Lectures, hosting, panels & conversation
Public Speaking
Storytelling, hosting and conversation as an art form. On stage she shapes a live dramaturgy of voices, introducing, questioning and listening, so that an audience meets artists and ideas in depth.
Lectures & workshops
- 2026Embassy of the Free Mind & Ritman LibraryLucid Dreaming Workshop
- 2025Spirit of Amsterdam FestivalSpinoza, Nature & Metaphysics, lecture-performance in the Uilenburgersjoel (sold out)
- 2025LUCA School of ArtsEntangled Dreaming, a day-long performance and dream-incubation workshop
- 2024Van Gogh MuseumVan Gogh’s Droom, lecture-performance for Vincent op Vrijdag
- 2024OFR Gallery, ParisTarot & the Surreal, spoken-word lecture-performance
- OnlineAdvayaDreams, a six-module course, and the webinar Dream Technology with Saelyx Finna
- 2024International Association for the Study of DreamsWorkshop at the Annual Conference
- 2023University of ExeterLecture at the Exeter Psychedelic Colloquium
- 2022–24Arizona · Hamburg · Berlin · BernConference presentations on the history of lucid dreaming research
Hosting & presenting
- 2025North Sea Jazz FestivalHost of a panel on spiritual jazz with two Grammy-nominated artists; curator and presenter of the three-day live broadcast on NPO 2 Extra & NPO Start
- 2023–Crossing Border FestivalAnnual host of the Attic stage, introducing writers and musicians and leading conversations on stage
- 2025Lago Lago FestivalMarieke McKenna’s Morning Salute, her own stage, curated, hosted and presented
- 2024Transition Festival, TivoliVredenburgPanel Women in Jazz
- 2023De Groene AmsterdammerCo-curator and producer of the 145th anniversary evening with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, ITA
- 2024–26NPO Soul & JazzHost of the weekly national radio show Round Midnight
- 2021Super Sonic Jazz, ParadisoFestival presenter
Conversations
More than two hundred interviews with artists, scientists, philosophers, psychologists and musicians, on national radio, on festival stages and for research.
Interviews & podcastsas a guest
- 2026Dreams, Consciousness and the Uncharted Inner SpaceMangu.TV Podcast · listen →
- 2025The Messages in Our DreamsThe World Needs Creatives, with Rachael Sardelich · listen →
- 2025Dream Philosopher & Historian, Renaissance WomanInitiations, with Jules Ferrari · listen →
- 2025In conversation with SiemOperator Radio · listen →
- 2025The MusesPodcast with Amanda Noordgaard
- 2024Altered States of Consciousness on the Border between Science & ArtFollow the Mushroom · listen →
- 2022InnerScapes #14: Dromen (Dreams)Echo Box Radio, with Sophia Batovrina · listen →
Juries & selection
Prinses Christina Concours Jazz; 3VOOR12 Album of the Year; annual selection committee of Popronde; panels for GRAP, VNPF, De Coöperatie, Popunie and Popradar at TivoliVredenburg, Eurosonic Noorderslag and Melkweg.