The end is in the beginning! The 15th and final performance of our In Search of Lost Time production will be at Basilica for Soundscape Festival.

Our production of In Search of Lost Time has aimed to conjure a sense of delight and playfulness creating a storytelling experience that uses the medium of minigolf as performance theater and interactive narrative with deeper themes of shared experience, of overcoming a sense of being behind in one's life, of being lost, and resiliency.

The initial spark for In Search of Lost Time came out of creating face shields in Basilica during lockdown. From the fire and ashes of disaster grew the seeds of friendship and minigolf art. When covid first hit, Bren Liam, and friends, helped to lead efforts to make face shields for a local hospital and nursing homes in the Hudson Valley, coordinating efforts across makerspaces, sourcing material from the local library system, and turning an art center, the Basilica, into a mass assembly line. After months of making face shields, we were happy to have served but run a little ragged. We needed a mental break and wanted a creative project that was purely silly and personal. The idea of building a gonzo minigolf course was born!

We have performed In Search of Lost Time in the middle of the woods, an alleyway, bars, a library, a drive-in theater, gallery spaces, a sculpture park, and artist residencies across Hudson Valley and NYC. From Prattsville to Wassaic, Athens to Brooklyn, we have traveled for a reason. The mobile and pop-up nature of our theater company was meant to stand in contrast to the stasis and confinement of lockdown during the covid-19 pandemic. Dreams were never meant to be static. They were meant to move us, to expand, to roam.

Four years after we started minigolf post-faceshields, returning to the sight that inspired so much creative fire amidst the darkness, there couldn't be a better ending to this story.

It's been whimsical. Thanks for playing!

What if minigolf was in the middle of an outdoor rave in foothills of the Catskills?

Lucid Dream Minigolf will be popping-up at Dope Jams Open-Air Party, a soulful house music festival to celebrate the endless joy of ecstatic rural life. This pop-up will only be available to the people attending the festival. Tickets for the festival are available, here: https://ra.co/events/1720469

Lucid Dream Minigolf reawakens from its winter slumber! First stop of our 2023 tour: Prattsville Art Center & Residency, a rural art gallery, library, laboratory, and espresso bar directed by NYU professor of Art and Art Education, Nancy Barton. Come play!

Last and final stop of 2022! Thrilled to have an artist residency this fall at Wassaic Project and be a part of Wassaic Project’s Haunted Mill, a night of interactive art across 7 floors of gallery space. Come play amidst a collection of art installations from all kinds of creatives and itinerant amusement makers. Free candy! : )

Play amidst the vibrantly celebratory O+ festival for art, music, and wellness. We will be popping-up in a hidden lot adjacent to Keegan Ales. Keep an eye out for green cloaked wizards as they will guide your way through the land of Lucid Dream Minigolf.

Play in an experimental art hive/radical venue/joy manufacturing warehouse: Rubulad.

This pop-up is a collaborative creative effort featuring additional interactive art installations from Tree & Oyster (Ana Vásquez and Jennae Santos) and musical performances by No No Finger, Accabacca, O Slow, & WSABI. It will be the whimsical avant-garde carnival of your equinox dreams.

Play admits the sprawling bluestone ramps, pedestals, and monoliths of Opus 40 in an environmental sculpture park formed from the remnants of an old quarry. Hungry Marching Band will be playing followed by a screening of Alien from Upstate Films. Minigolf will be walk-ins only (first come, first served).

Play at a drive-in, have a drink, and then stay for a movie. We will be setting up in and around the Greenville Drive-In beer garden from 6-8pm with puppet tarot readings, avant-garde face painting, and minigolf! The Henson/Bowie cult classic the Labyrinth starts at 8:15pm. The night will be the post-apocalypse fantasy carnivalscape of your dreams! : )

Reserve a ticket for your party (1-4) below to play minigolf ($10) and then sign-in and pay-what-you-can sliding scale for minigolf when you arrive. We will be running two waves of sign-in start times, but people are welcome to hang out in the beer garden anytime from 6-8pm.

Lucid Dream Minigolf @ Greenville Drive-In 6pm start time

Lucid Dream Minigolf @ Greenville Drive-In 7pm start time.

This is an event (minigolf) nested within an event (a screening of the Labyrinth) so don’t forget to also buy movie tickets to the drive-in itself! You’ll need both keys to unlock and play pop-up minigolf.

Play amidst the hollowed halls of a public library, keepers of stories and knowledge for all.

Art can be anywhere!—even an alleyway. Play in Howard St. alleyway in the middle of Catskill Village.

Play in a dive bar/pizza place/Hudson institution.

Play in an undisclosed location in the middle of the woods on the edge of the Catskill Mountains.