Exhibitions and immersive experiences

Dissonanze in Accordo is a musical performance featuring testimonials from young people from conflict and post-conflict contexts, sharing their message of peace on stage. They all live in the World House of Rondine Cittadella della Pace, a residential community located in Italy where international students from conflict-affected regions live (with their “enemies”), study, and engage in dialogue to transform conflict into opportunities for understanding and change. Their personal stories are interwoven with classical music and visually striking video art, creating a powerful stage experience that reflects resilience, hope, and shared humanity.

#truestory #testimonals #war #violentconflict #enemies #peace
Previous EFRJ engagements: conference Tallinn 2024 and REstART 2025

Chosen as a universal garment, the T-shirt forms a reflective space on the harms and motivations underlying political violence, the possibilities of restorative justice, and the power of non-verbal communication in dialogue. In this installation, the artist, designer and restorative practitioner Clair Aldington brings together a series of T-shirts including the voices of the members of The Encounter of the Encounters, a group composed of people with lived experience of restorative justice in cases of political violence, terrorism and/or armed conflict from the Basque Country, Belgium, Italy, Northern Ireland, Ukraine, Israel and Palestine. 

#artexhibition #installation #tshirts #terrorism #politicalviolence
Previous EFRJ engagements: RJ Award design and REstART 2025

Storyteller and restorative justice practitioner, Hannah Moore explores the use of fairy tales, legends and traditional storytelling to reflect on intra and interpersonal restoration (restoration of spirit, connection, hope, possibility, purpose, resilience, emotional capacity and energy). She also organises retreats and workshops to learn to use stories in restorative work.

#traditionalstorytelling #legends #tales #retreat
Previous EFRJ engagements: conference Tallinn 2024, REstART 2024 and REstART 2025

One of the works of Silvia Angel, storyteller and spoken word artist with a background in peace education and conflict transformation, is Dreams Longer Than the Night, a storytelling performance with true stories of inspiring women and peace education. Getting inspiration from stories of all over the world, Silvia's works aims at inspiring, encouraging and empowering people to address societal challenges collaboratively and to make the world a more understanding, creatively solution-oriented, and ultimately more joyful and peaceful place.

#professionalnarration #socialchallenges #peace #conflicttransformation #women #biographies
Previous EFRJ engagements: REstART 2025

This photographic exhibition is the result of an intense collaborative process among young people from conflict and post-conflict contexts who lived together at Rondine Cittadella della Pace, an international residential center in Italy committed to transforming conflict through dialogue, peace education and living together (see also Dissonanze in Accordo). Through photographs, testimonies, and personal stories, Found in Translation explores how language, identity, and shared humanity can overcome divisions.

#testimonals #war #violentconflict #enemies #peace
Previous EFRJ engagements: conference Tallinn 2024 and REstART 2025

The multimedia interactive documentary "Inside the distance" stages re-enactments about restorative justice encounters as described by victims, offenders and mediators. It explores the position of each party and the many ways in which these positions are fluid. The project was developed by professor and artist Sharon Daniel in cooperation with a series of Belgian partners who gave her access to victims and offenders who participated in a restorative justice process in order to conduct her research project.

#installation #documentary #mediation #sexualviolence #homicide
Previous EFRJ engagements: conference Belfast 2014, conference Tirana 2018, REstART 2020 and REstART 2025
 

“The Polarity Party” is an immersive, participative event on polarisation where choreography and conflict engagement meet. There is no performance and no spectators, instead simple actions such as walking, sitting and talking become tools for reflections and interaction. The hosts/ creators of the project are dance artists who act as guides as participants move through a series of carefully crafted, action-based situations and configurations. Participants are invited to consider the questions: What is polarisation? What does it do in us? What do we do with it?

#immersiveexperience #choreography #conflictresolution #polarisation
Previous EFRJ engagements: conference Sassari 2022