Over years of creative production in NYC and in our home in the foothills, we’ve enshrined the following principles

Environmental Engagment

site specific

mythos

at play in nature

inclusivity

in participation

communal effort & gifting

Jonah Levy is an event producer with an extensive background in NYC nightlife, arts and culture. He cut his teeth at House of Yes and You Are So Lucky before co-founding Shadow Traffic, a participatory event collective that is known for the Lost Horizon Night Market among other things. He currently works as the General Manager of the cell theatre, which provides a residency program for new and experimental theatre in the heart of Chelsea.

He first visited Franklin Chthonics during the Heptagames in 2013. He met Isabel Kagan one year later and began to assist with the programming calendar and operations at FC. They said their wedding vows at the upper pond in the summer of 2021.

Franklin Chthonics is a community that has been gathering around the Kagan family and a seasonal calendar of activities on this land for a few decades now.

Along with our traditional events that focus on fire, earthworks, games and the apple harvest, we gather for experimental meals, plantings, harvests, building and maintenance on the property at Bennett Hollow Road.