Bathing & Beyond: Bathing, Art and Ecology in the Age of Water at ūmėdė festival in SODAS 2123 invites you into a Nordic-Baltic sauna camp, where water, steam, and fire become mediums of care, memory, and ecological imagination. The project reimagines bathing culture as relational and multisensory, fostering multispecies encounters and tracing the currents between the Baltic Sea, the Torne River, and the depths of more-than-human worlds. It brings together immersive bathing rituals, textile workshops, sonic lamentations, and river and sea encounters, including sensory immersion in warm water interlaced with embodied authentic movement and sound bathing, developed through the Wastu® Lithuania water experience and somatic bodywork. Participating artists include Eva Bakkeslett, Mari Keski-Korsu, Saulius Leonavičius, Vytautas Michelkevicius, Jolanta Sendaitė-Paulauskienė, Nazaré Soares, Viktorija Tylos Prisilietimas, and Eglė Vilpišauskienė. Participation is open to festival attendees, with limited capacity for each bathing ritual or workshop (small groups of 6–12 participants, plus one-to-one sessions). Some registration is required in advance to secure a place (for saunas you can register on the sheet of paper in the festival venue upon your arrival) This novel convergence of art, bathing ritual, and ecological engagement offers a space of deep listening, repair, and transformation. The project is curated by Nazaré Soares, project lead and co-founder of Eden Baths, water sanctuary in Averøy, Norway. For full program details, workshops, performances, and sauna rituals, please visit https://edenbaths.com/2025/09/16/bathing-beyond-bathing-art-and-ecology-in-the-age-of-water-at-umede-rooted-and-off-grid/
