Mouth Creates Worlds: A Vocal Mystical Exploration with Victoria Hanna

What does it mean when we say the Hebrew language contains ancient knowledge that can expand our consciousness? Have you ever experienced your voice and speech as a tool for healing and empowerment? International vocal artist Victoria Hanna leads this fascinating exploration of the vocal research she has been conducting for years. In this session, Victoria takes us behind the scenes of her craft and inspiration, from her Orthodox upbringing in Jerusalem and her struggles as a child, to her discovery of the transformative power of language and voice. Together, we’ll learn to feel the human voice, the language, and the letters as raw materials and as a gateway to new spaces of consciousness and creativity. Victoria will demonstrate texts from the oldest Kabbalistic book, Sefer Yetzira ("The Book of Creation"). This groundbreaking work aims to connect us to the primal use of the mouth as a tool of creation. International vocal artist Victoria Hanna is a multi-disciplinary artist and voice and language explorer. She creates and composes along with constant research of the human voice and its possibilities. Hanna draws inspiration from the ancient Hebrew tradition, which relates to the voice, mouth, and letters of the Hebrew alphabet as tools of creation. Hanna has performed at festivals worldwide and alongside Bobby McFerrin, Barbara Tuques, Eugene Hutz. Hanna's sound and video installations have been displayed in institutions such as the Eretz Israel Museum, Jewish Museum Vienna, Jewish Museum Frankfurt, and Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna. Her performance art has been exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, BAM, and New York Kitchen. In 2015, Forbes Magazine selected her as one of the 50 most influential women in Israel, and she was awarded the Rozenblum Award for Outstanding Artists in 2022. Hanna researched and taught at the most distinguished universities around the world, including Yale, Stanford, Berkeley and more.