The NEST
EXPERIMENTS ARE
- dinner parties, art shows, performance installations, workshops, creative residencies & so much more!
- programs that bring together people, art & ideas
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curated creative activations
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blurred lines between artist & audience
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a place to seed curiosity & connection
Sign up to hear about upcoming invitations!
come play with us
public
experiments
invitations from The Nest to You
where art meets gathering,
with a sprinkle of magic
Dandy
Scouts
Preparing for the end of the world with queers, pro-tips and glitter
Dandy Scouts is The NEST’s community skill-share series for an ever changing world. From nature hikes that identify edible and medicinal plants, to bike repair clinics and camping excursions for beginners, Dandy Scouts centers the leadership and wisdom BIPOC, queer and trans workshop facilitators.
We invite you to join us in building skills for survival from a queer & BIPOC lens that centers joy!
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Gather
Round
In these times where we are reminded that gathering and being together is precious and vital, guests are invited to come, Gather Round!
Gather Round began as a one off experiment, to launch THE NEST, and and has since become one of our core offerings to cultivate community.
Sign up for our Newsletter to joins us for the next Gather Round!
Ballot Breakdown
Guests grab a bite, have a drink and Breakdown the Ballot!
For folks who care deeply about their community, recognize all the ways that local and national politics aren’t reflecting their values, and want to engage with voting and the policy process in a meaningful way. But somehow every time an election rolls around, they find themselves scrambling to get their hands on progressive voter guide, and hope for the best.
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Creative
Workspace
A 12-week creative collaboration between THE NEST and JENNA BEAN VEATCH.
Part art-making class, part creative project accountability group, Creative Workspace is for artists and wannabe artists of all disciplines.
Through weekly assignments and in-class exercises, we explore a million different ways to spark imagination, and we dig into questions like, “What do I want to say with my art?” “What do I want to be putting into the world?” and “How can I use art to respond to what's going on around me or process what I'm experiencing?”
Land
Home
Land Home is an investigation into making home.
It is a reflection on a personal journey of building home, and a proposal that perhaps we are all building home from bits and fragments and memories and connections and people and places that we gather along the way.
In the way in which our lives are a collage of experiences, Land Home is a collage of artistic forms, including dance, theater, film and live music.
Land home was written,
directed and performed by
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