A Gathering of Unasked Possibility is a series of events by artists, researchers, and activists who interrogate our contemporary moment of precarity - climate, political, economic, social - through their practices. We will create a propositional space both in situ and in the virtual realm with breathing room for alternative ways of thinking, expressing, and being.
 
Events will include workshops, talks, reading groups, guided field trips, making, and residencies. To minimize our carbon footprint while expanding our reach globally, we will offer real-time complementary programming through the online platform Mighty Networks.
 
Local and international practitioners will bring the ethos, activation, and community engagement seeded at the inaugural Unasked in Bristol, UK. We will leverage the groundwork, experience, and momentum garnered in November 2019.
 
We propose organizing a series of gatherings over the duration of the project based on the following themes: Ritual, Resistance, Resources, Renewal. Activities and events will sensitively engage new audiences within the local community, respond to local context, and foreground hospitality and gifting as forms of heart-centered engagement in a collaborative format.
  
Our proposal places critical thinking and the generation of new forms of collaborative knowledge as a central focus. We aim to facilitate an experiment in collaboration and co-existence, a hub for meaningful encounters, and to record this experience as it evolves.