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A living series of immersive experience in music, presence, coherence & culture
Inaugural event~The Un-Masquerade
By @kat.marenzi •from @thespace.love

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Joy Fest LA ~ An Un-Masquerade 🎭 began the moment my unmasking stopped being personal & became a call to gather.

After my TEDx talk, the message wanted to move beyond the stage & become something people could enter, feel & experience together.

That calling became @joyfest_la

A room where story, music, movement, coherence & connection became something people could feel. Where performance was art, not armor.

On March 8, 2026, we gathered at @PrimalMovesVenice for the inaugural Joy Fest LA ~ An Un-Masquerade.

The day had an arc ~ from aerial silks & @TedxPacificAvenue voices to acro yoga, movement, a warm shared curry meal, ceremonial tea, cacao, music, two immersive Un-Masquerade experiences & a room slowly opening into coherence.

The whole day moved like an EDM set. The drop began with two violinists sharing a stage for the very first time ~ Grammy-winning @nathalieboninmusic & award-winning violinist @emergewithemer 🎻 🎻

That day had a frequency.

And yes ~ we actually measured the joy! 🧡Nathalie Bonin’s @nathalieboninmusic live @biometric.study, captured the room’s heart coherence in real time. Faith, science & energy have never needed to choose sides.

What began on the @TedxPacificAvenue stage led by Richard Greene @thecivicsdean at @theKINN.co ~ “How Losing My Hair Revealed My Real Power” ~ became something we could only fully understand once it happened in the room.

The future is not abstract. It looked, for a moment, like a little girl in a purple tutu moving through the room with complete freedom. It lives in the way we gather, move, nourish ourselves & choose joy.

Joy is part of the blueprint. So is dance.

Deep gratitude to @PrimalMovesVenice , @thekinn.co & every person who helped bring this beginning to life.

@joyfest_la continues. Next ~ Regenerative Living.

~ @kat.marenzi Founder of Joy Fest LA

And thank you @joonaskent for making this reel feel as alive as the day itself 🎥✨

#theSpacelove #joyfestla taken in Venice Beach, California by @joyfest_la

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5 months ago

JOY FEST LA ~ The Un-Masquerade

There comes a moment
when performing stops working.

When the roles feel heavy.
When the armor feels unnecessary.
When you’re ready to feel something real again.

Joy Fest LA is a full-day immersive experience designed to move you ~ mentally, emotionally, physically.

TEDx speakers sharing lived truth.
Cacao & ceremonial tea.
Acro + somatic experiences.🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏼‍♂️
A nourishing shared meal.
A co-creative Un~Masquerade.
A limited live biometric study exploring coherence through sound.

Natalie opens the show.
Emer ignites the dance floor ~ launching a 90-minute EDM Dance.

The arc of the day mirrors a powerful EDM journey.

We gather.
We build.
We soften.
A living pause.
And then ~ the drop.

Live violin meets bass.
Music reorganizes the nervous system.
Breath opens. The body releases.
Something locked begins to move.

Rhythm.
Resonance.
A room full of people ready to evolve.

People leave lighter.
Clearer.
More connected to themselves ~ and to each other.

If you’ve been craving something honest, embodied, alive ~
this is your room.

And if you feel that pull reading this,
trust it.

March 8, 2026 · Primal Moves · Venice

Secure your place now ↓

Some events fill your calendar.
This one shifts your trajectory.

#JoyFestLA #UnMasquerade #theSpacelove taken in Venice Beach, California by @joyfest_la

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8 months ago

The way @ClaraNaum highlighted forgiveness in her Un-Masquerade facilitation brought real depth to the day. It was immersive, experiential & you could feel that immediately.

She brought people face to face with the masks they wear & the weight those masks hold. When the mask loosened, you could feel what had been waiting underneath it.

People felt that for days.

Grateful for the care & depth Clara brought to the immersive experience. She turned a gathering into something genuinely transformative.

@joshmoreland 🎥
@jaredadams.png 🎥
@jeremy.greenberg 🎥

#theSpacelove #joyfestla #forgiveness taken in Venice Beach, California by @joyfest_la

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6 months ago

Every year at the Temple, I leave a simple message for my parents.

This year I wrote,
I love you YiaYia & Papou. I miss you. Katerina.

I turned the corner, thinking I’d write something else.

I never got to it.

Less than one minute later, I looked down & saw, written in black marker:

Pete loves Helen. 🖤

Then, on the next small piece of wood, in red:

Pete loves Helen. ♥️

Pete & Helen were my parents.

I just stood there.

In the middle of that vast, temporary city, inside a Temple built for remembrance, grief, love & release, there were their names. Twice.

Some moments ask for nothing except reverence.

I only know that in that moment, I felt closer to my parents, to God, to the unseen, to love itself.

Completely present. Completely still.

And with no doubt in me at all:

Love reaches farther than we understand.
Faith holds more than we can see.

And in that moment, I understood why I keep returning.

To remember. ⭐️ by @joyfest_la

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a month ago

Music, frequency & two of my favorite humans.
RÜFÜS DU SOL + Ben Böhmer. Sound as Medicine. ⚡️

@aureliamarenzi @yuliiashyshaliuk
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#musicisbetterwhenwearetogether taken in Kia Forum by @joyfest_la

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2 months ago

Holy Moly! A little over a week ago, @gamilasmith & I finally had a day together after far too long. We picked up exactly where we left off ~ then somehow took it somewhere new. 🤍

We started at @bonsaicoffeebar with the best matcha in town 🍵, then stopped at @primalmovesvenice ~ a place that understands movement as more than exercise. What they’ve built there has real grit, heart & community. Standing beneath the Shelby Cobra, two parts of my life quietly met.

A spontaneous stop at @erewhon brought us face-to-face with @sebastiansiegel1 & into a conversation about his film, Grace and Grit. 🎥

Then on to @thekinn.co, where @tiffanyraether & her mentor, Mirian Vilela of @earthcharterinternational International, challenged the idea that progress can be measured by growth alone when that growth costs us the living world.

We ended the night celebrating the soft opening of @petrosonsunset with Petros, George, Marianna, Donna, Ritchey & Allie & a little more Greece now glowing on Sunset Boulevard. Congratulations, Petros! 🇬🇷🎉

The message gods, synchronicities, miracles & parking fairies were all working overtime.

Just want to say ~ thank you. I noticed. ✨#thespacelove taken in West Los Angeles by @joyfest_la

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3 months ago

The Wild Girl Circle 🌿

Before there were stages, there were circles.

Women sitting together, close to the earth, remembering a kind of intelligence that has always lived in the circle.

What I’ll remember most is the women, the community & the beautiful souls who gathered.

Lavinia created such a special afternoon of play, council, sage, hula hoops, hopper balls, bells, belly dancing skirts, butterflies & remembering.

The question that stayed with me:

What did you love as a little girl that you don’t do enough of now?

For me, it was riding my bike. The wind on my face. The freedom of going nowhere in particular and somehow finding everything.

And Staci of @sacredwomancollective gave us sound healing you could feel in your bones ~ reverberating for hours, nourishing every part of me that needed stillness.

Thank you, Lavinia, for creating such a beautiful sacred circle.

This is where joy lives. ✨

#Community #WildGirlCircle #SacredWomanCircle taken in Malibu, California by @joyfest_la

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4 months ago

People pleasing isn’t who you are — it’s what you learned to stay safe.
And anything learned can be unlearned.

In this powerful episode @katmarenzi founder of @thespace.love reframes people pleasing as a protective strategy… not a personality flaw. When you start seeing it this way, you can release the shame and begin choosing authenticity instead.

Your voice matters. Your truth matters. And you don’t have to earn your worth by abandoning yourself.

Watch the full episode on Binge Networks, @YouTube, @KnektTV, @AmazonFireTV and more!

#PeoplePleasing #Authenticity #HealingJourney #SelfWorth #PersonalGrowth by @joyfest_la

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6 months ago

Some truths are carried quietly… until they become the very thing that transforms us. 🤍
Transformational coach @kat.marenzi @thespace.love shares a powerful reminder that even our deepest pain can guide us—when we’re willing to face it with honesty and compassion.

Full episode drops tomorrow at 5pm PST on Binge Networks, @youtube @appletv @rokuchannel @amazonfiretv + more ✨

#Authenticity #HealingJourney #TransformationalCoach #InnerWork #Wellbeing by @joyfest_la

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6 months ago

The masquerade originally dissolved power.

When everyone wore a mask, social hierarchies blurred.
People stepped beyond the roles society assigned them.

But over time something subtle changed.

Many of the masks we wear today aren’t tools of freedom.

They’re identities shaped by the molds we internalized:

• family expectations
• cultural definitions of success
• gender roles
• workplace norms

The real question isn’t whether we wear masks.

It’s who they serve.

Default masks serve conditioning.
Consciously choosing masks serve our essence.

Unmasking isn’t rejecting masks.

It’s reclaiming the power over them. Our power to choose them as tools rather than fall into them as default forms of protection.

If this resonates and you want to uncover the joy beneath the masks you’ve been wearing,
DM me “UNMASK.”

Follow @katrina.deangelis for more on Evolving Potential. taken in Los Angeles, California by @joyfest_la

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7 months ago

Played Joy Fest yesterday.

The theme was "Unmask, Move, and Remember Yourself."

I played "I'd Die to Live it Twice" from my new EP to a room of strangers who showed up to be fully present. That's exactly who this music is for.

Kingdom EP drops tomorrow.

@primalmovesvenice @kat.marenzi

#HRTBT #KingdomEP #indiemusic #LAmusic #singersongwriter #liveperformance by @joyfest_la

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7 months ago

What if Joy could be measured?

The BioMetric Study explores how music, breath & human connection influence the body in real time.

At Joy Fest LA, world-renowned violinist Nathalie Bonin & the BioMetric Study team will guide a live experience where violin, breath & creative expression interact with the nervous system ~ revealing measurable shifts in coherence between heart, mind & body.

Science meets art.
Physiology meets presence.

Participants will have the opportunity to volunteer for real-time biometric tracking, allowing the audience to witness how rhythm, breath & emotion influence the human system.

It’s a rare chance to experience research that explores the deeper language of our biology.

We are honored to host this extraordinary work at Joy Fest LA.

Sunday, March 8 🧡
12–7 PM · Primal Moves Venice

You’ll be able to sign up for a session when you arrive.

Come experience what happens when the body moves into rhythm.

#theSpacelove taken in Venice Beach, California by @joyfest_la

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