Connecting the Margins

Grounded in inventive and resourceful appropriations and explorations of urban spaces and related socio-cultural practices, Connecting the Margins was a week-long collaborative educational programme between Vilnius Academy of Arts, Central Saint Martins and Ukrainos Centras. Situated in 5malunai gallery space, these contextual and situated learning sessions were framed around the experience of Ukrainian teenagers and young adults in Vilnius – a city that they have refuged to due to the on-going Russian military invasion. Working with practicing artists, curators and educators, participants used writing, image, sound and other creative mediums to develop their reflective and propositional skills to observe, read and think creatively about their immediate lived environment.

Our curated workshops and activities were site-specific and focussed on the Vilnius Central Railway Station. Stitched together by leftovers, fragments, rituals, routines and improvisations that form people’s day-to-day realities, these sessions offered an opportunity to create fantastical worlds, tell new stories and propose alternative imaginaries for this site, how it functions and who it belongs to.

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