Believe In It Alive is one part ritual and one part show about making new loops. Protesting the pessimism and despair of the modern era’s common beliefs: we’re all irreversibly divided, the good is over, things are getting worse. Braeden creates new beliefs of hope: we can change the world, we can come together, we are in control of the present moment.

The first step to create more light is to believe it’s possible. This show is about step one.

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For Braeden, step two involved summoning poetry from a pagan ritual in their backyard and summoning a new identity and a new set of electronic loop machine beat poems from a god called Cernunnos. Even if it was all made up, it worked. Braeden feels better, heals better, has hope to spare, and new loops to share.

For other people, step two will probably look different.