Part & Fully Funded Human-Nature Connect residencies for artists & eco-somatic practitioners supporting wellbeing, nature and climate action
by Intercultural Roots in London, England, United Kingdom
Each Human-Nature Connect residency costs at least £12,000. The maths is very simple, and this stretch target of £100,000 will help us reach more people. Each residency Reward costs up[wards of £600 and is part funded by the Aviva Community Fund, making it affordable. We are also offering fully funded bursary places for artists and practitioners with a low household income.
Main Image by Rob Gale: Ribbleshead Viaduct, H-NC Ingleton, Nov. 2022
Human-Nature Connect (H-NC) invites artists and practitioners to Part and Fully Funded outdoor residencies thanks to the Aviva Community Fund. Each residency, in a stunning location, offers a site specific experience of sharing practice with and within nature while realising 'eco-entangled' (Donna Haraway) life ways that are more sustainable for humans and nature.
The residencies generally include:
Human-Nature Connect extends inclusive social cohesion efforts to the outdoors, promoting arts, health, and climate action.
* a Fully Funded Bursary is available on select residencies only. If you have any questions please Contact Us
Choose the 'Reward' for which funded residency you would like to attend (schedule below) and make your donation. On your smartphone click on the 'Rewards' tab towards the top of this page.
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If you cannot afford the requested donation please Contact Us explaining your circumstances and which residency you would like to attend. You can see below which Intercultural Roots residencies offer FULLY FUNDED Bursary places supporter by our generous partners.
- please keep checking this space for further added residencies
- all residency places are subsidised through part funding thanks to the Aviva Community Fund!
In this residency workshop, facilitated by Zoe Binetti, we will be creating danced theatre from an involvement with nature, textures, rhythms, touch, ideas, and the spaces in between. We will dance for a weekend in the beautiful landscape of Dartmoor National Park. More information here at the Facebook Event. No bursaries available for this partner event. Camping and Shared Room accommodation options available. Image credit: Zoe Binetti.
by Intercultural Roots, Fully Funded Bursaries available
Including 'Worm's Head', Rhossili's dragon-shaped island - a rugged coastal location. This residency is now FULLY BOOKED.
by Intercultural Roots, Fully Funded Bursaries available
'myths, firesouls and song' interweaves the beauty and mysteries of Ambleside and The Lake District with special artistic and eco-somatic gifts including a ritualistic fire ceremony, dream walking and Balinese Kecak (Kechak) chanting and music making. The intention is to release trauma, foster subconscious creative openings and nurture nature's healing in our collective being with and within the hills, forests, lakes, caves and their hidden mysteries. 23 places available staying for 3-nights at The Bunk House Rydal Hall. Image 'Lake District Red Deer Stag Cervus Elaphus' by License: veneratio.
Image: Searching fire damage at the Clear Lake Fire Site, California 1999. In this closed workshop, Primary Films explores the ecologies of living and participating in our environments, thinking about media for growth from soil to space to image to text. The residency builds and explores devising with film as a tool for developing relations among people, animals, objects, and the natural and digital worlds.
This is a closed residency for Primary Films only.
Nature Dance UK welcomes you to one of the most profoundly beautiful and mythically rich coastlines in the world. Staying in a 22 bed hostel poised upon a clifftop, in Tintagel, Cornwall, we create a culture of connection, prayer and gratitude in mythic relationship with the land. Master Storyteller, Samantha Rose will guide us on an inquiry into the mysterious archetype of Merlin. We will dance daily, bare-foot upon cliff tops and beaches, re-finding our timeless connection with the landscape, fostering a greater care-taking for the environment. For more information please visit the website.
by Intercultural Roots, Fully Funded Bursaries available
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'Arts and Health in Nature' will be the focus of this Human Nature Connect residency co-facilitated by Drs. Andrea Maciel & Alex Boyd with special guest Flavia Rohen- Brazil. Participants will be offered a variety of ‘portal opening’ experiences through therapeutic body work approaches that allowing deep connection with nature, healing and wellbeing. Come and join our collective and explore peer-to-peer exchange with and within the hills, forests, streams and waterfalls around picturesque Hubberholme and bathe in their hidden healing mysteries. J.B. Priestley described Hubberholme as the smallest, pleasantest place in the world, our choice of location to propose an insight towards the arts of the body through its somatic, healing, and expressive dynamics. Accommodation will be at Grange Farm Bunk Barn will meals (veggie / vegan / gluten free option) and facilitation and more included. Image: Heart of stone in the River Wharfe near Hubberholme by Bernd Brueggemann (licensed)
(Now Fully Booked) The Deep Play Institute presents a four-day immersive adventure in the rolling hills of Devon, discovering together our inner parts and our group dynamics held by three international facilitators and therapists deeply committed to play, ritual and nature. This is an explorative retreat rooted in parts work, a practice that involves tracing individual and collective selves through therapeutic methods, sensory experiments, mindfulness exercises, and social structures that invite creative imagining and courageous honesty with ourselves and one another. For further information see The Deep Play Institute website.
by Intercultural Roots, Fully Funded Bursaries available
"In Hawai'ian culture, PIKO is our belly button where we were connected to our Mothers. If we think of our land mass, the mountains are the PIKO of the earth." Tau.
Journey with our special guests ‘Tau’ Peter Rockford Espiritu and Keala Fung of Tau Dance Theater from Hawai'i as we explore our life connection to the earth, the land and its people. Room for 30 people at Timberlodge, Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. A unique opportunity for Dancers/Choreographers/Artmakers, Multi-Disciplinary Artists & Eco-Somatic Practitioners. Image: Autumn sunshine at Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales
by RamblingTog with (Tau) Peter Rockford Espiritu.
Please donate any amount you can to help sponsor a Fully Funded Bursary place for an artist or practitioner who otherwise cannot afford to attend. Your donation will be match-funded by the Aviva Community Fund (up to 250 but you can donate more than this if you wish).
"My bone minerals meet the limestone minerals - beyond time and space." Andrea
"The sunset as we emerged from a cave near Ribbleshead Viaduct was magical." Alex
"I am so grateful to have been a part of this group, to have met with everyone within the Yorkshire landscape. I vow to maintain this spirit of adventure. In opening my heart, different parts of myself were able to surface." Tessa
Intercultural Roots is currently consulting with artists and practitioners who have disabilities, chronic illnesses and injuries or have impairments to organise targeted, accessible residencies for 2024. Given the specialist accommodation, care and support required we are actively applying for funding now to support this intention. If you would like to join the emerging 'Transforming Broken Wings' network or support this call for funding, or be placed on a waiting list for a more accessible residency to suit your needs please Contact Us.
Intercultural Roots (IR)focuses on promoting 'arts for health and social change' while also conserving, protecting, and improving the physical and natural environment. The charity achieves this goal by researching, developing, and promoting best practices in this field. The organisation trains and develops artists and eco-somatic practitioners, provides outdoor activities, residencies, and conducts research. Ultimately, the charity aims to enhance the well-being of both individuals and the environment, and it works towards achieving this goal through its activities and initiatives.
Intercultural Roots is registered with the Charity Commission in the UK to operate worldwide. Intercultural Roots for Public Health (Registered Charity No. 1179885).
https://interculturalroots.org/about-us
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