QUALIA at Fiske, Boulder

A full-dome film experience combining the transformative powers of sound, ancient wisdom traditions, and cutting-edge technology to awaken your senses, deepen your connection with nature, and inspire inner transformation.

Hosted at the planetarium of Fiske
2414 Regent Dr, Boulder, CO

Come early and visit our Exploration Area, designed to spark connection, introspection, and meaningful conversation. Pause, set your intention, and engage with tools that deepen your path of exploration and discovery before your QUALIA journey begins.

May 11th, 2025 Show at 5:45 PM

• 5:00 PM ~ Exploration & Tuning Area
• 5:20 PM ~ Pre-Show Performance
• 5:45 PM ~ Show Time (~50 min)
• 6:35 PM ~ Meet the Creator + Share Your Qualia

May 11th, 2025 Show at 7:30 PM

• 6:50 PM ~ Exploration & Tuning Area
• 7:10 PM ~ Pre-Show Performance
• 7:30 PM ~ Show Time (~50 min)
• 8:20 PM ~ Meet the Creator + Share Your Qualia

Post-Show Panelists:

• Laura Inserra (Creator, Sound Alchemist, and Producer)
• Dr. John Keller (Director of Fiske Planetarium and Planetary Scientist)
• Dr. Erica Ellingson (Astrophysicist and Planetary Scientist)
• Amanda Wimmer-Flint (Space Flight Visualizer and Digital Theater Technician)

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration." ~ Nikola Tesla

QUALIA is an immersive sound and visual journey into the magic of life. It invites you to transcend space and time, dissolve boundaries, and reconnect with the deeper layers of your being. Through music and imagery, QUALIA creates a space where you become the creator of your own experience, perceiving a reality that is uniquely yours.

The word qualia refers to the unique, subjective experiences each of us has—the colors we see, the emotions we feel, the meaning we assign to the world around us. It reminds us that reality is not something outside of us, but something we co-create within.

A full-dome film experience designed for planetariums, QUALIA takes you on a journey through the 5 Elements – Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space – as a pathway into grounding, connecting, envisioning, harmonizing, and integrating. You are the creator of your own experience, conceiving realities only you can perceive.

The music is an offering of sound as medicine, created to connect deeply with ourselves, the natural world, and the larger mystery of life. Composed and performed by sound alchemist Laura Inserra, featuring ceremonial instruments that have been used for centuries in sacred traditions around the world. The visuals, drawn from real-world imagery and scientific data, offer a reverent homage to the beauty and authenticity of what is real in a time when so much around us is simulated.

QUALIA invites you to step beyond the ordinary and into a place of awe and wonder. It is up to you to experience QUALIA as a transformative journey, an immersion into beauty, a booster for creativity, a physical, mental, and emotional release, or a joyful and meaningful time to share with your friends and beloved ones.

This is your QUALIA. Let your journey begin...

ABOUT CHAMBERS OF AWE

Founded by Laura Inserra, Chambers of AWE is a mission-driven production company rooted in 30 years of experience in immersive productions, global cross-cultural studies, and healing practices.

Our passion is to help overcome the growing imbalance between humans and nature, our loss of community, and detachment from ancient wisdom.

We facilitate immersive and transformative experiences designed to enhance profound shifts of consciousness, deepen our relationship with nature, and facilitate inner transformation and healing.

Our productions feature musical journeys crafted with ceremonial instruments and field recordings, enhanced with 360º visuals and CGI content anchored in ancient cross-cultural wisdom and human-made art.

We use cutting-edge technology to augment some of the natural sound sources, creating immersive environments with a vast spectrum of frequencies, perceptible through our bones and other meta-sensory receptors. In these settings music becomes experiential.

The immersive 360º visuals give a deeper layer of introspection, providing a lens that our naked eyes alone cannot reveal. This allows us to look at the vastness of reality with new eyes, seeing ordinary life in extraordinary ways.

www.chambersofawe.com

ABOUT LAURA INSERRA

Laura Inserra is a world-renowned leader in sound healing - a sound alchemist, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and multimedia producer. She lives and creates at the confluence of global music, ancient wisdom traditions, and cutting-edge technology.

Laura grew up in Sicily and has been exploring the power of sound since her youth. She has decades of worldwide industry experience in soundtrack and sound design for movies, performing arts, and site-specific installations, as well as immersive multidisciplinary productions.

Laura plays hundreds of rare ancient and modern instruments from around the world - Zapotec clay flutes, Mongolian jaw harp, Tibetan bowls, Laotian khen, Australian didgeridoo, African djembe, various shamanic drums, numerous percussions, and unique custom-made instruments, including many made by her.

Combining her intimate knowledge of music with her spiritual studies, Laura developed MetaMusic Healing, gaining recognition in the NYT bestseller "Your Brain on Art" by Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen. Her work has been chosen by Johns Hopkins for a research project around the benefit of music, aiming to uncover how music can amplify the therapeutic effects of psychedelics, enhance well-being, and expand our understanding of consciousness.

Laura conducts transformative leadership retreats and corporate programs with senior executive teams of companies such as Google X, Walmart, and Synergos. She is also actively engaged in creating immersive experiences and as a public speaker in the most cutting-edge conferences such as BrainMind, MAPS, and Wisdom 2.0

www.laurainserra.com

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, United States