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Inner Landscapes:
Collective Writing
through the Elements
Chiou 27, Athina 104 38
Guest ARTIST
Lito Skopeliti
Join us for a series of five writing workshops guided by guest artist Lito Skopeliti. Each session will explore a space for collective auto-narratives. Together we will explore our eco-selves through writing.
What do we mean by inner landscapes—and why explore them collectively? Our inner worlds are never isolated. They take shape in relation to the material conditions around us: the soil beneath our feet, the water that sustains our movement, the fire that fuels our commitments, the air that carries our thoughts, and the subtle fields that connect us to one another. Each of us nurtures an inner ecosystem—complex, and deeply entwined with the world we inhabit. The elements offer tools to notice what grounds us, moves us, drives us, circulates between us, and connects us.
Writing becomes a way to trace these relations, allowing experiences that often remain unspoken to take form, be shared and understood. Holding this process collectively is essential. Togetherness helps each of us see our inner landscapes as sites of relation and possibility. The series unfolds across five sessions, each focused on one element. You are welcome to join the full series or drop in to the sessions that call to you.
Wednesdays 6:30-8:30
- 10 December—EARTH
- 17 December—WATER
(Christmas break) - 7 January—FIRE
- 14 January—AIR
- 21 January—ETHER
No previous writing experience is needed.
The workshop is bilingual-friendly and participants can write in the language they feel most comfortable with. In the past, this diversity enriched our experience.
Participation is free. The workshop runs with donations (suggested contribution: 5 euros per session).
Lito Skopeliti is an independent researcher focusing on climate crisis, ecological relations, and economic diversity. She experiments with collective auto-narratives and other art forms as ways to understand how personal experience meets social and ecological realities.
IN THE WHEEL OF EMOTIONS
Awareness, Care and
Forms of Quiet Resilience
in Times of Crises
Exhibition opening
Friday, 30 January 2026
18:00 – 24:00 h
Opening ceremony: 20:00
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Volksgartenstraße
6a, Graz
The Mouries Collective present an immersive, participatory environment as a temporary refuge. Through textiles, soft architectures, and subtle sensory elements, the installation invites visitors to slow down, gather, and inhabit a shared atmosphere of care. Carpets, cushions, fabrics, and hand-written notes transform the room into a welcoming ground for rest, conversation, and attentive presence.
During the opening we will share an indoor picnic inspired by our ongoing community practices in Athens. The second day through a participatory workshop on rituals we will together make ‘talismans’ by sewing, writing, drawing, and storytelling, through simple gestures knowledge and personal experiences are exchanged. Traces of these encounters remain in the space, allowing the installation to continue evolving throughout the exhibition. Visitors are encouraged to return, rest, contribute, or simply spend time within the environment.
Participating artists:
Róza El-Hassan • Oleksandr Halishchuk •ex-artists’ collective (Tamás Kaszás & Anikó Loránt) •The Hologram • Jana Kapelová • Eva Koťátková •Mouries Collective • Katarína Poliačiková
Curated by:
Judit Angel, Eliška Mazalanová, Margarethe Makovec, Anton Lederer
Duration:
30.1.–26.04.2026
Opening hours:
MON–FRI 10:00–18:00, SAT 12:00–16:00
Closed on Sundays and public holidays Admission free!
The exhibition focuses on emotions amid the tension between multiple contemporary crises and an increasingly polarised political climate. It responds to a situation in which systemic extraction, political manipulation, and enforced self-repression collide with the basic need for fulfilment, happiness, and hope.
The artworks on display reflect on the formation of emotional maturity through upbringing, education and social norms. They explore ways how anxiety can be addressed, empathy fostered, loss overcome and hostile forces resisted. Moreover, they articulate the urgency of collective healing, mutual care, and sustaining hope in uncertain times—while recognising quiet resilience, small everyday gestures that surface in the cracks of the system
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Ritual Workshop
with Katsarida Press
Saturdays, March 7 and 14
4–6 PM
Chiou 27, Athina 104 38
A two-part workshop on rituals for nurturing creative practices, inspired by the recent Katsarida Press publication of a Greek translation of CA Conrad’s (SOMA)TIC POETRY EXERCISES
ΟΙ ΣΩΜΑ(ΤΙΚΕΣ) ΠΟΙΗΤΙΚΕΣ ΑΣΚΗΣΕΙΣ ΤΟΥ CAConrad
We ask that participants plan to attend both workshops.
Saturdays, March 7 and 14, 4–6 PM
In Greek and English.
Katsarida Press is a newly established artistic venture that is based in Athens. We publish
mostly experimental and innovative poetry and we are active in the field of translation and
self-publishing. Our aim is to introduce to the Greek literary scene experimental writing and to
challenge the notions around publishing, and the public image of publishers.
PicNic Manifesto
ongoing activity
in Athens Public Spaces
During the last years, we are experiencing an increasing threat of privatization over Athenian public spaces. Presented as “renovations”, “embellishments”, “hygienization”, “defense of order”, or plainly as plans for tourism attractions. These diverse interventions on parks and hills reduce their green areas and aim to limit their usage, accommodating it to profiting schemes and to a view of the city that disregards its inhabitants’ vital needs.
Amidst this contested scenario, picnics emerge as a convoking and resisting quotidian activity that refreshes the air and renovates our possibilities to experience public space as a joyful common. We invite you to help us write a Picnic Manifesto! How do picnics materialize our views of the type of city where we want to live? How do they express our views on coexistence, welcomeness and sharing?
The first Picnic Manifesto was at Akadimia Platonos Park, adding to the many actions being done to support the park’s existence as it is, against the cutting of 314 trees and the invasion of bulldozers and cement. The second was in Strefi Hill Exarchia, November, 2023.
This will be an ongoing Mouries’ activity at various parks in the city. Bring friends and whatever you’d like to share (fruits? ideas? cookies? questions?) We look forward to see you there!
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