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PLEASURE GARDENING (PG) is a transformative process through which people become more alive, more capable, more powerful together. It sees life’s meaning in becoming capable of new things, with others. We see PLEASURE & JOY as not emotions but an increase in one’s power to affect and be affected. PLEASURE GARDENING is the capacity to do and feel more. As such it is connected to creativity and the embrace of uncertainty. TRUE PLEASURE does not always feel comfortable or easy, as this force transforms and reorients us and our relationships.




“A timely, necessary, healing salve for the psychic wounds of separation”
- M, pleasure garden participant



This PLEASURE GARDENING experience will be a residency in devotion to PLEASURE and its expansive definitions (but also classic ones, like sexual pleasure). A temporary coming together of a group of people.

We are interested in neuroqueer and expansive conceptions of sexuality, the Erotic as power, queer sexualities and sensualities, kink, somatics, and nuanced understanding of consent beyond just affirmatice consent.

WHY PLEASURE?
In short, it is a 5-part residency to hold your pleasure explorations, facilitated by artist and liberatory educator soil (they/them). By signing up you commit to attending the sessions and participating in the group sharing and discussions online. Everything is an invitation, and you are invited to reinvent, repurpose, refuse the prompts and do what feels best to you. 

DATES

Mon 25 April 2026, 1pm till 4pm
pleasure gardening #1 in-person in Brighton

Thu 14 March 2026, 1pm till 4pm
pleasure gardening #2 in-person in Brighton

Thu 21 March 2026, 1pm till 4pm
pleasure gardening #3, in-person in Brighton

Thu 28 March 2026, 1pm till 4pm
pleasure gardening #4, in-person in Brighton

Thu 11 April 2026, 1pm till 4pm
pleasure gardening #5, in-person in Brighton


PRICE: £270 per person. This money covers the cost of venue hire, pays access support worker to support production and admin, and pays assistant facilitators. the group will need to reach a minimum number of participants to take place. 
This is for you if,

you are into unearthing new forms of pleasure;

you’d like to have a held container to focus on the pleasure transformation that you desire in your life;

you are neurodivergent and in the process of unmasking, i.e. finding liberation, bending the architectures of neurotypical world, aligning with previously unknown possibilities;

you’ve been disconnected from your body in the past and seek greater self-connection;

you’d like to foster connection in playful and earnest circumstances;

you’d like to have a supportive group of people and a supportive environment to come into deeper intimacy with yourself and your pleasure;

you seek to re-enchant the world at the time when Empires engineer mass freeze and loss of meaning.
hi! my name is soil (they/them). i’m an artist passionate about creating new possibilities in our lives and worlds through bodily adventures, radical relational skills, kinship with more-than-human and liberatory education. i’m really excited about pleasures we will find together.

you can read more about me here or email me your questions. 


“soil is an amazing, empathetic, and dynamic facilitator, who is an expert at bringing people together”
- K, pleasure garden participant





SIGN UP FOR THE RESIDENCY


JOY in this work is not the same as the image of HAPPINESS offered by Empire. JOYFUL transformation might involve happiness, and it can also entail a whole range of feelings: ecstasy, grief, overwhelm, excitement, pain, eeriness. By Empire we mean stultifying effects of the organised destruction under which we live. That which attempts to render everything profitable and controllable, administers war with other forms of life, and imposes rhythms and rituals that are isolating and absorptive of our lifeforce. PLEASURE GARDENING seeks to re-enchant the world with new rhythms and rituals.




YOUR PLEASURE
IS IMPORTANT &
YOU DON’T NEED
TO BE
ANYONE ELSE

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