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Mario Layne Fabrizio

Embrace the Flow: The Art of Ritual

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Use the mysterious power of ritual to fuel your creativity and intuition.

Join Mario Layne Fabrizio as he dives into an enlightening exploration of ritual, intuition, and the uncharted realms of dreams. In this engaging and thought-provoking presentation, Mario shares how embracing the flow of life—without rigid expectations—can lead to profound creativity and deeper self-awareness. Learn to see ritual not as a set of rules but as a way to enhance your perspective and connect with your intuition. Through stories, humor, and practical insights, you’ll walk away inspired to explore your dreams and daily rituals as powerful tools for personal growth and artistic expression. Mario Layne Fabrizio is a visual artist, composer, drummer, percussionist, filmmaker, and writer. His work has been featured on stages and in media across the world for their “infectious enthusiasm” and “surreal, trippy dreamscapes.

About the speaker

MARIO LAYNE FABRIZIO is an artist that presents with honesty, beauty, and magic. Each of his works is an adventure. He creates as a visual artist, composer, drummer, percussionist, filmmaker, and writer.

Around the world, MARIO has been presented at The Whitney Museum, Salzburg Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Panama Jazz Festival, Birdland, Kunming’s International Drum Festival, and the Kennedy Center. He has performed with notable musicians such as Cecil Mcbee, Claudio Roditi, Nilson Matta, Santi DeBriano, Joe Morris, Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko, Jason Palmer, Oran Etkin, Noah Preminger, and Volker Goetze.

Works he’s premiered include The Black Clown at American Repertory Theatre, Arturo O'Farrill’s Little Tiny Walls, and showcasing in Jason Moran’s STAGED exhibition. London Jazz News describes him pretty accurately as "ferocious but subtle," and Steve Smith of On The Record says that he presents “with assurance, charisma and infectious enthusiasm.”

Compositions of his have been acknowledged by The New York Times, AllMusic, FranceMusique, and you may find in-depth interviews about his visual art and multimedia works that are said to be “surreal, trippy dreamscapes” (Seattle Met) in Seattle Refined, KOMO News as the artist of the week, JazzTimes, and most recently in Earshot. MARIO’s works have been commissioned by National Sawdust, and recently, he completed a triptych mural project for MadArt.

Poetry and language exist to MARIO as a means of compressing abstract thought into stories, some of which are his published poetry in Art and Letters and his features at Boston’s Intercollegiate Poetry Festival and Grolier. He has won awards, grants, and/or fellowships with YoungArts, MassMOCA, Assets for Artists, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Mass Cultural Council, San Francisco EBCP, and the Foundation for Contemporary Art.

MARIO graduated with a BA in Jazz Studies from Boston’s prestigious New England Conservatory in 2018 and throughout that time, he studied with an array of teachers like Jabali Billy Hart, Cecil McBee, Joe Morris, Vijay Iyer, and Jason Moran. Studies before college were also formative and inspiring as he worked through the various programs with New Jersey’s Jazz House Kids, a jazz and community program run by Melissa Walker and Christian McBride.

Currently, his art exhibition “THE LAST MAGICIAN” is installed from January - March 2024 at AXIS GALLERY in Pioneer Square.

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