Surrounding and carrying us with its gracious blues, calming backwashes, and countless surprises, the sea is a vital actor of our daily lives. Sadly, we tend to overlook it. So we invited scholars, artists, architects, biologists, poets, crafts-wo-men, musicians, writers, performers, neighbours to exchange, collaborate and create original works to disrupt our routines with poetic, humoristic, inspiring shared moments around our sea. On the four week-ends of November 2023, the community joined us on boats, on tiny shoreline paths, up on the hills, pause and attend to its rhythms: rocks, waves, herons, clams, crabs, fishing boats, seagulls, buffaloes, chitons…

 

Slowly, we distinguish the richness of our surrounding environment. Through tours, sharings, workshops, performances, installations, exhibitions, screenings, you will be invited to consider the islands with new lenses–let words like ecologies, sensorialities, anthropocene, asynchronous connectivity bug/infuse your mind. Tiptoe in the foaming waves, swim to other shores, dive to the (extinct) corals.

 

Our hope: sooner than later, we all remember that the sea is alive; that the sea is full of lives, independent and connected, that find in her flows the optimum conditions to thrive. And that we –humans of the islands– thrive too, only when we connect and weave lifelong threads of mutual respect and dependency with our aquatic neighbours.