You’re warmly invited to the public final presentation of the Summer Academy 2026, taking place on 18 June from 17:30 to 19:00 (CET).
OASis-Open call Art-residency 2026 DISAPPEARING LANDSCAPE
An international art residency in the High Tatras where artists, youth culture and alternative creative spaces unite to respond to the rapid loss of Carpathian landscapes, wildlife habitats and authentic mountain life.
Organised by: Machaon International, Kolaj 22 and Ukrainian-Slovak HUB
Location: High Tatras & Poprad region, Slovakia
Residency dates: 14–22 August 2026
Application deadline: 21 June 2026
OASis In the Park – Open Call
Fondazione Campania Welfare is launching the second round of OASis In the Park, following the success of our first residency cycle (San Laise Open Lab). The residency is based at Parco San Laise, a former NATO base in Bagnoli, Naples, currently undergoing a gradual process of social and cultural regeneration.
The OASis operates as a diffused platform across multiple spaces within the park, combining artistic creation, community engagement, and social activation. OASis in the Park will take place between September and October 2026, with each selected artist staying for approximately two weeks within that period.
Green Academy x Unconference in Faro
After the first in-person session of Green Academy, we immediately organized a second one, entitled ‘How to redesign society: learning from creative professionals’ with Philipp P. Thapa and guests at The Big Green project’s (Un)conference in Faro, Portugal recorded on 24 April, 2026 and hosted by our TBG partner, Sciaena
Learning from Each Other: A Job-Shadowing Journey with Sparse PLUS
Over the weekend, the artistic director of Utcaszínházi Alkotóközösség Association, Balázs Simon, and three promoters of the Sparse PLUS project — Norbert Káló (Szendrőlád), Julianna Budai (Borsodbóta), and Éva Gulyásné (Sajókaza) — visited Cluj-Napoca and Cehu Silvaniei for an inspiring job-shadowing visit.
Let’s meet at Bethlen! – New European Bauhaus festival // 11-12 June
How can a theatre be, at the same time, a community space, a sustainable urban experiment, a meeting point, and a guardian of Erzsébetváros’s stories?
Lights On Rural Touring – Final Conference of the SPARSE Plus Project
How can performing arts reach communities beyond major cities?
What does meaningful cultural participation look like in rural areas?
And how can artists, organisers, policymakers, and local communities build more sustainable cultural networks together?
Green Academy X Interpret Europe: What can culture do for nature conservation?
After seven online events, we held our first in-person Green Academy at the Interpret Europe 2026 conference! As always, the host was ecologist, philosopher, and writer Philipp P. Thapa, who spoke with two local experts: Cristina Veiga-Pires, executive director of the Centro Ciência Viva do Algarve, and Gonçalo Ferreira de Carvalho, Executive Coordinator at Sciaena , our partner in #TheBigGreen project and host of the conference.
LET THERE BE CALM! – Public-Life and Well-being-Enhancing Calming Pillow Sewing Workshop with Regina Sárvári.
Regina Sárvári, one of the exhibiting artists of the group exhibition Border Situations, observes the workings of social and political languages in her text-based works that move across multiple media. How long does a sentence remain a slogan, and when does it become the material — and the burden — of everyday life?
Don’t Endure This – The Song of Firedamp Performative workshop with visual artist Dorottya Szonja Koltay
In the space of a former coal mine, later used as a bunker, we will work with the memory of carrying burdens and the practice of laying them down. The song of the haulers and the song of firedamp will be heard.