, heal disconnection, celebrate diversity and strive to build a beautiful future for their children.

About Marya

Marya Stark is a discoverer of archetypes, storyteller, bard, and muse. She is a multimedia enchantress, and a carrier of myth, mystery, and medicine songs with which she embarks to create a ceremony of the human experience, taking her audience on lucid journeys through the caverns of the Soul. In addition to her solo work, Marya is also a member of the all female band Starling Arrow.

About the Film

This film is in collaboration with Jade Sanchez and Summit Jaffe of Earthbased Media. It is a ceremonial celebration of the waters of the world, a movement honouring the sacredness of grief, the spirits of the elemental guardians, the weaving of the rivers, inter-generational restoration of the water gates, and the cleansing of the Soul from the depth of the waters within.

It is formed around Marya's forthcoming album Underground River (a collaboration with Daniel Berkman) and is a wordless story of the journey of the waters.

The Music

‘Underground River’ is a concept album composed by Marya Stark and Daniel Berkman inspired by lucid dreams and ancestral spirits of the water. The album features non-linguistic vocal choral arrangements, kora, ondomo, cello, minimal sound design, and sonically explores aspects of the global water cycle. ‘Underground River’ is a representation of the subterranean emotional body of the individual, the collective emotional body of humanity, and our relationship to the worlds of water..

This impressionistic soundscape conveys a conversation between water spirits. It is being released alongside a greater body of multi-media artwork, including an original commissioned watercolor and acrylic painting, film photography, and 10 minute film piece featuring a multicultural cast of 18 women in various choreographies demonstrating the ancestral feminine relationship to the waters of life.

This dance film uses clips from 4 different songs to seamlessly weave a river of modern dance. It conveys women converging to honor the elders, build bridges between generations, walking together as a symbol of the rivers of the lands returning to the sea. The dancers embody different vignettes of animate water spirits, forming cymatic geometries with the sound and movement. It is an origin story for aquatic life, and harkens to the great Greek myths of the nymphs, the naiads and the oceanids. It also has roots in african folklore and the water spirits called the Kuntumble.

The first two singles Water into Water and Alluvium have been released, with the full album and Film set to release June 28th.