Programme Common Dreams: Flotation School Panarea

29 april 2023 : 10h - 13h
EARTH • SPACE AND FEELINGS with Bilal Kouti
A workshop on the sensitive understanding of space to explore what it feels like to be where you are. Enjoy the aquatic environment from our floating platform and share your impressions to better comprehend the space and the sensations related to it.

6 may 2023 : 10h - 13h
AIR • SOUND AND FOOD with Grace Denis
This workshop explores food systems and their relations through the notion of proximity. How to consume beyond tasting? How to consume through the activation all of our senses? Participants will first engage in a listening session to explore sensorial faculties beyond tasting and thus foster a bodily relationship with the consumption of food that lies beyond the mouth. The primary part of the workshop focuses on food preservation, using fermentation and pickling techniques as a means to transform agricultural products. This will be followed by a small-scale collectively constructed meal, with ingredients sourced from agroecology collective Praz Bonjour. Eventually, a discussion will consider proposing reciprocal alternatives to the origins of the word consumption.

8 may 2023 : 18h - 19h15
SPIRIT • YOGA KUNDALINI with Christelle Marro Valère
Thanks to the powerful and effective tools of Kundalini Yoga, combining pranayamas (breathing techniques), kriyas (excercise of different postures) and meditations (chanted and in motion), we will experience an accessible practice inspired by the Elements (Water, Earth, Air, Fire) and welcome what presents itself to us through our different physical, mental and emotional bodies, with no need of being able to touch the tip of our toes or embracing any belief.

12 may 2023 : 19h30 - 22h (postponed May 24th)
AIR • READING THE STARS with Pierre Bratschi
Join astrophysicist Peter Bratschi for a workshop observing the stars and night sky. We’ll begin with a picnic on the floating platform before delving into the wonders of the cosmos. With Pierre’s expertise, you’ll learn how to navigate the night sky and identify constellations, planets, and other celestial objects.

13 may 2023 : 14h30 - 17h30
AIR • VOICE AND BREATH with Léo Gaugué-Natorp
The workshop explores how to recharge and regain strength through breathing and voice practices, including exercises of pranayama, which in Sanskrit means “extension of the life force”. The voice is an extension of the breath and therefore represents a healing practice, not only because of the air that it generates, but also for the vibrations emitted from the person who produces it.

15 may 2023 : 15h30 - 17h
WATER • CYANOTYPE with the students of College Sismondi
A creative workshop exploring the fascinating world of cyanotype photography. Using a unique process that dates back to the 19th century, we’ll create beautiful blue-and-white prints using photosensitive paper and natural light. No previous experience required: the students will guide you through the process step by step.

21 may 2023 : 10h - 14h
FIRE • COMMON DREAMS with Maria Lucia Cruz Correia
10h - 12h Take the chance to meet the founding artist of Common Dreams: Flotation School, and join her on Sunday morning to dive through collective storytelling, crafting water survival and myths of making and unmaking. This workshop is part of a process that Maria Lucia Cruz Correia has been developing since the first school in 2016 to feel our instincts and take time for imagining new proposals for water governance, hydrocommons and community values for the future. (max 15 people).
13h - 14h water gathering: water activism as a form of water protection. A gathering for all those who seek to be part of a water community, to become allies and to collectivise our struggles, as a “moving wake”, to weave solidarity between our communities and the waters around us. Join us by kayak, boat or swim!

22 may 2023 : 15h30 - 17h
EARTH • NATURAL PIGMENTS AND LANDSCAPE with Flavio Viggiani
A workshop to learn how to make paints from flowers, plants, roots, berries or vegetables. The materials needed are simple: fresh plants, a pan, a wooden spoon, water, a sieve, a heat source, and a taste for exploration and experimentation. What pigment is this plant cooking up for us?

24 may 2023 : 19h30 - 22h
AIR • READING THE STARS with Pierre Bratschi
Join astrophysicist Peter Bratschi for a workshop observing the stars and night sky. We’ll begin with a picnic on the floating platform before delving into the wonders of the cosmos. With Pierre’s expertise, you’ll learn how to navigate the night sky and identify constellations, planets, and other celestial objects.

27 may 2023 : 10h - 13h
WATER • WATER BODIES, WATER COURSES: ECOFEMINIST VISIONS OF WATER with Alexandra Slotte and Al Mammana
An ecofeminist workshop exploring our relationships with water in all its forms. Through guided meditations and instinctive movement, as well as text readings and talking circles, we will question our conditioning to perceive water as an inert resource and instead create an imaginary of interconnected relationships with water. Inspired by the works of Greta Gaard, Astrida Neimanis, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Starhawk, this workshop aims to see water as a subject at the heart of political issues.

31 May 2023 : 16h30-17h45
WATER · MEDITATION, BREATH AND FREE-DIVING with Loïc Vuillemin
A workshop focused on self-awareness, breath and respiratory techniques. Led by the Zen master and multiple Swiss record holder of free-diving Kosho Loïc Vuillemin, the floating platform is the ideal place for this encounter. How to meditate in a Zen way, but also how to breathe efficiently and tame your mind, how to acknowledge calm and preserve peace… An inner dive in the company of an expert in the field.

Email us at production@least.eco to register (places are limited - the platform can accommodate a maximum of 30 people)