Dario is a classical musician from Italy. On his travels he forgets his piano and picks up a ukulele. We organised a musical collaboration with local talent Izador Papadakis. 

​I am soft with healing after
I am luxuriant with good fortune after
I am cloaked by lady beetles a scent of salted olive, my nature after
all means spacious means rhododendron and a pretty mouth.
If I give the impression of canopied with black spots after
my sorrow believe me when I say I am in pursuit of myself and a kiss and might after
I be a ridge on Mount Ida might local winegrowers and cicadas might my hollow after
deep between my thighs be my greeting braced ̶
There’s femininity a softening
I’d forgotten.
I’d cherish the softening
Holy is the body
its roundness the flesh
its brine a sweet
secret at age 58
a shuttered
body  a cherished  resumé.
There’s so much song even in heartache and my heart  the female body after
bird melody my simple request after
the seeded bread I’d bought at the base of Lasithi flavored with orange rind.
I am a Greek woman’s body I was told in the marketplace after
buying a potato and sea bream
the morning planes flew overhead celebrating Saint Minas when two vendors
said  you are one of us  you look like us  the earthy
Polite. Greek.
Fluid.
And the lady beetles they mean I am composed of a million single cries.

Sarada has become such a great friend of the residency. This summer she has returned for the fourth time. Each time she works on new and ongoing projects. This time she is making a full; length film. Shooting around the island, and in a studio at the residency. The residency has had a few return artists this year, which is very reassuring. 

Also in the photos is a favorite taverna the residency guest are often dragged to. It is called Gogona Bar, and is a hidden gem outside of Heraklion city. Sarada did some underwater filming there, dressed as an astronaut :) 

Eleni was our first anthropologist. She was also our first guest to make a project in the village. She recorded many locals cooking special recipes in their kitchens. 

Anna Lee Roeder and Erik Vasilauskas  from Kalamazoo USA. 

Sharyn Finnegan from New York City

Fariba Safai from Iran/ California