Open Call for Participants – Arts & Solidarity Lab: 21/06-25/06 2026
If you are interested in joining our laboratory, please complete this form by the 7th of April 2026. The applicants will be notified about the selection results by the 21st of April.
Project Description
FemLink and Celadon Center for the Arts hold the project “Arts and Solidarity: Tackling Conflicts through Artistic Feminist Practices and Peaceful Conflict Mediation”. It is a collaborative, horizontal, and participatory project that fosters active participation in peace-building and conflict mediation through creative and artistic practices. The project aims to enhance conflict mediation skills through creative practices, increase the capacity of organisations to apply these skills, and create a practice-based Zine documenting key findings. It seeks to integrate sustainable conflict resolution practices into educational and professional environments, culminating in an interactive online conference to share results and showcase workshop examples.
Within the project, we unite with communities of diverse backgrounds at a five-day Training and Skill Building Laboratory at Kapedes, Cyprus. We invite you to join our exploration of the topic by combining conflict mediation techniques with innovative artistic methods we aim to create a more holistic approach to resolving conflicts. You will complete the training equipped with a diverse set of strategies and tools that you can apply to your own work, empowering you to engage broader audiences in meaningful, transformative ways.
In this laboratory, you will:
- Join participatory and horizontally to learn from each other and explore conflict mediation through art practices.
- Learn/Expand your knowledge about conflict mediation with innovative tools through artistic practices.
- Contribute your ideas on conflict mediation. The Lab’s program will be shaped by workshops that will draw on all participants practices and methodological input.
- Have the chance to include your approach in the material of our project result publication - Zine.
We are explicitly looking for participants who:
- Come from activist, artist, adult learning, art education, feminist and queer circles and/or have a background in the field of conflict mediation.
- Are willing to share a work/idea and/or methodology of conflict mediation with a bigger group.
-We expect you to be open to sharing ideas regarding the topic to share with others.
- Respect and appreciate non-hierarchical spaces and are ready to explore together what this would mean to our group.
- Represent historically marginalised groups and communities (these applications will be valued, but the lack of such representation does not serve as an exclusionary criterion).
- Be geographically located in Cyprus or Austria at the time of the travel.
What is covered by the organisers
- Transportation expenses (for participants from Austria to Nicosia) of 250 EUR
- Transportation expenses within Cyprus —transportation will be arranged from place of stay to place of lab by the organisers.
- 2 people shared accommodation (check in 20/06/2026- check out 26/06/2026) and food during the laboratory; three meals per day of vegetarian and vegan menu, with additional snacks on our breaks
- Any additional logistical support will be reviewed and offered on a case-to-case basis. Please indicate your accessibility needs in the application form.
All workshops will be held in English, and there is no possibility of interpretation.
For any questions or concerns, contact our team at femlink.vienna@gmail.com or arts.celadon@gmail.com
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