share your wisdom
Since emerging in 2024 as a community symposium hosted at Three of Cups in Penryn, we’re happy to share that The Convivial is very close to moving into a space on Penryn High Street! This space will open for a definite term of 12 months, with the intention to extend should it feel right and become viable.
The plan is to provide a space for gatherings, workshops, courses, feasts and talks. These offerings will be primarily focused around imagination, creative discourse, hospitality, ecology (or 'worlding the world'), queerness, communal ritual and artmaking, storytelling and mytho-poetics. Essentially - what does it mean to live well in the world today? In the context of struggling education, political and ecological systems, the hope is that this will be an experiment in joyful, civic, community-led learning.
We are hopeful that doors will open in June. Over the last six months, The Convivial has been inspired by the other-than-institutional possibilities that open up when a community gathers in order to share its wisdom and begins to know what it knows. In uncertain times such as these, it feels of the utmost importance to continue gathering and sharing our knowledge and experience with each other.
Speaker / teacher / facilitator / artist / researcher call out
In light of this, The Convivial is calling out for speakers, teachers, facilitators, artists and researchers who would like to work with us to provide a programme of resourcing and wisdom for uncertain times. Your offering should be an insight into what it means to live well in the world today through the lens of your research, practice, experience or artistic inquiry.
You do not need to be a seasoned teacher to submit a proposal. The Convivial considers everyone to be an expert of their own lived experience. Get in touch to see how we can support you in putting together a high quality offering.
If you would like to submit a proposal, here are some questions for you:
If you could create ONE course / workshop / talk / offering / ritual / gathering, what would it be? Why?
What is alive for you now?
What does it mean to live well in the world today?
Each offering will be priced differently and The Convivial will work with you to help you think this through. As a general rule, The Convivial will take 15% of all proceeds to aid in operating costs, including providing any meals for your participants. This percentage is always open for renegotiation.
Get in touch via email - hellotheconvivial@gmail.com - or using the form below, and we'll talk!