School of Kindness - OPEN CALL

School of Kindness is a ‘non-disciplined’ performative, educational and discursive program that takes place yearly in Sofia, Bulgaria, and its surroundings. School of Kindness is a summer school, a workshop, a residency program and a research platform, bringing together (artistic) practitioners, thinkers and social workers. The program is intended for participants from different social and artistic backgrounds, especially those coming from disadvantaged communities and those who work from experiences of individual or collective trauma. Over the course of two-and-a-half weeks, participants engage in a program of workshops and seminars provided by artists, theorists and activists. School of Kindness focuses on social and cultural narratives of migration and displacement and develops emancipatory tools to confront economic, cultural and political inequality and antagonism in Europe — between the so-called west and non-west — through theoretical and practical-artistic learning. School of Kindness operates in the context of a set of interrelated issues that…