Sensoria
Sensoria is a multisensory community arts initiative based in Boston/Cambridge, MA.
Through workshops that weave together sound, movement, visual art, and simple making, it welcomes people of all ages and backgrounds to slow down, notice their everyday world, and create side by side.
In collaboration with local non-profit organizations such as the Cambridge Chinese Association and Tzu Chi Foundation, Sensoria turns neighborhood moments into gentle experiments in listening, imagination, and shared care.
Deep Listening
Since June, we’ve hosted four deep listening workshops: one in Boston Common, one on Spectacle Island, and two indoors in community spaces. Each gathering invited participants to pause and tune into their surroundings.
As a musician, I created the soundscapes for these sessions, blending my own field recordings of natural sounds with electronic textures to guide a gentle sonic meditation. After that, I used a deep listening card game to guide questions and reflections, helping participants notice everyday sounds they usually overlook. Then I invited them to walk through the space, search for these sounds, and really listen to how they appear in the environment.
After listening, people used sounds around them to mimic sounds from their memories and shared the stories behind them
Soft Seeing
In our Soft Seeing sessions, we start by slowing down our looking—following light, shadow, color, and tiny textures on leaves, stones, and everyday objects. Instead of only “seeing,” we invite participants to record what they notice with their hands: making plant prints, weaving small coasters, creating personal totems, or painting stones.
We scaffold the whole making process step by step, so even people who say “I’m not an artist” can still create something that feels like their own. We move from noticing shapes and colors, to tracing simple outlines, to layering patterns and compositions. The final pieces become quiet visual diaries of what their eyes have really seen—moments of time, place, and feeling held in simple materials.
