Sunday, April 26, 2026, 2:00 to 4:00pm

Witness the Fool, a new one man play

The Garden Stage -1731 Carleton Street - Berkeley

featuring the music of The Fertile vOid

An Archetypical April Journey

The terrible beauty of life and death woven together into an exquisite tapestry of love

Reserve tickets ($20 donation) - email carl@whitakercom.com

Witness the Fool is a new two-act one-man play written and performed by Carl Whitaker

and directed by Barri Goldwasser. Join the Fool for a mystical, magical journey through

the realm of caregiving where joy and grief are granted to players and audience in equal

measure. Carl is a Berkeley-based poet and storyteller, who has published two volumes

of poetry, An Ocean of Wholeness and Devotion and Desire. Barri is a performing artist who

accompanies creative processes through a ritual and embodied approach inspired by

ancestral K'iche' Maya wisdom and somatic practices.

Sat May 2, 2026

Islands of Coherence:

A Circle for for Cultivating Grounded Presence, Open Hearts, and Collective Belonging

Green Yogi, 2807 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705

10:30am-1:30pm

Cost: $75-100, no one turned away for lack of funds

This is a new offering from Sonya and Carrie of The Fertile Void; it does not involve performance, but a circle designed for deeper practices for coherence

More info and Get tickets here !

Sat January 31, 2026: Imbolc Celebration

The Berkeley Alembic

5pm

Sat Dec 20, 2025: Community Heartwash: Lullabies and Longing

Chapel of the Flowers, Berkeley

Get tickets here

The Community Heart Wash is an ongoing series of events, a response to these challenging and chaotic times in which we are living. We all need ways to make space for the range of our emotions, internally, and in community, and find ways of coming closer to internal and communal coherence in order to feel our agency and hope in these times. We are inspired by the quote by Belgian chemist Ilya Prigogine: “When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.” The Fertile Void hopes to foster these islands of coherence within each of us individually, and as groups that come together to stand firmly in this sea of chaos, with clarity about what is important…like trees whose root systems meet each other underground and provide support to one another.

The Community Heart Wash is different every time and bridges musical performance, interactive storytelling, and guided meditations, weaving in delights of the senses to bring you into your body and connect with the larger collective body so that you may come out the other side sparkling anew.