This mixed-use space stimulates radical possibility both in content and in form. It’s a living gallery, guerrilla theater, workshop hub, gathering and residency space, and scuba diving school.

Prioritizing creative people of all ages who have an embodied experience of institutional oppression, Queen Boat supports a mycorrhizal network of communities that intersect in various movements, identities, visions, and media forms to create new worlds in real time.

We practice swimming and scuba diving as tools for for cultivating trust, environmental re-connection, creative resilience, and collective liberation in communities with limited access to water. While our activities don’t all take place  underwater, we are working with the concept of “underwater praxis”: we take ongoing inspiration from the collectivity of coral reefs, the creativity and cunning of octopuses and squids, and the quiet power of marine mammals. We believe that immersion – in community, in visionary creativity, and in collective survival – is a pathway forward in the context of climate catastrophe and the multiple crises of violence, mass incarceration, and enforced cultural, economic, and political poverty. In that spirit, we create spaces that inspire and support people with both concrete skills and abstract, surreal creative connections.