R-Lab Festival

R-Lab Refugee Laboratory
 

R-Lab FESTIVAL

THESSALONIKI GREECE, 17-20/9/2026 

 

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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.

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Thursday 17 September 2026

17:00 Welcome meeting
Venue (to be confirmed)

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

Venue: (to be confirmed)
Facilitators: Amandine Thiriet & Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj
Offered by Sur Mesure (Germany)
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: (to be confirmed)
Facilitators: Anastasiia Kholina & Bruno Freyssinet
Offered by La Transplanisphere (France)
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: (to be confirmed)  
Performer: Anastasiia Kholina
Text: Olena Morentsova
Stage direction, adaptation: Bruno Freyssinet
Research: Nataliia Grynyk, Veronika Homeniuk, Natalie Oudin
Offered by La Transplanisphere (France)
Language: English
MORE HERE

 

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

Venue: (to be confirmed)
Facilitators: Ledji Bellow & Volodia Descalzi
Offered by SINGA (France)
Language: English  (also French and with assistance in Greek if needed)
MORE & APPLICATIONS HERE!

 

21:00 Dinner

 

Saturday 19 September 2026

10.30: 12:30 Open Day / workshops with children ‘TOGETHER’
Venue: (to be confirmed)
Facilitators: members of the R-Lab project

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: (to be confirmed)
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: (to be confirmed)
Facilitator: Fidaa Ziad Abu Mariam – Palestinian writer and storytelling workshop facilitator from Gaza (via ZOOM)
Offered by Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)
Language: Greek, English, Arabic 
MORE & APPLICATIONS HERE!

12:30-13:00 Light lunch

13:00-14:00 Reflection. Closing

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Organised by Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr) - North Greece Office
Organisation committee: Victoria Koemtzopoulou, Irini Marna, Antigoni Tsarbopoulou, Jenny KaravitI 
Coordination: Nikos Govas
Secretary: info@theatroedu.gr / 2106541600

 

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R-Lab Partners

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

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