The District House (Wed. 06/24 with Lindsay Kent)

The District House is a weekly gathering and core benefit of District216. Guests are welcome to arrive for part or all of the evening to meet community members, connect with visiting speakers, and engage in thoughtful conversations across psychedelics, wellness, creativity, and conscious culture. 💜

Topic: "The Powers of Narrative: Stories and The Psychedelic Renaissance"

Description: Stories are how we make sense of the world. And right now, the stories we tell about psychedelics may matter just as much as the science. The psychedelic renaissance is expanding fast: into medicine, media, wellness, policy, and pop culture. But beneath the science and the headlines lies something deeper. This is also a storytelling revolution.

Filmmaker, author, and psychedelic historian Lindsay Kent (aka The Hallucinarrator) joins District216 to explore how narratives shape the way society understands altered states: what we fear, what we romanticize, what we commercialize, and what we integrate.

Lindsay will share clips and excerpts from her work as she unpacks:

• Why stories are often more persuasive than data
• How narrative builds bridges between psychedelic subculture and mainstream audiences
• The ethical responsibility of creators in a rapidly growing movement
• How fiction, comedy, and film can communicate inner experience without preaching
• Why the "war on consciousness" is ultimately a war over perception and meaning

When: Wednesday, June 24, 2026 from 5pm to 9pm (Speaker at 6:30pm)

Where: LoDo Studios, 216 E. Gutierrez Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(Please only park across the street on the Office Max side of the lot.)

Members are Free to attend The District House evenings, and are prioritized when we reach capacity.

Guests Welcome to purchase $25 tickets to The District House evenings.

Note: We will be filming the speaker for the District216 Change Your Lens Series. Refreshments provided.

Speaker: Lindsay Kent, Author/Filmmaker, Founder of The Hallucinarrator

Lindsay Kent is a multimedia storyteller, filmmaker, and author working at the luminous edges of consciousness and culture. Known as The Hallucinarrator, she has spent the past decade directing three international feature films, producing a Hulu documentary on LGBTQ families, and creating branded work for nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies alike. Her 2014 documentary Going Furthur retraced the arc of America's counterculture through a psychedelic lens, and her docuseries Plant Medicine follows the inner world of an Ayahuasca retreat center in Costa Rica. In recent years Lindsay has returned to her first love: fiction. Blending a filmmaker's eye with a psychonaut's curiosity, her stories blur the line between science and spirit, and between cinema and literature. At the heart of it all is a singular mission: to welcome more seekers into the mystery through stories anyone can access and everyone can feel.

Info: Meet District216 members and guests while enjoying snacks and beverages.

Info: Lindsay Kent

Info: Chat about what you just experienced and integrate a bit.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

Get App

Host or Publisher District216