SANCTUARY of WILD ARTS
Ekawa Bamboo Village - Valle de San Blas - Antioquia - Colombia
Wild Arts Residency
a place to reimagine how to live, create and belong.
Ekawa Bamboo Lab is a breathing exploration of rooted living: a home; a village in progress; a forest of bamboo structures. Within it, we are growing the Wild Arts Residency, a place where people from different backgrounds can make, build, garden, write, draw, film, dream, supported by the calm of the forest and the quiet rituals of everyday life, weaving their creative journeys alongside the land and one another.
This is not about coming to create a finished idea, but arriving with openness. We imagine a residency where co-creation is a field that forms through conversation, shared action, shared meals, shared holistic practices.
We're offering a place and a feeling, a living canvas, where people come to be surrounded by inspiration, living slowly but lightly together and connecting with dreams and the realness of reality. This is a place for people to reimagine how to live, create and belong.
WILD ARTS RESIDENCY: 28 days: 7 January - 3 February 2027
The gifts of the space:
28 days of art, nature, and creation.
(11 spots available) 🌱 The space will be multicultural - (Spanish and English) all languages are welcome
• Creative laboratories: body – nature – thought
• Spaces for experimentation and creation (solo and collective)
• Somatic practices: meditation, movement, music, and dance.
• workshops: aquatic dance and contact improvisation.
• Ecosomatics and ecological walks.
• Circles of fire, thought, and poetry.
• Land regeneration practices.
• Performance and ritual.
• Access to an exquisite library on ecosomatics, sustainability, bamboo architecture, body and deep ecology.
• Communal kitchen.
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For lovers of life, nature and creation:
movement artists, musicians, visionaries, visual artists, writers, thinkers, painters, designers, weavers, performers, cooks and more.
This residency proposes the weaving of a collective body of knowledge.
While there will be a program of laboratories and activities, we also want to leave space for whatever may emerge along the way: spontaneous encounters, new ideas, conversations, and moments of creation.
There will be quality time both for individual processes and for collective life and creation, honoring the rhythms, needs, and interests of those who inhabit the residency.
We invite participants to enter into a space where art, body, nature, and community can meet, transform, and unfold together.
Selection Criteria
Alignment with the residency’s philosophy: A genuine interest in nature, life, exploration, creation, and other ways of relating to the world.
Artistic or creative practice: A body of work, research, or creative practice that demonstrates curiosity, sensitivity, and a desire to experiment. This does not necessarily need to be a professional or traditional artistic practice.
Openness to experimentation: An interest in exploring new materials, disciplines, processes, and forms of creation, particularly those that emerge through an engagement with the land and its surroundings.
Community spirit: A generosity of spirit and willingness to share knowledge, participate in conversations, and contribute to the collective life of the residency.
Connection to the land: A willingness to inhabit and engage with the place with respect, curiosity, and attentiveness, understanding nature not simply as a setting, but as an active part of the creative process.
Impact and continuity: The potential for the experience to generate new connections, learnings, or projects that extend beyond the residency and have a positive impact on the participant’s practice, others, or the communities they work with.
Applications:
Once you have submitted your application, you will receive a confirmation email within 2–3 weeks.
Nutrition & Food
At Ekawa, we share an ovo-lacto-vegetarian diet and are committed to keeping our space free from alcohol and other substances.
We also believe in the kitchen as a space for sharing and collaboration. For this reason, meals are prepared communally: everyone takes part in preparing food, taking care of the kitchen, and keeping the space clean and organized. We will source our products from local families in the region, contributing directly to local livelihoods and supporting the community’s economy.
Do you feel comfortable with this approach to food and communal living?
P.S.: If, for health reasons, it is essential for you to consume animal-based foods, you can find alternatives with a local farming family in the region or in town.
CONTRIBUTION
OPEN TO ALL WILD HEARTS:
Includes meals, accommodation, and access to all spaces for 28 days:
Colombian community:
Shared accommodation (2-4 person x room) : 3,500,000 – 4,000,000 COP
Private accommodation: 4,500,000 – 5,000,000 COP
International community:
Shared accommodation (2-4 person x room) : 1,200 – 1,400 USD
Private accommodation: 1,500 – 1,800 USD
2 partial scholarships for Latin American artists available:
More information: WhatsApp +573112896544
ORGANIZATION:
FUERZAS.space
We are a nomadic space for research and experimentation around the relationships between body, community, and territory, taking the form of workshops, laboratories, and artistic residencies in collaboration with site-specific places and more-than-human communities.
Our processes are rooted in a biodiverse weaving of knowledges, with a focus on ecosomatics, water dance, dance improvisation, poetic thinking, ecological philosophy, contact improvisation, design, conscious food practices, visual arts and performance.
The residencies cultivate a deep listening to the uniqueness of each place and take root in Colombian territories undergoing processes of post-conflict resilience. We are interested in weaving collaborations with the ancestral knowledge of local communities and their relationships with nature, cultivating synergies between the living arts, Indigenous wisdom, and ecological regeneration practices.
Complete Bio and past events.
Everyday as creative fire
At Ekawa, the everyday is art. Planting a tree, repairing a bamboo wall, tending the garden, clearing a path, cooking together... These are not tasks outside the creative process, they are the ignition.
Each day includes a few shared hours of participation in the living projects of the place - building, planting, maintaining, shaping.
Through these gestures, energy begins to move. Ideas begin to find their place. The land becomes a collaborator. The body remembers its intelligence. Creation grows from contact with the territory.
This is about restoring the rhythm between making and living.
Living inside wildness
Residents inhabit organic bamboo architecture, held by the forest.
Daily life includes walking through groves at dawn, swimming in natural water, listening to rain on woven roofs, working with hands and heart under green canopies.
Wildness is a lived texture. The environment itself becomes part of the residency, shaping thought, slowing rhythm, softening edges, inviting new forms.
Circle of creation
Outside of the guided action hours, time opens to evolve personal and collective projects - writing, sculpting, composing, drawing, dancing, building, dreaming.
As part of this both aloneness and gathering happens, as a place to share creative journeys, passions, skills, visions.
This is a place where ideas cross-pollinate, where unexpected collaborations arise, where transformation happens quietly, not because it is promised, but because a fullness is lived.
The Shared Hearth
We are not hosting guests. We are holding a hearth for shared presence and co-creation.
At the center is Casa Soná. There are private rooms and bunk beds, a big kitchen, a fire circle, a natural pool, gardens, and wide open sky… Nearby one can experience barefoot walks in ancient bamboo groves, swimming in natural rivers and long walks through the rainforest.
There is space for quiet, personal practice, for meals to be prepared together, for the unexpected to emerge.
It is a vegetarian and substance free space.
What we are growing
The Wild Arts Residency is not an event, but a weaving of journeys. It is part of a bamboo village of living architecture; a long-term creative ecosystem; a place where family life, art, stewardship and imagination coexist; a body of work that emerges from relationship with land and dreams.
We imagine artists staying long enough to root as part of a season, becoming part of the unfolding story. Structures may be built that remain. Gardens planted that continue to feed. Art created that might return to soil, become part of the landscape or move on to an exhibition space or platform elsewhere.
Geraldin Acevedo
Creative director - Sanctuary of Wild Arts.
In the sanctuary, we propose a co-creative space to cultivate sensibilities based on reciprocity and interdependence to strengthen cultures of giving that value vitality and inspire us to live in reverence and symbiosis with life.