REstART events 2024

In 2024, the EFRJ collected different initiatives to further explore how arts and creativity contributes to the development of restorative justice practices and how arts may serve the purpose to raise awareness about restorative justice.

During our international conference in Tallinn (29-31 May 2024), two songs were written and performed for our event:

• "Dark Times" by Uku Suviste and JMA (Joel Markus Antson from the Estonian Ministry of Justice);
• “Live Through the Night” by Federico Reggio (professor at Padova University). 

We also invited the traditional storyteller Hannah Moore (UK) to open our plenaries with relevant traditional stories. You can watch the beginning of the videorecordings of our plenaries to listen to Hannah's stories, or join us in December and January in two online workshops with Hannah.

In cooperation with Leuven Restorative City, we organise an evening to play the restorative games co-created with young people part of the Child Advisory Boards of the i-RESTORE 2.0 project, a EU-funded project dedicated to access to restorative justice for children and young people.

• 10/12/2024 (19:00-20:30 at the cultural center STUK in Leuven): LRC Café. 
  More info & registrations here.

Between December and January, we organise two related events on restorative justice and storytelling with Hannah Moore (UK), traditional storyteller and restorative justice practitioner:

• 11/12/2024 (10-11:30 CET): online taster workshop open to everyone (free webinar). More info & registration here!
• 15/01/2025 (10-13:00 CET): online half-day workshop for a closed group of max 24 participants. More info & registrations here.

These workshops will use folk and fairy tales that have restorative themes as a launchpad for exploring justice and practice, and developing tools for working restoratively inside and out. 

To raise awareness about REstART in the city that hosts the EFRJ, Leuven, we organise a film screening on the experience of the collective "Retissons du lien", composed by people with different types of lived experience of the terrorist attacks in Brussels 2016.

• 12/12/2024 (19:30-22:00 at Cinema ZED in Leuven): film screening and discussion. 
  More info here.