Metta Grove
UPCOMING SHOWS:
* FINAL SHOWS FOR REALM 1 *
May 24, 2025 - Kamloops, BC - TICKETS
Jun 1, 2025 - Winnipeg, MB - TICKETS
The following are tentative - sign up for my Newsletter to be notified when tickets go on sale
Sep 11 - Vancouver, BC
Sep 14 - Nanaimo, BC
Oct 4 - Vernon, BC
Oct 5 - Revelstoke, BC
Nov 7 - Ottawa, ON
Nov 8+9 - Montreal, QC
Previous Show Listings Here
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Metta Grove is a cinematic visionary art concert with roots in guided meditation, and psychedelic experience.
Merging the essence of meditative sound journeys, music concerts, cinematic films, and mesmerizing psychedelic visuals, this concert is a multimedia symphony that elicits nourishing relaxation, wonder, and euphoria.
Metta - derived from the Pali language, an ancient tongue composed of Buddhist scriptures. The following can be attributed; loving-kindness, friendliness, goodwill, benevolence, fellowship, non-violence, and an active interest in others.
Grove - a small wood, orchard, or group of trees.
Simon Haiduk is a multimedia artist working with several visual art and sonic mediums in themes that emphasize nature and spiritual energy. Many years of thematic creativity have led to a synthesis of expressions as a cinematic audiovisual concert.
This concert features stunning visuals of Simon’s digital paintings transformed into animations. The animations are woven with layers of light and sound in a harmonious fusion. The soundtrack is a dynamic range of musical experiences from various artists, carefully curated to engage your soul, with heartwarming melodies, ambient spaces and pulsing rhythms.
Simon will also give a live presentation on insights about his creative inspiration, tools, process and integration of plant medicines. His partner, Jane Calm, a somatic therapeutic counselor, will give a presentation on everyone’s inherited access to psychic abilities.
Metta Grove is a meditation on our intrinsic connection to nature and the foundations of this reality as light and sound. Please join us for this rejuvenating immersive experience in an unforgettable night of inspired spiritual connection, musical majesty and visionary art that will leave you in awe.
The typical event with including intermission around 2hrs in duration.
Featuring music by:
Simon Haiduk : Yaima : Desert Dwellers : Kisnou : Equanimous : Activation : We Saw Lions : Evan Fraser : Vir McCoy : Soriah : Anilah : Liquid Bloom : Sophia Ocean : Natalie Lain
With meditations by : Jane Calm
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Reviews:
“Inspired emotions of connection & pure raw love. A radiant joy” - Camara Cassin
“Metta Grove was a powerful and mesmerizing event that skillfully combined the sharing of visionary ideas with the immersive experience of Simon Haiduk’s gorgeous music-accompanied digital animations.” - “Stephen Gray, editor/contributor, How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out.
"Loved my time at Metta Grove with Simon Haiduk and Jane Calm A transformative quest, A visionary journey of remembrance, Remembering wisdom of the ancestors, and the deep teachings of nature. Remembering transmissions from our higher selves, and our future selves. Inspiring, uplifting and guiding." - Delvin Solkisin, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors Journal
"I want to thank you for the deepest place in my soul for last night. I had such a healing experience. I was moved and continue to be this morning. I am an artist too, and I am inspired by you and your expressions. I believe in your message. Thank you (and lovely Jane) for so generously sharing with us. I could feel the healing in the audience last night...it was palpable." - Carmella Lesiuk
Thank you for the Metta Grove experience! What you artistically demonstrated was truly masterful, I was in a state of awe throughout the show. Felt like a guided meditation through an energy of unconditional love and understanding. - Taylor Aucoin - Agora Marketplace
"Simon, your show was one of the best shows I’ve seen. I'm grateful to have been there; it was so beautiful & resonated so well; magic & infallible was what I'd describe it." - Dwight Acorda
"Such a genuine and loving community event, lacking all the pretentiousness and posturing that for years turned me away from the seekers path. Super grateful for you both and was so happy to share the experience w my daughter who is just discovering these realms for herself. Blessings to you guys for your authentic sharing" - Sonja Rue
"Extremely beautiful and profoundly moving. This performance took me to some deep places inside, while at the same time I was riveted by the visuals. A great example of the potential of Art." - Aaron Banfield
"It was an amazing concert and such a transformational experience!" - Kristal Armstrong
"Wow! That was incredible! Thanks, you two! Jane's intro was very edu-taining, and her gift was well received 😉 Simon's whole show was incredible! I found myself going to Soo many places and closing my eyes in meditation, only to open them to those mind blowing beautiful animations of auras and animals and pulsing expanding Nature...Truly blessed to have experienced this! Thank you, from the deepest parts of my DNA! 💗🍄☀️💫" - Lisa Archibald
"Absolutely incredible show, your visuals brought me back home to myself!!! 🙏❤️🌿 Thank you for your work!" - Haley Jane
“An awe inspiring achievement” - Dr. Joel
“Simon's show was a remarkable representation of many deeply personal journeys into a realm of spirit connection, journeys that we are usually not so able to share with so many others around us, and when we do share it, it creates a very powerful sense of community.” -Alon Gelcer
"An awe inspiring synergy of art and music that guides you on an epic journey." - Eli Mead
"Beautiful. Magical. . Moving. Connection to nature, spirit and the universe." - Laurita Roberts
"Simon’s audio/visual presentation was a magical journey intertwining enchanting sounds with amazing artwork." - Tina Seigler
"you and Jane left me amazed. Finally I felt I was on the same wavelength of everyone around me. Really hope the dome experience will happen soon. You guys are amazing and so real. I loved it. I'm so thankful for humans like you who can express into words and into art what I can't even say with words. All the best." - Marta Zampieri
"Your art is phenomenal and the way you connect nature and spirit is enlightening. It was a magical experience, and so awesome that you encourage the meditation, the exploration, everything. Thank you for the amazing experience." - Rachelle Tink
"Jane was so sweet and real—she’s silly in the most heartwarming way. There’s an overwhelming sense of coziness when someone speaks the truth in the lighthearted way that Jane does.
The show is ineffable. Maybe this is a more accurate way of putting it—the show brings light and vision to the ineffable. Bringing your body of work together like that and bringing people together like that is special." - Candace Coombs
"You've really created something so special, so important, so sacred. I'm so grateful for you sharing your intimate relationship and knowing of the unseen dimensional layers around us. That was truly a powerful ceremony" - Kya Dubois
"I love how you and Jane curated the evening. It felt like a very intentionally held space, with energy to support a collective healing. I love, love, love!!! that you two have chosen to go out into the world and empower these shared moments for everyone." - Shannon Duncan
"I was was profoundly touched. Incredible, Incredible work. I could listen to both of you all day!" - Rhonda McKinnon
"I am overwhelmed with the beautiful messages that were presented to everyone in the audience. I feel like the state of awareness presented was something I could never truly describe in words. I thank you so much for that. The connection to a realm only felt by few but continuously within everyone. I am left with so many questions because my "now" reality is not the same as the reality I experienced during the show." - Jessica LeBlanc
"Absolutely incredible! I still get chills down my spine, contemplating the cinematic art experience and the overall messages of our deep interconnectedness with nature and the spiritual essence of our physical reality, ever-evolving as light and sound. Thank you, thank you, thank you for creating and sharing with the world your beautiful work!" - Marina S
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