art + culture

Becoming Community is a hub of artists, culture makers and the artistically inclined. Instead of making art about the world, we’re using our artistic skills inside the world. Theatre artists, who are experts in temporary community now tend relational spaces on land. Dancers apply their somatic intelligence to growing food and sensing the rhythms of our ecosystems. Designers bring artistry and beauty to building systems and enchanting the spaces of our daily lives. Indigenous knowledge keepers are leading ceremony and sharing skills that connect us to Great Spirit and Mother Earth. We move beyond the title of ‘artist’ to include all of us who are re-imagining and re-membering vital ways of being and knowing.

In the dominant culture, art has largely existed inside a populist frame: something created by the artist and consumed by the audience. You buy a ticket, watch the show, feel something (hopefully), and go home. But art has always had more to offer than just a moment of impact. We’ve been compelled to unpack the very role of the ‘artist’ in our Becoming Community culture, and how our perceptions and varying classes, place value and distinctions on art and work. We are working to integrate this and re-weave our creative capacities in solidarity with all knowledges and lineages. In a time of collapse, climate crisis, and cultural unraveling, we believe all beings are capable of turning those creative capacities to the real work of now:

How do we live? How do we repair? How do we remember how to belong to each other and the earth?

This is not about abandoning art, it’s about reclaiming its original power. Here… stories are told, songs are sung, meals are assembled with colour and beauty, and bodies dance barefoot on the grass. But these expressions are not performances for an audience, they’re offerings to the land, the community, and the myth we’re weaving together.

The arts and culture here are not a side dish. They are a medium of transformation. They help us re-pattern our relationships, make beauty out of mess, and remind us that imagination is not a luxury, it’s a survival skill.

We believe that when artists reorient their gifts from self-expression to collective experimentation, they become essential culture-makers in a time of necessary reinvention. That’s what we’re doing here: applying artistry to the living question of how we become community.