Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Music for Mushrooms” showing Oct. 10-17 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres.
Musician East Forest embarks on a mission pairing music with psychedelics to bring about transformative healing to a world in crisis in “Music For Mushrooms”.
East Forest will be in Sedona to host the film and do a Q&A discussion following the screenings on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 10 and 11.
“Music for Mushrooms” highlights the personal journey of shamanistic musician and filmmaker East Forest (Krishna-Trevor Oswalt) — a collaborator of the late Ram Dass — whose bold experiments pair music with guided psychedelic experiences to create spaces of healing for a fractured world.
The film captures East Forest as he discovers a practice of guided ceremonial concerts that offer participants an immersive environment to confront their pain and fears, fostering hope, and moving them to re-engage with their own true north.
Weaving together interviews and conversations with artists, academics, and cultural experts in the fields of psychedelics, science, music and philosophy — voices like Ram Dass, Xochitl Ashe, Hanifo Nayo Washington, Spring Washam, Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris, Jon Hopkins, Peter Broderick, ANNA, and more — the film explores first hand experiences, wisdom traditions, and data-backed evidence of how these timeless tools impact the human psyche, nervous system, and more.
“Music for Mushrooms” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres Oct. 10-17. Showtimes will be Thursday, Oct. 10 at 7:00 p.m.; Friday, Oct. 11 at 4:00 and 7:00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 12 and 13 at 6:30 p.m.; and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 14, 15, 16 and 17 at 4:00 p.m.
Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.
