Funds will support ongoing programming and future projects at Queen Street Magic Boat, a surrealist hub for building and sustaining visionary community connections through water, the arts and wild imagination.

This mixed-use space stimulates radical possibility both in content and in form. It’s a living gallery, guerrilla theater, workshop hub, gathering and residency space; it employs swimming and SCUBA diving as tools for cultivating trust, environmental re-connection, and collective liberation in communities with limited access to water.

Prioritizing creative people of all ages who have an embodied experience of institutional oppression, Queen Boat supports a mycorrhizal network of communities that intersect in various movements, identities, visions, and media forms to create new worlds in real time.

Queen Street Magic Boat, located at 406 N. Queen Street in Durham, was conceived in the historic home, garden, and studio space of artist, organizer, and dive instructor Catherine Edgerton. Since 2010, QSMB has served as an informal meeting and creation space for dozens of community and art-centered projects. In 2024, Catherine--with support from a circle of advisors-- formalized QSMB’s mission as “a surrealist hub for building and sustaining visionary community connections through water, the arts and wild imagination”; registered QSMB as an LLC; and obtained fiscal sponsorship by Fractured Atlas!

If you would prefer to make a tax-deductable donation, follow this link!

(QSMB is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of QSMB must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law).

Queen Boat Launch Year Drive