​​ANNOUNCING A VERY SPECIAL PROJECT! As you’ve seen us post | FLEX Alumni Ukraine

​​ANNOUNCING A VERY SPECIAL PROJECT!

As you’ve seen us post all over, we have been conducting art-for-peace workshops for Ukrainians who fled the war and are now located in Tampere, Finland. The workshops have been very meaningful and helpful, and we have been seeking to make this available for more Ukrainians in Finland and beyond – as well as people affected by other armed conflicts around the world and peace enthusiasts. Luckily, we once had a chat about supporting education for Ukrainians with Claned – and the chat ended with us deciding to collaborate and create a virtual version of my workshops so that more people could join! So welcome to COLOR UP PEACE VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS!

All the content is both in English and in Ukrainian. And we think this could be a great opportunity to also make friends with (displaced) Ukrainians and support them (and yourself) through collective artistic action. If you are interested yourself, if you know who can be interested – please join by registering here: https://forms.gle/tYfm5TS5dSi5tkFz9, and we will send an invite to your email.

By participating in the workshops, you will learn more about digital art-making as a peacebuilding tool, video-making for peace, virtual technologies for artistic change-making and the importance of building a community of like-minded people (like participants of the virtual workshops). The workshops are also designed for community building and engagement, in some places you are able to contribute and share your own work and can use the commenting and chat functions to connect with peers.

The workshops were designed by our founder and artist Lisa Glybchenko. Lisa is a Ukrainian artist, peacebuilder and doctoral researcher at Tampere University in Finland. She founded Color Up Peace in 2016, and since then conducted numerous in-person workshops, which form the basis of this online experience you are about to join. Lisa’s work is at the intersection of art-making, digital technologies and peacework.