Wild Arts Residency

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.

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. Residents cover the cost of their food and make a monthly contribution toward the maintenance and running of the space. This supports the land, the structures, and the ongoing life of Ekawa.

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.

Ekawa Bamboo Lab is the place. The Wild Arts Residency is one of the ways it breathes. And we are only at the beginning…