Convening Bodies is a relational and creative research residency that brings artists and practitioners from different disciplines to gather near the sea. This residency focuses on expanding engagement with how we relate to bodies of water, marine environments, the Ocean at large, and one another; exploring how situated studies and new understandings may mediate an ecology of care and inform creative practice. 

Founded to support an alternative approach to relational politics in a time of climate and societal emergency, Convening Bodies aims to foster supportive discourse, deep listening, knowledge sharing, restoration, and making.

Convening Bodies is a two-part, 10-day residency situated on Lummi Island in the Salish Sea, and Grayland, WA, along the Pacific Coast, with a fun caravan trip connecting the two.

“Trust that all water everywhere touches all water everywhere.” - Alexis Pauline Gumbs