RHYTHMS

Indian Ocean has been a zone of human interactions throughout history. The long millennia of trade networks that reached far inland to Africa and outward to the Middle East, India and China drove deep material, intellectual and cultural exchange, so that the peoples of these ports had more in common with each other than we would think.

This cosmopolitan world is not only a story of cities on the shores but the sea itself. We do not see the ocean as a passive backdrop to the human movement. In the age of rising sea levels and climate change, we deliberately bring the ocean to the center of our perspective - as theater of human connection.

We reimagine Fari Islands as the site of what might have been the first cross-cultural festival in human history - an annual celebration that drew diverse travelers from across the ancient world for singing, dancing, feasting to find themselves a new sanctuary in the stimulation of body, mind and spirit.

Pathways Series Two: Cosmopolitan Ocean