Dream together on the Summer Solstice.

A group of people sit on yoga mats and chairs in a grassy area outside a large, historic house, surrounded by trees on a sunny day. Some are engaged in activities while others observe or film the event.
Cosmologyscape: Day of Dreaming at Royall House and Slave Quarters. Photo: Cameron Kincheloe

On the longest day of the year, multidisciplinary artists Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta) and Alisha B Wormsley extended their exhibition Welcome to Cosmologyscape to the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts to engage with a broader community of dreamers in Boston.

Centering Black and Indigenous voices while welcoming all, Cosmologyscape: Day of Dreaming held space for a simple but radical question: whose dreams shaped the world we live in today, and whose dreams might allow for a future everyone can thrive in?

A woman with hands pressed together stands outdoors as another person waves smoke toward her, possibly from a ritual or ceremony. Several people are in the background, and the setting appears to be a gathering or festival.
Blessing to the land, space, and day with síofra during Cosmologyscape: Day of Dreaming. Photo: Cameron Kincheloe

Saturday, June 20, 2026 | 12–5 PM

Royall House and Slave Quarters
15 George Street, Medford, Massachusetts
Free, drop in for calming workshops, spend time in community, connect, reflect, and dream together. All welcome.

Schedule of Events

12:30 PM – Welcome to Cosmologyscape Day of Dreaming with Alisha B Wormsley and Kite

12:45 PM – Blessing to the land, space, and day with síofra

1:00 PM – Sound Bath Meditation with Marlene Boyette

2:00 PM – Mindful Movement with síofra

3:00 PM – Our Ancestors Dreams: A Community Circle with Chanelle John

4:00 PM – Meditation and Reiki with síofra

4:30 PM – Closing Remarks

Ongoing offerings from Math3ca, Ja’Hari Ortega and Jordan Nelson, Bosede A. Opetubo, Royall House and Slave Quarters, and more

Two women stand outdoors; one speaks into a microphone wearing traditional attire with large earrings and a decorative belt, while the other stands beside her with eyes closed, both in a grassy area with trees and a brick wall in the background.
[L-R] Kite and Alisha B Wormsley speak at Cosmologyscape: Day of Dreaming. Photo: Cameron Kincheloe
Two women sit on the grass outdoors. One woman in a white dress plays a singing bowl surrounded by white crystal bowls, while the other woman sits nearby with her eyes closed. Orange flowers and a fence are in the background.
Sound bath meditation with Marlene Boyette at Cosmologyscape: Day of Dreaming. Photo: Cameron Kincheloe
Two people stand outside holding up a blue and white tie-dyed cloth together, examining their work. One person wears a sunhat and glasses; the other has a white T-shirt and blue dye on their hand. A green wooden building is behind them.
Indigo dyeing with Jordan Nelson at Cosmologyscape: Day of Dreaming. Photo: Cameron Kincheloe
A person wearing a floral cap and overalls paints on a blue canvas at an outdoor event, holding a drink cup, with people and tents visible in the background.
Painting with Bosede A. Opetubo during Cosmologyscape: Day of Dreaming. Photo: Cameron Kincheloe
A group of people stand on colorful yoga mats in a circle on grass outdoors, with a woman in a yellow dress leading them. Folding chairs and trees surround the group in a residential backyard setting.
Mindful movement with síofra during Cosmologyscape: Day of Dreaming. Photo: Cameron Kincheloe

Cosmologyscape: Day of Dreaming also marked Juneteenth at the Royall House and Slave Quarters, a site of memory where honoring the history of slavery means reckoning with the realities facing BIPOC communities today and dreaming together toward a more just and equitable future.

In the eighteenth century, the plantation was home to the Royalls, the largest slaveholding family in Massachusetts, and at least sixty enslaved women, men, and children whose forced labor helped build the Royall family’s wealth. As one of the only remaining freestanding quarters where enslaved people lived and worked in the North, the museum bears witness to their lives, to the intertwined stories of wealth and bondage in pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts, and to the resistance and political and legal activism of enslaved and free Black people in the eighteenth century.