The selected artists explored the spiritual, historical, and affective notions that sustain different ways of being in the world. Visits were made to historical sites, dialogues were generated with knowledge bearers, historians, and spiritual leaders, as well as writing exercises, encounters with archives, festivities, kitchens, and rituals where oral memory still organizes meaning.

Jonathan De Oleo led the group to the Boca de Nigua sugar mill to reflect on the vestiges of slavery and Afro-descendant resistances. Dancer Soraya Franco facilitated a workshop to reconnect physical experience with spiritual memory. Anthropologist Soraya Aracena gave a lecture on cultural diversity and religious syncretism in the Dominican Republic. Filmmaker Johanne Gómez Terrero presented the feature film Sugar Island, connecting sugar economies with Santería and contemporary dispossession. Olivier Bur led a gastronomic workshop on food, territory, and memory through traditional Dominican recipes. Luijo Polanco shared a Dominican antique  recipe with us. Johann Mijail gave a talk on body, gender, and dissident spirituality in the veintiuna división (the Dominican Vudú tradition). Eleazar Ortiz taught a workshop on natural pigments collected on the island. Boinayel Mota guided a visit to the Pomier Caves, with their Taíno petroglyphs and pictographs. Finally, Yolanda Wood closed with a lecture on Édouard Glissant, inviting us to think of the Caribbean as a network of relationships, mixtures, and shared memories.