ATTEND
Reclaim your attention through the senses, art, and connection.
Attention is a form of love. Honing our ability to focus our attention of what matters to us is one of the most vital tasks of our age. Attend provides an opportunity for us to come back into our bodies and to explore our tangible world through sensory experiences among new friends.
Attend Tenets
Disconnect
Disconnect from your phone, laptop, and other devices in order to tap into your own lived reality. These events are screen-free.
Connect
Meet new people from different backgrounds, ages, groups, and neighborhoods. These free events offer an opportunity to hear new perspectives through a shared experience. These experiences will be both simple and profound.
Grow
Gain personal insight, try something new, learn about others and yourself through listening to a local musician, learning about plants, and honing your ability to pay attention deeply.
On a given evening or afternoon, Attend might invite participants to:
listen to a song played live by a local musician three times, focusing in a different way each time.
smell three herbs, then close their eyes and identify these herbs again by smell or touch alone.
draw a portrait of a stranger.
take a walk with their eyes closed as a friend leads them.
The invitation will be different each time and will be a surprise to the participants. Come as you are and be open to discovery! Local artists, horticulturalists, and cultural organizations will make every event unique and rooted to the area, from which further connection can blossom.