Fundraising Dinner 2026
Welcome to our Ancient Intelligence online fundraising auction!
This is your chance to get your hands on prime experiences and opportunities, while also supporting an ethical nonprofit fighting for psychedelic justice. Each item up for bid has been generously donated by our supporters, partners, and sponsors, with all proceeds directly benefiting Chacruna Institute. By participating in our auction, you're supporting Chacruna’s mission to promote Indigenous reciprocity, and psychedelic justice.
Thank you for your support, and happy bidding!
Ancient Intelligence:
Art, Ceremony, and Cultural Memory
Ancient Intelligence: Art, Ceremony, and Cultural Memory is an intimate fundraising dinner celebrating art as a living practice of cultural expression and knowledge. Through visual art, spoken word, traditional song, music, and conversation, this evening honors artists who work within and across cultural traditions - keeping ancestral practices alive while creating new forms of expression. These practices have carried knowledge and wisdom across human societies throughout history and remain vital in communities worldwide today. We’ll hear from artists about what their work means within their cultural contexts, experience performances that draw on deep lineages, and engage in dialogue about the role of art in sustaining communities.
Saturday, April 18th from 7:00 PM - 10:30 PM
FUNDRAISER AGENDA
Saturday, April 18
from 7 pm to 10:30 pm
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Visual art as the first encounter with cultural memory. Dinner available upon arrival.
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René Alvarado Martínez is a visionary artist from the Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca, Mexico. His art explores ancestral knowledge surrounding sacred mushrooms, Mazatec culture, and language, emphasising the innate wisdom of women and the transformative power of symbolic connections to the self, nature, and spirituality. With a 20-year artistic journey, René draws inspiration from pre-Hispanic art, Expressionism, Pop Art, Abstract Art, and Surrealism. He employs diverse materials, including natural pigments, cochineal, clay, threads, ant stone, and obsidian blades. His works have been featured in over 60 exhibitions worldwide, including Madre Tierra at St. Teresa University in New York and Future Visions in Denver, Colorado, alongside renowned artists. René’s latest solo exhibition, El Despertar de la Conciencia (2023), was held in Loyola Donostia. His acclaimed piece Simbiosis is part of Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology’s collection.
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Kemmi Sadler is a retired U.S. Diplomat and Supervisory Special Agent with the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service. Over a 26-year career in law enforcement and international security, she served in high-threat assignments across Iraq, Afghanistan, Uganda, Mexico, and El Salvador, earning multiple Superior Honor Awards for leadership and crisis response. Her service began as a police officer in St. Augustine, Florida. After leaving government, Kemmi founded Tall Pine Grove, a developing wellness retreat in the Ozarks dedicated to first responders and others carrying the invisible wounds of trauma. She also created Legalize the Divine, an advocacy platform focused on religious freedom and safe, legal access to nature-based healing traditions. Kemmi is the author of the forthcoming memoir From the Badge to the Vine: A Federal Agent’s Awakening Through Ayahuasca.
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Item description
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Cassandra Muileboom is a qualifying psychotherapist with a specialization in trauma and addictions. She also focuses on Adlerian psychology, which is the psychology of Community and belonging. She is passionate about helping the most vulnerable gain affordable mental health services.
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Devora Elise Sostman is a somatic psychotherapist, psychedelic facilitator, retreat leader and ceremonial musician whose work is devoted to the integration of psychotherapy and sound. She received a rigorous scientific and ethical foundation in psychedelic medicine through working at the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research and has since accumulated thousands of hours supporting hundreds of deeply intentional and personalized healing journeys across the United States, Mexico, Israel and Peru. Her work also includes collaboration with clinics such as MycoMeditations, Mission Within, and Psychedelic Passage and spans multiple entheogenic lineages, including psilocybin, iboga, ayahuasca, and 5- MeO-DMT. Devora currently works as a therapist at Inner-Tribal Treatment, a holistic rehabilitation center in San Diego County serving Native American communities through integrative and culturally grounded psychological care. In parallel with her clinical work.
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A bridge between experience and impact. Strong invitation to bid before the night ends.
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Gratitude and continuity
Speakers
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Bia Labate
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Cassandra Muileboom
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Clancy Cavnar
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Devora Elise Sostman
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Kemmi Sadler
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René Alvarado Martínez