The Offline School (est. 2025) a community-driven space for device-free gatherings and people-led learning, established by writer Megumi Koiawai and social practice artist Leiya Salis. Through each gathering, participants are invited to, for a moment, enter a space of collective exploration, world-building and creative inquiry.
Each gathering is facilitated by different cultural, academic, and community practitioners, and serves as a space to anchor learning and creative spaces in our communities once again, focusing on non-institutionalized and embodied collective learning.
Core Team
Leiya Salis is a social practice artist who moves fluidly between performance, writing, and participatory and instructional art forms. Her favourite words are contemplation, fickle, and liminal.
Megumi Koiwai is a freelance writer, translator, and production coordinator based in Tokyo. After working in corporate settings, she is now in her second year of freelancing, finding her voice through writing about everyday life and its in-between moments.
If you’re interested in working with us or learning more about our gatherings, please reach out to leiyasalis@gmail.com and megkoiwai@gmail.com
NOVEMBER_2025
Exploring the idea of “creative rhythms” -- on how to build a creative ecosystem that honors our natural rhythms and creative needs, and move away from linear, extractive models of creative being.
Guest Facilitator: Eminata (Singer-Songwriter)
Workshop Materials
FEBRUARY_2026
Our second gathering explroes the art of coming together. We unpack the process of creating meaningful and sustainable communities, where connections emerge and expand and the philosophies that we can lean on to anchor our own community making practices.
Guests: Astray (Writer Workshop and Digital Publication) & NAMNAM Space (Queer & Anarchist Community Space)
Workshop Materials