Hello everyone,

Happy Spring Equinox — may the balance of light and dark spring up more justice and joy for all!

Over the past two years we’ve been dreaming and scheming ways to create art with our community in person — to move beyond doing primarily digital arts. In part, this pull to be together more is because most of us have spent our artistic lives in and with community, and we miss that way of being together! For us, gathering in a physical space where we create some art, have fun, inspire each other, and ultimately connect feels more urgent these days… So, with this desire and its fairly loud call to find more ways to connect in a physical space, we are very excited to share that this is the year we are finally going to do something about it! We have made plans for our first one-day summit for storytellers, called Storyloom, which we share a bit more about below. We are starting off small, but it feels HUGE to us!

Of course, we will continue to create digital media art projects with and for our community because we absolutely love to make all kinds of art (more updates coming soon)! Part of this love for what we do is that we get to collaborate with fabulous folks across lands. And in those creative moments, whether it’s on or off line, it often brings to the fore joyful and thriving moments. We embrace these moments as they can be a respite (even for a day) from our collective and personal struggles.

And amidst the ongoing disasters and the more recent daily barrage of devastating and heart wrenching crises and atrocities, we are finding more ways to be there for each other and beyond. Deepening and expanding webs of care and mutuality feels more urgent than ever.

So with all of that woven together, we are especially grateful to everyone who shared and donated to our successful fundraiser this past month! THANK YOU!! These kinds of creative endeavours and acts of solidarity tend to our hearts and help us to feel more love, and indeed helps us to do more for each other! This includes helping us to continue to be in solidarity with folks in our orbit and across the world, doing what we can from where we find ourselves.

Below are some updates about the projects that have recently bloomed or gone to seed, and ones about to sprout!

Our Winter Blooms

On Belonging — an audio series to connect us:

we launched the 9 part series this past winter and we are enjoying hearing from listeners how these stories have been expanding networks of care and cultivating belonging in the every day! You can listen here.

We have launched an online analog love store where you can grab some very cute art: