IONE is an author, playwright and director whose seminal work, Pride of Family; Four Generations of American Women of Color, has been published as a Classic by Doubleday/Broadway Books. (October 2004) This memoir is a New York Times Notable Book, and was on the New York Public Library’s List of 25 Books to Remember.  

Other works by Ione include Listening in Dreams, Deep Listening Press 2005 This is a Dream; a Handbook for Deep Dreamers, MOM Press, 2000,The Coffee Table Lover, 1986 Piramida Negra; Collected Poems from 1971-1991,1991 The Night Train to Aswan, 1996 Ione’s Diaries were published in American Women’s Diaries 1830s-1970s, Ballantine Books 1986. Her first published fiction appeared in 1957 in Arcadie; Revue Litteraire, a magazine launched by Jean Cocteau and others in Paris.     

IONE’S is writer and director of Dreams of the Jungfrau with Music and  Sound Design by Pauline Oliveros.  Jungfrau  is a 20 minute Experimental short which premiered in New York City in October of 2007 at the Emily Harvey Foundation. It will next be shown in Cork, Ireland at the Quiet Music Festival on July 6, 2008.   

IONE is also an improvising Spoken Word performer who specializes in experimental narrative forms. She has performed and collaborated with artists at festivals and venues in numerous cities and countries throughout the world, including New York, Paris, Marseille, Brussels, Granada, Seville, Austria, New Brunswick, Montreal, Auckland, NZ , Brisbane and Melbourne Australia. She sent her text and voice to the surface of the moon in 1998 as a part of composer Pauline Oliveros’ Echoes from the Moon.

IONE was the Director and Playwright of Njinga The Queen King; The  Return of a Warrior with Music and Sound Design by Pauline Oliveros which premiered at  BAM's Next Wave Festival in 1993.  Njinga’s performances include : Yellow Springs Institute, PA, Walker Arts Center, Red Eye Theater, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Lincoln Center Out of Doors’95, Folger Shakespeare Theater , Washington, DC, ’96, Prince George Publick Playhouse, ’97, Mills College, ’98.  This work is forthcoming in 2008 on DVD from Mode Records.  She was the Director and author of the Story Line for Oliveros’ The Lunar Opera ; Deep Listening For_Tunes , Premiere; Lincoln Center , August, 2000 .  She was Director and Librettist of Io  and Her and the Trouble with Him- A Dance Opera in Primeval Time.  Music and Sound Design by Pauline Oliveros. Premiere: Union Theater University of Wisconsin, in April, 2001. ( Io is currently available on DVD). Ione was the Director of  Library of Maps by Moira Roth at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY,in April 2002.   She has lectured at numerous Universities and other venues and was a visiting Professor at Mills College in 1998.    IONE is also a counselor and spiritual teacher whose work focuses on dreams, heritage and women’s issues. She is the Director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc. an organization specializing in women’s spirituality and creativity with goals of supporting the concept of world harmony and balance. She has been the Artistic Director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. since 1995.  

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Curriculum Vitae IONE  

IONE  is an author, diarist, critic and playwright.   She is also an accomplished Ministerial Therapist, specializing in in myth and heritage , dream phenomena and women’s issues.   Other By Lines include : Carole Ione and Carole Bovoso     AUTHOR POET   PLAYWRIGHT DIRECTOR       Pride of Family; Four Generations of American Women of Color, (as Carole Ione).A New York Times Notable Book , New York Public Library’s List of 25 Books to Remember- Summit  Books. 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, The Coffee Table Lover,  Piramida Negra;  Collected Poems from 1971-1991, The Night Train to Aswan.  Diaries Published in American Women’s Diaries 1830s-1970s, Ballantine Books    Articles: ( as Carole Bovoso) Village Voice (Frequent Contributor), Oggi, The Christian Science Monitor, Essence, The Gannett Chain, Vogue Magazine, Oui, Gallery Magazine, MS, Working Woman, American Film, Ambassador Magazine, Soho News, Chronogram. Poetry Choices Reporter, Village Voice, Contributing Editor Essence Magazine  Fiction: Arcadie Revue Litteraire, Paris   Producer: WBAI Radio: Letters; A Magazine on the Air   Editor: Letters Magazine an international Literary Forum for Women and Men, founded in 1974 (Publishing Occasionally)   THEATER 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 ‘93, Lincoln Center Out of Doors’95,Folger Shakespeare Theater , Washington, DC, ’96, Prince George Publick Playhouse, ’97. Meeting in Luanda, Mills College, ’98 Director/Story Line The Lunar Opera; Deep Listening For_tunes,-Lincoln Center Out of Doors, 2000 Director: Concept and Librettist: Io and Her and the Trouble with Him- A Dance Opera in Primeval Time Premiere: Union Theater University of Wisconsin, April, 2001 Director: Library of Maps by Moira Roth- Pauline Oliveros, RPI , Troy, NY April 2002 FILM/VIDEO: Dreams of the Jungfrau, 2007 a 20 Minute Experimental Narrative Film Written and Directed by Ione with Music and Sound Design by Pauline Oliveros Mirage 16 mill..film co-directed with Hugues Lavergne, ’83 A Dream Video- Co-directed and produced with Sally Kaplan, ’84                    PRODUCER     POSITIONS     LANGUAGES       Ione’s Annual Dream Festival, Gallery at Deep Listening Space, Kingston 96-08   Co- Producer Njinga the Queen King  A Tribute to E.B. White City Center, NY     Letters; A Literary Forum on the Air -WBAI FM   A Dream Festival  New York Shakespeare Public Theatre    Letters; A magazine in Performance, New York Shakespeare Public Theatre    Everybody’s Dream by James Lecesne, Shadnol Theatre    One Man Band by James Lecesne, New Foundland Theatre ?    A Dream Festival  Letters Gallery, NYC ?    One Fine Morning in the Middle of the Night, By Harold Schaffer, Directed by John Cullum and choreographed by Emily Frankel ?    The Courtyard  A Happening by Alan Kaprow, NYC ?    Masked Ball an event including the Reneaissance Players and the Living Theater in NYC ?    Artistic Director Renaissance House, Inc.  ’61 ?    Poetry Instructor: NY StatePoets in the Schools ‘75- ‘85 ?    Director: Manhattan Theater Club Writers in Performance ‘86 ?    Curator :Gallery at Deep Listening Space ‘96-’present ?    Visiting Professor, Mills College, Fall 1998 ?    Co- Artistic Director Pauline Oliveros Foundation, Inc. ‘87-‘01 ?    Artistic Director The Pauline Oliveros Foundation, Inc ( Deep Listening Institute, Ltd..’01-  present ?    Director Ministry of Maat, Inc. ‘96-present ?    Fluent French ( reading, writing and speaking)  Excellent reading and  comprehension of romance languages   READINGS   PRESENTATIONS    WORKSHOPS    ?    Skidmore College, New School for Social Research, Teacher and Writers Collaborative, City College of New York, The Actor’s Guild, Manhattan Theater Club, Franklin Furnace, Smith College, others. ?    Radio: NPR : 51%, Fresh Air, WBAI/others.  ?    Television: CBS Night Watch ,SCETV, others. ?    Open Center, SUNY, Dutchess County College, Omega Institute, Esalen Institute, New York Geneological Society,  NY Public Library, Howard U., College of Charleston and others   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 Lettters Magazine and Live Letters Presentations , City of Kingston and Institute of Noetic Sciences and The Fetzner Foundation for Ione’s Annual Dream Festival.   FELLOWSHIPS   MEMBERSHIPS     ?    The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Edward Albee Foundation, The Writer’s Room, Teachers and Writers Collaborative ?    Poets and Writers ?    The National Writer’s Union ?    The Author’s Guild EDUCATION     ?    High School of Music and Art, Class of ‘55 ?    Bennington College Class of ’59 ?    Helix Institute for Psychotherapy and Healing Class of ’86 ?    Chinese Healing Arts Center Class of ‘93 BOARD MEMBER     Secretary, Former Vice-President, Board of Trustees: Deep Listening Instiitute, Ltd. A Not for Profit Arts organization nurturing the creation of new work and state of the art technology.  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.    iodreams@deeplistening.org / http://www.ionedreams.us   

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