Image: Lina Piskernik, photos: Daphne von Schrader

An audio exploration of encounters that reshape life

A collective listening session of the audio documentary Roots & Companions: Becoming Kin, followed by a Q&A.

Kata Bitowt (LT)

This documentary follows three stories of meeting and connection. An architect nurtures lichen in urban spaces, inviting humans to encounter hidden, wild layers of the city. A facilitator of an electronic improvisation music camp creates a space where strangers come together to make sound beyond their individual capacities. A traveler who rescued a stray puppy now reshapes her life around their companionship, seeking space in nature where they can both roam and thrive.

Through these encounters, Roots & Companions explores the subtle, unpredictable rituals of meeting: how relationships form, how attention and care transform ordinary life, and how strangers — human or nonhuman — can become the closest companions.