R-Lab Festival

Thessaloniki Greece 17-20/9/2026

R-Lab Refugee Laboratory

R-Lab FESTIVAL

THESSALONIKI GREECE, 17-20/9/2026 

All workshops and other events are offered free of charge, but places are limited.
Registration is required, and a separate application form is available for each workshop or event.
Please register only if you are certain that you will be able to attend, so that others do not miss the opportunity to participate.

Thursday 17 September 2026

17:30 Welcome meeting
Venue: Thessaloniki SolidarityNow Center, Ioanni Koletti 25D, 1st Floor, (opposite One Salonica)

18:00-20:30 Workshop ‘From inherited history to created narrative (Orality, Storytelling, Memory and Migration)’

Venue: Thessaloniki SolidarityNow Center, Ioanni Koletti 25D, 1st Floor, (opposite One Salonica)
Facilitators: Ledji Bellow & Volodia Descalzi
Offered by SINGA (France)
Supported by Thessaloniki SolidarityNow Center
Language: English  (also French and with assistance in Greek if needed)
MORE & APPLICATIONS HERE!

Friday 18 September 2026
 

10:00-12:30 Workshop ‘Ukraine, A Journal from the Near Future’
Venue: Odysseos 19, 2nd floor, Vardaris, Programma Proagogis Aftovoithias (METRO STATION 'Dimokratias')
Facilitators: Anastasiia Kholina & Bruno Freyssinet
Offered by La Transplanisphere (France)
Supported by the 'Self-Help Promotion Program'
Language: English (also French and with assistance in Greek if needed)
MORE & APPLICATIONS HERE!

12:30-13:00 Performance ‘Sofia Yablonska, the dialogue of time’ (work-in-progress)
Venue: Odysseos 19, 2nd floor, Vardaris, Programma Proagogis Aftovoithias (METRO STATION 'Dimokratias')
Performer: Anastasiia Kholina
Text: Olena Morentsova
Stage direction, adaptation: Bruno Freyssinet
Research: Nataliia Grynyk, Veronika Homeniuk, Natalie Oudin
Offered by La Transplanisphere (France)
Supported by the 'Self-Help Promotion Program'
Language: English
MORE HERE

18:00 -20:30 Workshop ‘Photonovel - Creating a Photo-Novel through Storytelling and Theatre’

Venue: Thessaloniki SolidarityNow Center, Ioanni Koletti 25D, 1st Floor, (opposite One Salonica)
Facilitators: Amandine Thiriet & Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj
Offered by Sur Mesure (Germany)
Supported by Thessaloniki SolidarityNow Center
Language: English (also French and with assistance in Greek if needed)
MORE & APPLICATIONS HERE!

Saturday 19 September 2026

10.30: 12:30 Open Day / workshops with children ‘TOGETHER’
Venue: 36th Primary School Thessaloniki (entrance: Agias Sofias 66, Thessaloniki)
Facilitators: members of the R-Lab project
MORE & APPLICATIONS HERE

13:00 Light lunch

18:30-20:30 ‘Tracing Refugee Histories in Thessaloniki’ – a walking tour
‘Στα ίχνη της προσφυγικής ιστορίας της Θεσσαλονίκης' μια περιπατητική διαδρομή

Meeting place: 'Moni Vlatadon' Eptapyrgiou 64
Guide-Host: Kostas Tziaras
Offered by Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)
Language: Greek & English
MORE & APPLICATIONS HERE!

Sunday 20 September 2026

10:00-12:30 Workshop “Writing in War: Memory, Imagination and Survival. The Journey of Narrative as a Record of Memory.”
'Η γραφή στον πόλεμο: Μνήμη, φαντασία και επιβίωση'

Venue: Odysseos 19, 2nd floor, Vardaris, Programma Proagogis Aftovoithias (METRO STATION 'Dimokratias')
Facilitator: Fidaa Ziad Abu Mariam – Palestinian writer and storytelling workshop facilitator from Gaza (via ZOOM)
Offered by Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)
Supported by the 'Self-Help Promotion Program'
Language: Greek, English, Arabic 
MORE & APPLICATIONS HERE!

12:30-13:00 Light lunch

13:00-14:00 Reflection. Closing

Organised by Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr) - North Greece Office

Supported by SolidarityNow Center Thessaloniki, Self-Help Promotion Program, UNHCR Thessaloniki
Organisation committee: Victoria Koemtzopoulou, Irini Marna, Antigoni Tsarbopoulou, Jenny KaravitI 
Coordination: Nikos Govas
Secretary: info@theatroedu.gr / 2106541600

R-Lab Partners

SINGA Paris, France (Coordinator)
La Transplanisphere France
Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr), Greece
Sur Mesure Germany