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.
UccU x Border Situations – Roma Identity and History
The program is an accompanying event of the Border Situations exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Uccu Foundation. Its focus is Roma identity and history, as well as the social issues that also appear in the exhibition.
LEAP-The Price of Social Advancement: Mobility and Roundtable discussion with Emőke Both, Anna Fabricius and Zoltán Ginelli.
What is the price of social advancement? What do we have to give up, what must we change, or what parts of ourselves must we push into the background in order to move forward, fit in, or become accepted?
ESR 2026 Open House I.
The ESR 2026 Open House I: How to Apply (Technical Session) will take place via Google Meet on Thursday, 30 April 2026, 6 pm.
Meet the TIDAL ArtS Residency Winners
We are excited to share that the TIDAL ArtS Residency Programme has selected its four winning artistic projects, and one of them will take place in Hungary, along the Danube in Ráckeve.
Garden Stories
Urban biodiversity and the harmonious coexistence of people and their environment can be explored from many different angles. At the intersection of nature exploration, research, and art, Pro Progressione and the Free Radicals project’s two-day event, Garden Stories invites participants to discover the meaning of urban biodiversity in two different locations and contexts.
“It’s hard to strike a balance between continuing to talk about music and speaking out on socially important issues.”
Virág Anna Virág is the first female composer to have contributed to a collaborative piece created using the Cadavre Exquis method within the Mind the Gap project. We spoke with her about her creative methods, her comfort zone, mathematics, and what it’s like to make a name for herself as a female composer in Europe today, focusing on her sequence titled Never Heard.
OPEN CALL: European Solidarity Residency 2026 – THE CALL IS CLOSED!
We’re inviting early-career curators and cultural professionals—especially those from underrepresented backgrounds—to join our second, 2026 cohort across Budapest, Dubrovnik & Lidice (14 September–13 October 2026). ESR offers 20 fully funded residencies across 2025–26.