The Belong Bench

Imagine the possibility for joy, connection, and friendship if we had more intentional spaces in our communities to sit and truly connect? The Belong Bench is a living artwork, a public third space, crafted to spark connection.

Get a Bench in Your City!

From public parks to city streets, the world needs more third spaces. We designed The Belong Bench to help us find each other, to take a risk, sit, connect, and make new friends.

For our first Belong Bench, we partnered with artist Anthony Fatato, an went on tour with electronic music band Above & Beyond, sparking connections between music lovers nationwide.

New friendships were formed. People who might never have met shared laughter, stories, and real human connection. It works.

Our Belong Bench is currently in action Cannonball Arts Center in Seattle, WA., and we’re on a mission to place even more benches throughout the United States!

The Belong Bench |✿,🎈|
in Action

Group of four adults posing on yellow benches at night, holding glow sticks, and smiling. There is a black fence and tent in the background, with lights decorating the area.
Close-up of a person's hand holding a yellow card with black text, with a stack of similar cards in the background on a green surface.
Colorful art painted on yellow wooden slats featuring a large smiling sun at the top, two women facing each other in the middle, holding flowers, with rays emanating from the sun and decorative patterns around. The background is dark green.
The top part of the image shows a group of people sitting and standing around a yellow bench in an outdoor area with a black fence and trees in the background. The bottom part shows three people jumping in the air on a stage with purple lighting, with a caption that says "strangers are just friends waiting to happen."

Hi Friend, this is seat for remembering how to be human, together. Whether you’re here with a stranger, friend, lover, child, or by yourself, we invite you into connection.

At a Belong Bench?

Select Pathway

Open a portal to belonging, let the moment guide you:

Six children playing on a metal playground structure outdoors under a partly cloudy sky.

20 Questions to
Make a New Friend

Two young women sitting on a stone wall outdoors during sunset, with trees and a clear sky in the background.

20 Questions for
Rupture & Repair

Two people lying on the floor, each with their legs raised and intertwined, with a window in the background.

Guided Friendship Meditations

People dancing and socializing outdoors on a street with colorful buildings in the background.

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