Jeff Rosenbaum

Jeff Rosenbaum (born August 29th, 1955) is an American event organizer, the co-founder of the Association for Consciousness Exploration, LLC (ACE), and the executive director, main publicist, product manufacturer and marketing director for both ACE and its primary events, the Starwood Festival and Winterstar Symposium. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Association for Consciousness Exploration (ACE)
In 1983 Rosenbaum co-founded the Association for Consciousness Exploration, (ACE), an organization based in Northeastern Ohio which produces events, books, and recorded media in the fields of "magic, mind-sciences, alternative lifestyles, comparative religion/spirituality, entertainment, holistic healing, and related subjects". He serves as Executive Director of the organization, which has organized the Starwood Festival every year since 1981 and the WinterStar Symposium every winter since 1984. Since the mid 1980s, he has produced and sold over 100 ACE cassettes, CDs, and DVDs through the ACE website, featuring artists such as Babatunde Olatunji, Halim El-Dabh, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Stephen Kent, Terence McKenna, Margot Adler, Ivan Stang, Isaac Bonewits and Donald Michael Kraig.

Performing arts and writing
Rosenbaum has played electric and acoustic guitar, recorder and percussion with Ian Corrigan and Victoria Ganger in the ACE band Chameleon, has performed on several ACE recordings, including playing guitars on “Sympathetic Magic” with Victoria Ganger and the Starwood Sizzlers. At ACE functions, Rosenbaum has recorded and shared a stage as a percussionist, and played recorder, with such notables as Muruga Booker & GVCB, Badal Roy, Sikiru Adepoju, Halim El-Dabh, Jim Donovan of Rusted Root, Perry Robinson, Louis Martinie', Kenny Klein, and Drew Miller of Felonious Bosch, and played guitar with Gilli Smyth of Gong, Steve Taylor of Sun Machine, Brahm Stuart and Todd Alan.

He has published a section of an article in Green Egg Magazine, and was the subject of a one-page interview about Starwood in Modern Pagans: an Investigation of Contemporary Pagan Practices. He has also been quoted in other books and periodicals, and appeared on radio and television.

Discography
Music
* A Bardic Circle – Cassette (ACE)
* Bonfire Dreams: Starwood Jam Sessions – Cassette & CD (ACE)
* Sympathetic Magic - Victoria Ganger & the Starwood Sizzlers - Music Cassette & CD

Spoken word
* Magick Changing the World, the World Changing Magick - panel discussion on cassette with AmyLee, Isaac Bonewits, Selena Fox, Jeff Rosenbaum and Robert Anton Wilson. (ACE)
* The Once and Future Legend - panel discussion on cassette with Ariana Lightningstorm, Patricia Monaghan, Jeff Rosenbaum, Robert Shea, Ivan Stang and Robert Anton Wilson (ACE)
*The Self in Transformation - panel discussion with Halim El-Dabh, Donald Michael Kraig, Jeff Rosenbaum, Joseph Rothenberg and Robert Anton Wilson. (ACE)
* What IS the Conspiracy, Anyway? - panel discussion on cassette with Anodea Judith, Jeff Rosenbaum, Robert Shea, Ivan Stang and Robert Anton Wilson. (ACE)

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