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IONE is an author/playwright / director and an improvising text-sound artist.  In addition to multiple performances internationally, she has created numerous large music theater works with her creative partner and spouse, the composer Pauline Oliveros. These Include the opera The Nubian Word for Flowers; A Phantom Opera, 2017 Roulette Intermedium and NWF Pocket Edition, NYPL @Lincoln Center  2020. Other works include: Njinga the Queen King; The Return of a Warrior  (BAM’s Next Wave Festival), Io and Her and the Trouble with Him; A Dance Opera in Primeval Time -  U of Wisconsin’s Union Theater and The Lunar Opera: Lincoln Center Out of Doors. IONE also created the film, Dreams of the Jungfrau with sound design by Oliveros.  IONE's memoir, Pride of Family; Four Generations of American Women of Color, was a New York Times Notable Book on its publication. A journalist for many years IONE, published in major magazines and newspapers throughout the 80s including The Village Voice, The Gannet Chain and Vogue.  She was Artistic Director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd for 15 years and is currently a Deep Listening Consultant at the Center for Deep Listening ®, Troy, NY. As Founding Director of M.o.M., Inc. (The Ministry of Maåt), in Kingston, NY since 1997, IONE conducts workshops and seminars throughout the world, encouraging a vibrant international community of writers, visual artists, and musicians. MoM disseminates the work of Pauline Oliverosand other artists worldwide. IONE received the 2019 Arts Mid Hudson Individual Artists Award and a Certificate of Merit from the General Assembly of the State of New York, and was a member of the Kingston Arts Commission for several years. IONE's most recent opera TOUCH, with composer Karen Power, premiered at Irish National Opera in 2021
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EDUCATION

Chinese Healing Arts Center Graduate, Program for Physicians and Therapists 1993
Helix Institute for Psychotherapy and Healing Class, 1986    
Bennington College Class, 1959  
High School of Music and Art, 1955     



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Deep Listening Certification Instructor, Center for Deep Listening@Renssaeler, Troy, NY
Director /President -Ministry of Maat, Inc., 1996 - present
Curator, Gallery at Deep Listening Space 1996 – 2012
Artistic Director, Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. (formerly The Pauline Oliveros Foundation, Inc), 2001 - 2015 
Co- Artistic Director, Pauline Oliveros Foundation, Inc., 1987 - 2001 
Visiting Professor, Mills College, Fall 1998
Director, Manhattan Theater Club Writers in Performance, 1986,87
Poetry Instructor, NY State Poets in the Schools, 1975 - 1985    
Artistic Director, Renaissance House, Inc., 1961   



AUTHOR/ POET

Anthologies
Documenta 14 daybook, November 2017
Mousse Magazine, December 2017
Essays: Stepping Into Ourselves, Key & Kant, Editors, 2014
Diary entries: New York Diaries 1609-2009 Edited By Teresa Carpenter- Modern Library, 2012
Diaries Published in American Women’s Diaries 1830s-1970s, Ballantine Books, 1986
Hot Flashes; Women on Change of Life; Ballantine Books, 1986


Books
Spell Breaking: Rembered Ways of Being, MoM/Deep Listening Publications 2013
Spell Breaking 2:  Listening to the Dreaming Heart, MoM/Deep Listening Publications 2017, 2018
Pride of Family; Four Generations of American Women of Color, (as Carole Ione), a New York 
Times Notable Book & on the New York Public Library’s List of 25 Books to Remember, currently a Random House e-book.  Paper back Avon Books, Reissued 2001 -an Author’s Guild Back in Print Book – Doubleday Books, Harlem Moon Classics Imprint, 2004
Listening in Dreams and This is a Dream; a Handbook for Deep Dreamers, MoM Press, 2000
The Night Train to Aswan, 1996
The Coffee Table Lover, 1986 Piramida Negra; Collected Poems from 1971-1991 (as Carole Bovoso)
Spell Breaking; Remembered Ways of Being- An Anthology of Women's Mysteries , Edited by IONE, Deep Listening Publications, 2013


Articles
(As Carole Bovoso) Village Voice (Frequent Contributor), Oggi, The Christian Science Monitor, 
Essence ( Contributing Editor) The Gannett Chain, Vogue Magazine, Oui Magazine, Gallery Magazine, MS, Working Woman Magazine, American Film, Ambassador Magazine, Soho News, Chronogram Magazine
Poetry Choices Reporter: Village Voice
Contributing Editor:- Book Reviews;  Essence Magazine 
Fiction: Arcadie: Revue Litteraire, Paris , 57,58,59
Producer: WBAI Radio: Letters; A Magazine on the Air   1984-86
Editor: Letters Magazine an international Literary Forum for Women and Men, founded in 1974 
(Publishing Occasionally)   



PLAYWRIGHT/ DIRECTOR
Director/ Writer
Venezia e l’Egitto  2012
an 11 Minute Experimental Narrative Video 2012


Dreams of the Jungfrau, 2007 
a 30 Minute Experimental Narrative Film with Music and Sound Design by Pauline Oliveros


Library of Maps by Moira Roth- Pauline Oliveros, RPI, Troy, NY April 2002 
Direction, Concept and text: Io and Her and the Trouble with Him- A Dance Opera in 
Primeval Time: Premiere: Union Theater University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, April, 2001 



Director/Concept /Texts
The Nubian Word for Flowers: A Phantom Opera
Concept, Text, Dirction:  IONE
Music and Sound Design:  Pauline Oliveros
November 2017, Roulette Intermedium
NWF First Take Production
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Concert Version, Scene One, June 1, 2013
Lunar Opera
; Deep Listening For_tunes,
Lincoln Center Out of Doors, New York 2000 

Director, Concept and Playwright: 
Njinga The Queen King, Music and Sound Design by Pauline Oliveros: 
Three Year Development phase: Yellow Springs Institute, PA, Walker Arts Center, Red Eye Theater, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, BAM’s Next Wave Festival Opening 1993, Lincoln Center Out of Doors 1995, Folger Shakespeare Theater, Washington, DC, 1996, Prince George Publick Playhouse, 1997.  Meeting in Luanda, Mills College, 1998. Rio De Janeiro, Njinga Community Workshop and presentation  



PRODUCER
Ione’s Annual Dream Festival, Gallery at Deep Listening Space, Kingston 1996 - 2012
A Tribute to E.B. White City Center, NY  ( Manhattan Theatre Presentation)    NYC
Letters; A Literary Forum on the Air -WBAI FM   NYC
A Dream Festival, New York Shakespeare Public Theatre , NYC   
Letters; A magazine in Performance, New York Shakespeare Public Theatre    
The Courtyard.  A Happening by Alan Kaprow, NYC   
Masked Ball an event including the Renaissance Players and the Living Theater in NYC



WORKSHOPS 
Deep Listening Retreat Midnight Sun Retreat, Sortland, Norway June ,2014
2012, Atlantic Center for the Arts, One Beat Project, September, Kerien, Dream Bird Retreat, Bretagne, France, September, Mills College Celebration for John Cage and Pauline Oliveros. October. 2009
Women’s Mysteries Seasonal Retreats:  May, Maine, February, December, Kingston, NY
Annual Retreats: Paris, Normandy, Isle de Bréhat, France
Charleston, Ratna Ling Center, California, Switzerland, Bretagne, Paris, Camallera, Spain, Barcelona, many others   



LANGUAGES
Fluent French (reading, writing and speaking) 
Spanish Comprehension and some speaking
Reading comprehension of Spanish, Italian



GRANTS
SC Commission for the Humanities for A Diary of Reconstruction 
Rockefeller Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts
NY State Council for the Arts
Pew Charitable Trust
DTW Suitcase Fund and others for Njinga the Queen-King and Io and Her and the Trouble With Him
NY State Council on the Arts for Live Letters Magazine and Live Letters Presentations
City of Kingston and Institute of Noetic Sciences and The Fetzner Foundationfor Ione’s Annual Dream Festival   
Peter S. Reed Foundation for Dreams of the Jungfrau, 2007 
Deep Listening Institute for The Nubian Word For Flowers, 2012



FELLOWSHIPS / Residencies 
The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Edward Albee Foundation, The Writer’s Room, Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice 2012, 2013, 2014


MEMBERSHIPS
She is currently a member of the Distinguished Mentors Council of Composers Now
Poets and Writers, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, The National Writer’s Union, The Author’s Guild 



BOARD MEMBER
Founding Director, President of the Board: Ministry of Maat, a Not- For Profit organization with goals of fostering world harmony with emphasis on the spiritual and cultural experiences of women, incorporating teachings, study, and exchange.  
Artist 
Secretary, Former Vice-President, Board of Trustees: Deep Listening Institute, Ltd., a Not for Profit Arts organization nurturing the creation of new work and state of the art technology.  
Profit Arts organization nurturing the creation of new work and state of the art technology. 


SELECTED DVDS, VIDEOS and FILM
Njinga the Queen King (Mode Records, 2010)
Io & Her & The Trouble with Him: An Opera in Primeval Time (Deep Listening Publications, 2008)
Dreams of the Jungfrau, Director/ Text 2007
Shown: Quiet Music Festival, Cork, Ireland
Ione’s Annual Dream Festival, Kingston, NY
Venezia e l’Egitto,  Director/ Text 2012
Shown in Ione’s Annual Dream Festival- Mount Tremper Arts, Phoenicia, NY 
Liquid Tara ( Actor in)   By Jo Andres
Shown  at Issue Project Room  ( Premiere)
Rubin Museum, October 2012 


DISCOGRPAHY
Four Meditations for Orchestra SubRosa Records LP  2016
Water Above/Sky Below, Now – LP Morphine Records  2015
The Garden  2000
The Valley   2000
Meditation CD  2000



PERFORMANCE HISTORY

2017
The Nubian Word for Flowers; Lead Sound/Text Performer, Mount Tremper Arts, July 2017
Roulette Intermedium November, 2017
Performance with International Contemporary Ensemble; USC Gay and Lesbian Archive , October, 2017
Baryshnikov Art Center Talk/ performance with International Contemporary Ensemble
November 2017
Deep Listening ® Workshop; Documenta 14, Athens, Greece –August, 2017
Performance Duo with Ed McKeon - Leeds University - September
Listening in Dreams Workshop; Tribute to Pauline Oliveros, Sound Text Performance - McGill University, Montreal - June

Celebration of Pauline Oliveros - Sound/ text performances
The Armory Tribute to Pauline Oliveros - Solo
Sound / Text performances - Febuary


2016
NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Tribute to Pauline Oliveros
Sound/Text Performance December

Pauline Oliveros accordion, IONE text and vocals
May 28, 2016 Performance - Pauline Oliveros Four Meditations for Orchestra
Angelica Festival, Bologna - Ciesa dei servi - Tonino Battista Conductor

Field Studies 2017 - Day 3 - IONE: Listening in Dreams at Opera North
Listening Dreams with IONE
Saturday 14 October 2017

https://www.musarc.org/events/concerts/field-studies-day-3-evening/

Berlin, CTM Festival- Improvisational texts-vocals, Mountain Above/ Fire Below- Duo with Pauline Oliveros

Deep Listening Workshop Carleton University, Ottowa, CA
Vocalist, ensemble Performance First Baptist Church, Ottowa, CA


​MAD Mid-town Arts Festival , Kingston, NY DUO Performance with Pauline Oliveros


2015
12/3 What Goes Around Comes Around, Gisela Gamper- Craive Lab, RPI, Troy, NY
10/11 Duo with Pauline Oliveros – O+ Festival @ Back Stage Productions, Kingston, NY
10/8 Deep Listening Workshop, Q-02, Festival: The Other Self #1, Brussels,Belgium
8/27 Duo with Pauline Oliveros -A Tribute to Mayor Gallo, Kingston, NY
6/19 Arctic Mode -Trio Performance, Pauline Oliveros, Heloise Gold, Ione- Barne Tanken Melbu, Norway
6/ 5 Vocalist -Ensemble performance, Gesu Cathedral, Montreal, CA
4/18 Water Above/Sky Below, Now – Duo with Pauline Oliveros- NYLA, NYC
3/17 Remembering the Spuyten Duyvil Lecture Saratoga Springs Public Library


2014
7/20 Spell Breaking Publication Readings, Performances Prague
7/10 Deep Listening Conference EMPAC Dream Awareness Presentation
6/8 Deep Listening On Line Certificate Teachings
April Dream Festival Mural Exhibit @ Kingston Library, Kingston, NY


2013
11/ 15 Reading and performance at The Golden Notebook, Woodstock NY
10/19 Marathon of Dreamers, Ione’s Dream Festival, Deep Listening Institute, Kingston NY
10/5 Sonic Gems: Invocation, Lapis Lazuli, Amethyst, Deep Listening Band 25th Anniversary Concert at Dunrobin Sonic Gym, Ottawa, Canada
8/24 Blessing, Maritime Museum, Kingston Festival, Kingston NY
7/20 Duo Concert with Pauline Oliveros at Back Stage Productions, Kingston NY
6/14 Concert with Cicadas, Cicada Festival, Rotary Park, Kingston, NY
6/1 Nubian Word for Flowers (Scene 1), FirstTake at Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA



2012
6/5 Duo performance with Ione-spoken word, Benefit for International Contemporary Ensemble, Duane Park Restaurant, New York NY
3/24 Locus Sonus, Improvisational Spoken Word, Nantes, France
Brooklyn College, Improvisational Spoken Word, NY 
Issue Project Room, Improvisational Spoken Word, NYC
Roulette, Improvisational Spoken Word Brooklyn, NY
10/18 Oracle Bones; Mirror Dreams – Across the Great Divide Conference- Onassis Center; Athens Greece
 
2011
11/12 Avatar’s Overnight Dreaming: 16th Annual Dream Festival in Second Life
10/8 - Performances of King Kong Sing Along, Rock Piece and Six for New Time, BackStage Productions, O+ Festival, Kingston NY  
http://deeplistening.org/site/content/dream-festival
10/ 1 -Solo performance - Ione's Dream Festival, Stella May Theater, Kingston NY
http://www.kingstonnycalendar.org/2011/09/27/ione%E2%80%99s-16th-annual-dream-festival-gala-opening-day/
http://deeplistening.org/site/content/dream-festival

9/19 Duo Concert with Pauline Oliveros, The Stone, New York City
8/9 Dinner Concert with P.Oliveros & Ione, Home of Philip Gelb, Oakland California
8/7 Deep Listening Retrreat Concert, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
6/4-5 Vocals and Spoken word, Tower Ring for Ann Hamilton Tower – Premiere, Oliver Ranch Foundation,
Geyeserville, CA
5/21 EHRES (Ione, Oliveros, Adams), Suddenly Listen, Saint Matthews United Church,
Halifax, NS
4/17 Tribute to Jill Johnson, Deep Listening Institute, Kingston NY
4/9 Improvisation with the Sun, Moon & Stars, Intermedia performance at the Serralves Foundation, Porto Portugal. http://www.elainesummersdance.com/
2/24 Oracle Bones w/ Pauline Oliveros, Mia Masaoka, Interpretations, Location One, NYC

2010
8/9 Dinner Concert with Ione & P.Oliveros, Home of Philip Gelb, Oakland California
4/21 Oracle Bones (Ione-text, Oliveros-accordion, Masaoka-Koto), UCCC, High Falls NY.
                       Oracle Bones Miller Theater, Columbia University, NY 


2009
10/2, Concert with Ione- spoken word at RISD Auditorium, plus Artists Up Close Q&A Providence RI
10/11 Telematic performance with Alan Courtis (Buenos AIres) Pauline Oliveros (Kingston NY) in the Dream Festival at Deep Listening Institute, Ltd, Kingston NY
4/21 Oracle Bones – premiere peformance with Pauline Oliveros – spoken word, Mia Masaoka-koto & Oliveros – accordion/expanded instrument system in the Festival PhonoFEMME in Vienna AU.
4/21-24 Dreams of the Jungfrau showing of the video, Vienna, AU

2007
4/20 Concert Sound Exchange with Roscoe Mitchell, Saxophone, Chatterjee, Tabla, Pauline Oliveros, American Composer’s Forum at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
7/6 Trio concert with Pauline Oliveros, Philip Dadson, homemade instruments, Auckland NZ
7/7 Duo concert with Pauline Oliveros, Liquid Architecture Festival, Brisbane AU,
7/12 Duo concert with Pauline Oliveros, Liquid Architecture Festival, Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne AU
8/21 World Wide Tuning Meditation and EHRES at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, New York City
8/23 Hidden Forest with Elaine Summers Dance & Film Co. EHRES at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, New York City

2006
2/2 Duo Concert with Pauline Oliveros at Greenwich House Music School, New York
4/21-22 Io and Her and the Trouble with Him, Zaccho Dance Co., Zaccho Studio, San Francisco CA.
9/24 Duo Concert with Ione-spoken word/ sonic vocals, CENART Festival, Centro Multimedia, Mexico City
10/13 Deep Listening Band with Ione, Dream Festival, Drew University, Madison NJ
12/16 Duo Concert with Ione, GRIM Festival, Marseille, France
3/5 Pauline’s Solo with spoken word artist Ione at Deep Listening Space Kingston NY
6/8 Duo performance with Pauline Oliveros at the Centre Dürrenmatt, Neuchatel Switzerland
6/26 Trio performance with Pauline Oliveros and percussionist Vonn New, EMIT, Tampa FL.
10/19 Duo performance with Pauline Oliveros, Mercantile Library, New York NY
11/5-6 Duo performances with Pauline Oliveros, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan

2004
7/1 Quartet concert with Pauline Oliveros, Al Margolis and Sarah Weaver, New Vangard at Deep Listening Space, Kingston NY
7/6 Duo concert with performance poet Ione and EIS, The Saturnalia Festival at Birdland in Madison CT.
July 5-14 Composer-in-Residence with Deep Listening Band at Sound Symposium, St John’s Newfoundland
July 27-30 Deep Listening Workshop at Women of the Skies Retreat Boothbay Harbor ME

August 7-13 Deep Listening Retreat at Big Indian Retreat Center, Big Indian NY

2001
4/13 Union Theater, Madison WI Premiere - Io and Her and the Trouble with Him: an opera directed by Ione with music by Oliveros

1999
10/30 Marseille, France, Concert with Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper and Ione.
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