The Urge of Being
10 days creative expedition aboard the sailing boat LAFRI
NEXT EXPEDITION
22.06 - 01.07.2026
10 days, 9 nights
LESVOS GREECE
INFO: daniela.marcozzi@gmail.com
International creative expedition and workshop by
Daniela Marcozzi /Marcozzi Contemporary Theater
in collaboration with LAFRIonArt&Beyond,
a sailing and art project created by the skipper and artist Nikolas Piperas.
The Urge of Being is a creative expedition and workshop on the sailing boat LAFRI.
It is a sea voyage open to performing artists and artists of all genres, creatives and researchers.
The expedition includes 10 days of sailing in the North Aegean Sea on the sailing boat LAFRI, daily artistic exploration in amazing natural sites, and a final site-specific performance.
Why do we do this expedition?
In the last years, I have launched many projects, residencies and site-specific performances on the sea, on boats, and in contact with grey whales in Baja California, Mexico.
Motivated by the vivid and inexplicable sense of recognition and sense of belonging that I - and many people - feel when we are at the sea, I began bringing my artistic practice closer and closer to the sea and her creatures.
What happens to the creative processes when we take it away from the studio or from the theater - away from a purely anthropocentric setting - and we bring it in touch with the sea?
What happens when we expose ourselves and our creative processes to the immensity of the sea?
In this project we are involved both in artistic processes and communal life.
And ... each participant has their privacy: a single cabin with a personal toilet!
LAFRI is to be a project where communal life fuses itself with artistic processes, where nature inspires art and activism. We spend 10 days living, sailing, creating together, and at the same time having the time to be with ourselves.
We have free time, and we decide together the plan for each day, when to make our artistic exploration, to relax, to navigate, ect!
Communal life
"LAFRIonArt&Beyond project aims to create an international community of creative individuals interested in collaborating to manifest life narratives worth experiencing. Using 3 pillars: sailing, communal living, creativity as an antidote to the fast pace reality our modern world is forcing us to adapt to, we propose a playfield for human interactions that ignites inspiration and inner growth."
Nikolas Piperas is our Captain and co-creator of the project! LAFRI website
LAFRI and our Capitano
We sleep every night in breathtaking bays, under the stars!
Every day we go for our research and training sessions in different and spectacular places. We might go on the beach, we might train in the water, we might go hiking and make our artistic exploration along the way.
We might go in a cave, or in a temple, we might swim to reach the site of our research or go by our little inflatable boat or with the S.U.P. Have you even tried singing on the S.U.P? Or dancing underwater? Or swim to get to a shipwreck and listen to his old whispers?
Migrations
Beauty reaches under our skin and moves our artistic process and our feelings. Finally we are.
We are there, and that's it!
An explicable sense of beauty
We have to imagine this expedition as an energetic-artistic path that we trace day by day, in a deep relation with the places where we stay, during our sessions, during the migrations, during sailings, while hiking...and all that might happen in our dreams!
We will often start our explorations with movement and sensorial experience, to end up in vocalization, in impro, in playful interactions with the environment, with ritualism.
Greek mythology often play a role in our exploration, for example the presence of temples, or the presence of a temple under a church, or the story of a beach that we are visiting. Nikolas has a great knowledge and feeling on the connection between mythology, nature, spirituality and sailing.
Training and research sessions
22.06 - 01.07.2026
10 days / 9 nights
Lesvos, Greece
Lesvos has the international airport and the port.
22.06 Embark in Lesvos
22.06 - 30.05 navigation and artistic exploration
30.06 full moon site-specific performance
01.07 Disembark in Lesvos
PRICE LIST AND EARLY BIRD INFORMATION
1100 Euro for payment by 01.01.2026
1220 Euro for payment by 01.03.2026
1320 Euro for payment after 01.03.2026
This amount will be paid in installments
Each participant has a single cabin with personal toilet with shower and water.
There is the possibility to share the cabin with another person with a reduced price.
Please contact us if you are interested. Note that the cabin has one double-bed.
The costs includes: daily creative workshop in different locations and on the boat, boat expenses, fuel, port fees, accommodation, navigation.
The costs doesn’t include: food, drinks, cleaning, cooking, helping the skipper with sailing the boat.
The food for the whole expedition will be bought on the first day. The food expenses will be divided among the participants and will cover the meals for the participants and for the skipper Nikolas and facilitator Daniela.
The expedition has a limited number of participants.
For info and registration, please contact Daniela Marcozzi at:
phone/whatsapp +39 351 886 7010
...see you on board!
head graphic: Nicole Shakarishvili
photos from expeditions '24-'25: Rosalba Limonciello, Nikolas Piperas, Ilaria Di Maio, Daniela Marcozzi
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