Welcome to “The Dream Theater World”

“The Dream Theater World” is the Official World Wide Dream Theater Fan Club, sanctioned by the band Dream Theater and their management. Established in 2016 to fill the gap left behind of the former regional fan clubs, the DT World seeks to create community among fans all over the globe. In the different platforms we have created/affiliated with there are around 250 000 people who have chosen to participate.

Our main goal is to gather and support different fan communities all over the globe. This is split in two: Online Communities, and Local Chapters.

The Online Communities that are officially affiliated with the Dream Theater World are:

• Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dreamtheaterworld
• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dreamtheater/
• Dream Theater Forums: https://dreamtheaterforums.org/
• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/CBXmr2Ez

Our goal is to provide you with interesting videos, articles and images from throughout Dream Theaters history. We will try to archive what we can find of interesting articles, interviews, videos and images, but we will also try to create new interesting articles, videos and images. We will cover both current and past members, and also friends and family. In order to do this, we have been given a guarantee that the band will support our club by giving us the access necessary to provide you with interesting and unique experiences within the Dream Theater World.

This will primarily be a free fan club. The basic membership will always be free. The basic membership grants access to most of the content on this page - interviews, reviews and articles. If you want to help is monetarily to cover our costs of running the websites and all that, you can choose support the club via Paypal Donation. You can also support us by buying our special DT merch!

Becoming a Chapter

So, since we’re world wide, does this mean that the regional fan clubs are gone? No! In fact, far from it. We are open to all local chapters. That means anyone can create a local chapter of DT World. Be it regional, by country or even by language. There is no such thing as monopoly or “first come, first serve” here - if you’ve created a community or want to create a community you are welcome to join us.

If you want to take on the responsibility to make a local chapter, here’s what is demanded of you:

• Local Chapter: You need to create a gathering spot (facebook group, discord or similar) for your local chapter, and invite your local friends to it. Your responsibility to the club will be to create local buzz - if the band visits your local area, you will have the responsibility to create a local meet up before the show. In some cases, we might also be able to provide the opportunity for listening parties or viewing parties for pre-release stuff (albums and concert videos). Any economic responsibility for this meet up is on the local chapters, but DT World will help you promote your event.
• Country Chapter: You need to create a gathering spot (facebook group, discord or similar)for your country, and invite your countrymen to it. Your main responsibility will be to coordinate events within your country. Any/all local chapters will be directly under your “command”, as it were. In many/most cases, the Local chapter and the Country chapter will be one and the same.
• Language Chapter: You need to create a gathering spot (facebook group, discord or similar) for your language, and invite fellow speakers of this language to it. Your main responsibility will be to translate and promote articles that the DT World distributes (either directly on facebook or here on our site as a subsite for your language). In many cases, the Country chapter and the Language chapter will be one and the same.

If you think you’re up for the challenge, start building your network, and once you have some traction, contact me. I’ll start looking into your group and will see if you fulfill all our requirements to be taken up as an official chapter of the fan club.

What will the DT World promise in return? The DT World is in direct contact with band and management, and we have been promised that special attention will be given to the fan club. This means we can assure you that we will try hard to make your local meet up before the concert a really memorable experience. We can give you advice as to how to do it (we have been doing it ourselves since 2000), and we can promise that the sense of community will be incredible.

What can we not promise? We cannot promise pre-release access to material. We cannot promise backstage or aftershow access. We cannot promise interviews or photo pass opportunities. Your motivation for running a local chapter should not be to meet Dream Theater or get special preferential treatment. The main motivation should be that you want to help create a community and to spread the word about the band in your area. But that being said - it doesn’t hurt to ask if you have an idea or a request. Worst that can happen is you get a “no”.

I look forward to welcome you all into our fold, and to see our community grow even more.

Thank you,

Kim Arthur Sakariassen

Founder of “The Dream Theater World” and main coordinator.

 

If you need to contact me for any reason: noxon@dtnorway.com

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