The Bedroom and Kitchen and Garden School of Art

is a home/studio project of Francesca Bennett, permanent resident of the School since 2010.

(It is also a broadsheet that hasn't happened yet.)

will host Vivienne Bessette in the studio from July 7 to August 7, 2026.

(details soon...)

hosted philios reading room and poetry reading out loud at ECHO-ECHO from May 21 to June 21, 2026.

poetry reading out loud is a semi-public project, inviting people to read poetry out loud together, and philios reading room is a mutable condition, requiring seats, drinks, snacks, texts, air, green, light, and, ideally, good company.

At ECHO-ECHO the two together sounded something like this:

hosted Slaylor Moon at home in July 2022.

Slaylor Moon is the experimental electronic solo project of Sydney Koke, an interdisciplinary artist and experimental musician and composer now working between Paris, Leeds, and Savary Island. As artist-in-residence at the School at home, Sydney experimented with new music equipment and worked on her second solo album, a follow up to Zone of Pure Resistance (Maple Death Records, 2019).

hosted poetry reading out loud at home, in public parks, and online, from 2017 to 2022, and again in 2024, and now again in 2026.

poetry reading out loud is a semi-public project that invites people to read poetry out loud together.